It's kinda sad, especially since Seinfeld is not even funny. Even in the show named after him he was the least funny character.
Been that way forever. Gracie Allen was funnier than all hell, and George Burns was a hanger on, a drone who wasn't funny at all. Ray Romano from Everybody loves Raymond, was surrounded by hilarious people, and he was a depressing jerk.
Can I get a whoosh?
No. Read the thread again and if you still don't understand, move on.
Some days. Perhaps you don't like Jerry Seinfeld. That's okay. A lot of people do however, so its a matter of taste. But to your point of him being the least funny character - yeah, he was. That's called being a straight man. Seinfeld played the straight man on the show, but he was behind everyone else's characters. As was George Burns. As was Ray Romano.
Straight man (or woman) is a staple of comedy, along with Stupid fat husband and hottie wife (think King of Queens) Or the only sensible person in the room surrounded by the hot wife and mixed crazies. (Bob Newhart comes to mind) So often, the straight man is the person writing the lines for all of the "funny people".
Aside from the point that you seem to be conflating production vehicles with test rigs, how about the fact that Tesla went and got their $150/year permit in CA?
That 150 dollar regulation is just another job killing liberal death tool. The America Ascendant think tank has conclusive data that because of that onerous regulation, 5 million people in California have been put out of work already.
If I could, I'd go full Wyoming and dump my computers, and smartphone and other such wastes of time and sanity and just run a small farm. Unfortunately for me it's contrary to how I make a living and the pay is too good to make a change.
Do you think that would hold your interest though? Once you learn how to do it, it tends to be repetitive. I helped on a Friend's in laws farm when I was in my early 20's, and made me glad I was a tech person. Really boring after learning the basics, as while a lot of exercise, the sort of repetitive stress that wears you out.
This is the sort of complaining that has no place on a 'news for nerds' site - if you want it, build it. If you can't build it, don't bitch that others haven't done it as quickly as you wanted. I don't think OP submitter was the one working on the VR judder problem or the high density screen refresh problem or any of that. This sounds like a bunch of dipshit 'enthusiast' friends from the 80s that only ever dipped a toe in the industry and didn't actually end up building anything they wanted over the thirty years of their careers
Well, that was harsh. But it was also true. And pretty sad, as Slashdot descends into a bunch of olde fartes bitching about how they were masters of the universe, and now its all gone to hell. I learned in a standard sort of way, going from a Commodore +4 to a C-64, to an Amiga and then on to Macs and PCs. And no it isn't like it was. And I sure as hell don't want it to remain like it was. I like cool stuff and doing cool things, and there is plenty of that to be done using today's personal computers and experimental devices like the Raspberry Pi et al.
I see much of this sort of things with technical people. In one of my avocations, Amateur Radio, I can listen to people bitching about how Ham Radio is dying and went to hell after they dropped Morse code, and how all the new hams are assholes, and go on about their wonderful 40 year old equipment. Jeebuz, are they bitter old shits.
Meanwhile, I'm using and have built several Software Defined Radios, design and build antennas, Even make pneumatic antenna launchers for the lulz. And right now, I'm working with digital applications for the Raspberry Pi, and designing small systems for it and emergency communications. So much stuff to make and design and do. And a computer is at the heart all of it.
We can choose to be anything we want. Sad to say, so many of us choose to be bitter olde fartes.
Definitely no.. much more boring now than 30 years ago.
That is called "growing old". Everything is more fun when you are young.
Today's younglings likely enjoy using WebGL to make 4K 3D webpages more than I enjoyed writing UIs with curses on a VT100 30 years ago.
And learning. Nothing excites me as much as learning about new stuff. There will be younglings in 30 years lamenting has much fun it was when they started out.
That many people need MJ to treat their specific condition?
Yes. A lot of people are in constant pain. And opioids are an issue with addiction, and when doctors take the patient off of the vicodin or whatever they were on, kow what many turn to? Heroin. This is conjecture, but if more people could legally use ganja as a way to help allay chronic pain, there will probably be less heroin addicts.
We certainly know that there is something in the universe that doesn't quite jibe with our theories.
