What a truly idiotic proposition. A fixed route implies ground travel, which implies buying up tons of land, which implies god awful levels of politics and zoning, which implies buy in from the state and laws to make it possible, etc. etc. It's impossible to even get started. Any proposal has to be approved by the public. You can't just start digging up pristine forest or people's back yards for your rail.
Death is required. Making death clean and without suffering would be humane and beneficial, but killing death itself is foolish in its most extreme.
Personally, I believe that anyone who does not want to live forever is either insane or a liar. The solution is to have something to live for. I don't remember who said it, but to paraphrase, I plan to live forever, and I believe I'm off to a good start.
Misleading headline aside, Shakespeare is hilarious.
Violence, sex, creative insults galore, betrayal, incest, murder, sword fights, pork sword fights, ghosts, and more invented words than you can shake a pork sword at.
You were good up until the Apple hate bubbled over. Apple does not sue for things that they thought up but never implemented. Apple sues over simple things that they did implement. Gotta keep your frivolous law suits straight.
And all this snowden bullshit. You know... blow the whistle on domestic spying is one thing. Running straight to Russia and buying some asylum by blabbing about US spy activities in foreign countries makes him nothing but a traitor.
A traitor, definitely, to the US government. However they no longer represent the people of this country. So, yes a traitor to the government, but a hero to the people. See where this is going.
Frankly, they could have at least pretended to give a shit.
Why? "Look over there! Shiny!" No one in the US can fix the US. Only an outsider with no vested interest could be impartial enough to do things based on reason instead of emotion. That or start all over, which is my preference. But to do that, the current rulers have to go, and they are not going without a fight. Probably a bloody one.
As a recent example, my friend's iPad battery recently went belly up. She *loves* her iPad. But they want $289 to replace the battery, so she bought a $700 touch-screen all-in-one computer from Sony and is pleased as punch.
Fascinating, but you may want to check your facts. Oh sorry, Apple haters rarely do.
---------- Out-of-Warranty Service If you own an iPad that is ineligible for warranty service but is eligible for Out-of-Warranty (OOW) Service, Apple will replace your iPad with an iPad that is new or equivalent to new in both performance and reliability for the Out-of-Warranty Service fee listed below.
iPad model Out-of-Warranty Service Fee iPad mini $219 iPad 3rd, 4th generation $299 iPad 2, iPad $249 --------
That's a replacement iPad, not replacement battery, for $219-$299. Although the replacement battery is $99 plus labor, that's still not exactly cheap.
Why do I feel like I'm standing in line at the supermarket reading the cover of some tabloid rag right now...
Maybe it's time add a third level of moderation to slashdot. Have at least 5 high karma readers edit all article posts before they go up. - Spelling/grammar corrections - Weasel word removal - Check/supply links - Accurate titles/summaries
God knows the current batch of mods aren't doing their job.
Yawn. Obsolescence built in, with each OSX "upgrade" Apple drop support for a whole generation of hardware. Quad core xeons are now in limbo. Yes, that standard Intel and PCI system is already at a dead end. When the next cat OS is released with a slightly changed icon set, the next top end systems will be excluded.
Yawn indeed. If all that's changed is the icons, then why do you give a fuck? You obviously don't need it. Each new OS is designed around the new hardware available, with features that are only possible with that hardware. There has to be some level of obsolescence. I agree that it could be longer, e.g. supporting older graphics sets would be a start, but running older versions of the OS is not really a problem. Apple is pretty good about security updates, Java upgrades, etc. for older OSs.
And as for imacs, zero upgradability other than RAM and high failure rates, also suffer from OSX obsolescence.
So, no, don't go down the Apple route unless you intend to replace the whole system to stay current, even if it doesn't need it.
Double yawn. I guess if you can't think of a computer except in terms of a big tin box, then you are too closed minded to use anything else anyway. The iMac has a memory limit, like any motherboard. In general, you can upgrade the internal hard drive if you want to. However, the expansion is through the thunderbolt ports, which can support a dozen drives, scanners, printers, monitors. What more do you need? Of that's right, you can't design your tinker toy PC around the latest video card when you use an iMac. Seriously, I work at a major newspaper currently, and the large iMacs are used for everything. I guess if you don't care about true-color quality either you can get a $100 crap LCD and claim that's better too.
