I have to agree with the parent. One of the things that's really great about the show is that (with exceptions of course) it's remarkably internally consistent. A lot of times they're will be jokes within jokes that reward long time fans and/or obsessive nerds (hence it being so popular with our crowd I guess...).
I noticed a pretty funny gag like this in last night's episode (the one where Leela becomes a blernsball pitcher): On Hank Aaron XXIV's Atlanta Braves uniform the tomahawk has been replaced by a faux-Native American looking trident, a reference to the episode with The Lost City of Atlanta.
...and book the astronauts on Virgin Galactic. They have a 100% reliability record.
I like this seperate vehicles idea. It's nice and modular so that if NASA ever does develop its own SpaceShipOne style crew vehicle, it doesn't have to redesign anything having to do with the cargo section. Maybe we can finally leave Earth orbit with this.
While I applaud the.xxx TLD simply because I'm a male, I'm not sure it's going to help resolve any namespace conflicts. After all, one of the main reasons for adding new TLDs is because the old ones are getting too crowded (the other reason for this one being easy filtering). But the thing is, girlswithhorses.com is probably going to be just as pornographic as girlswithhorses.xxx. Can anyone actually think of a case (besides spoof sites like whitehouse.xxx or motel6.xxx that ride their.com counterparts' coattails) where this is going to resolve anything?
Sources tell me that Google will be unvieling a PDA/GPS/Cell Phone/Newspaper/Shopping Cart that will combine it's email, mapping, VoIP, news, and pricing services. It's a secret! Ssssssh! So I'm told it will also integrate seemlessly with iPods and most pants.
In addition they'll be translating their page into several new languages including Ancient Canadian Hieroglyphics, Brazilian Cuneiform, and American Kanji (Simplified).
Look, we've got to stop jumping everytime they make a twitch. I'm pretty sure most new services that Google has unveiled have not recieved any coerage here until they were in at least beta stage. I don't recall hearing anything about Google Maps until it was made publicly availible. Maybe I was wasn't plugged in enough, but I hadn't heard about gmail till their "April Fools'" announcement either. Seriously people, cool out... you're turning into Apple rumor people (and I'm a Mac user!).
...definitely has its advantages if you're used to using a mouse with your right hand. I can surf and take notes at the same time. Also, I'm better at finding the really ripe fruit.
Speaking as someone who is working on a similar product, I would suggest this:
keep FMP because you're not going to find a mature OSS product with the same frontend capabilities
export the data in either CSV or XML
set up a cron job to watch the folder that you will be exporting too. Cron calls a shell script which loads the data into MySQL, or whatever you decide to use as a backend
Yes this means having your data in two seperate places, but it also means you get to keep the frontend capabilities of FileMaker and if and you don't have to do any major recoding (other than a couple pretty simple shell scripts).
If you want to go super fancy and not have to export the files manually, make use of the SOAP capabilities in FileMaker Server Advanced (when it comes out, which should be soon -- Server might do this, but I'm not sure). The script could use a web service to check for any changes in the data and then procede to sync.
10-15 years ago people were saying the idea that a home user would need a high speed connection (or even internet access for that matter) was crazy. Yet now most of us couldn't do our jobs, chat with friends, or get our news without the it.
I think the reason why people aren't getting it at this point is because this is not the "killer app" that will make home automation as necesary (or at least as wanted) as internet connectivity. I think the killer app will be something closer to self diagnosing appliances that can handle their own repair and resupply (eg refrigerators that order new food when they detect an empty content or a drier that awakens the Maytag man from his slumber automatically).
On a different note, the challenge that a product like this represents for the future is not a drying up of IP addresses (IPv6 and NAT should solve that problem), but the fact that this means there will be many more digital cockroaches creeping around and not paying the bills for the comm lines they're travelling on.
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So, I guess the article wasn't taking his position on net neutrality in to account?
Too add to that, it says it's US-ASCII only, so no diacritic marks either.
I have to agree with the parent. One of the things that's really great about the show is that (with exceptions of course) it's remarkably internally consistent. A lot of times they're will be jokes within jokes that reward long time fans and/or obsessive nerds (hence it being so popular with our crowd I guess...).
I noticed a pretty funny gag like this in last night's episode (the one where Leela becomes a blernsball pitcher): On Hank Aaron XXIV's Atlanta Braves uniform the tomahawk has been replaced by a faux-Native American looking trident, a reference to the episode with The Lost City of Atlanta.
...and book the astronauts on Virgin Galactic. They have a 100% reliability record.
I like this seperate vehicles idea. It's nice and modular so that if NASA ever does develop its own SpaceShipOne style crew vehicle, it doesn't have to redesign anything having to do with the cargo section. Maybe we can finally leave Earth orbit with this.
While I applaud the .xxx TLD simply because I'm a male, I'm not sure it's going to help resolve any namespace conflicts. After all, one of the main reasons for adding new TLDs is because the old ones are getting too crowded (the other reason for this one being easy filtering). But the thing is, girlswithhorses.com is probably going to be just as pornographic as girlswithhorses.xxx. Can anyone actually think of a case (besides spoof sites like whitehouse.xxx or motel6.xxx that ride their .com counterparts' coattails) where this is going to resolve anything?
I believe it's "A Method for Teasing Customers Under the Appearance of Quality Control", but I though MS owned it.
Sources tell me that Google will be unvieling a PDA/GPS/Cell Phone/Newspaper/Shopping Cart that will combine it's email, mapping, VoIP, news, and pricing services. It's a secret! Ssssssh! So I'm told it will also integrate seemlessly with iPods and most pants. In addition they'll be translating their page into several new languages including Ancient Canadian Hieroglyphics, Brazilian Cuneiform, and American Kanji (Simplified). Look, we've got to stop jumping everytime they make a twitch. I'm pretty sure most new services that Google has unveiled have not recieved any coerage here until they were in at least beta stage. I don't recall hearing anything about Google Maps until it was made publicly availible. Maybe I was wasn't plugged in enough, but I hadn't heard about gmail till their "April Fools'" announcement either. Seriously people, cool out... you're turning into Apple rumor people (and I'm a Mac user!).
...definitely has its advantages if you're used to using a mouse with your right hand. I can surf and take notes at the same time. Also, I'm better at finding the really ripe fruit.
Speaking as someone who is working on a similar product, I would suggest this:
Yes this means having your data in two seperate places, but it also means you get to keep the frontend capabilities of FileMaker and if and you don't have to do any major recoding (other than a couple pretty simple shell scripts).
If you want to go super fancy and not have to export the files manually, make use of the SOAP capabilities in FileMaker Server Advanced (when it comes out, which should be soon -- Server might do this, but I'm not sure). The script could use a web service to check for any changes in the data and then procede to sync.
10-15 years ago people were saying the idea that a home user would need a high speed connection (or even internet access for that matter) was crazy. Yet now most of us couldn't do our jobs, chat with friends, or get our news without the it. I think the reason why people aren't getting it at this point is because this is not the "killer app" that will make home automation as necesary (or at least as wanted) as internet connectivity. I think the killer app will be something closer to self diagnosing appliances that can handle their own repair and resupply (eg refrigerators that order new food when they detect an empty content or a drier that awakens the Maytag man from his slumber automatically). On a different note, the challenge that a product like this represents for the future is not a drying up of IP addresses (IPv6 and NAT should solve that problem), but the fact that this means there will be many more digital cockroaches creeping around and not paying the bills for the comm lines they're travelling on.