No. We certainly know that there is something in our theories that doesn't jibe with the universe.
Those two things are the same thing
Because a theory is just that. A falsifiable concept, tested against reality. If the reality does not agree with the theory, the theory is incorrect, and must be changed. If the theory does not agree with reality, the theory is incorrect, and must be changed.
Come on, you should know that. Otherwise it is just word smithing.
Dark matter is the proof of itself. You see we made up the phrase "dark matter" to describe a set of observations that appear to be repercussions of something we cannot directly (as of yet) observe. So the fact that it exists is a tautology, and is therefore impossible to argue with.
But of course, we want to find out exactly what is going on with this "dark matter". We certainly know that there is something in the universe that doesn't quite jibe with our theories.
What's a "placeholder"? There's a lot of things we can't observe directly. By this line of reasoning, quarks and gluons are definitely "placeholders", since we're never going to observe an isolated quark or gluon.
A place holder. A placeholder is just that. They have been in use since we've done science, and are critical to advancing science. It's kind of like the old "Strange and mysterious are the ways of God" that bible people use when backed into a corner, but with one critical difference.
The bible people use their term as a way of squelching further argument or discussion. Science placeholders are used as noting that there is "something going on here that we don't understand" or know what it is, but instead of folding the tents and saying strange and mysterious are the ways of the universe, and stopping further research, the placeholder acknowledges the anomaly, and allows further research, and often the further research clarifies just what the placeholder is.
Observing directly is not a requirement for confirmation or denial of a placeholder. http://physics.stackexchange.c... has a pretty good explanation. "Quarks" were indeed placeholders when first proposed in the mid 1960's. Further experiments have exposed things that act just like quarks were predicted to act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... warning - headache inducing stuff.
Dark Matter DOES explain things, BECAUSE it is a placeholder for something that is dark and matter, not luminous and not immaterial energy. You know, something that will cause gravitational effects but not interfere with photons.
So you adhere to the the "big friggin turd of Gawd almighty" theory?
Don't get mad at everyone for thinking dark matter is, well, dark, matter.
Isn't it funny that you yap at me about getting angry? While you might have just flung a lot of spit on your keyboard typing that reply. Chilaxe bro, Dark Matter is an unfortunate name, nothing more, nothing less. Maybe matter as we know it, probably not. And some times people just need reminded of that.
MOND is one of the many theories that have tried and failed to explain all the anomalous results we have collected over the years. MOND is basically completely discredited at this point, and dark matter is the most simple and elegant theory we have to explain all the results we have.
Dark matter explains nothing because it is a placeholder that means there is something we don't understand going on. It's like a complicated formula with a box in the middle labeled "something cool happens here".
p>There has been a massive amount of science denial on this site and it's got to the point where the most ridiculous joke you can think of on a scientific subject is somebody else's serious conspiracy theory.
Tea Candles, and perpetual motion, BooYeah!
All it takes is a trip to YouTube, search either phrase, and you end up in the kook section. People who won't believe actual science, but will latch on to any weird idea that some practical joker comes up with.
It does not participate in electromagnetic interactions THAT WE CAN CURRENTLY DETECT FROM MANY LIGHT YEARS AWAY.
That is a very important distinction to make.
So is the distinction that it may not even be "matter" as we know it. Dark matter is a placeholder, an unfortunate name that many have taken to mean some dark goo that we can't see, but we're gonna find a shitload of it some day. And that's a critical distinction to be made.
It's kinda sad, especially since Seinfeld is not even funny. Even in the show named after him he was the least funny character.
Been that way forever. Gracie Allen was funnier than all hell, and George Burns was a hanger on, a drone who wasn't funny at all. Ray Romano from Everybody loves Raymond, was surrounded by hilarious people, and he was a depressing jerk.
Already happening in Australia, to the point where power companies are trying to get legislation allowing them to bill for expected usage instead of actual usage, where actual is lower (due to PV).
The problem is they've got immense long-term loans to build and maintain the power networks, based on their captive markets. Suddenly, a small but sufficient percentage have gone off-grid.
I think I'm reading that as charging PV people more, at least short term.
