I once asked an Indian friend in college if they still had the caste system in India and asked him if he knew the castes of the other Indians around campus. He replied along the lines of "Yes, we still have it and if you see them in the U.S. it means they're from the highest caste." In other words, only the richest, most well-educated in India can afford to immigrate or even visit the U.S. or Europe. So Indian immigrants are far from a representative example of the typical Indian.
It's probably because parents in many other countries are way more interested in driving their kids or excel in social activities or in sports than in intellectual pursuits (or not driving them to excel in anything at all). If my parents and community had supported my academic interests as much as they supported my little league career, I'm sure I would have won a lot more spelling bees too. Much as I think Asians often push their kids *too* hard, it would be nice to be able to spell "necessary" consistently today without needing a spell checker.
Ah screw it, spell checkers have made spelling obsolete anyway. And I can still throw a pretty mean curve ball.
Yes, perhaps I should have added modifier "realistically" to my 20-30 year estimate. I have no doubt that we could be on Mars in 10 years or less if we mounted an Apollo-program-like effort today, but that would require the kind of resources that we're extremely unlike to commit. At the height of the NASA's Apollo development (1966), NASA's budget represented about 5.5% of the total federal budget. To achieve that equivalent level of support today, you would have to increase NASA's budget by over 10x. With a huge (and rising federal) debt, an already out-of-control deficit, and two unending wars still hanging around like albatrosses around the neck of the country; it's pretty unlikely you could even get a Congress to DOUBLE the NASA budget, much less balloon it from $19 billion a year to $200 billion.
Yeah, this is a nice show and all. But with neither the U.S. nor Russia possessing the technology to even remotely consider a manned Mars mission anytime in the next 20-30 years, this goes beyond premature and well into the realm of an absurd PR stunt. I'm not exactly sure why the Russian Academy of Sciences is supporting this. Russia scientific agencies haven't shown a particular propensity for PR whoring in the past, unlike some other agencies whose names I won't mention (*coughNASA*). But it's about as meaningful an "experiment" as that silly "Biosphere 2" trainwreck in the early 90's. And at least we got a crappy Pauly Shore movie out of *that*.
Putting the burden on the user to use a specific browser (especially if it's not the market dominant IE), is a great way to piss off just about any real-world client you work for. A lot of/.er's forget that not everyone is running a personal website for their own amusement. Try designing a professional website for a company that only works in a specific version of Opera or Firefox (or even only the latest version of IE) and watch how quickly they hand you your walking papers.
When I was a kid I always thought the first man to land on Mars would have a NASA logo on his uniform. Now I know that he won't. And whether that man is a commercial astronaut or one from some other country (or union), it's sad to think how far we've come (down) since those days when we used to believe that moon bases and giant space stations were just around the corner.
As one of the few smart guys at work, I used to constantly have to field internet urban legends and scams that idiots would pass on (without even having the common goddamn courtesy to remove about a million forwarded headers). Finally, I just gave up. After all, it's not my fault people are stupid. A fool is going to be parted with his money one way or another. If they don't get scammed, they'll just throw it away on lottery tickets.
It's Jobs' phone, it's his platform. Why should he be forced to carry someone else's software? This is as overbearing as the EU harassing MS because they don't include *competitor's* software with their OS. Since when does Ford have to allow GM options on their cars? Since when does the government tell Coca-Cola that they must allow outsiders to include content in their ad campaigns?
A company has no obligation to help out their competitors, outside developers, or anyone else that they don't want to help for that matter.
Either accept what Apple calls the shots on what can run on the iPhone you or go develop for another phone/platform. Steve is in charge of Apple, and he says what goes. You knew that going in.
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Someone needs a humor checker.
I just got a mental image of a horse looking over at his fellow horse and saying "They took yer job!"
Ironically, those wagon companies were replaced by companies like General Motors and Chrysler.
I once asked an Indian friend in college if they still had the caste system in India and asked him if he knew the castes of the other Indians around campus. He replied along the lines of "Yes, we still have it and if you see them in the U.S. it means they're from the highest caste." In other words, only the richest, most well-educated in India can afford to immigrate or even visit the U.S. or Europe. So Indian immigrants are far from a representative example of the typical Indian.
