Ever hear of rain, snow, smoke, smog, fog, dust, or deciduous trees? (Ok, maybe not, this is/. But some people must emerge from their moms' basements occasionally to reload on pizza and Jolt). Long range free space optical transmission is a PITA outdoors unless you can afford to wait around a few days for the weather to change. Indoors, there may be a place for it if you can make it cheaper than cables (installed and operated). Might be a good fit for convention centres. To really work well, you'll want lots of access points that look like ordinary LED "bulbs"... Oh shit, THAT's why those things are made in China, they've gotten us to bug our own houses!
It's a complicated equivalent of Hank Occam's shaving system, explaining why even if butterfly flutters can cause hurricanes, they cannot do so in the next few minutes. Any theory that says they can is likely to be wrong.
Which antediluvian regime is intended, where prostitution still illegal? Most places just outlaw "living off the avails" or some such term for pimping.
The receivers are just that. Unidirectional. So what if you lose most channels full of pathetic content, you'll just have more free time to find the way out of your parents' basement!
Please explain to me why your particular skyfairy is more credible than the next guy's, without resorting to authority, antiquity, or cultural predominance, which are all invalid forms of evidence. I've yet to see anyone pull this off. That's why nearly every modern religion has a "There is no god but [X]" rule. Those universalists which don't do so generally claim something like "All gods are effectively the same, we just know better than the guy down the street what He wants". Go on, pile it deeper.
Everyone remembers Dijkstra's "GOTO considered harmful" http://xkcd.com/292/ and some recall Ince's "Arrays and pointers considered harmful" but few recollect Dijkstra's question:
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
When someone writes the software that will operate an automobile, it's best to separate the steering and braking functions from the audio equalizer. The benefits of modularity are not specific to data, control flow, testability, costing or any other single domain. If you bring me code that won't be self-explanatory on a single page, I'm wondering why I shouldn't be looking for your replacement.
Ya, but they don't fly from Cincinnati to LA. You gotta fly to Frankfurt to get a flight to LA. That's in Germany. Capital is Berlin. Population: 80.3 million. Very nice forests.
Yeah, if you like your trees all marching in nice straight ranks.
That's the only part of this that makes any sense... My office chair has zero padding on the back (just some webbing) and that part is quite comfortable. The seat has 50mm of foam, and it isn't. Keep in mind that foam is a real problem in a fire. It either burns, gives off toxic fumes, or both. Give me a nice high-tech hammock any day.
Yea verily, every large software system that works was made from small software systems that worked. Since they have to trash this one, why not have a look at http://freecode.com/projects/openemr
where is there to go for the next 50 years with this person ?
Three words: retail dynamic biometrics. On entering a store, she'll find the salesdroid who approaches her is just a little hotter, a little more convincing, and has just the right sense of timing to make the sale. Oh, and she'll be wearing an earpiece...
Just give them more interesting bugs to report. Link the error reporting to an easter egg for a fun game. Give them bonus points for originality. Before long, users will be lining up with reports on exactly how to reproduce the bug.
Every year we get at least one or two pieces of ice breaking from the main shield. Happens at both poles. It's normal.
True. What's not normal is the amount of ice breaking away. Pine Island and Thwates glacier are speeding up. They're calving more ice into the ocean than before. Sure they calved before, but not as much or as often.
Just when you think you know how/. operates, along comes an AC who reads TFA....
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Ever hear of rain, snow, smoke, smog, fog, dust, or deciduous trees? (Ok, maybe not, this is /. But some people must emerge from their moms' basements occasionally to reload on pizza and Jolt). Long range free space optical transmission is a PITA outdoors unless you can afford to wait around a few days for the weather to change. Indoors, there may be a place for it if you can make it cheaper than cables (installed and operated). Might be a good fit for convention centres. To really work well, you'll want lots of access points that look like ordinary LED "bulbs"... Oh shit, THAT's why those things are made in China, they've gotten us to bug our own houses!