Sounds like they are giving them a fine incentive to go PV.
is there such a thing as a possible saturation of the PV market?
could there be a day in near future (10 years) that there are PV on all the roofs that can handle it?
This is probably just a normal exercise of companies getting into a market where they figure they can make some coin.
And the interesting part is, when the cost and mental acceptance hits a certain point, this is going to take off like flat screens killed CRT's.
Because while so many people believe that it is pointless not to have the most efficient solar cells and only then located in the optimum places, we will be able to carpet areas with these panels.
I love how the writer relays the message that said woman is "amazing", without qualifying it. Is she a CEO? The principal violinist for a symphony orchestra? A celebrated archaeologist? An oncologist?
It is unfortunate, and it is a real problem. And it stems from the inculcated idea that man = Evil, and Woman = Pure. Note that it is damn near impossible to even broach that without powerful memes being brought out. Not too long ago, it was a rallying cry for many women about "not needing a man in my life", to now the increasing susurrations that men have lost interest and are remaining forever infantile, not wishing to grow up and marry/reproduce/ with women. No freakin kidding. Its like a major discovery has been made that if you marginalize someone long enough, they quit playing the game. Who knew?
Here's a real mind blower, and rather a headache to read. The effects of massive multi-genderism on Wellsley, a Women's college. I don't think that one has to be an alt-right Pepe' to acknowledge that this is kind messed up. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/1...
But mandatory in a world where assuming one's gender is a reason to go apeshit on the person who commits that crime.
I'm not in the least worried about People who have personal gender issues. I'm not in the least concerned with gay marriage.
But one does not have to be some social conservative to understand that maybe a gender system based upon marginalizing the other gender is going to have some implications, especially when biological urges occur, yet you are still supposed to hold the other gender in contempt. Which brings up another issue. The urge to reproduce is present in different amounts between people, but is generally stronger in the females. So when beat down, many males are fully capable off deciding that they don't need to reproduce, yet the females who have been inculcated as being able to do anything they put their mind to, yet likewise that the male is evil, end up with a real dilemma on their hands. So it might just be off to the sperm bank for you dear. However, it is worth noting that after a year of the UK national sperm bank opening in order to solve a sperm shortage, they had just 9 donors. http://www.bbc.com/news/health...
What to do? The experiment in male hatred which came along with the great self-esteem movement, is going to be difficult to undo. And third wave feminism, which boils down to enraged women yelling at men, isn't helping a bit. Especially when supporting some social systems that treat women as property, while yelling at the memvers of the evil and insufferable patriarchy. Men? Sorry, we're are out riding our motorcycles or playing with our new game console. Have fun.
I'm not certain, but I suspect that parthenogenesis is the answer. Where females can reproduce with only their own genes, or with another female partner. At that point, the only reason to keep males around will be in order to have someone to blame stuff on. That's a joke. Then, the male of the species will become endangered, then extinct. That's not a joke.
That one is a little funny and sad at the same time. College educated woman demands college educated man, but they are starting to get a little hard to find, and that one good catch just isn't ready to settle down yet (at 45!) But rest easy - its still men's fault.
Marriage seems to be becoming less relevant. So, I believe that while folks may have relations with robots, the concept of "marriage" may be irrelevant. Others will likely disagree
Marriage, being a legal civil construct, probably won't have much to do with a human/robot interaction, unless the robots are declared an actual person, with commensurate rights and responsibilities.
Marrying some machinery? I predict that people will be allowed to marry their dogs next. Then it will extend to other pets, including pet rocks. Then already dead people.
While I doubt that actual marriage will happen, the way society has trended makes the concept of an intelligent robotic partner interesting. Less legal system problems. So many women have already been trained since birth that men are evil pigs, and men are rapidly following suit in dropping out of the relationship game because it is too dangerous.
Slashdot Mirror
Whoosh!
Thank you very much!
It's kinda sad, especially since Seinfeld is not even funny. Even in the show named after him he was the least funny character.
Been that way forever. Gracie Allen was funnier than all hell, and George Burns was a hanger on, a drone who wasn't funny at all. Ray Romano from Everybody loves Raymond, was surrounded by hilarious people, and he was a depressing jerk.
