Dude. We are talking about the Space program here. The GP laid out the case that the Space program has benefited most all taxpayers. Yes it cost us a lot of money, but the free market and the taxpayers got a lot out of the deal. That's called an "investment" and we all experienced a great return on investment. Did we have to do it? No. But we did and look what happened.
The GP is not talking about some $10M gov study on yellow blind mice and their ability to sense magnet fields. He's not talking about bridges to nowhere literally, politically, and fiscally. He's not talking about $500M embassies in Iraq. We can debate that X amount of Gov funded (taxpayer funded) programs are not beneficial to the mass amount of taxpayers. However, the Space program had a large return on investment (just like the highway system, Tennessee Valley Authority, etc.).
Studios that have recently left Microsoft for one reason or another in the last 12 months:
FASA (Shadowrun, Crimson Skies, Mech Warrior, Mech Commander) Bungie (H A L O, Marathon) Ensemble (Halo Wars, Age of Empires, Age of Mythology) Hired Gun (Halo 2 Vista)
8 years ago a manager in my lab thought that you could use a digital camera to get a 3D mesh model of whatever you photographed. It's a digital camera right? It took months for us to explain what a digital camera really was. Maybe he should have been teaching us!
IAADF (I am a Drupal fanboy) and I've noticed that when posters in the Drupal.org forums suggest features that aren't found in Drupal core or in the 3rd party.module's, they are often told that "This is open source software. You want that feature? Go write it".
You've got to admit, posting in the Drupal.org forums is a crap shoot. Sometimes your post won't get a reply. Sometimes you'll get heckled and told to go back to WordPress or Joomla. Sometimes you'll get pointed to 3rd party.modules that do half of what you want and you are told to code the other half. And sometimes you'll get pointed to yet another feature request that someone has made years ago that may or may not have the solution you seek.
I wish Drupal.org was better organized. It's a mess. Heck, they've recently removed D.org's own SEARCH function and have been encouraging people to search D.org by using Google. There's no way to track threads (even though.modules exist to allow this) so people simply type "SUBSCRIBE" to feature requests and bug reports in hopes that they'll be able to follow the thread through the/tracker feature.
The Drupal CMS system is getting more and more robust and gaining more and more attention. I think it's time that the Drupal admins realize that they aren't just managing the Drupal CVS, but also the Drupal community...to include User Experience on their website.
It sounds like your interested in that. How about stepping up?;)
Skyfire is already in beta. I got my invite in April after I applied a couple of months prior.
I'm using it on a Motorola Q with EVDO from Verizon. It's a really powerful browser. Finally, I'm able to surf just about any website and it just works. Flash embeds work perfectly. It really broadens what I can do with my phone while on the road.
Skyfire does server-side rendering, therefore it's not really a browser. It's more like a viewer. Because of this, start up times are annoyingly slow (15 - 25 seconds). But pages load really fast and I don't experience breaks in audio or video when listening to podcasts or YouTube videos while driving down the interstate.
I kind of like the idea of offloading page rendering/transcoding to a server. Then again, if the Skyfire servers ever go down I'm SOL.
I rarely use the browser because using mobile websites in pocket IE is good enough for 90% of what I do. If the Motorola Q was a touchscreen device, I would enjoy Skyfire more.
Oops. You guys are right. I initially wrote my post to include SMB3 but changed it to SMB1 and the whole whistle/flute thing doesn't work in SMB1 obviously...
If "a left-handed widget with widget gauge #12" is the "impossible" that keeping a Saturn V from flying, then I'm guessing there's a mom and pop engineering company around here somewhere that would gladly make the part for NASA.
No one's ever asked me for proof that I've beat Super Mario Bro 1 let alone if I've found all the warp flutes to Level 8. Right now, XBOX 360 Achievements are an economy of the ego. Achievements don't get you anything tangible and aren't transferable.
Now if an achievement would earn me a free movie, a free coupon on a game, a free map, etc., now that would be cool and a reason to pay $50 a year for XBOX Live membership.
First test is scheduled for April '09. Less than a year, we're supposed to see Ares I-X go up from Kennedy. We may not be sending Homo Sapiens up on Areas for a while, but at least we'll have a candle to burn.