Hey, that's not fair. I like the smell of AXE.
It's probably because parents in many other countries are way more interested in driving their kids or excel in social activities or in sports than in intellectual pursuits (or not driving them to excel in anything at all). If my parents and community had supported my academic interests as much as they supported my little league career, I'm sure I would have won a lot more spelling bees too. Much as I think Asians often push their kids *too* hard, it would be nice to be able to spell "necessary" consistently today without needing a spell checker.
Ah screw it, spell checkers have made spelling obsolete anyway. And I can still throw a pretty mean curve ball.
Yes, perhaps I should have added modifier "realistically" to my 20-30 year estimate. I have no doubt that we could be on Mars in 10 years or less if we mounted an Apollo-program-like effort today, but that would require the kind of resources that we're extremely unlike to commit. At the height of the NASA's Apollo development (1966), NASA's budget represented about 5.5% of the total federal budget. To achieve that equivalent level of support today, you would have to increase NASA's budget by over 10x. With a huge (and rising federal) debt, an already out-of-control deficit, and two unending wars still hanging around like albatrosses around the neck of the country; it's pretty unlikely you could even get a Congress to DOUBLE the NASA budget, much less balloon it from $19 billion a year to $200 billion.
Yeah, this is a nice show and all. But with neither the U.S. nor Russia possessing the technology to even remotely consider a manned Mars mission anytime in the next 20-30 years, this goes beyond premature and well into the realm of an absurd PR stunt. I'm not exactly sure why the Russian Academy of Sciences is supporting this. Russia scientific agencies haven't shown a particular propensity for PR whoring in the past, unlike some other agencies whose names I won't mention (*coughNASA*). But it's about as meaningful an "experiment" as that silly "Biosphere 2" trainwreck in the early 90's. And at least we got a crappy Pauly Shore movie out of *that*.
Only on the inside.
Three words: Twice the work.
If the chemical that's most effective at removing nuclear fallout is a little toxic, I'm going to be okay with that.
Keep burning your mod points, Flash haters. It won't change reality, or move your delusion that HTML5 just as good as Flash any closer to reality.
You should see what we build our trailer parks out of.
"Offtopic" either, asshole.
Putting the burden on the user to use a specific browser (especially if it's not the market dominant IE), is a great way to piss off just about any real-world client you work for. A lot of /.er's forget that not everyone is running a personal website for their own amusement. Try designing a professional website for a company that only works in a specific version of Opera or Firefox (or even only the latest version of IE) and watch how quickly they hand you your walking papers.
Once again modders confuse the term "Troll" with the term "Someone I disagree with."
When I was a kid I always thought the first man to land on Mars would have a NASA logo on his uniform. Now I know that he won't. And whether that man is a commercial astronaut or one from some other country (or union), it's sad to think how far we've come (down) since those days when we used to believe that moon bases and giant space stations were just around the corner.
Bah, that show was just a cheap DS9 knockoff.
As one of the few smart guys at work, I used to constantly have to field internet urban legends and scams that idiots would pass on (without even having the common goddamn courtesy to remove about a million forwarded headers). Finally, I just gave up. After all, it's not my fault people are stupid. A fool is going to be parted with his money one way or another. If they don't get scammed, they'll just throw it away on lottery tickets.
No, that was my ex-wife's slogan.
Yeah, and how long do you think that is going to last?
It's Jobs' phone, it's his platform. Why should he be forced to carry someone else's software? This is as overbearing as the EU harassing MS because they don't include *competitor's* software with their OS. Since when does Ford have to allow GM options on their cars? Since when does the government tell Coca-Cola that they must allow outsiders to include content in their ad campaigns?
A company has no obligation to help out their competitors, outside developers, or anyone else that they don't want to help for that matter.
Part of me is ashamed that I knew what they reference meant immediately.
Either accept what Apple calls the shots on what can run on the iPhone you or go develop for another phone/platform. Steve is in charge of Apple, and he says what goes. You knew that going in.
Well Java would visit his uncle instead, if he would hire a garbage service to clean up all that shit that's built up in front of his house.