I've seen plenty of perpetual motion devices which have been demonstrated in the laboratory. Until it's a reliable peer-reviewed and reproduced experiment, it holds little to no weight.
The article claims that beautiful women have more children than the plainer counterparts...then why were all the teenage moms in my high school total dogs? Beautiful people aren't more likely to have lots of kids, stupid people are...as much as I hate to go down the recently XKCD'd thought path.
I can recall dozens of biographies of inventors that end with them loosing all of their money on legal fees for patent suits. Eli Whitney and his Cotton Gin comes to mind. The elegant simple ideas that can be described in a few sentences, but are still extremely clever are some of the hardest to protect.
Right, because there is no Conflict of Interest there. No reason for him to cut his estimate short. No incentives like funding, or publicity, or getting slashdotted, or any such thing. Oh wait, yes there is! And as already said, one guy isn't the majority; neither is one research lab.
The comment isn't old, it's appropriate. 50+ years ago, we were promised flying cars. We were all going to have them. We were going to have them 10 years ago. We don't. 10 years from now, I rather doubt we'll have flying cars OR artificial human brains. It's the standard estimation flub that researchers make in order to secure funding.
I'm so glad you posted this. First I was neutral about turbans. Then I read that guy's post and I immediately concluded that turbans are worn only by terrorists. Luckily, I then read your post, and was thankfully corrected. Good save.
Anonymous fails to mention that said brown belt was an eight year old. Anonymous also probably doesn't realize that "brown belt" without further clarification doesn't mean much anything at all.
And if you had bothered to read his signature, you would have found out that no matter how obvious his sarcasm is, his comment will be taken seriously by someone.
This guy has the right idea. It's not even like the technology is difficult to create. If Nokia/Siemens didn't make it, someone else would have. Although the cost of this tech would just be a drop in the bucket, economically speaking, it's better for them to be importing this technology than to be developing it domestically. Anyone is more than welcome to be upset at Iran or anyone else for censorship, but direct that anger at the censors, and the government that supports the censors. It feels like the original poster wants to blame these companies because it's easier for a random blogger to influence a company through boycott and PR attacks than it is to influcence a foreign government through traditional political means. And that's just laziness.
Good God, if you haven't already, don't read any more of these comments. All they will teach you is that the average slashdotter either fails to read TFA, mistakenly believes they understand thermodynamics better than anyone else, or both.
....When you HIRE someone to BUILD something, it STIMULATES the economy....And NASA budget has been to target of cuts as recently as this week, it was even slashdotted. Bad anonymous coward, no cookie!
Why would Sprint go Open-source!? That's a terrible idea! All the other telecommunications companies would just usurp their hard work and then Sprint would no longer have any exclusive or novel features. The company is already in a financial jam, and Verizon Wireless has way better coverage. Sprint would end up totally screwed! You FOSS monkeys always forget to consider the need for a working business model, sheesh.
Yes, I forgot. All binaries run on all platforms, all processors, all operating systems, all chipsets all graphics cards, and the different controller buttons just work themselves out magically. How silly of me.
'The Internet does not forget, does not forgive and cannot be stopped. Ever.'
I call BS. The Internet is a gaping global case of Attention Deficit Disorder. Show it a cute LOLCAT image, or a video of someone getting hit in the balls, and totally forgets about flavor-of-the-month investigation project.
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The reason more muggers don't float in the air and more burglars don't get to the scene by flying is BECAUSE we've got such fine lights going STRAIGHT UP!
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Man, these new energy drinks have the WEIRDEST names! Like this one..."Kltpzyxm"...Hey wait, Oh noooooooooooo! *disappears into the fifth dimension*
I've seen plenty of perpetual motion devices which have been demonstrated in the laboratory. Until it's a reliable peer-reviewed and reproduced experiment, it holds little to no weight.
The article claims that beautiful women have more children than the plainer counterparts...then why were all the teenage moms in my high school total dogs? Beautiful people aren't more likely to have lots of kids, stupid people are...as much as I hate to go down the recently XKCD'd thought path.
