Slashdot Mirror


User: peter303

peter303's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
6,640
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 6,640

  1. I can tell the fakes in my field on Publishers Withdraw More Than 120 Fake Papers · · Score: 1

    which a branch of computational physics. They just would not work. However I dont have the time nor possibly the expertise to patrol the myraid of other field out there. 20 years from now most are in the dustbin.

  2. 99% knockoffs for every original on Meet the Developers Who Want To Build the Next Snapchat · · Score: 1

    Watching a Y-Combinator graduation a huge snooze-fest. However you'd be fabulously rich if you discover the true original. Like Twitter rising to to top of hundreds of messaging startups.

  3. bitcoin "banks" the problem, not bitcoin itself on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 1

    No one has massively hacked bitcoin cryptocurrency so far itself. (Maybe the NSA can.) However the banks storing bitcoin for exchange seem to have been vulnerable to hacking.

  4. Money is oneof mankinds greatest inventions on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 1

    Money abstracts the value of good and services. It is an intermediary for trade. It can be aggregated to build huge enterprises. It can be stored for future use. It motivates people to work harder.

    Of course all of his was possible before money. For example the Pyramids will built from stored agricultural and precious metal surpluses. But money makes this a lot easier for everybody.

  5. 90% of smartphone access can be done by wearables on Ask Slashdot: Should I Get Google Glass? · · Score: 2

    Most of the time you want to see one line of information or one picture: info like time, weather, message, newsheadline. You dont want to fumble with pulling out a smartphone to see these all time. Google Glass will display 10 lines of 40+ characters on their 360 scanline display. Thats far more than I'd usually want to read for most uses.

    The problem with early wearables are they are over designed to do too much like a smartphone or desktop. That makes them expensive, difficult to use, and short battery life. I am learning toward a watch as my wearable message machine.

  6. battery issue: less than 4 hours on Ask Slashdot: Should I Get Google Glass? · · Score: 2

    When I was trying one in demo that was doing lots of video shooting, it didnt even last two hours.

    I hear lots of wearables have this issue. You want something to go all day.

    The upcoming version could be better.

  7. Newton feared he was like astrology on Majority of Young American Adults Think Astrology Is a Science · · Score: 1

    Newton proposed a force- universal gravitation- which he could not expain what it was, but only how it worked. Furthmore he said said this force acted the same on things you could see in front of you as well as far off in the distant heavens. He feared he'd be mistaken as a supernaturalist for proposing such a mysterious force.

    However scientists are a pragmatic lot. They dont care if you cant explain everything as long as you can predict phenomena better than you can before with a new theory. And Newon's theory could predict motion on Heaven and Earth much more accurately than anything before.

  8. "spoiled hipster learns unselfish people here" on How I Lost My Google Glass (and Regained Some Faith In Humanity) · · Score: 1

    Have to get out of your wealthy tech cocoon and see the real world.

  9. bipedal apes long before smart apes on Britain's Eastern Coast Yields Oldest Human Footprints Outside Africa · · Score: 1

    Evidence of bipedialism in foot prints and foot & hip bones nearly three million years ago. Modest tool use at that time. Human size brains in Neandetahl race 300K years ago. Modern complex culture- clothing, art, fine tools- only 80K years ago.

  10. vulcans live for about 300 years on Leonard Nimoy: Smoking Is Illogical · · Score: 1

    Sarek was already a mature adult when he became first Federation Ambassador in the 22nd century. And he died two centuries later in the 24th century in a Next Generation episode.

    Hopefully Spocks human genes dotn shorted his life too much.

  11. I saw them smoking on Paramount tour on Leonard Nimoy: Smoking Is Illogical · · Score: 1

    A highlight of the Paramount tour was to pass by the Star Trek stages (not that you would ever see them). We happened to pass by during a film break. And many of our favorite actors were puffing away just outside.

  12. industry talks about recycling the water on Fracking Is Draining Water From Areas In US Suffering Major Shortages · · Score: 1

    Most of it is pumped back out anyways to get the petroelum/gas out. I dont know how widespread recyling is.

