it is "Diary" not blog
it is an audio file not a podcast
I got a revolution for ya, lets put an audio file for download on the internet (yeah nobody has ever done that before), but give it a hip new name: "Podcast" cause you need a $400 piece of electronics to duplicate 20 year old technology.
Next you will see "Podcast Novels" at barnes and noble, cause "books on tape" is just not a shiney.
Get off my lawn:))
My wife used to watch children in our home, and now we have a little newbie of our own.
Our general rule has been that we introduce them to the desktop computer as young as possible. I made a few "Click for reward" "Type for reward" type games that some of the 4 month olds have understood it and enjoyed. We had a 6 month old who could move the space ship (with the mouse) to where ever you pointed on the screen. He has his own 400mhz windows95 machine at home and one of his first phraises was "Control Alt?" because when it would crash/freeze/slow down he wasn't allowed to hit control+alt+delete without permission... I think he was 14-16 months at that time. These days I don't care what your profession is (unless it is hard blue collar) It is a computer job. Keyboards and mice are like 5 bucks each and we have gone through loads of them, but it is very worth it. The joy of seeing a 2 year old BEGGING his parents to ditch dial-up for DSL is unspeakable. He is like 3 now and we installed a voodoo 3 and some ram in his PC to make it faster... he won't let his parents install anymore crap on the machine either, he warns them that "installing makes it slower" he also blames them for spyware. He knows the casino game is "spyware". Did I mention both his parents are barely computer literate?
As for laptops, you absolutly have to wait untill they stop drooling, but that is about it.
when it should be flashing 1:00, super.
but FINALLY we will be able to work in our corn fields longer thanks to a generous concession by the W. who cares about daylight savings? not me, but then again my schedule sucks no matter what time of the year it is.
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I have found that shops typicaly have some of everybody in these 3 categories:
1) The Designer (nearly burnt out)
This is someone that has been burned by the maintenence side of development so much that they would prefer to sit around and over design everything rather than actually getting anything produced. Prefers to define rigid specifications and trys to stick to project plans. This is an engineer, not an artist.
2) The Hacker (probably young and fresh)
This is someone who would prefer to try 10 solutions through prototyping in the time that it takes the "Designers" to argue about which object model is more appropriate. The hacker is most concerned with functionality and is not afraid to fail and start over. This is an artist.
3) The talker (really burnt out or new and unskilled)
This is someone who talks about slashdot and OSS all day and does not contribute to design or code in any meaningful way. This is not an artist.
In a large corporation (and some small shops) management is always after a "reproducable process". Basically any "reproducable process" is not art.
Software that works and was written without proper specs is art, software that works and was written with proper specs is expensive and takes at least 10 times as long to develop, and it is not art.
It is the difference between Shakesphere writing Hamlet and a million Manager^H^H^H^H^H^H^H monkeys on a million type writers.
easy, you make them solar rechargable and when you go to bed turn on the UV lamp in the middle of the room. Wireless power had been around for a long time it just still sucks.
They use GDT/TeleAtlas Data and guess what, they don't have the right to allow people to make derivitave works of TeleAtlas's work. I guess they could wait till Teleatlas sued them and the offending sites, but they probably don't want to lose their data license.
This would be kind of like if you recorded a radio show that played a song (which they licensed the ability to play) then when you were selling or giving away copys on your website they asked you to stop.
those with years of experience in relevant fields -- are incapable of doing.
How many years has mapquest had? Now Google has a mapping product that is 100% better... wait mapping is nothing like web search... how could they have done that when MQ has a staff with TONS of mapping experience... MQ uses the SAME DATA as GM and guess what... GM is better.
I find that history is full of people with "years of experience in relevant fields" that have been left behind by newcomers who see feats in a fresh way instead of writing them off as "superhuman feats"
Maybe Google is just not as weighed down with the failures of past generations.
As far as features that are useful for custom applications/integrations mappoint is useless. It supports GPS yet it does not support rotation like nearly every other mapping software. This means that it is useless for in-car navigation. This also means it is not very easy or useful to add your own data layers, which makes it useless for extending. As far as being a faster but less up to date version of mapquest... o.k. I guess it has that... except it is not as good at finding routes as MQ. But I am sure the PR firm for MQ has some retort;-) Just kiddin.
I work with mapping software _A_LOT_ for my work and I can tell you that mappoint is just about the worst big box product out there, so I am sure this service is gonna r0x0r.
If you are following someone else, you can never be more than second best. - Peter Normal
There is no insinuation or irony in telling a pregnant woman that her unborn son will be a nerd and never even see female genitals. It's just a very very nasty thing to say to a mother. It ranks almost up there with saying "I foresee that your son will die of cancer."
