Comment All that accuracy... (Score 2) 127
... but they will still have to manually adjust for DST twice a year.
Comment Re:The noise problem is not just a TV one. (Score 1) 544
Or you could like we've done since time immemorial and stick a baseball card in the wheel.
Or just hire some bros to follow you around with a boombox playing your theme music.
Or just hire some bros to follow you around with a boombox playing your theme music.
Comment Re:Anti-nuclear power hype (Score 1) 66
The first one was knocked down by an earthquake.
But we built it again!
That one was knocked down by an earthquake and was washed away by a tsunami.
But we built it again! That one was knocked down by an earthquake and was washed away by a tsunami and the remains irradiated by several nuclear reactor meltdowns!
But we built it again!
And that's what you're getting Alex, the strongest vault in all the land!
But we built it again!
That one was knocked down by an earthquake and was washed away by a tsunami.
But we built it again! That one was knocked down by an earthquake and was washed away by a tsunami and the remains irradiated by several nuclear reactor meltdowns!
But we built it again!
And that's what you're getting Alex, the strongest vault in all the land!
Comment C Montgomery Burns for govenor! (Score 1) 66
Would you eat shrimp in New Orleans?
Comment Re:Where does article say "not enough openings"? (Score 1) 161
However, the days of 2008 where one could put out 99 cent fart apps and rake in the cash, or the days of 2012 where one could put out a free-to-play, pay-to-win game are now behind us.
No more than a tiny fraction, perhaps a percent of a precent, of mobile developers were "raking in the cash" making novelty apps and pay to win games. The overwhelming majority of mobile developers had full time jobs writing software for established companies then, as they do now.
And it's funny that you mentioned embedded programming. Back in the PDA days it was considered embedded programming, so we'd hire anyone with embedded experience, whether it was microcontrollers, or set-top boxes, or cell phones, or what have you. It didn't really matter what you worked on, only that you knew how to write C code for a constrained environment and only thought about suicide when dealing with the overtly complicated toolchains.
Apple and Google made it too easy.
Comment obvious troll is so obvious you can't see him. (Score 1) 291
Oh come on, you're being unrealistically tough on a fledgling company. Can't they first shoot for the Shuttle's safety record?
Comment MAIN SCREEN TURN ON (Score 1) 291
It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind, ten years after the second Iraq War. The ISS Project was a dream given form. Its goal: to prevent another war by creating a place where Americans and Russians could work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call - home away from home for astronauts, cosmonauts, scientists, and tourists. Russians and Americans wrapped in 450,000 kilograms of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the IIS stations. The year is 2014. The name of the place is the IIS.
WOW. SO FUTAR. Just like when they quarantined Clavius base.
Comment what's Cmdr Nowak doing these days? (Score 1) 465
I'm sorry, but Wikipedia apparently doesn't have a list of people punched by astronauts. Can you get right on that please?
Comment Re:I'd watch that for a dollar (Score 1) 465
You made a reference to Robocop, which I like, because I understand it, and Hunter S. Thompson, which I don't like, because I'm stupid and reading is hard.
This summary is bad and the article is bad and it would be only be funny if written by the people at cracked.com. And what does "downing their tools" mean? That sounds made up.
Comment Re:Read the summary a couple times (Score 1) 465
I bet he drinks water, like from the toilet.
Indie Game Jam Show Collapses Due To Interference From "Pepsi Consultant" 465
Sockatume (732728) writes "Would you like to see a half-million-dollar TV show in which four teams of indie developers and Youtube personalities compete to create amazing videogames? Tough luck, because GAME_JAM from Maker Studios has spectacularly imploded. Although a lot could go wrong with this kind of show, the blame isn't being levelled at game developer egos or project mismanagement but the heroic efforts of one Matti Leshem, a branding consultant brought in for Pepsi. After imposing Mountain Dew branding rules that even banned coffee from the set, his efforts to build a gender divide amongst the teams culminated in the competitors downing their tools and the production collapsing. Accounts from Adriel Wallick, Zoe Quinn, and Robin Arnott are also available."
Comment Re:Most undergrad educations are the same (Score 1) 127
A degree from a real "Ivy" means fuck all to programmers. The only one with any relevance at all is Princeton. The CS and engineering "Ivies" are MIT and Stanford. After that there are about ten or so state schools plus CMU who lead the rankings and prestige. Most of the top 20 CS and engineering schools are state schools. Why are so many in this thread clueless about this?
But don't be absurdly egalitarian. The difference in those top schools and the rest is enormous. Most schools, public and private, that offer a CS degree are diploma mills.
Comment Re:Bullshit. (Score 4, Informative) 127
Yes, brag about that Harvard CS degree. lol.
Comment Re:Don't they already? (Score 1) 518
We picked up a new car in September. Everything we looked at had cameras and they weren't super-expensive like a Ferrari. Granted we didn't look at Kia or the like. You can't see cameras when in traffic.
Comment Don't they already? (Score 1) 518
What cars don't have rear view cameras these days?
