I think it's more of a case of that you only HEAR about the people that blow it all. The smart ones who invest it are far more common, but nobody goes around talking about them and the news certainly doesn't report on them (because they are so boring).
There's no news like bad news.
Isn't this just something to do with the fact that Branson is selling the physical Virgin Megastores off to another company who will rebrand it?
In that event its not indicating any particular lack of success so much as "no longer supported" because the physical music retailer that provided the infrastructure will be nonexistent.
I would have to disagree that it puts the article into context, in fact it appears to be scaremongering on behalf of Newscorp/News International (who are of course biased as pro right on behalf of Rupert Murdoch, staunch supporter of the Australian Liberal Party in all his publications).
That article neglects to mention the fact that the Liberal party purchased the FA-18s without the appropriate identification codes making the whole purchase entirely and utterly fucking useless. Thanks Libs.
*please mod informative* Whoa that really works! Awesome! I wonder if I can get users to blow all their mod points on the one post. Heck why not, my karma's bad already! *please mod troll/redundant/overrated*
goggles that you can put on and feel yourself like a robot from a Terminator movie I didn't know robots in terminator felt themselves. Finally there is a reason watch Terminator 3 again. I better watch that T-X model more closely this time.
I have to agree, this is one of the worst article commentary notes that I have ever seen on slashdot.
Can we mod the OP down somehow? In fact, can we mod down the slashdot editors for allowing such a ridiculous comment to pass? I call it meta-submission and meta-editorialisation.:P
The new lasers, which unleash 100-billion-watt pulses (0.1-terawatt peak output) of light every 10-trillionths of a second (100 femtoseconds), improve image smoothness and boost the resolution to 1,000 pixels per second. 100-billion-watt pulses! Holy laser beams batman!
This thing is bad on the environment in more ways than one... imagine how much coal/oil would have to be burned to power these things in cities across the world.
Beside the overly zealous use of commas, that would, with all due respect, convince the Secretary General, if he is the recipient, that the email was, in fact, sent by William Shatner, its a great idea!
I count two, Market Share and Name Recognition Well, it doesn't specifically say "good reputation". So you could make that three... if they wanted to protect their bad reputation, that is.
Also, in chess, given enough computing power, you can process all the moves up until the end of the game. That's not entirely true - you can theoretically process all the possible moves, but, you still won't know the result until you know what the hole cards are.
I didn't know chess had hole cards!
Maybe I should go back and give the game another try.
This is kindof old news (or at least, an old experiment), albeit with a little extra detail (ie. that its the mitochondria effecting the cellular respiration).
What interests me is that it brings up philosophical questions about the definition of life. By shutting down the cellular respiratory system they are in effect turning it into a lifeless clump of molecules - with as much life as a block of stone.
The reanimation process is therefore activating the life within the cells. Fascinating.
I think it depends what uni you go to... I don't know whereabouts you are but if you're in Sydney... when I went to university in Sydney the traditional universities like Uni. of Sydney and UNSW required sciences such as physics and chem as part of the CS course and UNSW required humanities subjects on top of that.
Thats why I chose CS at UTS despite having the prereqs for UNSW. All the courses, even the more theoretical and annoyingly obscure ones (discrete mathematics) were aligned towards computing sciences, plus the wide ranging industry connections of UTS are a bonus. I would imagine that similar universities with grassroots industry connections (eg. Macquarie U.) would have similarly designed courses.
You got it right there. See post above titled "Something else". It appears to be a post about (let me get this straight) how the US govt is using tinfoil hat diversions to get the community up in arms in some kind of grand conspiracy to divert attention from their more earthly (but way more dastardly) activities.
I think you need a double tinfoil hat encased in titanium to figure that one out.
somehow i dont think surfing websites at work and being unproductive justifies locking her up with murderers and thieves for fourty years.... otherwise the crowd here needs to be very worried.:p
So its the whole "if a tree-shaped photon falls in a forest of neutrons and nobody is around to observe it" thang?
If nobody observes it, not only does it not make a sound, it also hasn't fallen, doesn't spin, and isn't even shaped like a tree.
Actually it was Winston Churchill, in league with the Australian Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, who were willing to lose Australia so that the Australian divisions would continue to protect Britain and Europe. Menzies was effectively a kissass "toyboy" to Churchill, much the same relationship as Howard to Bush, except that Menzies spent most of his office in the UK kissing Churchill's ass.
After Menzies was booted from his party and forced to resign as Prime Minister, PM John Curtin made a bold move to accept the Statute of Westminster, severing most of the constitutional links between the UK and Australia, and to bring the troops back and protect Australia and Southeast Asia in league with the United States.
At least Menzies ass kissing paid off, he got a knighting out of it from the Queen.
(personally I think Howard [aussie PM] is a dick, but better than the alternatives) Offtopic but I feel like discussing this anyway. I felt the same way until I heard Swan (opposition treasurer) and Gillard (opposition employment) and even Rudd talk.... watch ABC a while and listen to their interviews etc, its kindof amazing... I can't believe labor has finally put people in that come across has having brains in their heads!