First of all, jokes don't all have to rely on irony or subtilty, they can rely on TIMING.
He asked when she was due... she told him and he said that she would remember it forever... becuase that is the last time he would see female genitals.
as for comparing that to dying of cancer, I feel very sad that you consider yours, mine, and everyone's geekhood to be some sort of fatal curse. I consider it to be a welcome part of my personality.
It takes a fragile person to crumble under an insult especially a funny one. That type of fragile person is also the type that would not go out into public in an insult magnet of a costume.
Triumph is welcome at any of my Mtg tournaments and is welcome to insult my pregnant wife.
Just get back to work and ignore the "Websense" warning you get every time you try to access "Live Video Feeds"... sponsor an employee event: bring your pics to work day
The problem is that they have been working so hard to make their kids gullible enough to fall for Christianity that they cannot possible fight off foreign ideas (like evolution) so the "Theology trust" has to fight the "Science Trust" because the survivability of theology is based on the gullibility of the next generation
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no kidding, I was microsofted at a stop light this morning, and I don't even know if my insurance is going to cover it. I hate SUVs
You can't innovate without concentration.
Sounds like someone has not lived a full life
*cough* has no idea at all what creativity is.
*cough* has no idea what drugs do.
*cough* has never read Poe, listened to (almost all) music, puts no stake in Freud, doesn't understand paintings, and can't do karaoke.
*cough* has never made a bong out of household materials
I have come to terms with the fact that gameplay is second priority, only because I believe we will reach photorealism soon. At that time the game industry will not implode, but it will be a re-birth of the all mighty gameplay. Once all the graphics are the same quality they will have to actually make fun games again. "Perfect" graphics are the only way to stop the graphics war and start a war that will create fun games again.
photorealism is not the plateu, it is the bottom of a much more glorious mountain.
there is a HUGE difference to some "regulated" industries such as power companies and I think Telecos.
If you buy a server it like buying a factory. It cannot be charged back to the customer because you have residual value in the capitol.
If you lease servers and server maintenence, it is just part of the cost of business, and they are allowed to roll it in to what they charge the customers
(basically getting to write off the whole thing instead of just 10% depreciation per year or whatever)
it was not gender "Selection" but gender "Preference". Male Sperms move faster than Female ones (and female ones live longer) and they tend to seperate when spun in a centrafuge.
This clinic actually had a pretty high success rate with low-tech gender selection (~90% iirc)
we did not opt for that service.
If you are able to conceive naturally you can do home gender selection based on the same principles. With a moderate success rate, sex a few days before ovulation vs during ovulation will yield a higher % chance to have a girl. Day of ovulation is most likely for a boy.
They hound you about it when you sign up (I signed up 1.5 years ago). Then they send you an email every once in a while and every time you sign in to the web interface it reminds you that "You do not have 911 dialing activated, please follow these steps to activate it..."
Whats next are people going to start suing because a restraunt sold them HOT coffee...
Not really that new a concept... C'mon Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble is pretty old and pretty fun.
The sensor was built in to the game cart, which made it particularly cool, since they could add a new interface without actually changing the gameboy hardware.
plus they started out with Bill Gates' daddy's millions. And they didn't just buy DOS and re-sell it, their was a lot of work to be done to that Quick and Dirty OS before they sold it to IBM... I am not saying they didn't steal it, just that they didn't just re-sell it.
Seriously, ever lose your stylus and use a finger? If the "Future" is thumb input and STILL no usable keyboard, we are just spinning our tires. I see no advantage to this device other than obvious and lame "Thumbs are harder to lose than a stylus" from TFA. I have *gasp* a pocket pc based PDA and I can say that the snap-on keyboard I use for my PDA took it from "Toy" to "Tool" and the fold out keyboard took it from "Good enough for email" to "Perfect for working out of an airport". With a PDA I carry it, a WiFi card, 2 keyboards and a charger and I am good to go for business travel (sounds like a lot, but it all fits in my jacket pocket). With a TDA the ONLY difference would be I would also have to carry a cleaning cloth and some cleaning solution so that I could read the screen, however since there are no applications or SDK for the TDA, I would not be able to get work done anyway, so I guess I could just leave it all at home.
your customer/visitor is just as likely to be using a 3gHz super duper PC straight out of the box as a 400mHz "Email checker" grade computer. Your server is the only thing you really have controll over, it is nice to see people switching to the model of "Catering to the lowest common denominator"
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it is "Diary" not blog it is an audio file not a podcast I got a revolution for ya, lets put an audio file for download on the internet (yeah nobody has ever done that before), but give it a hip new name: "Podcast" cause you need a $400 piece of electronics to duplicate 20 year old technology. Next you will see "Podcast Novels" at barnes and noble, cause "books on tape" is just not a shiney. Get off my lawn :))
I have NEVER recieved an unsolicited call on my Vonage phone and I have had it for 2+ years.