Can I get a whoosh?
No. Read the thread again and if you still don't understand, move on.
Some days. Perhaps you don't like Jerry Seinfeld. That's okay. A lot of people do however, so its a matter of taste. But to your point of him being the least funny character - yeah, he was. That's called being a straight man. Seinfeld played the straight man on the show, but he was behind everyone else's characters. As was George Burns. As was Ray Romano.
Straight man (or woman) is a staple of comedy, along with Stupid fat husband and hottie wife (think King of Queens) Or the only sensible person in the room surrounded by the hot wife and mixed crazies. (Bob Newhart comes to mind) So often, the straight man is the person writing the lines for all of the "funny people".
Aside from the point that you seem to be conflating production vehicles with test rigs, how about the fact that Tesla went and got their $150/year permit in CA?
That 150 dollar regulation is just another job killing liberal death tool. The America Ascendant think tank has conclusive data that because of that onerous regulation, 5 million people in California have been put out of work already.
Wake Up, America!!
If I could, I'd go full Wyoming and dump my computers, and smartphone and other such wastes of time and sanity and just run a small farm. Unfortunately for me it's contrary to how I make a living and the pay is too good to make a change.
Do you think that would hold your interest though? Once you learn how to do it, it tends to be repetitive. I helped on a Friend's in laws farm when I was in my early 20's, and made me glad I was a tech person. Really boring after learning the basics, as while a lot of exercise, the sort of repetitive stress that wears you out.
This is the sort of complaining that has no place on a 'news for nerds' site - if you want it, build it. If you can't build it, don't bitch that others haven't done it as quickly as you wanted. I don't think OP submitter was the one working on the VR judder problem or the high density screen refresh problem or any of that. This sounds like a bunch of dipshit 'enthusiast' friends from the 80s that only ever dipped a toe in the industry and didn't actually end up building anything they wanted over the thirty years of their careers
Well, that was harsh. But it was also true. And pretty sad, as Slashdot descends into a bunch of olde fartes bitching about how they were masters of the universe, and now its all gone to hell. I learned in a standard sort of way, going from a Commodore +4 to a C-64, to an Amiga and then on to Macs and PCs. And no it isn't like it was. And I sure as hell don't want it to remain like it was. I like cool stuff and doing cool things, and there is plenty of that to be done using today's personal computers and experimental devices like the Raspberry Pi et al.
I see much of this sort of things with technical people. In one of my avocations, Amateur Radio, I can listen to people bitching about how Ham Radio is dying and went to hell after they dropped Morse code, and how all the new hams are assholes, and go on about their wonderful 40 year old equipment. Jeebuz, are they bitter old shits.
Meanwhile, I'm using and have built several Software Defined Radios, design and build antennas, Even make pneumatic antenna launchers for the lulz. And right now, I'm working with digital applications for the Raspberry Pi, and designing small systems for it and emergency communications. So much stuff to make and design and do. And a computer is at the heart all of it.
We can choose to be anything we want. Sad to say, so many of us choose to be bitter olde fartes.
Definitely no.. much more boring now than 30 years ago.
That is called "growing old". Everything is more fun when you are young.
Today's younglings likely enjoy using WebGL to make 4K 3D webpages more than I enjoyed writing UIs with curses on a VT100 30 years ago.
And learning. Nothing excites me as much as learning about new stuff. There will be younglings in 30 years lamenting has much fun it was when they started out.
That many people need MJ to treat their specific condition?
Yes. A lot of people are in constant pain. And opioids are an issue with addiction, and when doctors take the patient off of the vicodin or whatever they were on, kow what many turn to? Heroin. This is conjecture, but if more people could legally use ganja as a way to help allay chronic pain, there will probably be less heroin addicts.
And that is the arrogance of physicists.
We certainly know that there is something in the universe that doesn't quite jibe with our theories.
No. We certainly know that there is something in our theories that doesn't jibe with the universe.
Those two things are the same thing
Because a theory is just that. A falsifiable concept, tested against reality. If the reality does not agree with the theory, the theory is incorrect, and must be changed. If the theory does not agree with reality, the theory is incorrect, and must be changed.
