I own an old Star Trek:Strategic Operations Simulator sit down game. Years back someone bumped into color vector monitor and it stopped working. The logic boards still function but getting a working monitor is difficult, expensive, and they were prone to malfunction/fire.
I hate to say it but the only real future for the game is MAME. The port for ST:SOS works great. The only gameplay problem is working out input from the optical spinner might be more than my meager skills.
99% of users don't use an Operating System. They use the apps and the GUI, sure, but not the Operating System. They have no interest in the plumbing.
User: "Can I run my Favorite Software such as X,Y and Z? And I need to run BigEnterpriseTitle because I need it for work." Developer: "No." User: "So what's in it for me?" Developer: "It's a better, more secure architecture than Windows, OSX and Linux" User: "That's a non-answer" Developer: "It's a great answer, you're just too stupid to appreciate it"
That's a bit like saying "It is of no interest whose mouth Bill Cosby puts his cock into". There was (and still is) a long list of women who claim to be victims of Bill Clinton's sexual harassment (as well as one rape accusation). Monica Lewinski was consensual, the other cases were not. Those women claimed they intimidated into silence by people working for Hillary.
The harassment and investigation may have seemed like a political joke, but the perjury charges and Bill Clinton's disbarment was not.
Also it is worth pointing out Bill Clinton was not acquitted of anything. He was impeached but not removed from office.
How about giving me a phone that makes it through a full day or two of real world use without running out of juice? Bonus points if I can actually make a decent quality phone call where both parties easily hear each other.
Political polls are exempt from do-not-call lists and every Sept-early November my phone rings several times each evening. I can ask to not be called and I will continue to get called over and over.
This year I've decided if I can't make phone polls stop calling I will actively work against them by lying my ass off. I'll tell them I'm voting for Darth Vader because he's honest about where he stands on social issues and foreign policy. The most important issue in this election season is freeing minds from the Matrix.
It also never hurts to answer every question with "Hodor"
Battery life is notably shorter since Android Lollypop update was sent. With moderate use my G2 could easily make it through the day when I had Jelly Bean.
>> "And another thing, why is education literally never a talking point during elections?"
At this risk of sounding trollish you cannot possibly be paying attention. Around election time we have grandstanding on all sort of education subjects: Evolution and Creationism. When/if kids should learn about reproduction and birth control. Outcome based education. Benchmarking. Multi-culturalism in our history and Social Studies curriculum. Safety in schools. School lunch programs ("Michelle Obama lunches"). "Liberal indoctrination". Teacher's unions. That's just what I can think of on the spot. The list goes on.
Very few things are political hot-button topics on the scale of public education.
In the case of children's vaccination the medical community would be wise to co-op the language of climate change activists and label the opposition as "vaccine deniers". Shame them as anti-science and anti-medicine. Point out how the anti-vax movement's loudest voices are b-list celebrities with no expertise on the subject.
I was driving east on I-80 in Council Bluffs, IA. At the time I wondered if it was a meteor or something man made. It was bright white but had a green hue as it broke up.
I was also a bit grateful there was no earth shattering kaboom.
>> "You are going to need to combine that with spiders, toxic chemicals, a DNA X-factor"
Not necessarily. They may gain the powers of Dr. Manhattan. He was exposed to radiation in an 'intrinsic fields' experiment, which could really mean almost anything.
Option #2 - perhaps the thieves will be fused into one character like "Firestorm". One person's body will remain and gain superpowers, the other becomes the voice of reason in his head.
>> "Have you ever done IT? Some of the biggest problems are political there as well."
Yes. I've even dealt with outside vendors. I've seen those situations work out and occasionally not work out. Almost every time a company outsources development and that 3rd party hands back code that doesn't work, Company A doesn't pay until it works. Company A holds 3rd party developer to it's original bid that a website was supposed to cost $90m not $630m or more. In this case Company A is the US Taxpayer.
>> "If it was entirely in-house like NASA was..." "...less money and would be cheaper to maintain."
I'm not going to disagree so much as I'm going to give you the benefit of doubt that you wrote this without really thinking it through. NASA buys products from thousands of private companies, nothing was built in house by Uncle Sam. Some of those companies have gone out of business because NASA was their only customer. One of the reasons the Space Shuttles became unsustainable was NASA would swap components between shuttles rather than buy replacements, so companies withered and died off. In many situations there was only one working part for the whole fleet because there was no way to buy a replacement.
The Space Shuttle program was also, for all of it's triumphs, a cash hog.
The frustrating thing - and this is specific to the website - is there are already other websites doing functionally similar tasks.
Every evening you will see Flo and Prudential Auto Insurance commercials. Or the green muppet telling you how you can shop for mortgages while wearing your underwear. There are many websites that act as one stop shops for other services, shopping for health insurance. They collect a few basic facts and then provide you with a handful of companies to suit your needs. A gov't insurance website should not be re-inventing the wheel.
I'm quite certain the commercial services helping you shop for loans, mortgages, insurance and other services didn't have $600m startup costs either.
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He's saying (paraphrase) "think of me later when you have a few bucks in your pocket."
It's not difficult.
I own an old Star Trek:Strategic Operations Simulator sit down game. Years back someone bumped into color vector monitor and it stopped working. The logic boards still function but getting a working monitor is difficult, expensive, and they were prone to malfunction/fire.
I hate to say it but the only real future for the game is MAME. The port for ST:SOS works great. The only gameplay problem is working out input from the optical spinner might be more than my meager skills.
The only thing more obnoxious that Apple hipsters are Anti-Apple zealots.
99% of users don't use an Operating System. They use the apps and the GUI, sure, but not the Operating System. They have no interest in the plumbing.
User: "Can I run my Favorite Software such as X,Y and Z? And I need to run BigEnterpriseTitle because I need it for work."
