Still works, but I haven't tried out the floppy drive (which is ENORMOUS BTW). I still have fond memories of programming in Basic on it. This was way before I even knew there was a such thing as a job for programmers!
Kinda off-topic, but one of my sci-fi horror scenarios would be being lost in near space, out of sight of earth (far enough that it looks like another star), with limited propulsion (based on an issue of the comic Star Brand decades ago where the hero gets into a fight in space and becomes disoriented). Would this device work as well as a handheld blackbox GPS that you could use to orient yourself home?
My internet connectivity has always sucked on my phone, badly enough that it's never been more than a novelty, not an asset. If my real-world experience was even close to my "theoretical" service, I wouldn't give a damn about upgrading. Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining!
I haven't followed the research closely, but it seems like the majority of stories are about high-end electric race cars when the real money would be in much more modest family sudans or commuters. I'd love to see an endurance racing challenge where manufacturers had to hit real-world benchmarks (hauling around mom, kids, and groceries equivalent in weight for X miles or X hours).
I bet you're one of those coders who doesn't use comments because the "the functions names are explicit enough and if someone REALLY wants to use my API they'll read the code."
I second that. While I knew what a UAV was, there are plenty of "summaries" that do a crappy job of summarizing. Assumption of knowledge leads to some of the worst bugs or unwieldy APIs, yet we continue to see nondescript summaries that waste the time of readers. You'd expect better from a geek website.
But, it doesn't look like Bolden got the job because he's got name recognition or he's a crowd favorite that will fill the seats in the local stadium. The problem with a lot of these jokers you're speaking of, they ascend through the ranks because of their reputations and not their abilities. Had Donald Trump or William Shatner gotten the nod, I'd be worried.
Usually, that's a TV, probably with coverage supplied by satellites, put there by someone's space program. I think NASA's failure (and all post-Apollo Presidents) has been to fail to point out the benefits, both direct and indirect, of space exploration. We're in a Reaganesque "government is stupid" era where national programs get the ingrained grief of being another step towards Socialism. Until that changes, we're not going to see bold spending. Hell, we can't even get national healthcare because of the contradictory argument that a government program won't fix what private healthcare ruined.
This is the natural evolution of Hollywood's economic model. When you treat movie making as a financial endeavor and not art, producers simply aren't willing to make the investments in projects that they don't know will pay off. Even if GB3 sucks, after a $20 million add campaign and interviews on all the talk shows, they'll get back their money and then some based on the rep of the first one. Most mainstream flicks aren't churned out by some one-man-shop writer/director/producer looking to bring his baby to the big screen. And Hollywood power producers aren't going to waste their time on some little artsy film with a small profit margin or a blockbuster sci-fi epic that they think is too risky.
But, there are still some great flicks out there that don't get much notice unless they're spectacular sleepers. Listen to your local NPR movie critic show and you'll be pleasantly surprised by the quality that's hidden out there in Hollywood's "Off Broadway." And, I'm not talking about earnest, pretentious artsy crap.
Bear Grylls is an idiot. Urine is toxic, why drink it in a survival situation? Survivorman actually made a urine still to purify his urine in the desert. Classic example of the difference between the two. Bear acts like he's on a frat boy dare. Les Stroud tries to make his show educational.
My 2 year old nephew started dry heaving and my sister put down her dinner plate and put her hands in front of his mouth and told him to "go ahead." Most disgusting thing I ever saw.
A mere 400 years is not enough time for significant evolutionary changes.
Heck yes it is, for creatures with a faster reproductive cycle than humans. Large animals with limited food supplies will shrink. Can't recall the name, but there's a moth in England that evolved a reddish color because of all of the brick masonry in one region (the original color stood out and made those moths vulnerable to predation).
You know how long it takes to bring a new car design to production? 2016 sounds pretty damned aggressive to me. Now, Bush I and II talking about men on Mars decades in the future...that's a different story.
Anyone with the resources and willingness to make an attempt on the VP's life would have known this. Just because YOU didn't know doesn't make this some awful security breach.
BTW, we also have secure bunkers under the White House. ZOMG!!!
I don't trust outright removals without a decent period of deprecation. Microsoft has a bad history of deciding some API or function is dirty and obsolete, only to find that they've broken some of their own code or made some functions impossible to implement in some environments.
For example, they deprecated a Windows Mobile database API without having support for the new version in ActiveSync. Lots of suckers upgraded only to find out that the Grand Pubas down at Seattle Central pulled the rug out from under them.
I worry very much about problems in eccentric environments like mobile or embedded development.
Whenever you make these broad generalizations, there's always going to be the fringe outsiders offended by the stereotype. Dell should have picked a different metaphor that clearly indicates "girly" without saying it. Maybe, market one towards mothers (not women) where there are distinct duties like feeding kids making recipes relevant. Bundle apps for roles and not sex.
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Did you see this story? Other countries have a right to be pissed off at us.
Still works, but I haven't tried out the floppy drive (which is ENORMOUS BTW). I still have fond memories of programming in Basic on it. This was way before I even knew there was a such thing as a job for programmers!
Kinda off-topic, but one of my sci-fi horror scenarios would be being lost in near space, out of sight of earth (far enough that it looks like another star), with limited propulsion (based on an issue of the comic Star Brand decades ago where the hero gets into a fight in space and becomes disoriented). Would this device work as well as a handheld blackbox GPS that you could use to orient yourself home?
You ever have to walk a few million miles to the nearest gas station because your girlfriend forgot to fill the tank? No thanks, man.
My internet connectivity has always sucked on my phone, badly enough that it's never been more than a novelty, not an asset. If my real-world experience was even close to my "theoretical" service, I wouldn't give a damn about upgrading. Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining!
I haven't followed the research closely, but it seems like the majority of stories are about high-end electric race cars when the real money would be in much more modest family sudans or commuters. I'd love to see an endurance racing challenge where manufacturers had to hit real-world benchmarks (hauling around mom, kids, and groceries equivalent in weight for X miles or X hours).
I thought this administration was trying to stop using the term?
I bet you're one of those coders who doesn't use comments because the "the functions names are explicit enough and if someone REALLY wants to use my API they'll read the code."
I second that. While I knew what a UAV was, there are plenty of "summaries" that do a crappy job of summarizing. Assumption of knowledge leads to some of the worst bugs or unwieldy APIs, yet we continue to see nondescript summaries that waste the time of readers. You'd expect better from a geek website.
But, it doesn't look like Bolden got the job because he's got name recognition or he's a crowd favorite that will fill the seats in the local stadium. The problem with a lot of these jokers you're speaking of, they ascend through the ranks because of their reputations and not their abilities. Had Donald Trump or William Shatner gotten the nod, I'd be worried.
They care about what is directly in front of them
Usually, that's a TV, probably with coverage supplied by satellites, put there by someone's space program. I think NASA's failure (and all post-Apollo Presidents) has been to fail to point out the benefits, both direct and indirect, of space exploration. We're in a Reaganesque "government is stupid" era where national programs get the ingrained grief of being another step towards Socialism. Until that changes, we're not going to see bold spending. Hell, we can't even get national healthcare because of the contradictory argument that a government program won't fix what private healthcare ruined.
...when getting a 40% cut is made to sound like a good deal. Sounds just as bad as Handango's cut of mobile app sales.
This is the natural evolution of Hollywood's economic model. When you treat movie making as a financial endeavor and not art, producers simply aren't willing to make the investments in projects that they don't know will pay off. Even if GB3 sucks, after a $20 million add campaign and interviews on all the talk shows, they'll get back their money and then some based on the rep of the first one. Most mainstream flicks aren't churned out by some one-man-shop writer/director/producer looking to bring his baby to the big screen. And Hollywood power producers aren't going to waste their time on some little artsy film with a small profit margin or a blockbuster sci-fi epic that they think is too risky.
But, there are still some great flicks out there that don't get much notice unless they're spectacular sleepers. Listen to your local NPR movie critic show and you'll be pleasantly surprised by the quality that's hidden out there in Hollywood's "Off Broadway." And, I'm not talking about earnest, pretentious artsy crap.
You'd better give a quarter to Huey Lewis and the News for saying that.
Bear Grylls is an idiot. Urine is toxic, why drink it in a survival situation? Survivorman actually made a urine still to purify his urine in the desert. Classic example of the difference between the two. Bear acts like he's on a frat boy dare. Les Stroud tries to make his show educational.
If your Stillsuit is good enough, you hopefully won't get worms.
My 2 year old nephew started dry heaving and my sister put down her dinner plate and put her hands in front of his mouth and told him to "go ahead." Most disgusting thing I ever saw.
That's because babies are stupid.
A mere 400 years is not enough time for significant evolutionary changes.
Heck yes it is, for creatures with a faster reproductive cycle than humans. Large animals with limited food supplies will shrink. Can't recall the name, but there's a moth in England that evolved a reddish color because of all of the brick masonry in one region (the original color stood out and made those moths vulnerable to predation).
"How do porcupines make love? Very carefully."
You know how long it takes to bring a new car design to production? 2016 sounds pretty damned aggressive to me. Now, Bush I and II talking about men on Mars decades in the future...that's a different story.
Anyone with the resources and willingness to make an attempt on the VP's life would have known this. Just because YOU didn't know doesn't make this some awful security breach.
BTW, we also have secure bunkers under the White House. ZOMG!!!
I don't trust outright removals without a decent period of deprecation. Microsoft has a bad history of deciding some API or function is dirty and obsolete, only to find that they've broken some of their own code or made some functions impossible to implement in some environments.
For example, they deprecated a Windows Mobile database API without having support for the new version in ActiveSync. Lots of suckers upgraded only to find out that the Grand Pubas down at Seattle Central pulled the rug out from under them.
I worry very much about problems in eccentric environments like mobile or embedded development.
Whenever you make these broad generalizations, there's always going to be the fringe outsiders offended by the stereotype. Dell should have picked a different metaphor that clearly indicates "girly" without saying it. Maybe, market one towards mothers (not women) where there are distinct duties like feeding kids making recipes relevant. Bundle apps for roles and not sex.
Because there's already a clock on the stove.