Thank you for this comment. Despite negative reviews, this movie looks interesting (doesn't it drive ya mad when spiffy movies fly under your radar?)
I can recall dozens of biographies of inventors that end with them loosing all of their money on legal fees for patent suits. Eli Whitney and his Cotton Gin comes to mind. The elegant simple ideas that can be described in a few sentences, but are still extremely clever are some of the hardest to protect.
You sir, are a racist.
Right, because there is no Conflict of Interest there. No reason for him to cut his estimate short. No incentives like funding, or publicity, or getting slashdotted, or any such thing. Oh wait, yes there is! And as already said, one guy isn't the majority; neither is one research lab.
The comment isn't old, it's appropriate. 50+ years ago, we were promised flying cars. We were all going to have them. We were going to have them 10 years ago. We don't. 10 years from now, I rather doubt we'll have flying cars OR artificial human brains. It's the standard estimation flub that researchers make in order to secure funding.
I'm so glad you posted this. First I was neutral about turbans. Then I read that guy's post and I immediately concluded that turbans are worn only by terrorists. Luckily, I then read your post, and was thankfully corrected. Good save.
Anonymous fails to mention that said brown belt was an eight year old. Anonymous also probably doesn't realize that "brown belt" without further clarification doesn't mean much anything at all.
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In general, if the notes were made while working for NASA, they would be considered public domain.
Wow, it took over 6 hours since the story got posted for someone to make the requisite quote.
And if you had bothered to read his signature, you would have found out that no matter how obvious his sarcasm is, his comment will be taken seriously by someone.
This guy has the right idea. It's not even like the technology is difficult to create. If Nokia/Siemens didn't make it, someone else would have. Although the cost of this tech would just be a drop in the bucket, economically speaking, it's better for them to be importing this technology than to be developing it domestically. Anyone is more than welcome to be upset at Iran or anyone else for censorship, but direct that anger at the censors, and the government that supports the censors. It feels like the original poster wants to blame these companies because it's easier for a random blogger to influence a company through boycott and PR attacks than it is to influcence a foreign government through traditional political means. And that's just laziness.
Good God, if you haven't already, don't read any more of these comments. All they will teach you is that the average slashdotter either fails to read TFA, mistakenly believes they understand thermodynamics better than anyone else, or both.
You fail at WOOOOOSH!
Score:4, Insightful? *spittake* "Lisa, in this house We OBEY the laws of thermodynamics!"
....When you HIRE someone to BUILD something, it STIMULATES the economy....And NASA budget has been to target of cuts as recently as this week, it was even slashdotted. Bad anonymous coward, no cookie!
Why would Sprint go Open-source!? That's a terrible idea! All the other telecommunications companies would just usurp their hard work and then Sprint would no longer have any exclusive or novel features. The company is already in a financial jam, and Verizon Wireless has way better coverage. Sprint would end up totally screwed! You FOSS monkeys always forget to consider the need for a working business model, sheesh.
Yes, I forgot. All binaries run on all platforms, all processors, all operating systems, all chipsets all graphics cards, and the different controller buttons just work themselves out magically. How silly of me.
"It was the best of times, it was the BLURST of times!?" YOU STUPID MONKEY!!
'The Internet does not forget, does not forgive and cannot be stopped. Ever.'
I call BS. The Internet is a gaping global case of Attention Deficit Disorder. Show it a cute LOLCAT image, or a video of someone getting hit in the balls, and totally forgets about flavor-of-the-month investigation project.
.
Richard Kimble: I DIDN'T KILL MY WIFE!!
4chan.org/b/: I DON'T CARE!.....Ooo look guys, new cam-whore! lulz, she's ugly.
I have no doubt the pirated version is buggy. The official release is buggy to the point of being unplayable.
The reason more muggers don't float in the air and more burglars don't get to the scene by flying is BECAUSE we've got such fine lights going STRAIGHT UP!