Come on, you should know that. Otherwise it is just word smithing.
A better response would be:
Dark matter is the proof of itself. You see we made up the phrase "dark matter" to describe a set of observations that appear to be repercussions of something we cannot directly (as of yet) observe. So the fact that it exists is a tautology, and is therefore impossible to argue with.
But of course, we want to find out exactly what is going on with this "dark matter". We certainly know that there is something in the universe that doesn't quite jibe with our theories.
What's a "placeholder"? There's a lot of things we can't observe directly. By this line of reasoning, quarks and gluons are definitely "placeholders", since we're never going to observe an isolated quark or gluon.
A place holder. A placeholder is just that. They have been in use since we've done science, and are critical to advancing science. It's kind of like the old "Strange and mysterious are the ways of God" that bible people use when backed into a corner, but with one critical difference.
The bible people use their term as a way of squelching further argument or discussion. Science placeholders are used as noting that there is "something going on here that we don't understand" or know what it is, but instead of folding the tents and saying strange and mysterious are the ways of the universe, and stopping further research, the placeholder acknowledges the anomaly, and allows further research, and often the further research clarifies just what the placeholder is.
Observing directly is not a requirement for confirmation or denial of a placeholder. http://physics.stackexchange.c... has a pretty good explanation. "Quarks" were indeed placeholders when first proposed in the mid 1960's. Further experiments have exposed things that act just like quarks were predicted to act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... warning - headache inducing stuff.
Dark Matter DOES explain things, BECAUSE it is a placeholder for something that is dark and matter, not luminous and not immaterial energy. You know, something that will cause gravitational effects but not interfere with photons.
So you adhere to the the "big friggin turd of Gawd almighty" theory?
Don't get mad at everyone for thinking dark matter is, well, dark, matter.
Isn't it funny that you yap at me about getting angry? While you might have just flung a lot of spit on your keyboard typing that reply. Chilaxe bro, Dark Matter is an unfortunate name, nothing more, nothing less. Maybe matter as we know it, probably not. And some times people just need reminded of that.
MOND is one of the many theories that have tried and failed to explain all the anomalous results we have collected over the years. MOND is basically completely discredited at this point, and dark matter is the most simple and elegant theory we have to explain all the results we have.
Dark matter explains nothing because it is a placeholder that means there is something we don't understand going on. It's like a complicated formula with a box in the middle labeled "something cool happens here".
p>There has been a massive amount of science denial on this site and it's got to the point where the most ridiculous joke you can think of on a scientific subject is somebody else's serious conspiracy theory.
Tea Candles, and perpetual motion, BooYeah!
All it takes is a trip to YouTube, search either phrase, and you end up in the kook section. People who won't believe actual science, but will latch on to any weird idea that some practical joker comes up with.
And they are here on Slashdot as well.
It does not participate in electromagnetic interactions THAT WE CAN CURRENTLY DETECT FROM MANY LIGHT YEARS AWAY. That is a very important distinction to make.
So is the distinction that it may not even be "matter" as we know it. Dark matter is a placeholder, an unfortunate name that many have taken to mean some dark goo that we can't see, but we're gonna find a shitload of it some day. And that's a critical distinction to be made.
Humanity has been seriously dragging its feet on curing aging. It's about time we got on that!
Aging is the cure for humanity.
1) there is no proof of the existence of dark matter.
And the Bullet Cluster is...?
Sponsored by the NRA?
1) there is no proof of the existence of dark matter.
There is something. You keep using the term dark matter. I do not think it means what you think it means.
It's kinda sad, especially since Seinfeld is not even funny. Even in the show named after him he was the least funny character.
Been that way forever. Gracie Allen was funnier than all hell, and George Burns was a hanger on, a drone who wasn't funny at all. Ray Romano from Everybody loves Raymond, was surrounded by hilarious people, and he was a depressing jerk.
Can I get a whoosh?
Already happening in Australia, to the point where power companies are trying to get legislation allowing them to bill for expected usage instead of actual usage, where actual is lower (due to PV).
The problem is they've got immense long-term loans to build and maintain the power networks, based on their captive markets. Suddenly, a small but sufficient percentage have gone off-grid.