My wife used to watch children in our home, and now we have a little newbie of our own.
Our general rule has been that we introduce them to the desktop computer as young as possible. I made a few "Click for reward" "Type for reward" type games that some of the 4 month olds have understood it and enjoyed. We had a 6 month old who could move the space ship (with the mouse) to where ever you pointed on the screen. He has his own 400mhz windows95 machine at home and one of his first phraises was "Control Alt?" because when it would crash/freeze/slow down he wasn't allowed to hit control+alt+delete without permission... I think he was 14-16 months at that time. These days I don't care what your profession is (unless it is hard blue collar) It is a computer job. Keyboards and mice are like 5 bucks each and we have gone through loads of them, but it is very worth it. The joy of seeing a 2 year old BEGGING his parents to ditch dial-up for DSL is unspeakable. He is like 3 now and we installed a voodoo 3 and some ram in his PC to make it faster... he won't let his parents install anymore crap on the machine either, he warns them that "installing makes it slower" he also blames them for spyware. He knows the casino game is "spyware". Did I mention both his parents are barely computer literate?
As for laptops, you absolutly have to wait untill they stop drooling, but that is about it.
when it should be flashing 1:00, super. but FINALLY we will be able to work in our corn fields longer thanks to a generous concession by the W. who cares about daylight savings? not me, but then again my schedule sucks no matter what time of the year it is.
I have found that shops typicaly have some of everybody in these 3 categories:
1) The Designer (nearly burnt out)
This is someone that has been burned by the maintenence side of development so much that they would prefer to sit around and over design everything rather than actually getting anything produced. Prefers to define rigid specifications and trys to stick to project plans. This is an engineer, not an artist.
2) The Hacker (probably young and fresh)
This is someone who would prefer to try 10 solutions through prototyping in the time that it takes the "Designers" to argue about which object model is more appropriate. The hacker is most concerned with functionality and is not afraid to fail and start over. This is an artist.
3) The talker (really burnt out or new and unskilled)
This is someone who talks about slashdot and OSS all day and does not contribute to design or code in any meaningful way. This is not an artist.
In a large corporation (and some small shops) management is always after a "reproducable process". Basically any "reproducable process" is not art.
Software that works and was written without proper specs is art, software that works and was written with proper specs is expensive and takes at least 10 times as long to develop, and it is not art.
It is the difference between Shakesphere writing Hamlet and a million Manager^H^H^H^H^H^H^H monkeys on a million type writers.
easy, you make them solar rechargable and when you go to bed turn on the UV lamp in the middle of the room. Wireless power had been around for a long time it just still sucks.
They use GDT/TeleAtlas Data and guess what, they don't have the right to allow people to make derivitave works of TeleAtlas's work. I guess they could wait till Teleatlas sued them and the offending sites, but they probably don't want to lose their data license. This would be kind of like if you recorded a radio show that played a song (which they licensed the ability to play) then when you were selling or giving away copys on your website they asked you to stop.
those with years of experience in relevant fields -- are incapable of doing.
How many years has mapquest had? Now Google has a mapping product that is 100% better... wait mapping is nothing like web search... how could they have done that when MQ has a staff with TONS of mapping experience... MQ uses the SAME DATA as GM and guess what... GM is better.
I find that history is full of people with "years of experience in relevant fields" that have been left behind by newcomers who see feats in a fresh way instead of writing them off as "superhuman feats"
Maybe Google is just not as weighed down with the failures of past generations.
The URL has changed but he was the first review of Sith.
/fanboy
He ranks pretty high in my book.
blog is the worst word EVER omg/wtf/bbq/kfc
As far as features that are useful for custom applications/integrations mappoint is useless. It supports GPS yet it does not support rotation like nearly every other mapping software. This means that it is useless for in-car navigation. This also means it is not very easy or useful to add your own data layers, which makes it useless for extending. As far as being a faster but less up to date version of mapquest... o.k. I guess it has that... except it is not as good at finding routes as MQ. But I am sure the PR firm for MQ has some retort ;-) Just kiddin.
I work with mapping software _A_LOT_ for my work and I can tell you that mappoint is just about the worst big box product out there, so I am sure this service is gonna r0x0r.
If you are following someone else, you can never be more than second best. - Peter Normal
translation: Get off my lawn
you messed up some golden punch lines
There is no insinuation or irony in telling a pregnant woman that her unborn son will be a nerd and never even see female genitals. It's just a very very nasty thing to say to a mother. It ranks almost up there with saying "I foresee that your son will die of cancer."
