The issue is that NASA has become quite politicized. It's suffering because projects are not being decided based upon what are the best engineering options, but by the pork provided. So far, the commercial development has been making large strides, and doing so far more efficiently.
I find that with Slashdot, the key to getting a high score really has everything to do with posting shortly after a submission is out. Wait until there are more than a handful of comments and your score will likely to be pretty low. This also happens on Reddit, but it doesn't seem like quite to the extent of Slashdot.
Reddit on the other hand tends to suffer more from being more of an echo chamber. On Slashdot, you can more often voice a dissenting opinion and still get modded up, opening up more discussion. On Reddit, you just get downvoted and then ignored. What is really needed is two separate controls: one for giving points for a good, well reasoned or stated (non-troll) post and another for whether you agree with the post or not.
Not necessarily. It sounded like there was a pretty strict NDA in place. I wouldn't be surprised if it was to keep Google from knowing what the alleged infringing patents were, so Google may not have had a chance to really fight this.
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This isn't a solution until he first figures out how to get this by the politicians that said bankers have bought with said money.
I'm really not sure that I want to be flying on an airline whose chief can't tell the difference between a private hotel room and an airplane with dozens of other people sitting right next to you.
Hmm, if you are going to get a smartphone dock built into your prosthetic, it really ought to be an Android phone.
He has been quite good. There are more talented actors though. The thing with Leonardo DiCaprio though is that he may be the actor with the best judgement in what movies to play in. If you look at his filmography, you notice that he plays in relatively few movies, but those really tend to be smart, well put together movies.
I am kind of hoping that he does play Alan Turing, not necessarily for his acting skills so much, but just because it tells me that the script is likely to have been well done.
IE and Safari. Our logs have indicated a pretty even split in usage among our users between IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari (and no, the Safari users are not all or even a majority coming from mobile devices).
What would break is Javascript. The different browsers have been messing around quite a bit with their Javascript engines in recent years, and there are idiosyncrasies that have to be worked around. What you see as a minor change to how a browser handles a piece of Javascript does in fact mean that major corporate websites could suddenly no longer work for thousands of users.
When you have to support such systems, you want to be able to do testing to make sure that things work. This new scheme means that each and every day you are living under the gun, wondering if today is the day that Mozilla will release a version with a minor tweak that will leave you in a huge mess.
Unfortunately, although I've loved Firefox and have used it for years, I'm about ready to suggest that my organization no longer support it, because it's becoming impossible to realistically test against. The best that such testing can do is say 'It works today, but who knows about tomorrow?', which bosses REALLY don't like.
That feeling just came over me. -- Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler"