This is just a marketing stunt by the area's resident Dolphin community. They want to lure tourists to this patch of the sea, so they can do some backflips in return for loose change and hearty gifts of plankton.
It sounds like what you're really looking for is a project management solution. Assigning tasks (such as 'write a story about x', 'cover the situation in y for the next 2 weeks'), settings deadlines, and co-ordinating groups or individuals - this all has very little to do with 'content management' as most people think about it.
Drupal has you covered with organising your content (taxonomy), tracking history and versioning, and establishing an editorial workflow (actions and workflow). But it doesn't have project management well covered (the 'project module' is too specific to software development), and there are no Drupal modules that I'm aware of, for integrating such management with actual content handling.
I think that Basecamp would do the job best for you. It has all these PM facilities, in a very intuitive and easy interface.
This may also have implications for the future direction of the development of programming languages. If this takes off, the programming languages of choice may shift towards those that are 'easy to speak'. Then again, the languges themselves may remain the same (in text), and it may simply be the voice-to-code tools that change the syntax.
What I don't understand is, why it took so long to develop this product. I would have thought that recognising spoken code would be much easier than recognising spoken natural language, just as parsing code is easier than parsing natural language. Code has none of the ambiguity and context-sensitive meaning of natural language, and so (with a bit of thought put into making the spoken commands unique sounding) it should be potentially much easier for a computer to turn into text.
Then again, if code really is poetry, maybe it isn't so easy for computers...
The first programming language that I seriously used, and the only one that I used in high school, was VB6. This experience definitely rotted my brain, and in some ways I wish I had gotten a better start. I knew how to drag-and-drop a button long before I understood the 'event handler' concept that powered it. I was changing the properties of visual form elements long before I discovered that these properties were even able to be edited in code. If you had asked me back then what the crucial first step in 'programming' was for a typical program, I would have said: "drag elements onto the panel, move them around, and change their properties".
Now, I'm studying CS as Uni, and have mostly left VS and VB behind in favour of Java, PHP, and C. As someone who started out 'on the wrong side of town' (in programming terms), and who has now learnt the value of the code-it-all-yourself style that Microsoft so discourages, I guess I have a clearer perspective than most as to how detrimental it is to start out with something like VB.
Personally, I don't think it's such a bad thing. Drag-and-drop GUI design really appealed to me when I was starting out: who knows, maybe if I'd had to start with Java's layout managers, or with C++'s libraries, I wouldn't have pursued programming further? The ease of VS certainly helped me get in to programming in the first place. Now, my favourite environment for GUI design is XHTML/CSS. So when (only a matter of time - so many jobs involve it) I return to VS, I'll certainly be much happier with XAML, as it sounds like Microsoft have finally discovered the right balance between intuitiveness and clean code.
It's possible to start with VS, and to still become a good programmer. I know because I've done it. The dangers of going beyond hope of recovery are present, but if you can overcome them, you can become just as good a programmer as those who started with a better language like C or Java. You'll also appreciate some things more than these people ever could.
Water resistant and wireless! Can it do both at the same time? Since radio waves generally travel only through the air, probably not. But if it did...
Finally, you'd be able check your email in peace, from the bottom of your swimming pool. You could take some underwater snaps with your waterproof digital camera (sold separately for $2999 + tax), and send them instantly above the surface. If you have any in your local lake or ocean, you could even chat in real-time with the local WiFi- or Bluetooth-equipped marine life. The possibilities are endless!
But current wireless technology probably doesn't work in water. So this is all just fantasy... at least, until 802.11sONAR comes out.
The robots can perform "military monitoring of, say, temperature or toxic gas concentrations". But if there's toxic gas around, there would be no flies, cause they'd all be dead!
Maybe it can just inhale the toxic air, and get high on that, and that will keep it going for long enough - until it returns to an area with a higher concentration of flies per capita.
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I heard on the grapevine that Nixon's Head is actually getting quite tired of its pickle-jar abode. This is just the news it's been waiting for.