The point of a Web is to make one, wait for visitors, catch them, and then eat them. It doesn't really matter what the visitor does once it gets in the web. It's just a matter of the spider finishing the deal.
"The iPhone 3G and Android devices are coming this year...
Stuff Apple and Google hype into new posts much? Maybe the post would have more fairly started out by saying something like "With smartphones becoming more and more popular among cell phone users, the door is open for...".
The "door" has been open for a while. Phones with GPS have been around for years. Automobiles and boats have had GPS for longer. Auto-sensing positioning devices aren't here thanks to Apple or Google unreleased Android OS. So why the iPhone and Android hype? Yep, those companies are helping to make the technology more mainstream, but there's other companies doing the same out there.
Sure the iPhone will be popular, but come on. Nokia sells more phones in a week than the total number of iPhones sold to date. Yeah, not all Nokia phones are smart, but my point is to say that the iPhone isn't the end-all. There's other stuff out there. Blackberries, Palm OS, Simbian, and WinMo. And a good chunk of them have had GPS and 3G speeds quite a while longer than the iPhone 3G that's coming out next week.
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So, what's going to happen when positioning devices are a bigger part of our everyday lives? The devices will be able to show us where we've traveled and how fast we traveled (either via the devices we carry on us or the devices attached to our transportation). Heck, I guess those devices will be able to show if we have cut someone off on the parkway or if we are a high risk driver in general or if we frequent night clubs, high end clothing stores, or strip clubs. I wonder if the (life and auto) insurance companies will ever tap into these networks.
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$10 says that you entered your comment in with a keyboard and mouse; not voice recognition software.
Is he hosting his website on a cellphone?
Dude. We are talking about the Space program here. The GP laid out the case that the Space program has benefited most all taxpayers. Yes it cost us a lot of money, but the free market and the taxpayers got a lot out of the deal. That's called an "investment" and we all experienced a great return on investment. Did we have to do it? No. But we did and look what happened.
The GP is not talking about some $10M gov study on yellow blind mice and their ability to sense magnet fields. He's not talking about bridges to nowhere literally, politically, and fiscally. He's not talking about $500M embassies in Iraq. We can debate that X amount of Gov funded (taxpayer funded) programs are not beneficial to the mass amount of taxpayers. However, the Space program had a large return on investment (just like the highway system, Tennessee Valley Authority, etc.).
You realize that I hired a contractor to type this post for me?
Studios that have recently left Microsoft for one reason or another in the last 12 months:
FASA (Shadowrun, Crimson Skies, Mech Warrior, Mech Commander)
Bungie (H A L O, Marathon)
Ensemble (Halo Wars, Age of Empires, Age of Mythology)
Hired Gun (Halo 2 Vista)
Any others?
8 years ago a manager in my lab thought that you could use a digital camera to get a 3D mesh model of whatever you photographed. It's a digital camera right? It took months for us to explain what a digital camera really was. Maybe he should have been teaching us!
What about the Christians that believe the Earth is billions of years old, just like you?
(Also, you had better read up on the apostles as they have little to do with Young Earth believers calculating the age of the planet.)
When does the iPhone Slider with QWERTY keyboard launch?
It's a well known fact that Apples taste better than Oranges.
...just before they go surfing on the surface of the sun.
The toaster in my kitchen was connected by a piece of metal to your toaster many decades ago.
Cause we've got nukes, bro.
IAADF (I am a Drupal fanboy) and I've noticed that when posters in the Drupal.org forums suggest features that aren't found in Drupal core or in the 3rd party .module's, they are often told that "This is open source software. You want that feature? Go write it".
You've got to admit, posting in the Drupal.org forums is a crap shoot. Sometimes your post won't get a reply. Sometimes you'll get heckled and told to go back to WordPress or Joomla. Sometimes you'll get pointed to 3rd party .modules that do half of what you want and you are told to code the other half. And sometimes you'll get pointed to yet another feature request that someone has made years ago that may or may not have the solution you seek.
