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Google Maps[^]
Yes, it's licensed from CBS, yes it's real, yes it cost US$97M, yes it's a game development company ...
No, it can't fly.
It probably doesn't work as well from ground level, but there is no Street View in China, so I can't tell.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I'm glad you put the comma in there ... 
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Now now 
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I could not be bothered in my entire life to watch one episode of Star Trek (past, present, or future). I have not watched the movies either.
So, of course, I had to Google search the common phrase here in the States, only to find out it was never actually said in the show.
Now, I am really not sorry I posted it. 
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Slacker007 wrote: only to find out it was never actually said in the show.
That happens a lot: "Play it again, Sam" didn't appear in Casablanca either.
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It begs one to wonder why these sayings/phrases were fabricated in the first place and why they would be so prevalent and widely used if they have no basis in reality. Humans are fascinated with the fantasy world, more so than the real world, it would seem.
Interesting, to say the least.
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I suspect that most people live in a fantasy world all the time, just that it shares a differing degree of resemblance to the "real world" (whatever that is).
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OriginalGriff wrote: I suspect that most people live in a fantasy world all the time,
I don't...
I am Living In A Box[^]
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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The actual line in Casablanca was "Play it, Sam"
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any particular reason why not?
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I suppose watching any new iteration of Star Trek is enough to put anyone off watching any of the older series. Which are nothing alike (fortunately).
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I can't explain it. I love sci-fi, not a fanatic though. Star Trek never appealed to me on any level, even after all these years. Not one iota of interest to watch it.
Which is odd really because I am interested in the deep-space exploration genre.
I love Star Wars - most of it anyhow. The newer stuff makes me vomit, but that is true for most movie/tv franchises these days.
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When I showed up at Microsoft one day on Halloween I thought I had stumbled into a Star Trek convention.
I argued that we could increase developer productivity by localizing Visual Studio to Klingon.
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One of my close friends used to work for Microsoft (14 years) and he is a major trekky. Must be par for the course at Microsoft.
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I faked my way through the star trek trivia portion of the panel interview.
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Happy to see Chanese have the same taste for movies as me.
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Licensed? In China?
These words don't go together.
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What I find more disturbing is all the roads showing hundreds of feet into the water.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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But there are also the Star Wars fans: Google Maps[^] 
Mircea
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Quote: Why does Parkland High School looks like Millennium Falcon?
The designer here isn't Gorge Lucas. Instead it's an architect from Minneapolis and yes, he's a Star Wars fan.
However, the design wasn't meant to look like the Millennium Falcon. "I laughed," Dean Beeninga,
the architect who designed the school, said when asked about his reaction to first hearing the comparison.
Dec 17, 2015
Interesting.
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I did it. I got EspMon ported to ZephyrOS and running on a STM32 board. I hijacked the virtual COM port exposed by ST-Link to make it easier to use, since it's essentially a demo project that demonstrates my IoT ecosystem as well as a utility.
It took me days. It was truly difficult. It fought me every step of the way, often with unforeseen issues.
One was the console subsystem was implement incorrectly. getchar() returned 0, not -1 on no data. I opened an issue.
When I went below the console subsystem I found that the UART isn't a true UART, at least as implemented. It seems to clear the receive buffer if you send, such that I was getting corrupted data all day long because I had a printf debug spew (sending to the COM port rather than receiving) - I haven't opened an issue about it yet because I don't have an easy reproduction yet. I'm pretty sure I know how to, I just need to write the code.
Anyway, I had to mangle my graphics lib a bit to get it to compile given Zephyr's restrictions, but other than that, my major code functioned without a hitch. It was literally the last mile connections to the RTOS that gave me hell every step of the way. All of my core app code just ran, including loading SVGs and TrueType and all that fancy business.
Figuring out how to enable C++ builds was hairy though. 
What a mess.
But now I have something to work with. An article is brewing. I feel a little bad because it will be the 3rd article on the same piece of firmware  but each time it's an evolution of it so I guess it justifies itself.
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