By the way, 10.8 runs on almost all systems that are 5 or 6 years old. If that's not a hardware cycle for your top machine, then what the fuck is? I guess not having the ability to run Windows on that 8088 caused a major hissy fit too.
It's funny how we claim in western culture that we should be free to do as we please as long as it's not hurting anyone else, but there are so many that feel the need to jump in and stop others from go on what could be the greatest adventure any of us could ever go on, possibility for the betterment and all mankind, but everyone and their dog feel it's absolutely necessary to try and stop them.
I find it very disheartening
The problem is that statistically they are all lying. Maybe there are a few who understand and accept the risks for a higher cause. But for the most part these are people hoping for their 15 minutes. Maybe a quick interview on local news, maybe a bragging right on Facebook, maybe just frat boys who think its funny. Sorry, but almost no one is taking this seriously.
They both blatantly copied each other constantly, misused patents, misused lawsuits and injunctions, etc. All these individual little patent disputes are really annoying. They should each be barred from suing each other for anything that happened prior to a certain date so we can be done with this. Then, if they want, they can just duke it out in a paintball game or Mario Party 9 or something.
And they are together keeping all other competitors out of the race through fear of being sued. They have no reason to stop. Together they are winning.
If some very bright person could figure out how to under gerrymandering of precincts, I'd vote for them on that principle alone.
Gerrymandering is only a tool, not good or bad. It can be used to make sure that minorities are given a voice in proportion to their numbers, and it can be used to make sure that minorities are completely silenced. Let me guess. White middle class male. Am I right?
"Lastly, a group of outside experts will be convened to review the government's surveillance capabilities. Their job will include figuring out how to maintain the public's trust... "
So they're hiring a PR firm?
An "outside" PR firm. In other words, paying off some lobbyist with a huge contract.
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E-book prices need to come down by at least 25% in order to become economically competitive for me.
Except publishers do not want to sell e-books. Let me rephrase that. Publishers want to price e-books so high that people continue to buy paper books. Why? That's their business. They cannot conceive of a business with different distribution channels. The collusion between publishers was not to make more money off of e-books. It was to make sure that the prices are so high that it will not eat into their traditional sales. Something will come along to change the business, but not until a few rich fucks die or are bought out.
The essence of haiku is "cutting" (kiru).[1] This is often represented by the juxtaposition of two images or ideas and a kireji ("cutting word") between them,[2] a kind of verbal punctuation mark which signals the moment of separation and colours the manner in which the juxtaposed elements are related.
Traditional haiku consist of 17 on (also known as morae), in three phrases of 5, 7 and 5 on respectively.[3] Any one of the three phrases may end with the kireji.[4] Although haiku are often stated to have 17 syllables,[5] this is inaccurate as syllables and on are not the same.
A kigo (seasonal reference), usually drawn from a saijiki, an extensive but defined list of such words.
No it isn't. I'm a scientist and we use the word resurrected too. We are talking about molecular resurrection, not whole organism resurrection.
No we're not. From TFA: Since the proteins are re-creations, scientists can’t be certain they are exact replicas of the originals.
There is no resurrection. Only educated guesses as to what it may have been. There is no such thing as fossilized protein, unless you mean a rock that is in the shape of the original protein.
Successful man, bright man, ruthless man, and entirely correct.
Bill Gates grew up. Page and Brin may still have some growing up to do, but Bezos has no excuse. And Musk's work has always been overrated, though it's almost geek suicide to suggest so.
My god, how many times do I have to point it out. I know millionaires. They live in a world that is completely different from the one that most people live in. If you think the joke about "first world problems" is germane, just wait until we see which mother has the biggest diamond ring at the next social wedding. Then all hell breaks loose. Bill Gates did NOT grow up. A sociopath does NOT turn into a caring person as they grow older. However these pet projects have always been a bragging point in those circles. Back in Chicago it was Friends of the Chicago River verses Friends of the Parks. The bored rich ladies who started these foundations hated each other with a passion, and would do anything to sabotage the other. That's right, sociopaths with bragging rights.
