Ryan Joy (atxryan)

David Clark, senior research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, said in the report that 10 years from now, "we may lose our ability to write, in the literal sense that students are no longer taught penmanship. We will either type or print like 8-year-olds."

For more than 40 years, the NASA Innovative Partnerships Program has facilitated the transfer of NASA technology to the private sector, benefiting global competition and the economy. The resulting commercialization has contributed to the development of commercial products and services in the fields of health and medicine, industry, consumer goods, transportation, public safety, computer technology, and environmental resources.

"Adobe is arguing that Flash is installed on 99 percent of all web browsers that support Flash, not 99 percent of all web browsers."

"The people whose backs have been broken under the weight of technological complexity and failure immediately understand what's happening here. Those of us who patiently, day after day, explain to a child or colleague that the reason there's no Print item in the File menu is because, although the Pages document is filling the screen, Finder is actually the frontmost application and it doesn't have any windows open, understand what's happening here."

We waited for the ability to group people on Twitter since it’s inception, but when they finally announced Twitter Lists there was something lacking. It’s incredibly frustrating to create and manage a list using the Twitter.com UI. Something as simple as the ability to add people to a list when viewing just that list was [...]

“If knowledge was available, you should be able to get to it from a phone. At that moment I realized that I had spent most of my adult life working to put a personal computer on every desktop in every home at Microsoft and it occured to me that there was a fundamental shift going [...]

What news have you heard or seen on Twitter first? I’m talking about the kind of news that would’ve been breaking on CNN had you been watching at the time. After each of these tweet discoveries, I went to the Internet to find out more.
Here, I’ll go first… this is all from memory, [...]

My development environment consists of a Dell PC (with dual flat panel displays) and my Macbook Pro. I’d LOVE to add a third monitor to the PC to be dedicated to the stack trace, diagnostic outputs, and console logs, but that’s another story.
On these machines I have IDEs, an SQL analyzer, and text editors to [...]

Paul Menard, Jeff Bernier, Michelle Greer, and Jen Simmons and I made the trek last night to Frisco, Texas for WordCamp Dallas 2008.
Today was day one and it’s been very informative thus far. Highlights include:

Matt Mullenweg announced the official release of WordPress 2.5 during his talk this morning! You can download it and [...]