People thought you could bypass doing the work and actually understand what is going on but get useful results.
Turns out you can't.
Or put another way, If big data is so great "Why didn't Watson see IBM's crash coming ?"
Pull your head out of your rear end.
You are talking about the people that threw George H.W. Bush out of office because he violated his word on "No New Taxes"
You are talking about the people that force their candidates to sign pledges not to raise taxes.
I think reusable orbital entry vehicles
The shuttle was very impressive in that they made it work, but in accomplishing the goal of low cost access to space ? Not so much.
Mars landers, and the half a dozen other probes scattered on missions throughout the solar system might be something to brag about
Viking was 1976, nice thing for the Bi-Centenial if your young and Bi Curious you might want to google that. But it's nearly 40 years gone.
What they haven't done is make space more accessible, arguably Arianespace. Orbital Sciences and Space-X have done considerably more in moving humanity towards being a spacefaring species.
I'd love to agree with you but NASA hasn't been anything to brag about for maybe 30 years now. The upcoming Space Launch System is looking to be a horrible boondoggle.
At what point would you say criticism is warranted ?
Or at what point would you say it's fair, to ask just what is the point of a Mars mission ? That we should drain resources from just about everything else we do in space to pursue it ?
That's because google doesn't sell information to people, that Verizon, ATT, Comcast don't sell information about you, that's because there aren't businesses that collect detailed information about you and sell them to anyone who looks.
Oh wait, there are all those things.
Be pleased, it takes a special kind of person to think speaking in pig latin makes their conversation private.
And thanks for demonstrating you are just a troll.
All email, social media, banking and consumer purchases take place over SSL connections, and have for a long time. So the "party line" stuff is a non-starter.
So you use gmail, yahoo mail, hotmail, or corporate mail ? You don't think the providers don't or can't parse that ? It's not your mail it's theirs after all.
You don't think the credit card companies don't record and share information with the credit reporting agencies ?
Who. Who else has the budget AND the physical proximity to the bulk of the fiber (which runs through the US) to do a "full take" of what people do online.
Oh I don't know, maybe the people selling you your net access ?
Of course it did. In the classic game shows Tic Tac Dough and Hollywood Squares, two contestants whose emblems are "circle" and "X" are fighting to place their respective emblems in a grid of 3x3 squares. So how many episodes of these series are available through torrents?
the last time I checked, [GIMP] still lacked the support for color matching that would make it viable for creating images that were print-ready.
Have the patents on practical methods of color matching expired yet? If not, then it's impossible for free software to support proper color matching.
No more imperial shit.
Oh, just wait until the NeoCons hear about this rocket.
Look what happened to the British Empire.
With a different meaning since you been gone...
Stuck in Rutland Weekend Television.
Dell would be stupid to put Ubuntu on touchscreens. For those, they should use Android itself.
Window management in Android OS is designed to display a single application maximized. This works for 4 to 8 inch screens of phones and tablets, not so much for 13 inch or larger screens of laptops, where people expect to view applications side by side. Change this behavior and your customers will lose access to Google Play Store.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