So he runs an illegal monopoly rough shod over the competition, destroying companies and lives, and now he gives a few pennies to promote his image. Yawn. Do NOT fall for this. Why Malaria? Because no one was doing it yet. Bragging rights. I can think of a dozen better ways to spend that money, but other rich fucks have those already. If he wants to do good, how about paying taxes, reparations for the companies that he destroyed, jail time for the politicians that he bought, etc.
Now mod me to oblivion. For some reason Slashdot just can't not drink this cool-aid.
I don't know what Kool-Aid are you drinking or if Al-Qaeda got into you, but even with all its faults, the US still is a great country. Do travel to crappy places in the world to realize that the standard of living in the US is still way higher than in a lot of places. And last time I checked the US economy still leads the world by a very wide margin. And I wonder what makes you come to a US website if everything is so screwed up, LOL.
And more and more that wealth is being sold overseas. Just take a look at what American money has built in Dubai. Check out the opulent pools and hotels. That's all new construction, in the last decade, when major defense contractors and oil conglomerates started moving their headquarters out of the country (See Bush and Cheney). Your tax dollars at work. Meanwhile, we can't come up with enough money to give our citizens basic healthcare, or a livable minimum wage. Face it. This country is being cashed out, sold to the highest bidder. The rich have never been richer (with all their untaxable riches) and poor have never been poorer, and the trend is that not only will this continue, but it is accelerating. If you can't recognize a sinking ship, then enjoy your swim with the rest of the rats. Today will not last.
I think it's nearly impossible to over-value great leadership. I think the problem is that some tend to over-value the people in leadership positions (regardless of their actual leadership skills.)
That's the response that I expect from the majority of Slashdot, but I have to disagree. The concept here is that it's us (the developers) verses them (management). We've all been burned by bad management, and is more the norm than the exception. But a good leader/manager, with technical skills, can be worth 100 engineers. How do you ask? Well one engineer can only do the work of one person. But having 100 engineers working on a project that is pointless, has no potential, has no value, that is a waste of 100 people. A good leader is one who gets those engineers working on worthwhile projects, playing interference from those trying to sabotage it, and make sure that the result is complete and used properly. These leaders are few and far between, but you know the names of those with successful, groundbreaking, and influential products. We use them every day. And those would never have come to being with even the best engineers working without direction and constant interference.
I admit, IANAL, but doesn't this give grounds for any convicted drug felon to try for a retroactive mistrial?
No, but it does open up the prospect for some country to start taking US refugees from our corrupt corporate dictatorship. When your only hope of being treated fairly is to leave the country, what's the point of sticking around?
But look, the attorney said and I think that if I had mouthed off to the cop, or really said anything, like "WHY DID YOU DO THAT?! ARE YOU CRAZY?!" that i could have been beaten up and had the book thrown at me.
Bullshit. There's no evidence of you saying or not saying anything. Unless there is a witness, the police can testify that you said anything they want to make up. Your word verses theirs. They can say that you confessed to anything. All that matters is what you sign, in front of witnesses. The rest is just bluster and insane stormtroopers getting off on their abuse of power.
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What a truly idiotic proposition. A fixed route implies ground travel, which implies buying up tons of land, which implies god awful levels of politics and zoning, which implies buy in from the state and laws to make it possible, etc. etc. It's impossible to even get started. Any proposal has to be approved by the public. You can't just start digging up pristine forest or people's back yards for your rail.
Death is required. Making death clean and without suffering would be humane and beneficial, but killing death itself is foolish in its most extreme.
Personally, I believe that anyone who does not want to live forever is either insane or a liar. The solution is to have something to live for. I don't remember who said it, but to paraphrase, I plan to live forever, and I believe I'm off to a good start.
For comparison, the Chelyabinsk meteor was estimated at 17-20m, with an airburst energy of 0.4 MegaTons.
Plus there is a huge difference in speed between something in orbit and something that zips in from the Kuiper belt.
Misleading headline aside, Shakespeare is hilarious.