Federal Labor leaders and ministers haven't had brains for as long as I have been voting, and probably even longer. I voted against labor in NSW state out of anger for poor management but I think I'm (finally) gonna go the other way federal.
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> (and why isn't Chicago or London ever destroyed?)
I refer you to "War of the Worlds"
(the radio play/Jeff Wayne musical, not the damned hollywood movie)
I think it's more of a case of that you only HEAR about the people that blow it all. The smart ones who invest it are far more common, but nobody goes around talking about them and the news certainly doesn't report on them (because they are so boring). There's no news like bad news.
Isn't this just something to do with the fact that Branson is selling the physical Virgin Megastores off to another company who will rebrand it?
In that event its not indicating any particular lack of success so much as "no longer supported" because the physical music retailer that provided the infrastructure will be nonexistent.
I would have to disagree that it puts the article into context, in fact it appears to be scaremongering on behalf of Newscorp/News International (who are of course biased as pro right on behalf of Rupert Murdoch, staunch supporter of the Australian Liberal Party in all his publications).
That article neglects to mention the fact that the Liberal party purchased the FA-18s without the appropriate identification codes making the whole purchase entirely and utterly fucking useless. Thanks Libs.
I wonder if I can get users to blow all their mod points on the one post. Heck why not, my karma's bad already!
*please mod troll/redundant/overrated*
I read the title as "A talk with Oprah CEO". I was wondering what tech company she could possibly be a CEO of.
And when the target audience are politicians, you have to make the article doubly-ignorant.
I have to agree, this is one of the worst article commentary notes that I have ever seen on slashdot.
:P
Can we mod the OP down somehow? In fact, can we mod down the slashdot editors for allowing such a ridiculous comment to pass? I call it meta-submission and meta-editorialisation.
This thing is bad on the environment in more ways than one... imagine how much coal/oil would have to be burned to power these things in cities across the world.
Beside the overly zealous use of commas, that would, with all due respect, convince the Secretary General, if he is the recipient, that the email was, in fact, sent by William Shatner, its a great idea!
Nope, nope, nope.
This is the truth.
I didn't know chess had hole cards!
Maybe I should go back and give the game another try.
This is kindof old news (or at least, an old experiment), albeit with a little extra detail (ie. that its the mitochondria effecting the cellular respiration).
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http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/
What interests me is that it brings up philosophical questions about the definition of life. By shutting down the cellular respiratory system they are in effect turning it into a lifeless clump of molecules - with as much life as a block of stone.
The reanimation process is therefore activating the life within the cells. Fascinating.
I think it depends what uni you go to... I don't know whereabouts you are but if you're in Sydney... when I went to university in Sydney the traditional universities like Uni. of Sydney and UNSW required sciences such as physics and chem as part of the CS course and UNSW required humanities subjects on top of that. Thats why I chose CS at UTS despite having the prereqs for UNSW. All the courses, even the more theoretical and annoyingly obscure ones (discrete mathematics) were aligned towards computing sciences, plus the wide ranging industry connections of UTS are a bonus. I would imagine that similar universities with grassroots industry connections (eg. Macquarie U.) would have similarly designed courses.
You got it right there. See post above titled "Something else". It appears to be a post about (let me get this straight) how the US govt is using tinfoil hat diversions to get the community up in arms in some kind of grand conspiracy to divert attention from their more earthly (but way more dastardly) activities.
I think you need a double tinfoil hat encased in titanium to figure that one out.
Interesting photos from that link:
Original photo
Context photo
As noted by one of the posters on that site, the photo is taken on a huge slope...
somehow i dont think surfing websites at work and being unproductive justifies locking her up with murderers and thieves for fourty years.... otherwise the crowd here needs to be very worried. :p
Sorry I mixed up photon with proton... I'm an ignoramus but you get my drift though?
So its the whole "if a tree-shaped photon falls in a forest of neutrons and nobody is around to observe it" thang? If nobody observes it, not only does it not make a sound, it also hasn't fallen, doesn't spin, and isn't even shaped like a tree.
Actually it was Winston Churchill, in league with the Australian Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, who were willing to lose Australia so that the Australian divisions would continue to protect Britain and Europe. Menzies was effectively a kissass "toyboy" to Churchill, much the same relationship as Howard to Bush, except that Menzies spent most of his office in the UK kissing Churchill's ass. After Menzies was booted from his party and forced to resign as Prime Minister, PM John Curtin made a bold move to accept the Statute of Westminster, severing most of the constitutional links between the UK and Australia, and to bring the troops back and protect Australia and Southeast Asia in league with the United States. At least Menzies ass kissing paid off, he got a knighting out of it from the Queen.
Federal Labor leaders and ministers haven't had brains for as long as I have been voting, and probably even longer. I voted against labor in NSW state out of anger for poor management but I think I'm (finally) gonna go the other way federal.