Found this delightful comment on a story about the economics of high speed rail:
The New Jersey Turnpike tollroad system, to give one example, is completely self-financing and tolls are siphoned out of the system to subsidize loss-making choo-choos.
This seems to ignore subsidies to US consumers, auto companies, and metro agencies (that use buses) which in […]
[16:35] <Dashiva> Semantic Web is just around the corner [16:36] * gsnedders|work sticks his head around [16:36] <gsnedders|work> I don’t see it. Maybe it’s just very small? [16:37] <Dashiva> No, it’s just invisible to the naked eye [16:37] <Dashiva> It permeates everything
via #whatwg
A custom Lego bus for my kid.
I remember thinking that when Adobe bought Macromedia in 2005 there was a good chance that Flash would intentionally or unintentionally fade into a “do you remember when…” state. It would become muddled with PDF, overextended, and poorly transitioned to being an Adobe property. At the time I had not realized the importance of “Flash […]
For some reason I had a TechTV flashback tonight and wanted to see a bit of the old shows. YouTube to the rescue:
I’m on one of these kicks again to reimport useful content from my many old blogs backups. I’ll be adding content that use to live at various URLs but was deleted or scrapped for whatever reason.
There are more than 40 full-time trained reviewers, and at least two different reviewers study each application so that the review process is applied uniformly.
(Emphasis mine)
Stay classy, Apple.
Dear reader, if you had any hope HTML 5 would make it to last call by October 2009 then the Microsoft IE team will conveniently take you back to reality.
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