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+ - Florida GoogleX Team Offers to Send Your DNA to the Moon... For a Price->

Submitted by Udigs
Udigs writes "You might have heard of the Google LunarX Prize. It’s a competition where private, often non-profit organizations race to build a vehicle capable of completing a short mission on the moon. But one of the problems facing these private teams is the issue of raising money to make the trip. However, one Florida team is taking an interesting approach: they are offering to send your DNA to the moon for a price. For the inclined, they've started a kickstarter page, here. Prometheus anyone?"
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Comment: Re:Unemployed Veteran here. (Score 1) 309

by Udigs (#38592224) Attached to: Compared to 2011, I expect that 2012 will be:
Yeah, fuck off to YOU dude. Things aren't so black and white and you need to learn to have a little compassion for your fellow man. You SHOULD be mad, but you are mad at the wrong people. Be mad at the people who ordered these soldiers here. Be mad at the people who use our military as an instrument of not defense but for maintaining control of this capitalist hellhole machine we all live in.

Comment: Re:Unemployed Veteran here. (Score 1) 309

by Udigs (#38592202) Attached to: Compared to 2011, I expect that 2012 will be:
I see that no one replied to your comment but I wanted you to know that I read your whole comment and, for whatever it's worth, I wish you the best. I'm sorry that shit is fucked up for you, I really am. It makes me want to puke when I see those "support the troops" stickers -- support them until they get home, that is it seems. For seriously, hang in there. Take whatever you have and get in your car and move to the nearest big city and start over. Use your GI bill to get into the medical field. There will be more opportunities there.

+ - Who Moved My UI? Or: When is it Okay to Change Som->

Submitted by Udigs
Udigs writes "Nothing makes my nerd heart beat harder than good interface design. And one of the most interesting aspects about interface design is the issue of reinventing or improving well-established UI elements and conventions.

But while everyone agrees that designs can always be improved it’s not always clear what that means and more importantly, if it’s even possible.

I’ve overheard many heated arguments in which someone eventually says something like: “Everyone expects x to work like y, so you can’t change it!!” (This is usually the deathblow to the other person. They walk away, tail between legs, to go silently Facebook-stalk their ex-girlfriend.)

And you know what, this sort of system seems to work. Most of the time. But that’s only because most of the time we come up with terrible, terrible ideas. But sometimes new controls and ways of doing things do need to get designed. How to settle this age-old argument?"
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Comment: Humans Weren't Meant to Live this Way (Score 1) 118

by Udigs (#37011456) Attached to: L.A. Artist Contemplates Future Traffic Flow, With Hot Wheels
Seriously. However cool it may be, humans weren't meant to live this way... All packed on top of each other, so tightly that moving around one another is no longer possible to do with just a human brain... It's just badness, all the way down. In nature, overpopulation is naturally corrected for. Humans, ever so smart, are always finding ways to stick yet another finger in the proverbial dam. It's a beautiful piece of art in that it is totally, and utterly terrifying.

Comment: Re:some records are best kept offline too (Score 1) 153

by Udigs (#33422196) Attached to: Oxford Dictionary Considers Going Online Only
Books are totally awesome but have one fatal design flaw: they tend to burn. Burning of the library of alexandria anyone?

Let's face it. If the shit goes down we're f*cked either way. As someone else pointed out -- something like a book is useless when you're freezing your ass off. And it will most likely end up being used to start fires. Why not enjoy the life we have?
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Publishers Campaign For Universal E-Book Format 348

Posted by Soulskill
from the they-also-want-a-pony dept.
As the battle rages for control of the e-book market, publishers are starting to unite behind a common desire: a universal e-book format. David Shanks, chief executive at Penguin Group USA, said, "Our fondest wish is that all the devices become agnostic so that there isn’t proprietary formats and you can read wherever you want to read. First we have to get a standard that everybody embraces." The company's president, Susan Petersen Kennedy, explained that book publishers did not want to "make the same mistakes as the music industry, which had an epic struggle over electronic distribution and piracy and lost huge market share."

Comment: Re:End of Proprietary Formats? (Score 1) 272

by Udigs (#31404288) Attached to: What To Expect From HTML5

Basically, for applications, Flash becomes redundant since you need to use HTM for other devices anyway and HTML 5 supports everything important Flash does. For video, Flash becomes useless overhead, since you can just specify a codec already used in Flash which will save the user's processor and using Flash limits your audience to a subset of what just specifying a standard codec or two does.

Yes, except we are glossing over the part where you use a tool to "create" the application. Flash is a format AND an authoring tool. Unless Flash starts somehow exporting HTML 5, I don't really see this happening.

Comment: Flash isn't going anywhere... (Score 1) 272

by Udigs (#31404172) Attached to: What To Expect From HTML5
Come on. It's bad enough that we can't get simple block elements to render consistently in all browsers, and how we're going to try to build RIAs in "pure HTML?" Sure, it'll work for video content. Anything more complicated? Let me know how that turns out.

Flash's biggest strength is that the Flash player is responsible for running it and therefore is consistent across all platforms. If you ask me, this is a huge clusterfuck waiting to happen.

Someday your prints will come. -- Kodak

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