It's a complicated equivalent of Hank Occam's shaving system, explaining why even if butterfly flutters can cause hurricanes, they cannot do so in the next few minutes. Any theory that says they can is likely to be wrong.
Just how many billable hours is it going to take for all Google's lawyers to burn 4.4 billion?
Darkstar remake would be cool
Not nearly as cool as a Red Dwarf remake.
Hmm, if someone's been paying license fees only to have the patent retroactively ruled invalid, can they get a refund from the troll?
Which antediluvian regime is intended, where prostitution still illegal? Most places just outlaw "living off the avails" or some such term for pimping.
It's a bit dated, but http://www.globalmethanefund.org/methane-untappd_potential-12.01.09.pdf gives an overview of the scale of the issue. At 29%, "Enteric fermentation" is the largest class of anthropogenic methane emissions by a large margin.
The receivers are just that. Unidirectional. So what if you lose most channels full of pathetic content, you'll just have more free time to find the way out of your parents' basement!
No, you're Canadian. You people are awesome, we would allow you to carry a vulcan cannon through customs if we wouldn't get people complaining.
Sure, but would you object to our Romulan cloaking system? Oh... wait... you didn't know about that...
Please explain to me why your particular skyfairy is more credible than the next guy's, without resorting to authority, antiquity, or cultural predominance, which are all invalid forms of evidence. I've yet to see anyone pull this off. That's why nearly every modern religion has a "There is no god but [X]" rule. Those universalists which don't do so generally claim something like "All gods are effectively the same, we just know better than the guy down the street what He wants". Go on, pile it deeper.
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
When someone writes the software that will operate an automobile, it's best to separate the steering and braking functions from the audio equalizer. The benefits of modularity are not specific to data, control flow, testability, costing or any other single domain. If you bring me code that won't be self-explanatory on a single page, I'm wondering why I shouldn't be looking for your replacement.
Ya, but they don't fly from Cincinnati to LA. You gotta fly to Frankfurt to get a flight to LA. That's in Germany. Capital is Berlin. Population: 80.3 million. Very nice forests.
Yeah, if you like your trees all marching in nice straight ranks.
That's the only part of this that makes any sense... My office chair has zero padding on the back (just some webbing) and that part is quite comfortable. The seat has 50mm of foam, and it isn't. Keep in mind that foam is a real problem in a fire. It either burns, gives off toxic fumes, or both. Give me a nice high-tech hammock any day.
The airlines could use some sort of people-horn device. Like a shoehorn, but for people!
It's called a trash compactor.
..."In other news, a fatwah has been issued against tweeting."
Yes, read them the complete works of Donald Knuth while incapable of running
Nah, save that for later, when you need sleep.
... that the trend of annual extent minima was supposed to be monotonic?
Yea verily, every large software system that works was made from small software systems that worked. Since they have to trash this one, why not have a look at http://freecode.com/projects/openemr
where is there to go for the next 50 years with this person ?
Three words: retail dynamic biometrics. On entering a store, she'll find the salesdroid who approaches her is just a little hotter, a little more convincing, and has just the right sense of timing to make the sale. Oh, and she'll be wearing an earpiece...
It seems I'm being misattributed the quotation atop this story by the gnomes behind the scenes at /. What I actually submitted was rather different: http://slashdot.org/submission/2890813/drone-strikes-for-public-health
the entire thing is archived in the library of congress
Hmm, how willing would you say congress is to be taking instructions from the executive branch these days?
Just give them more interesting bugs to report. Link the error reporting to an easter egg for a fun game. Give them bonus points for originality. Before long, users will be lining up with reports on exactly how to reproduce the bug.
Every year we get at least one or two pieces of ice breaking from the main shield. Happens at both poles. It's normal.
True. What's not normal is the amount of ice breaking away. Pine Island and Thwates glacier are speeding up. They're calving more ice into the ocean than before. Sure they calved before, but not as much or as often.
Just when you think you know how /. operates, along comes an AC who reads TFA....
That's 7 million lines of COBOL. Barely enough for a hello world....
There are statuary limits, but they're not carved in stone.