Come on, everybody knows that it is far cheaper to market obscure, old ideas as new and innovative rather than develop your own untried and untested next-gen technology for the market. c.f. open-source games.
Pardon my poor knowledge of American culture. I gather from your post that a Wal-mart is a place like a brothel where there are holes everywhere and people can be seen... humping them. Like lavatories out in the open and their glory holes? Ahh... I understand now. Thank you.
This is about Ubuntu, it's Linux for Humans which often includes morons.
Windows, it's the perfect decoration for your home! Permanently closed [source], with a well-defined interface for everybody who does not need to interact with the Windows close to the mechanism.
Hate to sound snarky...but the free ISOs were great for those who were not saavy enough to burn their own CDs. Then again...most of these people might not like Linux since its not totally moron proof.
s/moron/new user/ If you are going to insult your new disciples before they have a chance to learn, they will be morons, and morons against you. Everybody who has used the GUI only for the last 15 years is going to have FUD with the command line. Everybody who has thought the computer was IE on hardware with PMS (just because they do not know how to caress the box) is going to have difficulty getting to terms with the new environment. How are you going to woo people if you spit on them?
To address the problem of free CDs would be teaching new users to burn their own with step-by-step instructions. I think a person who has interest in free CDs that take a considerable time to be shipped will have enough interest to burn the discs themselves should they know how, and if they have spare discs at hand. Similarly, a person who wants to distribute CDs to their friends can burn hir own. The problem here is not the technical capability of the users, but the logistics of buying and keeping inventory of the number of discs you have. It is inconvenient.
Web surfers have found a significant increase in half-decayed jelly-like substances in the cloud. Forensics reveal that these jelly-like substances were once ancient living organisms which died from traumatic acceleration. "Something must have boosted these jellies," says Cloud Detective Henry Dave, "it appears that the older these organisms get, the more suspect they become to being forcibly accelerated away from their shells while doing Internet searches."
So this is like a train that goes on roads. But instead of having electricity all throughout the rails, it has them only on some tracks. And oh, if there's a red light, bye-bye, you're dead. What I think it'd do instead is be like a hybrid that has the ability to recharge at every bus stop. But I think it's an interesting idea. Being private means that there's no need to implement a system for billing the electricity too.
But then again, what provides the electricity? If it's more fossil fuels, then it's not being green; it's cutting diesel costs.
Why is this modded funny? This is more evidence that Pastafarianism is the One True Religion. While the theorists scramble to explain the FSM's Right Arm, us believers get angry at the blindness of the other humans. What sacrilege to explain away all the evidence smack before your face with mumbo jumbo and treat our religion as a joke!
I'd say that a Facebook poke is just about as much communication as a chain email. Both can be really annoying, both have the ability to be spammed, and both can be automated.
Trusting the common sense of your writers is all well and good — but when it comes to breaking news, where journalistic adrenaline is at its highest and everyone is paranoid about being scooped by a competitor, that common sense can too easily become the first casualty. Journalists get caught up in the moment; we get excited and we post stupid crap from a foreign language student blog and call it news.
But this seems to say that the poster committed homicide to get the story out. Quick, spread the word!
Anyone who has taken a Stats class will know that these can be abstracted as independent events. Whether a person has a PC or a Mac does not affect the decision of their next purchase. It can be seen here, that of the 0.12 of the population that own a mac, 0.85 own a PC, and that is approximately the 0.88 who do not own a Mac. From here, we can also calculate the population who own a Mac, given that they already own a PC. This is (0.85)(0.12)/(0.88) = 0.116 = 12% = Percentage of population that owns a Mac.
What is interesting is that users of the Mac are more likely to have another computer, as opposed to the 0.29 of PC users who own only one computer. Now, when we compare the 0.29 of the More-than-one-PC-owning population against the 0.12 of the Owns-PCs-and-Macs population, it shows that of the people who own several computers, the group of people who owns Macs is overrepresented. Therefore, we can conclude something that has actual weight, unlike the conclusion the article hints at. We now know that the dominant household force giving Windows its disproportionately huge market share are people who own only one PC. By inference, these people are probably the group of people who also do not spend much of any time using computers.