First of all, jokes don't all have to rely on irony or subtilty, they can rely on TIMING.
He asked when she was due... she told him and he said that she would remember it forever... becuase that is the last time he would see female genitals.
as for comparing that to dying of cancer, I feel very sad that you consider yours, mine, and everyone's geekhood to be some sort of fatal curse. I consider it to be a welcome part of my personality.
It takes a fragile person to crumble under an insult especially a funny one. That type of fragile person is also the type that would not go out into public in an insult magnet of a costume.
Triumph is welcome at any of my Mtg tournaments and is welcome to insult my pregnant wife.
Between this and tabbed browsing, MS will be up on all the latest trends of 2004(and earlier)! We are so proud of you guys!!
Just get back to work and ignore the "Websense" warning you get every time you try to access "Live Video Feeds"... sponsor an employee event: bring your pics to work day
Viva la revolution!
The problem is that they have been working so hard to make their kids gullible enough to fall for Christianity that they cannot possible fight off foreign ideas (like evolution) so the "Theology trust" has to fight the "Science Trust" because the survivability of theology is based on the gullibility of the next generation
no kidding, I was microsofted at a stop light this morning, and I don't even know if my insurance is going to cover it. I hate SUVs
You can't innovate without concentration.
Sounds like someone has not lived a full life
*cough* has no idea at all what creativity is.
*cough* has no idea what drugs do.
*cough* has never read Poe, listened to (almost all) music, puts no stake in Freud, doesn't understand paintings, and can't do karaoke.
*cough* has never made a bong out of household materials
I have come to terms with the fact that gameplay is second priority, only because I believe we will reach photorealism soon. At that time the game industry will not implode, but it will be a re-birth of the all mighty gameplay. Once all the graphics are the same quality they will have to actually make fun games again. "Perfect" graphics are the only way to stop the graphics war and start a war that will create fun games again.
photorealism is not the plateu, it is the bottom of a much more glorious mountain.
there is a HUGE difference to some "regulated" industries such as power companies and I think Telecos. If you buy a server it like buying a factory. It cannot be charged back to the customer because you have residual value in the capitol. If you lease servers and server maintenence, it is just part of the cost of business, and they are allowed to roll it in to what they charge the customers (basically getting to write off the whole thing instead of just 10% depreciation per year or whatever)
it was not gender "Selection" but gender "Preference". Male Sperms move faster than Female ones (and female ones live longer) and they tend to seperate when spun in a centrafuge.
This clinic actually had a pretty high success rate with low-tech gender selection (~90% iirc)
we did not opt for that service.
If you are able to conceive naturally you can do home gender selection based on the same principles. With a moderate success rate, sex a few days before ovulation vs during ovulation will yield a higher % chance to have a girl. Day of ovulation is most likely for a boy.
They hound you about it when you sign up (I signed up 1.5 years ago). Then they send you an email every once in a while and every time you sign in to the web interface it reminds you that "You do not have 911 dialing activated, please follow these steps to activate it..."
Whats next are people going to start suing because a restraunt sold them HOT coffee...
Not really that new a concept... C'mon Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble is pretty old and pretty fun.
The sensor was built in to the game cart, which made it particularly cool, since they could add a new interface without actually changing the gameboy hardware.
plus they started out with Bill Gates' daddy's millions. And they didn't just buy DOS and re-sell it, their was a lot of work to be done to that Quick and Dirty OS before they sold it to IBM... I am not saying they didn't steal it, just that they didn't just re-sell it.
Seriously, ever lose your stylus and use a finger? If the "Future" is thumb input and STILL no usable keyboard, we are just spinning our tires. I see no advantage to this device other than obvious and lame "Thumbs are harder to lose than a stylus" from TFA. I have *gasp* a pocket pc based PDA and I can say that the snap-on keyboard I use for my PDA took it from "Toy" to "Tool" and the fold out keyboard took it from "Good enough for email" to "Perfect for working out of an airport". With a PDA I carry it, a WiFi card, 2 keyboards and a charger and I am good to go for business travel (sounds like a lot, but it all fits in my jacket pocket). With a TDA the ONLY difference would be I would also have to carry a cleaning cloth and some cleaning solution so that I could read the screen, however since there are no applications or SDK for the TDA, I would not be able to get work done anyway, so I guess I could just leave it all at home.
your customer/visitor is just as likely to be using a 3gHz super duper PC straight out of the box as a 400mHz "Email checker" grade computer. Your server is the only thing you really have controll over, it is nice to see people switching to the model of "Catering to the lowest common denominator"