Violence, sex, creative insults galore, betrayal, incest, murder, sword fights, pork sword fights, ghosts, and more invented words than you can shake a pork sword at.
You forgot the fart jokes.
That's totally Apple's style of doing business.
You were good up until the Apple hate bubbled over. Apple does not sue for things that they thought up but never implemented. Apple sues over simple things that they did implement. Gotta keep your frivolous law suits straight.
And all this snowden bullshit. You know... blow the whistle on domestic spying is one thing. Running straight to Russia and buying some asylum by blabbing about US spy activities in foreign countries makes him nothing but a traitor.
A traitor, definitely, to the US government. However they no longer represent the people of this country. So, yes a traitor to the government, but a hero to the people. See where this is going.
Frankly, they could have at least pretended to give a shit.
Why? "Look over there! Shiny!" No one in the US can fix the US. Only an outsider with no vested interest could be impartial enough to do things based on reason instead of emotion. That or start all over, which is my preference. But to do that, the current rulers have to go, and they are not going without a fight. Probably a bloody one.
As a recent example, my friend's iPad battery recently went belly up. She *loves* her iPad. But they want $289 to replace the battery, so she bought a $700 touch-screen all-in-one computer from Sony and is pleased as punch.
Fascinating, but you may want to check your facts. Oh sorry, Apple haters rarely do.
----------
Out-of-Warranty Service
If you own an iPad that is ineligible for warranty service but is eligible for Out-of-Warranty (OOW) Service, Apple will replace your iPad with an iPad that is new or equivalent to new in both performance and reliability for the Out-of-Warranty Service fee listed below.
iPad model Out-of-Warranty Service Fee
iPad mini $219
iPad 3rd, 4th generation $299
iPad 2, iPad $249
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That's a replacement iPad, not replacement battery, for $219-$299.
Although the replacement battery is $99 plus labor, that's still not exactly cheap.
Why do I feel like I'm standing in line at the supermarket reading the cover of some tabloid rag right now...
Maybe it's time add a third level of moderation to slashdot. Have at least 5 high karma readers edit all article posts before they go up.
- Spelling/grammar corrections
- Weasel word removal
- Check/supply links
- Accurate titles/summaries
God knows the current batch of mods aren't doing their job.
And not get kickbacks from the bloggers?
I don't think they are smart enough to ask for kickbacks. Ooooo, burn. :-)
Ah, the old days when you could check slashdot at 3:00AM and see Cowboy Neal diligently posting new interesting articles...
Yawn. Obsolescence built in, with each OSX "upgrade" Apple drop support for a whole generation of hardware. Quad core xeons are now in limbo. Yes, that standard Intel and PCI system is already at a dead end. When the next cat OS is released with a slightly changed icon set, the next top end systems will be excluded.
Yawn indeed. If all that's changed is the icons, then why do you give a fuck? You obviously don't need it. Each new OS is designed around the new hardware available, with features that are only possible with that hardware. There has to be some level of obsolescence. I agree that it could be longer, e.g. supporting older graphics sets would be a start, but running older versions of the OS is not really a problem. Apple is pretty good about security updates, Java upgrades, etc. for older OSs.
And as for imacs, zero upgradability other than RAM and high failure rates, also suffer from OSX obsolescence.
So, no, don't go down the Apple route unless you intend to replace the whole system to stay current, even if it doesn't need it.
Double yawn. I guess if you can't think of a computer except in terms of a big tin box, then you are too closed minded to use anything else anyway. The iMac has a memory limit, like any motherboard. In general, you can upgrade the internal hard drive if you want to. However, the expansion is through the thunderbolt ports, which can support a dozen drives, scanners, printers, monitors. What more do you need? Of that's right, you can't design your tinker toy PC around the latest video card when you use an iMac. Seriously, I work at a major newspaper currently, and the large iMacs are used for everything. I guess if you don't care about true-color quality either you can get a $100 crap LCD and claim that's better too.
By the way, 10.8 runs on almost all systems that are 5 or 6 years old. If that's not a hardware cycle for your top machine, then what the fuck is? I guess not having the ability to run Windows on that 8088 caused a major hissy fit too.