I think I'm reading that as charging PV people more, at least short term.
Sounds like they are giving them a fine incentive to go PV.
is there such a thing as a possible saturation of the PV market? could there be a day in near future (10 years) that there are PV on all the roofs that can handle it?
This is probably just a normal exercise of companies getting into a market where they figure they can make some coin.
And the interesting part is, when the cost and mental acceptance hits a certain point, this is going to take off like flat screens killed CRT's.
Because while so many people believe that it is pointless not to have the most efficient solar cells and only then located in the optimum places, we will be able to carpet areas with these panels.
I love how the writer relays the message that said woman is "amazing", without qualifying it. Is she a CEO? The principal violinist for a symphony orchestra? A celebrated archaeologist? An oncologist?
It is unfortunate, and it is a real problem. And it stems from the inculcated idea that man = Evil, and Woman = Pure. Note that it is damn near impossible to even broach that without powerful memes being brought out. Not too long ago, it was a rallying cry for many women about "not needing a man in my life", to now the increasing susurrations that men have lost interest and are remaining forever infantile, not wishing to grow up and marry/reproduce/ with women. No freakin kidding. Its like a major discovery has been made that if you marginalize someone long enough, they quit playing the game. Who knew?
Here's a real mind blower, and rather a headache to read. The effects of massive multi-genderism on Wellsley, a Women's college. I don't think that one has to be an alt-right Pepe' to acknowledge that this is kind messed up. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/1...
But mandatory in a world where assuming one's gender is a reason to go apeshit on the person who commits that crime.
I'm not in the least worried about People who have personal gender issues. I'm not in the least concerned with gay marriage.
But one does not have to be some social conservative to understand that maybe a gender system based upon marginalizing the other gender is going to have some implications, especially when biological urges occur, yet you are still supposed to hold the other gender in contempt. Which brings up another issue. The urge to reproduce is present in different amounts between people, but is generally stronger in the females. So when beat down, many males are fully capable off deciding that they don't need to reproduce, yet the females who have been inculcated as being able to do anything they put their mind to, yet likewise that the male is evil, end up with a real dilemma on their hands. So it might just be off to the sperm bank for you dear. However, it is worth noting that after a year of the UK national sperm bank opening in order to solve a sperm shortage, they had just 9 donors. http://www.bbc.com/news/health...
What to do? The experiment in male hatred which came along with the great self-esteem movement, is going to be difficult to undo. And third wave feminism, which boils down to enraged women yelling at men, isn't helping a bit. Especially when supporting some social systems that treat women as property, while yelling at the memvers of the evil and insufferable patriarchy. Men? Sorry, we're are out riding our motorcycles or playing with our new game console. Have fun.
I'm not certain, but I suspect that parthenogenesis is the answer. Where females can reproduce with only their own genes, or with another female partner. At that point, the only reason to keep males around will be in order to have someone to blame stuff on. That's a joke. Then, the male of the species will become endangered, then extinct. That's not a joke.
Nor is it #WhiteGenocide, despite what a certain group whose name rhymes with "halt-bright" would have you believe.
Well now - that escalated quickly!
It isn't just a Pepe' thing. http://madamenoire.com/94265/7...
https://www.vice.com/en_us/art...
That one is a little funny and sad at the same time. College educated woman demands college educated man, but they are starting to get a little hard to find, and that one good catch just isn't ready to settle down yet (at 45!) But rest easy - its still men's fault.
Marriage seems to be becoming less relevant. So, I believe that while folks may have relations with robots, the concept of "marriage" may be irrelevant. Others will likely disagree
Marriage, being a legal civil construct, probably won't have much to do with a human/robot interaction, unless the robots are declared an actual person, with commensurate rights and responsibilities.
Marrying some machinery? I predict that people will be allowed to marry their dogs next. Then it will extend to other pets, including pet rocks. Then already dead people.
While I doubt that actual marriage will happen, the way society has trended makes the concept of an intelligent robotic partner interesting. Less legal system problems. So many women have already been trained since birth that men are evil pigs, and men are rapidly following suit in dropping out of the relationship game because it is too dangerous.