|
That's what she said.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
|
|
|
|
|
These are full of hot air!! 
More seriously, how sturdy it is!?!
|
|
|
|
|
I know I saw a demo of that a few years ago. Is this the same metal mesh, or a newer version, and if so what's changed?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
|
|
|
|
|
Several weeks ago, Google launched Brotli, a new open source compression algorithm for the web. Since then, controversy broke out over the choice of 'bro' as the content encoding type. Stay awesome
|
|
|
|
|
Silliness.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
|
|
|
|
|
Dell is poised to strike the biggest-ever takeover in the technology industry by buying a fellow company grappling with swift changes: the storage provider EMC. Time is money, money is power, power is pizza, and pizza is knowledge
|
|
|
|
|
The introduction of a new cell phone app, "Improve Detroit," allows users to easily alert city hall to potholes, illegal dumping sites, abandoned cars, water main breaks, busted traffic signals and broken hydrants. City problems? There's an app for that.
|
|
|
|
|
I wonder how much load testing they did before launch? They're going to to need it! 
|
|
|
|
|
You say that as if 333 users reporting 33 items each is a heavy load. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
|
|
|
|
|
You don't live around here do you?
Try a couple of thousand users a minute! 
|
|
|
|
|
Did the "obamaphone" program start offering vaguely modernish phones in the last few years? When I was still getting mass treespam by zipcode adverts for the program (since then they've apparently figured out I make way too much to qualify), the hardware they offered was so pathetic I wouldn't've been surprised if it didn't offer a camera.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
|
|
|
|
|
Just over 60% of the workforce in Detroit doesn't live in the city. There's plenty of smart phones out there and there are a sh*t-tons more potholes and dumping sites for them to report.
|
|
|
|
|
If I install the app, can I report a resident with a broken sarcasm detector from out of state? 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
|
|
|
|
|
In 6 months, they fixed over 500 water line breaks? Or... the water line break was reported by multiple people. Isn't that the funny accounting that got Detroit in trouble in the first place?
|
|
|
|
|
I used to work for DWSD. They really do fix that many, and more. The problem is that parts of the system are over 150 years old and, better yet, they still find hollowed out tree logs from the 1800's in the system!
The system doesn't cover only Detroit/Wayne County. It's the 3rd largest system in the country covering over 1,000 square miles in 8 counties.
|
|
|
|
|
Dave Kreskowiak wrote: they still find hollowed out tree logs from the 1800's in the system!
  
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
|
|
|
|
|
A release by Wikileaks of what is believed to be the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement, and dashes the few hopes that we held out that its most onerous provisions wouldn't survive to the end of the negotiations. Hold me?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Google announced today that its Cardboard VR app is now available in 100 countries for both iOS and Android. The company also stated that the app's software development kit has been improved. According to the Google Developer's Blog, the new SDK now features better drift control thanks to "a major overhaul of the sensor fusion algorithms that integrate the signals from the gyroscope and accelerometer." This should diminish the amount of "drift" wherein the displayed images continue to move even after your head has stopped turning.
Experience your cardboard virtually now!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Modern computing as we know it would not have existed without Dennis Ritchie, father of the C programming language and co-creator of the UNIX operating system. But who would play him in the movie?
|
|
|
|
|
Thompson, Ritchie, and Kernighan form an impressive trinity, but I doubt they actually affected Jobs or Gates much.
Oh, and I don't think they should have HP-UX going so far back -- as far as I recall that's just HP's rebranding of DEC's TRU64 UNIX.
modified 9-Oct-15 17:58pm.
|
|
|
|
|
"but I doubt they actually affected Jobs or Gates much"
As the NeXT and OS/X are both UNIX platforms, as is iOS, I'd say that their influence was strong on Jobs at least. Not as strong as the Xerox Pal Alto Research Center, which both Jobs and Gates visited and inspired the modern UI, but nonetheless, their work enabled both Microsoft and Apple to build the platforms we love and hate today.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
|
|
|
|
|
Rob Grainger wrote: As the NeXT and OS/X are both UNIX platforms, as is iOS
Jobs was already a success by then.
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