I wish Drupal.org was better organized. It's a mess. Heck, they've recently removed D.org's own SEARCH function and have been encouraging people to search D.org by using Google. There's no way to track threads (even though .modules exist to allow this) so people simply type "SUBSCRIBE" to feature requests and bug reports in hopes that they'll be able to follow the thread through the /tracker feature.
The Drupal CMS system is getting more and more robust and gaining more and more attention. I think it's time that the Drupal admins realize that they aren't just managing the Drupal CVS, but also the Drupal community...to include User Experience on their website.
It sounds like your interested in that. How about stepping up? ;)
Skyfire is already in beta. I got my invite in April after I applied a couple of months prior.
I'm using it on a Motorola Q with EVDO from Verizon. It's a really powerful browser. Finally, I'm able to surf just about any website and it just works. Flash embeds work perfectly. It really broadens what I can do with my phone while on the road.
Skyfire does server-side rendering, therefore it's not really a browser. It's more like a viewer. Because of this, start up times are annoyingly slow (15 - 25 seconds). But pages load really fast and I don't experience breaks in audio or video when listening to podcasts or YouTube videos while driving down the interstate.
I kind of like the idea of offloading page rendering/transcoding to a server. Then again, if the Skyfire servers ever go down I'm SOL.
I rarely use the browser because using mobile websites in pocket IE is good enough for 90% of what I do. If the Motorola Q was a touchscreen device, I would enjoy Skyfire more.
Oops. You guys are right. I initially wrote my post to include SMB3 but changed it to SMB1 and the whole whistle/flute thing doesn't work in SMB1 obviously...
If "a left-handed widget with widget gauge #12" is the "impossible" that keeping a Saturn V from flying, then I'm guessing there's a mom and pop engineering company around here somewhere that would gladly make the part for NASA.
A test flight of Area 1-X is scheduled for April of 2009: http://spaceflightsystems.grc.nasa.gov/LaunchSystems/flightTest.php/
No one's ever asked me for proof that I've beat Super Mario Bro 1 let alone if I've found all the warp flutes to Level 8. Right now, XBOX 360 Achievements are an economy of the ego. Achievements don't get you anything tangible and aren't transferable.
Now if an achievement would earn me a free movie, a free coupon on a game, a free map, etc., now that would be cool and a reason to pay $50 a year for XBOX Live membership.
First test is scheduled for April '09. Less than a year, we're supposed to see Ares I-X go up from Kennedy. We may not be sending Homo Sapiens up on Areas for a while, but at least we'll have a candle to burn.
As if we could afford an electric car now.
The point of a Web is to make one, wait for visitors, catch them, and then eat them. It doesn't really matter what the visitor does once it gets in the web. It's just a matter of the spider finishing the deal.
I code on an iPhone and it's AWESOME!@
1st Gen iPhone couldn't do MMS. I haven't heard that the 2nd Gen iPhone can do it either.
Stuff Apple and Google hype into new posts much? Maybe the post would have more fairly started out by saying something like "With smartphones becoming more and more popular among cell phone users, the door is open for...".
The "door" has been open for a while. Phones with GPS have been around for years. Automobiles and boats have had GPS for longer. Auto-sensing positioning devices aren't here thanks to Apple or Google unreleased Android OS. So why the iPhone and Android hype? Yep, those companies are helping to make the technology more mainstream, but there's other companies doing the same out there.
Sure the iPhone will be popular, but come on. Nokia sells more phones in a week than the total number of iPhones sold to date. Yeah, not all Nokia phones are smart, but my point is to say that the iPhone isn't the end-all. There's other stuff out there. Blackberries, Palm OS, Simbian, and WinMo. And a good chunk of them have had GPS and 3G speeds quite a while longer than the iPhone 3G that's coming out next week.
So, what's going to happen when positioning devices are a bigger part of our everyday lives? The devices will be able to show us where we've traveled and how fast we traveled (either via the devices we carry on us or the devices attached to our transportation). Heck, I guess those devices will be able to show if we have cut someone off on the parkway or if we are a high risk driver in general or if we frequent night clubs, high end clothing stores, or strip clubs. I wonder if the (life and auto) insurance companies will ever tap into these networks.
If guns kill people then I can blame my pencil for typos.