  13. reasonable price is $5 a month on Ask Slashdot: What Online News Is Worth Paying For? · · Score: 1

    I'd buy more newspapers then. $15 is too much.
    It doesnt cost them much to add new customers. I dont know why they dont choose mroe resonable price points.

  14. Re:Range anxiety isn't really rational on Tesla Touts Cross-Country Trip, Aims For World Record · · Score: 1

    I just sleep in the car.

  15. some anthomorphism increases robot saftey on An OS You'll Love? AI Experts Weigh In On Her · · Score: 1

    Lot of communication between humans is non-verbal emotion: face, gaze, voice tone, etc. When you add a simple face to arobot you can convey the robots intent more efficiency than with green-yellow-red traffice lights. This decreases accidents.

    I dont dont how much you want to put in an OS. Most people I know turn off Siri and her cousins because they are too intrusive.

  16. $100 Tablet continues the dream and folly on IBM's PC Junior Turns 30, Too · · Score: 1

    Raskins, Steve's , IBMs dream was a under $1000 reasonably powerful home PC. This was not really achieved until the 2000s thanks to Moores Law. And no one really celebrated this threshhold when it arrived.

    The $100 tablet with as much power as iPad is the equivalent dream. Its getting close, but not quite there here. Some are selling underpowered tablets under $200 and shooting themselves in the foot just like the PC Junior. But we'll get there soon enough.

  17. then the "clones" moved in on IBM's PC Junior Turns 30, Too · · Score: 1

    Dell, Compaq, with relentless manufacturing efficiency> Even IBM sold their operation to an Asian clone.

  18. we called it "arts and crafts" when I was little on Public Libraries Tinker With Offering Makerspaces · · Score: 1

    at least you had t be a bit creative then.

  19. may have drained north in the past on Grand Canyon Is "Frankenstein" of Geologic Formations · · Score: 1

    I've heard that idea offered by geologists. Especially before the Colorado Plateau road. Like Coding Classes, Nature likes to reuse old structures if it can.

  20. couple years of gaudy documents on Apple Macintosh Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    I remember people going wild with fonts composing documents - because they could! Ditto a few years later with PowerPoint. Then some people learn the rules of simplicity and coherent design and it got better.

  21. Re:128KB for $2500 ($5700 2014) on Apple Macintosh Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    "support" is different from "afford" An installed megabyte was $100 in 1990.

  22. The Phoenix probe found ice just under soil on Mars Rover Opportunity Finds Life-Friendly Niche · · Score: 2

    Phoneix landed in late Martian summer when it was too warm for ice to exist at the surface. But its shovel just cleared off a couple centimeters of soil and hit ice. That ice promptly evaporated too.

    Phoenix died during the winter when it was thought probably at least a meter of snow-ice accumulated on top of it and crushed it. Or its batteries were drained beyond recovery during the winter.

  23. black holes predate Einstein on Stephen Hawking: 'There Are No Black Holes' · · Score: 1

    Once physicists realized the speed of light was finite, you could conceive of density and radius that exceeded the speed of light. Einsteins special realtivity showed that Maxwells equations implied light speed as a maximal speed in the universe, so this radius then became a barrier.

  24. 128KB for $2500 ($5700 2014) on Apple Macintosh Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    We got one in our lab the first day. Although there were a couple of other graphical workstations just starting to come out, this was by far the cheapest.

    The original Mac did not have an internal disk, but a 384K floppy. 128KB was way too small. You couldnt get rid of the annoying watch icon until about 512K.

    Today you get a million times more memory- 128GB flash drive- for a lower price.

  25. low CO2 crisis easiest to fix by intelligent life on Studies Say Earth Won't Die As Soon As Thought · · Score: 1

    CO2 is gradually being absorbed into limestone by biological processes. It has fallen from 90% 4 GY ago to 1% 1/2 GY ago to .03% just before the industrial age. Photosynthesis and multicellar life terminates at .01%.

    Burning limestone, i.e. done in cement manufacture, would return ample CO2 to the atmosphere. Cement manufacture accounts for about 10% current CO production. I am asssuming that hydrocarbon energy combustion is a transient phenomena, unlikely to continue more than a few more centuries after most of the easiliy mined coal, petroleum and natural gas is exhausted. 99.9% of the Earths carbon is in limestone.