I've been keeping an eye on these guys for a quite a while now. My wife ordered me one for my birthday, and it arrives today! Did we time this right or what?
Really. Why don't people want to take responsibility for their own actions? This running trend is getting worse year by year and it sickens me. Yeah, we all do stupid stuff, but come on: own up to it! This sort of technology just helps figure out what did or did not happen after an accident. People lie.
coming from the state that brings you drive-through daquiri huts. There's a law in Louisiana that says you can't have an open container of liquor in your car. Somehow having a styrofoam cup with a lid and a straw is still a closed container. It's things like this that made me move away from that God-forsaken state.:)
I spent a few hours yesterday redesigning my website to incorporate SVG as a design element. I was pleasantly suprised about how easy it was to get everything working properly and completely W3 compliant. What's more is: all the site resources and the template I'm using boil down to just under 6KB. I'm running all this through Mason, so I'm pretty excited to see what can be done through combining Mason and SVG. I'm thinking database-driven graphs, user layout/color/theme preferences... I know that Flash and SVG aren't direct competitors and each has it's strengths and weaknesses, but SVG's main strength (IMHO) is it's coplete openness and roots in XML. This allows SVG to be as dynamic as you want. The only things I see that Flash has over SVG are: XML sockets, more widely accepted, and it's a somewhat difficult format to reverse engineer / yoink code from. I suppose the last "feature" is both good and bad.
I still think it would be great if someone got around to coding a really well-made video game for the deaf, something along the lines of a puzzle game would probably work best. Now there's a challenge for you.
We just purchased one of these for the house and I'm very happy with it so far. It has individual ink cartridges, with ink that is water resistant and apparently lightfast for 70 years on regular paper. It prints at 5760x1440dpi; just beautiful. It's plugged directly into our AirPort with USB; printing wirelessly is completely effortless (and a fun, although wasteful, way to send messages downstairs to tell my roommates to turn the tv the hell down). I honestly can't speak about the long-term good or bad about the printer unfortunately, as I bought it a couple of weeks ago. CompUSA for $140. Ink cartriges were FULL, not half-full like most cartriges that come with printers. Overall, I'm very happy.
I stand by my convictions: There Is No Excuse For An Ugly Interface; user experience is very much a part of functionality!
These two statements are still misunderstood in many ways in the code/design community. A serious amount of thought should be given about the ease-of-use, cleanliness, and simplicity of any application you write (unless of course it's command-line-only... certain design principles still apply though).
I work for InShift Technologies. We produce a web development platform that is incredibly simple to use and serves up dynamic content. We've got TONS and TONS of really top-notch features, and anyone with a good understanding of HTML can pick it up in a couple of hours. Well, it seems we may be charging too little; people just can't believe that you can get something so robust for so little. We've built some pretty killer websites (123inkjets.com / 00inkjets.com for example) with our platform, and saved our clients a considerable amount of cash. In one example, we would have saved Associated Foods many many thousands of dollars, but we were told flat out that our bid was waaaaaay too low; which is unfortunate, because we still had a very high profit margin!
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When I saw this headline on my phone's RSS reader, I read it as: "U.S. Government Crippled by Sex, Gaming Sites, Slashdot". haha.
I've been keeping an eye on these guys for a quite a while now. My wife ordered me one for my birthday, and it arrives today! Did we time this right or what?
Really. Why don't people want to take responsibility for their own actions? This running trend is getting worse year by year and it sickens me. Yeah, we all do stupid stuff, but come on: own up to it! This sort of technology just helps figure out what did or did not happen after an accident. People lie.
What exactly can I do on it that I can't do on my Danger HipTop (aka T-Mobile SideKick)?
That's what I thought.
coming from the state that brings you drive-through daquiri huts. There's a law in Louisiana that says you can't have an open container of liquor in your car. Somehow having a styrofoam cup with a lid and a straw is still a closed container. It's things like this that made me move away from that God-forsaken state. :)
I spent a few hours yesterday redesigning my website to incorporate SVG as a design element. I was pleasantly suprised about how easy it was to get everything working properly and completely W3 compliant. What's more is: all the site resources and the template I'm using boil down to just under 6KB. I'm running all this through Mason, so I'm pretty excited to see what can be done through combining Mason and SVG. I'm thinking database-driven graphs, user layout/color/theme preferences... I know that Flash and SVG aren't direct competitors and each has it's strengths and weaknesses, but SVG's main strength (IMHO) is it's coplete openness and roots in XML. This allows SVG to be as dynamic as you want. The only things I see that Flash has over SVG are: XML sockets, more widely accepted, and it's a somewhat difficult format to reverse engineer / yoink code from. I suppose the last "feature" is both good and bad.
Just my 2
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I still think it would be great if someone got around to coding a really well-made video game for the deaf, something along the lines of a puzzle game would probably work best. Now there's a challenge for you.
"I'm so indie that my shirt don't fit." --MC Frontalot
We just purchased one of these for the house and I'm very happy with it so far. It has individual ink cartridges, with ink that is water resistant and apparently lightfast for 70 years on regular paper. It prints at 5760x1440dpi; just beautiful. It's plugged directly into our AirPort with USB; printing wirelessly is completely effortless (and a fun, although wasteful, way to send messages downstairs to tell my roommates to turn the tv the hell down). I honestly can't speak about the long-term good or bad about the printer unfortunately, as I bought it a couple of weeks ago. CompUSA for $140. Ink cartriges were FULL, not half-full like most cartriges that come with printers. Overall, I'm very happy.
I stand by my convictions: There Is No Excuse For An Ugly Interface; user experience is very much a part of functionality!
These two statements are still misunderstood in many ways in the code/design community. A serious amount of thought should be given about the ease-of-use, cleanliness, and simplicity of any application you write (unless of course it's command-line-only... certain design principles still apply though).
I work for InShift Technologies. We produce a web development platform that is incredibly simple to use and serves up dynamic content. We've got TONS and TONS of really top-notch features, and anyone with a good understanding of HTML can pick it up in a couple of hours. Well, it seems we may be charging too little; people just can't believe that you can get something so robust for so little. We've built some pretty killer websites (123inkjets.com / 00inkjets.com for example) with our platform, and saved our clients a considerable amount of cash. In one example, we would have saved Associated Foods many many thousands of dollars, but we were told flat out that our bid was waaaaaay too low; which is unfortunate, because we still had a very high profit margin!