Steve Jobs Has Just Gone Mad: "If you need to "originally" write your code in Swahili, while listening to Milli Vanilli, while reclining in a patch of mud, and then you need fifty oompa loompas to translate the Swahili into C, that is none of Steve Jobs fucking business. And the idea, which I am sure is actually the plan, that he will inspect application code to figure out what the "original" language is that the code was written in is just plain pathological."
Astronauts play stars in NASA mission 'movie' posters: For every space shuttle mission since STS-96 in 1999, which was the first time a U.S. shuttle docked with the International Space Station, the Kennedy Space Center's graphics department has been creating some pretty cool (and kitschy) mission posters.
THE DUMBING-DOWN OF PROGRAMMING (1998): "My programming tools were full of wizards. Little dialog boxes waiting for me to click "Next" and "Next" and "Finish."...Dumbing-down is trickling down. Not content with infantilizing the end user, the purveyors of point-and-click seem determined to infantilize the programmer as well."
Similar, but different authors. Earlier story you point to does has more technical info and includes some cool photos, including one of the user interface.
Mercury News: This database includes that Labor Department data for Santa Clara and San Mateo County-based workers at Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Advanced Micro Devices, Cisco Systems, SYNNEX Corp., Calpine Corp., Intel, eBay, Sanmina Corp., and Solectron Corp. The database covers the years 1999, 2000, 2003 and 2005.
Bloomberg: "We got the first reports about difficulties in August" from the U.S., Etienne Plas, a Brussels-based spokesman for the Japanese company [Toyota], said today by telephone. "The quality standard wasn't exactly met, but we didn't find that there was a safety risk, so we didn't start a recall."
Timing is everything - according to the NHTSA, Toyota sold 120,507 cars in the Cash for Clunkers program, which ended in August. By comparison, Chrysler sold 9,033 cars.
Gigaom: Michelle Lee, Google Deputy General Counsel, on why Google sought the patent, and whether or not Google would seek to enforce its patent rights: "Like other responsible, innovative companies, Google files patent applications on a variety of technologies it develops. While we do not comment about the use of this or any part of our portfolio, we feel that our behavior to date has been inline with our corporate values and priorities."
FYI-The PLATO IV Terminal you've linked to includes a projector that could be used to back-project program-selectable microfiche images - a 1975 patent application notes that the panel itself was only about a 1/4 inch thick.
To put things in perspective, a circa-1972 Xerox Alto workstation would be about $388,000 in 2009 dollars, but I can't imagine anyone preferring one to today's $399 laptops (about $77 in 1972 dollars)!:-)
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Steve Jobs Has Just Gone Mad: "If you need to "originally" write your code in Swahili, while listening to Milli Vanilli, while reclining in a patch of mud, and then you need fifty oompa loompas to translate the Swahili into C, that is none of Steve Jobs fucking business. And the idea, which I am sure is actually the plan, that he will inspect application code to figure out what the "original" language is that the code was written in is just plain pathological."
Astronauts play stars in NASA mission 'movie' posters: For every space shuttle mission since STS-96 in 1999, which was the first time a U.S. shuttle docked with the International Space Station, the Kennedy Space Center's graphics department has been creating some pretty cool (and kitschy) mission posters.
Dave Winer's 1-Tweet review: 'As much as it pains me to say it -- this fcuker is pretty fcuking cool.'
THE DUMBING-DOWN OF PROGRAMMING (1998): "My programming tools were full of wizards. Little dialog boxes waiting for me to click "Next" and "Next" and "Finish."...Dumbing-down is trickling down. Not content with infantilizing the end user, the purveyors of point-and-click seem determined to infantilize the programmer as well."
Similar, but different authors. Earlier story you point to does has more technical info and includes some cool photos, including one of the user interface.
Mercury News: Blacks, Latinos and women lose ground at Silicon Valley tech companies
Mercury News: This database includes that Labor Department data for Santa Clara and San Mateo County-based workers at Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Advanced Micro Devices, Cisco Systems, SYNNEX Corp., Calpine Corp., Intel, eBay, Sanmina Corp., and Solectron Corp. The database covers the years 1999, 2000, 2003 and 2005.
Over at the WSJ, Peter Diamandis makes a case for private space, while naysayer Taylor Dinerman says he's seen this movie before, and argues the private sector simply is not up for the job.
Jeff Jarvis: "Disappointed Google didn't make a new commercial appropriate to the Super Bowl. France? Football? Google?"
Bloomberg: "We got the first reports about difficulties in August" from the U.S., Etienne Plas, a Brussels-based spokesman for the Japanese company [Toyota], said today by telephone. "The quality standard wasn't exactly met, but we didn't find that there was a safety risk, so we didn't start a recall."
Timing is everything - according to the NHTSA, Toyota sold 120,507 cars in the Cash for Clunkers program, which ended in August. By comparison, Chrysler sold 9,033 cars.
Oops...my bad.
Right you are...guess I missed the Tweet that announced the move. Was a replacement named?
Love how Sandra Bullock's Driver's License fades out of existence.
The only way to win in Nuclear War is not to play. :-)
guardian.co.uk: We gave the US the Beatles and all we got back was this lousy data.gov site...
Gigaom: Michelle Lee, Google Deputy General Counsel, on why Google sought the patent, and whether or not Google would seek to enforce its patent rights: "Like other responsible, innovative companies, Google files patent applications on a variety of technologies it develops. While we do not comment about the use of this or any part of our portfolio, we feel that our behavior to date has been inline with our corporate values and priorities."
Circa-1984 IBM PCjr
"Next to my software, nothing's more user friendly than the Wall Street Journal." Undated, but obviously pre-Vista. :-)
lifehacker: Vintage Ad Browser Provides Classic, Cheesy Marketing Images
FYI-The PLATO IV Terminal you've linked to includes a projector that could be used to back-project program-selectable microfiche images - a 1975 patent application notes that the panel itself was only about a 1/4 inch thick.
To put things in perspective, a circa-1972 Xerox Alto workstation would be about $388,000 in 2009 dollars, but I can't imagine anyone preferring one to today's $399 laptops (about $77 in 1972 dollars)! :-)
...Muscle of Love
...and other possible uses.
Paper tape reader sold separately... :-)