Developer: "No."
User: "So what's in it for me?"
Developer: "It's a better, more secure architecture than Windows, OSX and Linux"
User: "That's a non-answer"
Developer: "It's a great answer, you're just too stupid to appreciate it"
That's a bit like saying "It is of no interest whose mouth Bill Cosby puts his cock into". There was (and still is) a long list of women who claim to be victims of Bill Clinton's sexual harassment (as well as one rape accusation). Monica Lewinski was consensual, the other cases were not. Those women claimed they intimidated into silence by people working for Hillary.
The harassment and investigation may have seemed like a political joke, but the perjury charges and Bill Clinton's disbarment was not.
Also it is worth pointing out Bill Clinton was not acquitted of anything. He was impeached but not removed from office.
Nobody needs a new browser.
Mmmm. Good point. And the world only needs 4 or 5 different kinds on cars. No point to innovating or trying new things.
You must be very valuable where you work.
Anyone who's a gamer has seen this enough that it's become invisible. The XBox Dashboard is ~50% user-space and 50% new product promotion.
How about giving me a phone that makes it through a full day or two of real world use without running out of juice? Bonus points if I can actually make a decent quality phone call where both parties easily hear each other.
Political polls are exempt from do-not-call lists and every Sept-early November my phone rings several times each evening. I can ask to not be called and I will continue to get called over and over.
This year I've decided if I can't make phone polls stop calling I will actively work against them by lying my ass off. I'll tell them I'm voting for Darth Vader because he's honest about where he stands on social issues and foreign policy. The most important issue in this election season is freeing minds from the Matrix.
It also never hurts to answer every question with "Hodor"
No, dragons bring fiery death from above.
... so why are you taking medical advice from her?
A Public Service Announcement from Get Your Brats Immunized.
... so why are you listening to medical advice from him?
A Public Service Announcement from Get Your Brats Immunized
Android 5.0.2 build LRX22G
Usage on battery 5h 34min
Estimated time remaining 16h 41min (This is optimistic. It will not last this long)
Last 3 hr in use 11% Use
Android OS 17%
Google Services 13%
Screen 13%
Cell Standby 9%
Android System 8%
Chrome 7%
Themer 4%
Phone Idle 3%
Phone 3%
Amazon app suite 3%
Battery life is notably shorter since Android Lollypop update was sent. With moderate use my G2 could easily make it through the day when I had Jelly Bean.
I think you mean tested by Sourceforge
>> "And another thing, why is education literally never a talking point during elections?"
At this risk of sounding trollish you cannot possibly be paying attention. Around election time we have grandstanding on all sort of education subjects: Evolution and Creationism. When/if kids should learn about reproduction and birth control. Outcome based education. Benchmarking. Multi-culturalism in our history and Social Studies curriculum. Safety in schools. School lunch programs ("Michelle Obama lunches"). "Liberal indoctrination". Teacher's unions. That's just what I can think of on the spot. The list goes on.
Very few things are political hot-button topics on the scale of public education.
In the case of children's vaccination the medical community would be wise to co-op the language of climate change activists and label the opposition as "vaccine deniers". Shame them as anti-science and anti-medicine. Point out how the anti-vax movement's loudest voices are b-list celebrities with no expertise on the subject.
Your reasonable point makes it impossible for for the OP to be on his self-righteous high horse so let us not speak of it again.
I was driving east on I-80 in Council Bluffs, IA. At the time I wondered if it was a meteor or something man made. It was bright white but had a green hue as it broke up.
I was also a bit grateful there was no earth shattering kaboom.
>> "You are going to need to combine that with spiders, toxic chemicals, a DNA X-factor"
Not necessarily. They may gain the powers of Dr. Manhattan. He was exposed to radiation in an 'intrinsic fields' experiment, which could really mean almost anything.
Option #2 - perhaps the thieves will be fused into one character like "Firestorm". One person's body will remain and gain superpowers, the other becomes the voice of reason in his head.
Online security (or lack thereof) is one of the reasons it's a bad move to turn your Adobe Creative Suite into a cloud based subscription service.
...reaching in your pocket to get your phone.
It's sad in that same way as the family member who's sitting by the TV but searching desperately for the remote.
>> "Have you ever done IT? Some of the biggest problems are political there as well."
Yes. I've even dealt with outside vendors. I've seen those situations work out and occasionally not work out. Almost every time a company outsources development and that 3rd party hands back code that doesn't work, Company A doesn't pay until it works. Company A holds 3rd party developer to it's original bid that a website was supposed to cost $90m not $630m or more. In this case Company A is the US Taxpayer.
>> "If it was entirely in-house like NASA was..." "...less money and would be cheaper to maintain."
I'm not going to disagree so much as I'm going to give you the benefit of doubt that you wrote this without really thinking it through. NASA buys products from thousands of private companies, nothing was built in house by Uncle Sam. Some of those companies have gone out of business because NASA was their only customer. One of the reasons the Space Shuttles became unsustainable was NASA would swap components between shuttles rather than buy replacements, so companies withered and died off. In many situations there was only one working part for the whole fleet because there was no way to buy a replacement.
The Space Shuttle program was also, for all of it's triumphs, a cash hog.
The frustrating thing - and this is specific to the website - is there are already other websites doing functionally similar tasks.
Every evening you will see Flo and Prudential Auto Insurance commercials. Or the green muppet telling you how you can shop for mortgages while wearing your underwear. There are many websites that act as one stop shops for other services, shopping for health insurance. They collect a few basic facts and then provide you with a handful of companies to suit your needs. A gov't insurance website should not be re-inventing the wheel.
I'm quite certain the commercial services helping you shop for loans, mortgages, insurance and other services didn't have $600m startup costs either.
Greed and ambition have always been engines for progress.