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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: Picture and Video Thread Reply #2460 - Dec 31^st, 2013 at 11:38am Scripted US media
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Picture and Video Thread Reply #2461 - Jan 1^st, 2014 at 9:49pm Wow, I didn't know local news was so "cut and paste." I always figured each anchor did their own take on the AP stories. -b0b (...the more you know.)
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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: Picture and Video Thread Reply #2462 - Jan 9^th, 2014 at 10:59pm Have you ever wondered how many lives your favorite action hero would really need to survive a movie? Todays patients: The Wet Bandits from Home alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WKgNyvsNDM#t=41
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Picture and Video Thread Reply #2463 - Jan 10^th, 2014 at 8:26am I dunno, I think I could take a snow shovel to the head. ;p -b0b (...doesn't really want to try, though.)
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X Post Whore FTP Server Offline Truth Is Treason, In The Empire Of Lies Posts: 3903 Gender:	Re: Picture and Video Thread Reply #2464 - Jan 10^th, 2014 at 10:28pm I think that the wind resistance pushing back from the swinging of shovel would slow it down quite a bit.
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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: Picture and Video Thread Reply #2465 - Jan 19^th, 2014 at 1:21pm http://infobeautiful3.s3.amazonaws.com/2013/10/1276_lines_of_code5.png Visual representation of the amount of code in various apps and OS'
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Reply #2466 - Jan 19^th, 2014 at 3:28pm

MediaMaster wrote on Jan 19^th, 2014 at 1:21pm:

http://infobeautiful3.s3.amazonaws.com/2013/10/1276_lines_of_code5.png

Visual representation of the amount of code in various apps and OS'

Some of those numbers are pretty interesting. For instance, why the hell would an HD-DVD player add-on for the XBox require 5 million lines of code? This makes me happy I'm a hardware guy and not a developer. Poor bastards...

The 500 million lines of code for HealthCare.gov shouldn't be shocking. If you've ever worked on an application developed by federal contractors, you'll quickly find out what kind of bloated crap comes out of those contracts.

Contractors are often undercut by their competitors every couple of years, so the entire development team is dismissed and replaced by others. A portion of the people that actually do the work are often hired by the new contractor, but this isn't always the case and the number of people brought onboard the new contract can vary.

Imagine playing a video game that was developed by three different teams that were swapped out with only a week or two of warning. The old team is getting dismissed, so they have no incentive to turn things over gracefully. Thus, the new team has limited documentation and their customers to rely on to get up to speed. What kind of game do you think would come out of that development process? The same logic applies for the crap the government buys.

I read an interesting OpEd piece that opined the flaws with the development of HealthCare.gov. First and foremost, the acquisition went through the typical federal purchasing cluster!$%@ that guaranteed it would be won by a major government contractor (e.g. Northrup Grumman, Deloitte, etc). The private sector would likely have engaged a proven web 2.0 company that used proven talent from companies like Twitter, Google, FaceBook, etc. Instead, we get a bunch of contractors that have absolutely no idea how to develop a public-facing application that would be used by millions of people simultaneously.

Anyway, that's the end of my rant. If you like data represented with a bit of eye-candy, I recommend checking out the "Data is Beautiful" subreddit here: https://pay.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ They have some truly amazing stuff there.

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(...thanks for sharing!)

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Picture and Video Thread Reply #2467 - Jan 21^st, 2014 at 8:58am
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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: Picture and Video Thread Reply #2468 - Jan 21^st, 2014 at 9:54pm Not sure if any of you are interested in the Detroit auto show or not... Here's some pics
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X Post Whore FTP Server Offline Truth Is Treason, In The Empire Of Lies Posts: 3903 Gender:	Re: Picture and Video Thread Reply #2469 - Jan 22^nd, 2014 at 7:28am So give us the run down, Spany! What was hot? What was not? Is D-town dead for auto or is it on the upswing and we can not burn Detroit to the ground completely? X
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Picture and Video Thread Reply #2470 - Jan 22^nd, 2014 at 8:15am WTF, Spanky! You see a brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit with an EcoDiesel and you give me two pictures?! -b0b (...needs more!)
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Reply #2471 - Jan 31^st, 2014 at 8:00pm

Sorry, got busy with work and wasn't checking here... But anywho.

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What was hot? What was not? Is D-town dead for auto or is it on the upswing and we can not burn Detroit to the ground completely?

I am a mustang fanboy so there is that... But what really surprised me was the C7 vette. Chevy upped its interior game in a major way. I sat in a C7 LT3 vette and a 911 turbo and I could not tell much difference in the interior quality.(the sticker on the 911 was almost $100k higher...) And I took quite a few pics of the Z06 which is going to pretty much be a monster.

Speaking of Detroit being dead when we got there and went looking for a parking spot we drove past a road partially blocked and a backhoe inside the barricades. we didn't think anything and just went to eat lunch before we went into the show. Then on the news in the restaurant they say a 35ft deep sink hole opened up and a taxi half backed into it and had to be pulled off the edge. Even the roads try to kill you in Detroit!

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WTF, Spanky! You see a brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit with an EcoDiesel and you give me two pictures?!

I expected better from you b0b. Does a normal Grand Cherokee have hood vents or those rims?

Funny story with this picture. I wanted to get a pic for b0b with me giving the finger to the SRT logo and an old lady jumped into the passenger seat and kept talking to me and wouldn't leave. I chickened out of getting the picture I wanted. Cry

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Picture and Video Thread Reply #2472 - Feb 21^st, 2014 at 8:24am New poster for yet another comic book movie:
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The_Fat_Man Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Grand High Overlard Posts: 910 Colorado Springs, Colorado Gender:	Re: Picture and Video Thread Reply #2473 - Feb 21^st, 2014 at 10:25am Here is the trailer. I've been looking forward to this movie, mostly because it doesn't take itself so seriously.
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Picture and Video Thread Reply #2474 - Mar 10^th, 2014 at 12:52pm
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