Granite counters, hardwood floors, and stainless-steel appliances… The shag carpeting of our generation.
Right now, people are working on technology to make web apps that are still usable when the user is offline. Google, notably, is working on that problem with things like Google Gears and Chrome OS.
At the same time, other people are working on ubiquitous network access.
Right now, neither one is quite there, but I’m guessing that, in a bit irony, the offline web-app thing is going to be working and useful right about the time that nobody needs it because network access is ubiquitous.
Then again, considering the current situation in the USA with the telcos, municipal wifi, etc., maybe the offline web-app thing will be ready long before ubiquitous network access is an affordable reality.
What part of “compact car parking only” do we not understand?
This sort of thing is actually pretty standard behavior for the U of C police. I was driving to campus one afternoon, and a UC cop came up behind me on Garfield Blvd. I stopped at the Yield sign because an on-coming car was trying to turn there. While I was waiting, the cop passed me in the no-passing zone, almost hitting the turning car. Then he ran the red light at Cottage Grove. Then he made a right turn onto Ellis Avenue from the LEFT-turn lane on Garfield so that he could go around the cars stopped at the red light there. Were his lights and sirens on? No. He was just being obnoxious.
I left the TV on today, because I needed some background noise while I was working. At one point, “How I Met Your Mother” came on, and one of the characters said something about cleaning out his place and about how he made a box labeled something like “stuff I don’t need any more.” It made me look around my own place and realize I should do the same thing.
I have a remarkable amount of useless, old computer gear. As much as I might like to have an office like this guy…
http://www.biscade.com/office/
…or a collection of gear to rival this guy…
… I really think I need less clutter in my life. Why did I save all this stuff? Did I really think that I was going to run NextStep 3.3 or BeOS 4.5 again some day? Even under virtualization, what’s the point? What can you do in 2009 with an SGI O2 running IRIX 6.5 besides boot it up, play with it for 5 minutes, think to yourself “Oh yeah, that’s right, this thing looks cool but is slow and useless,” and turn it back off?
Why can’t I remember that my time has value?
Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of captchas that I can’t read. I thought the whole point of captchas was that humans can read them, but machine can’t. Am I failing the Turing Test?