This is just a marketing stunt by the area's resident Dolphin community. They want to lure tourists to this patch of the sea, so they can do some backflips in return for loose change and hearty gifts of plankton.
Britney Braindead:
"OMG peepz Justin Bieber is on the morning show... switch channels RIGHT NOW!!!"
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SSL... is it really necessary?
It sounds like what you're really looking for is a project management solution. Assigning tasks (such as 'write a story about x', 'cover the situation in y for the next 2 weeks'), settings deadlines, and co-ordinating groups or individuals - this all has very little to do with 'content management' as most people think about it.
Drupal has you covered with organising your content (taxonomy), tracking history and versioning, and establishing an editorial workflow (actions and workflow). But it doesn't have project management well covered (the 'project module' is too specific to software development), and there are no Drupal modules that I'm aware of, for integrating such management with actual content handling.
I think that Basecamp would do the job best for you. It has all these PM facilities, in a very intuitive and easy interface.
This may also have implications for the future direction of the development of programming languages. If this takes off, the programming languages of choice may shift towards those that are 'easy to speak'. Then again, the languges themselves may remain the same (in text), and it may simply be the voice-to-code tools that change the syntax.
What I don't understand is, why it took so long to develop this product. I would have thought that recognising spoken code would be much easier than recognising spoken natural language, just as parsing code is easier than parsing natural language. Code has none of the ambiguity and context-sensitive meaning of natural language, and so (with a bit of thought put into making the spoken commands unique sounding) it should be potentially much easier for a computer to turn into text.
Then again, if code really is poetry, maybe it isn't so easy for computers...
Just because you have an iPod, doesn't make you a geek!
The first programming language that I seriously used, and the only one that I used in high school, was VB6. This experience definitely rotted my brain, and in some ways I wish I had gotten a better start. I knew how to drag-and-drop a button long before I understood the 'event handler' concept that powered it. I was changing the properties of visual form elements long before I discovered that these properties were even able to be edited in code. If you had asked me back then what the crucial first step in 'programming' was for a typical program, I would have said: "drag elements onto the panel, move them around, and change their properties".
Now, I'm studying CS as Uni, and have mostly left VS and VB behind in favour of Java, PHP, and C. As someone who started out 'on the wrong side of town' (in programming terms), and who has now learnt the value of the code-it-all-yourself style that Microsoft so discourages, I guess I have a clearer perspective than most as to how detrimental it is to start out with something like VB.
Personally, I don't think it's such a bad thing. Drag-and-drop GUI design really appealed to me when I was starting out: who knows, maybe if I'd had to start with Java's layout managers, or with C++'s libraries, I wouldn't have pursued programming further? The ease of VS certainly helped me get in to programming in the first place. Now, my favourite environment for GUI design is XHTML/CSS. So when (only a matter of time - so many jobs involve it) I return to VS, I'll certainly be much happier with XAML, as it sounds like Microsoft have finally discovered the right balance between intuitiveness and clean code.
It's possible to start with VS, and to still become a good programmer. I know because I've done it. The dangers of going beyond hope of recovery are present, but if you can overcome them, you can become just as good a programmer as those who started with a better language like C or Java. You'll also appreciate some things more than these people ever could.
"Bluetooth and WiFi come as standard"
Water resistant and wireless! Can it do both at the same time? Since radio waves generally travel only through the air, probably not. But if it did...
Finally, you'd be able check your email in peace, from the bottom of your swimming pool. You could take some underwater snaps with your waterproof digital camera (sold separately for $2999 + tax), and send them instantly above the surface. If you have any in your local lake or ocean, you could even chat in real-time with the local WiFi- or Bluetooth-equipped marine life. The possibilities are endless!
But current wireless technology probably doesn't work in water. So this is all just fantasy... at least, until 802.11sONAR comes out.
The robots can perform "military monitoring of, say, temperature or toxic gas concentrations". But if there's toxic gas around, there would be no flies, cause they'd all be dead!
Maybe it can just inhale the toxic air, and get high on that, and that will keep it going for long enough - until it returns to an area with a higher concentration of flies per capita.