Exactly! Tables are useful because they can be easily scanned by the eye! Each cell, being of constant width and height, allows the eye to access each element like an array. Making it a spiral restricts accessing data to that not much better than a linked list.
In most places, they cook hamburger (which would destroy most vegetative bacterial cells); wherever this young lady is from they obviously must put the lettuce on the raw burger and then eat it. No wonder she wanted to leave there at all costs! Perhaps that's where she got the barbed wire scar from.
1950s: In London, England, Indian physicist Narinder Kapany (1927â") and British physicist Harold Hopkins (1918â"1994) managed to send a simple picture down a light pipe made from thousands of glass fibers. After publishing many scientific papers, Kapany earned a reputation as the "father of fiber optics."
1960s: Chinese-born US physicist Charles Kao (1933â") figured out how to make a very pure fiber-optic cable that can carry telephone signals over long distances.
Mod parent up Informative/Interesting. Works for Microsoft != thinks like Microsoft. On another manner of arguing, how many times have you taken up a job that you hate?
The level of Anti-Microsoft present on Slashdot is really bordering on excessive paranoia.
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Molecular biologists and bioinformaticians use Perl extensively for manipulating databases of long chains of DNA and proteins. Perl excels in this regard, due to its string manipulation prowess.
Mathematics is not recognized in the natural universe. What mathematics is is a tool used by humans to manage the important human-given properties of the natural world we care about
Treating mathematics as something that the natural world created is like saying that the natural world created the game of chess.
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Are permutations of 1337 included? =)
Come on, everybody knows that it is far cheaper to market obscure, old ideas as new and innovative rather than develop your own untried and untested next-gen technology for the market. c.f. open-source games.
Pardon my poor knowledge of American culture. I gather from your post that a Wal-mart is a place like a brothel where there are holes everywhere and people can be seen... humping them. Like lavatories out in the open and their glory holes? Ahh... I understand now. Thank you.
Yes it costs money, but once you attain freedom, you're now free to give/sell freedom to others who have not yet obtained freedom!
Freedom isn't free, but it enables you to make it free.
This is about Ubuntu, it's Linux for Humans which often includes morons.
Windows, it's the perfect decoration for your home! Permanently closed [source], with a well-defined interface for everybody who does not need to interact with the Windows close to the mechanism.
Hate to sound snarky...but the free ISOs were great for those who were not saavy enough to burn their own CDs. Then again...most of these people might not like Linux since its not totally moron proof.
s/moron/new user/ If you are going to insult your new disciples before they have a chance to learn, they will be morons, and morons against you. Everybody who has used the GUI only for the last 15 years is going to have FUD with the command line. Everybody who has thought the computer was IE on hardware with PMS (just because they do not know how to caress the box) is going to have difficulty getting to terms with the new environment. How are you going to woo people if you spit on them?
To address the problem of free CDs would be teaching new users to burn their own with step-by-step instructions. I think a person who has interest in free CDs that take a considerable time to be shipped will have enough interest to burn the discs themselves should they know how, and if they have spare discs at hand. Similarly, a person who wants to distribute CDs to their friends can burn hir own. The problem here is not the technical capability of the users, but the logistics of buying and keeping inventory of the number of discs you have. It is inconvenient.
This will be good in getting tweet-sized breaking news from Google.
Web surfers have found a significant increase in half-decayed jelly-like substances in the cloud. Forensics reveal that these jelly-like substances were once ancient living organisms which died from traumatic acceleration. "Something must have boosted these jellies," says Cloud Detective Henry Dave, "it appears that the older these organisms get, the more suspect they become to being forcibly accelerated away from their shells while doing Internet searches."
Now that's a brilliant pun on "awful" and "awe-inspiring"!
So this is like a train that goes on roads. But instead of having electricity all throughout the rails, it has them only on some tracks. And oh, if there's a red light, bye-bye, you're dead. What I think it'd do instead is be like a hybrid that has the ability to recharge at every bus stop. But I think it's an interesting idea. Being private means that there's no need to implement a system for billing the electricity too.
But then again, what provides the electricity? If it's more fossil fuels, then it's not being green; it's cutting diesel costs.
