Slashdot Mirror


User: j01123

j01123's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
35
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 35

  1. only on /. on How To Encourage a Young Teen To Learn Programming? · · Score: 1

    "I'm in a bit of a bind. My young teenage son is starting to get curious about ____, and in particular, ____.

    Only on /. would those blanks be filled in with the words "computers" and "programming".

  2. Re:Moving there already on Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express Numbers · · Score: 1

    I'm gonna have one girlfriend there.

    I'm fluent in the /. dialect of English, but I have know idea what this word "girlfriend" means.

  3. Re:You caught a wave! on How to Fight Name Scraping Scammers? · · Score: 1

    I'm sure this is the question everyone wants to ask: What was your mother-in-law's name?

    Goatse Twogirlsonecup

  4. instrumentative? on Purported ACTA Wishlist Would Put DMCA To Shame · · Score: 1

    if one takes into account how *AA was instrumentative in the passing of DMCA

    I thought they had a perfectly cromulent degree of instrumentativeness.

  5. Re:Bad air... on The World's 10 Dirtiest Cities · · Score: 5, Funny

    I gotta figure that New Orleans, LA is in that list...Lordy, people here have no idea what a trash can is, they just throw shit in the streets. No kidding. I was there a couple years ago and I swear it looked like a hurricane had been through there.
  6. Re:Doesn't seem so bad... on Would You Rent a Song For a Dime? · · Score: 1

    You probably have an older version of the JSON module. Version 1.xx doesn't have "from_json", but "jsonToObj" seems to be equivalent. http://search.cpan.org/~makamaka/JSON-2.09/lib/JSON.pm#INCOMPATIBLE_CHANGES_TO_OLD_VERSION">http://search.cpan.org/~makamaka/JSON-2.09/lib/JSON.pm#INCOMPATIBLE_CHANGES_TO_OLD_VERSION

  7. Re:All I know on Will the Earth's Tail Fry Moon Visitors? · · Score: 2, Funny

    And all I know is....I also don't get any tail the other 24 days. Well, you'll get more tail living on the moon than you do living in your mom's basement.
  8. Re:Microsoft Excel is the Worst Part of Office 200 on Excel 2007 Multiplication Bug · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can blue screen my machines with Excel on a regular basis That's what you get for entering expressions that evaluate to 65,536.
  9. Re:$100+$100 = $399? on OLPC Announces Buy-2-Get-1 XO Laptop Sale · · Score: 1

    According to MIT, the average price for a laptop under this deal will be about $399, since laptops given to foreigners aren't included in the calculation.

  10. Re:Misleading to talk about a "human-ape split" on Ape-Human Split Moved Back By Millions Of Years · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apes are monophyletic, because apes include humans. You are correct though, that the non-human apes are paraphyletic, because the closest living relative of the chimps are humans.

    My impression of the Nature article (subscription required) is that the authors are claiming that their paleontologic find pushes the gorilla split (from the human-chimp lineage) back to ~12 million years. Based on this, they essentially recalibrate the molecular clock as it relates to several of the ape divergences. This information is in section 5 of the paper's online supplementary materials (subscription not required), not the body of the article. Keep in mind that supplementary materials generally aren't peer-reviewed as rigorously as the rest of the article.