The folks at CERN have one that can detect Higgs bosons. Um, however, it's not that quite portable yet. So you might want to bulk up in the gym before trying to carry it around. And you need a tank of liquid helium on your back. Oh, and if you detect a Higgs boson, give it some press, a lot of folks are interested.
It's interesting to see that Nokia is not mentioned here. I have a N800 and love programming for it, because it's Linux based, and you can download Linux VMware from Nokia. I was looking forward to buying a N900, but then Nokia went off on the Meego tangent. We'll see if that ever sees the light of day. It reminds me of the IBM/Apple Taligent project ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent ). Too many cooks . . .
My patent is "A method and process for doing stuff with things." So that covers about everything. So the US patent folks can clean their desks out, and go fishing.
I think these patent lawsuits will just keep coming, and coming, and coming.
Are any companies going to have any resources to commit to technological innovation? Not if they are constantly forced to conduct rear guard operations against lawsuit assaults.
I think the more interesting point here, is that governments can strong-arm credit card companies to cut the funding for a Website that they don't like.
What happens if an influential large software company decides that it doesn't like an open source software site?
This is indeed news for nerds, and stuff that matters.
Well, if I'm ever called up for jury duty, I guess I would have to check my brain at the door. I read a lot of stuff about all kinds of shit in The Economist and also Wikipedia. I don't need a printed copy to recite what I have read.
Oh, I have been called up for jury duty. My mom called the number to explain that I live on a different continent: problem solved. When my dad was called up, he told me that both the prosecution and the defense would try to toss anybody with half a brain from the jury pool. So he didn't serve.
This reminds me of the Molly Maguires ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Maguires ) , disgruntled Irish coal miners in Pennsylvania. They lopped off peoples' heads. I learned this story in high school in US history. Sometimes the severed heads were just dropped somewhere, and ended up in funeral parlors, who placed them in the window with a note, asking, "Do you know whose head this is?"
At any rate, my history teacher was at a funeral there, and asked the director about the story. He answered, "Sure, it's true, and we still have some of the unclaimed heads in the basement. Do you want to see them?"
She declined.
When a school friend heard of this story, he suggested that we drive his parents' big ole black Cadillac out there, and knock on the door, and shout, "Show us your heads!"
I'm still trying to get them kids off my lawn. But kids on bikes are quick, wily and seem to move in Brownian Motion tracks. Mach 8 could give me a good tactical advantage . . .
Wait, wait, wait! Didn't we decide last week on Slashdot that the Australian government shouldn't be posting any more PDFs? They make you go blind, or give you hairy palms, or something.
And the LORD spoke, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it." Amen
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The folks at CERN have one that can detect Higgs bosons. Um, however, it's not that quite portable yet. So you might want to bulk up in the gym before trying to carry it around. And you need a tank of liquid helium on your back. Oh, and if you detect a Higgs boson, give it some press, a lot of folks are interested.
Surely you most be joking Dr. Feynman. Thanks, I'll pass, but think about working for our Bite-Me academy . . .
You'd think they would at least put some bling on for the photos. Golden racks, a diamond logo or something.
Monster Cables. They make you think that your quality of Ethernet is better, because they are expensive. Expensive stuff is better, right?
Get the idea? Spyware. Built into the operating system. So you don't even have to install some dubious stuff to get spied on.
It's interesting to see that Nokia is not mentioned here. I have a N800 and love programming for it, because it's Linux based, and you can download Linux VMware from Nokia. I was looking forward to buying a N900, but then Nokia went off on the Meego tangent. We'll see if that ever sees the light of day. It reminds me of the IBM/Apple Taligent project ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent ). Too many cooks . . .
My patent is "A method and process for doing stuff with things." So that covers about everything. So the US patent folks can clean their desks out, and go fishing.
And perhaps to stop learning so many useless programming languages.
FORTRAN, ALGOL, COBOL ... Forth ... ? Hey, if you can make money programming it, it's not useless.
I bought my girlfriend an iPhone, and the damn thing seems to set off the alarm at random times.
However, when I look at that thing, my Nokia N95 looks like crap in comparison. I'm no Apple fanboy, but I am really impressed with that thing.
Strength through purity. Purity through faith!
...In our own precious bodily fluids
... Christmas would involve booze, cigars and theft. In no particular order. Those happen to be my plans as well ... OK, except the theft.
I think these patent lawsuits will just keep coming, and coming, and coming.
Are any companies going to have any resources to commit to technological innovation? Not if they are constantly forced to conduct rear guard operations against lawsuit assaults.
A Vulcan remake of "Behind the Green Door"
Critics would pan it for "lacking emotion." Deanna does the Enterprise would be a runaway hit.
Ah, the true Christmas spirit: thinking up remakes of 70's porn with Star Trek characters.
I think the more interesting point here, is that governments can strong-arm credit card companies to cut the funding for a Website that they don't like.
What happens if an influential large software company decides that it doesn't like an open source software site?
This is indeed news for nerds, and stuff that matters.
Some poor /. user might get an iPad from his or her grandmother
Sure beats a self-knitted sweater, formed for a mutant, with asymmetric arm lengths, a hunchback and a hole in the stomach area for the tentacle.
And yes, I speak from experience.
If you're going to drop out, at least you want to have some fun before the "drop out" part http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tune_In,_Turn_On,_Drop_Out
highly magnetized, low-temperature environment (8.59 Tesla, -269.5 degrees Celsius).
Well, that pretty well sums up the weather forecast for here tomorrow . . .
Well, if I'm ever called up for jury duty, I guess I would have to check my brain at the door. I read a lot of stuff about all kinds of shit in The Economist and also Wikipedia. I don't need a printed copy to recite what I have read.
Oh, I have been called up for jury duty. My mom called the number to explain that I live on a different continent: problem solved. When my dad was called up, he told me that both the prosecution and the defense would try to toss anybody with half a brain from the jury pool. So he didn't serve.
This reminds me of the Molly Maguires ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Maguires ) , disgruntled Irish coal miners in Pennsylvania. They lopped off peoples' heads. I learned this story in high school in US history. Sometimes the severed heads were just dropped somewhere, and ended up in funeral parlors, who placed them in the window with a note, asking, "Do you know whose head this is?"
At any rate, my history teacher was at a funeral there, and asked the director about the story. He answered, "Sure, it's true, and we still have some of the unclaimed heads in the basement. Do you want to see them?"
She declined.
When a school friend heard of this story, he suggested that we drive his parents' big ole black Cadillac out there, and knock on the door, and shout, "Show us your heads!"
It's going to fall off the edge of the universe. I just know it.
No problem. It will land on a turtle. It's them all the way down.
I don't think smashing grad students is the answer.
Well, let's try the empirical method, and give those skulls a crash! Maybe a Higg's Boson will fall out?
In other news, applications for graduate positions have fallen dramatically . . .
I'm still trying to get them kids off my lawn. But kids on bikes are quick, wily and seem to move in Brownian Motion tracks. Mach 8 could give me a good tactical advantage . . .
Worked great 20+ years ago playing Rogue.
I'm not sure that is a good idea.
The report — available online as a PDF file
Wait, wait, wait! Didn't we decide last week on Slashdot that the Australian government shouldn't be posting any more PDFs? They make you go blind, or give you hairy palms, or something.
And the LORD spoke, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it." Amen