Here is another article, with brief explanations about the heliosphere
Witty. Not only does this sphere collect radiation from the Sun, it is powered by cosmic radiation outside the heliosphere as well.
Why is this modded funny? This is more evidence that Pastafarianism is the One True Religion. While the theorists scramble to explain the FSM's Right Arm, us believers get angry at the blindness of the other humans. What sacrilege to explain away all the evidence smack before your face with mumbo jumbo and treat our religion as a joke!
Yes it can, in spherical geometry, if the 2D scan is slightly off-base.
Since the heliosphere is not exactly a sphere (it has a tail), I'll also expect the effects of the offset to be exaggerated.
Wired says 6% of traffic is Google. Wired also says YouTube's internet costs are near zero as Google uses private optical fibers.
I'd say that a Facebook poke is just about as much communication as a chain email. Both can be really annoying, both have the ability to be spammed, and both can be automated.
Sure - plenty of screenshots here [wikipedia.org]..
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File not found. Fake it(Y/N)? Y
Trusting the common sense of your writers is all well and good — but when it comes to breaking news, where journalistic adrenaline is at its highest and everyone is paranoid about being scooped by a competitor, that common sense can too easily become the first casualty. Journalists get caught up in the moment; we get excited and we post stupid crap from a foreign language student blog and call it news.
But this seems to say that the poster committed homicide to get the story out. Quick, spread the word!
Anyone who has taken a Stats class will know that these can be abstracted as independent events. Whether a person has a PC or a Mac does not affect the decision of their next purchase. It can be seen here, that of the 0.12 of the population that own a mac, 0.85 own a PC, and that is approximately the 0.88 who do not own a Mac. From here, we can also calculate the population who own a Mac, given that they already own a PC. This is (0.85)(0.12)/(0.88) = 0.116 = 12% = Percentage of population that owns a Mac.
What is interesting is that users of the Mac are more likely to have another computer, as opposed to the 0.29 of PC users who own only one computer. Now, when we compare the 0.29 of the More-than-one-PC-owning population against the 0.12 of the Owns-PCs-and-Macs population, it shows that of the people who own several computers, the group of people who owns Macs is overrepresented. Therefore, we can conclude something that has actual weight, unlike the conclusion the article hints at. We now know that the dominant household force giving Windows its disproportionately huge market share are people who own only one PC. By inference, these people are probably the group of people who also do not spend much of any time using computers.
Exactly! Tables are useful because they can be easily scanned by the eye! Each cell, being of constant width and height, allows the eye to access each element like an array. Making it a spiral restricts accessing data to that not much better than a linked list.
In most places, they cook hamburger (which would destroy most vegetative bacterial cells); wherever this young lady is from they obviously must put the lettuce on the raw burger and then eat it. No wonder she wanted to leave there at all costs! Perhaps that's where she got the barbed wire scar from.
Score:4, Insightful
Only on Slashdot.
or so the comment in the article says
"Father of Fiber Optics" is not Kao but Narinder Singh Kapany. http://www.explainthatstuff.com/fiberoptics.html http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Father+of+Fiber+Optics&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=f&oq= I can`t believe news didn`t name him
From one of the linked articles,
1950s: In London, England, Indian physicist Narinder Kapany (1927â") and British physicist Harold Hopkins (1918â"1994) managed to send a simple picture down a light pipe made from thousands of glass fibers. After publishing many scientific papers, Kapany earned a reputation as the "father of fiber optics."
1960s: Chinese-born US physicist Charles Kao (1933â") figured out how to make a very pure fiber-optic cable that can carry telephone signals over long distances.
Mod parent up Informative/Interesting. Works for Microsoft != thinks like Microsoft. On another manner of arguing, how many times have you taken up a job that you hate?
The level of Anti-Microsoft present on Slashdot is really bordering on excessive paranoia.
Molecular biologists and bioinformaticians use Perl extensively for manipulating databases of long chains of DNA and proteins. Perl excels in this regard, due to its string manipulation prowess.
Mathematics is not recognized in the natural universe. What mathematics is is a tool used by humans to manage the important human-given properties of the natural world we care about
Treating mathematics as something that the natural world created is like saying that the natural world created the game of chess.