It's funny how we claim in western culture that we should be free to do as we please as long as it's not hurting anyone else, but there are so many that feel the need to jump in and stop others from go on what could be the greatest adventure any of us could ever go on, possibility for the betterment and all mankind, but everyone and their dog feel it's absolutely necessary to try and stop them.
I find it very disheartening
The problem is that statistically they are all lying. Maybe there are a few who understand and accept the risks for a higher cause. But for the most part these are people hoping for their 15 minutes. Maybe a quick interview on local news, maybe a bragging right on Facebook, maybe just frat boys who think its funny. Sorry, but almost no one is taking this seriously.
They both blatantly copied each other constantly, misused patents, misused lawsuits and injunctions, etc. All these individual little patent disputes are really annoying. They should each be barred from suing each other for anything that happened prior to a certain date so we can be done with this. Then, if they want, they can just duke it out in a paintball game or Mario Party 9 or something.
And they are together keeping all other competitors out of the race through fear of being sued. They have no reason to stop. Together they are winning.
As a US citizen, I sure as hell would prefer the KGB looking over my shoulder. the chance that it has any kind of impact on my life is far lower.
Considering it was disbanded in 1991, I wouldn't worry about them either. Americans really don't care about world history do they (we)?
If some very bright person could figure out how to under gerrymandering of precincts, I'd vote for them on that principle alone.
Gerrymandering is only a tool, not good or bad. It can be used to make sure that minorities are given a voice in proportion to their numbers, and it can be used to make sure that minorities are completely silenced. Let me guess. White middle class male. Am I right?
"Lastly, a group of outside experts will be convened to review the government's surveillance capabilities. Their job will include figuring out how to maintain the public's trust... "
So they're hiring a PR firm?
An "outside" PR firm. In other words, paying off some lobbyist with a huge contract.
E-book prices need to come down by at least 25% in order to become economically competitive for me.
Except publishers do not want to sell e-books. Let me rephrase that. Publishers want to price e-books so high that people continue to buy paper books. Why? That's their business. They cannot conceive of a business with different distribution channels. The collusion between publishers was not to make more money off of e-books. It was to make sure that the prices are so high that it will not eat into their traditional sales. Something will come along to change the business, but not until a few rich fucks die or are bought out.
Haiku are NOT that simple. From wiki:
The essence of haiku is "cutting" (kiru).[1] This is often represented by the juxtaposition of two images or ideas and a kireji ("cutting word") between them,[2] a kind of verbal punctuation mark which signals the moment of separation and colours the manner in which the juxtaposed elements are related.
Traditional haiku consist of 17 on (also known as morae), in three phrases of 5, 7 and 5 on respectively.[3] Any one of the three phrases may end with the kireji.[4] Although haiku are often stated to have 17 syllables,[5] this is inaccurate as syllables and on are not the same.
A kigo (seasonal reference), usually drawn from a saijiki, an extensive but defined list of such words.
No it isn't. I'm a scientist and we use the word resurrected too. We are talking about molecular resurrection, not whole organism resurrection.
No we're not. From TFA: Since the proteins are re-creations, scientists can’t be certain they are exact replicas of the originals.
There is no resurrection. Only educated guesses as to what it may have been. There is no such thing as fossilized protein, unless you mean a rock that is in the shape of the original protein.
Successful man, bright man, ruthless man, and entirely correct.
Bill Gates grew up. Page and Brin may still have some growing up to do, but Bezos has no excuse. And Musk's work has always been overrated, though it's almost geek suicide to suggest so.
My god, how many times do I have to point it out. I know millionaires. They live in a world that is completely different from the one that most people live in. If you think the joke about "first world problems" is germane, just wait until we see which mother has the biggest diamond ring at the next social wedding. Then all hell breaks loose. Bill Gates did NOT grow up. A sociopath does NOT turn into a caring person as they grow older. However these pet projects have always been a bragging point in those circles. Back in Chicago it was Friends of the Chicago River verses Friends of the Parks. The bored rich ladies who started these foundations hated each other with a passion, and would do anything to sabotage the other. That's right, sociopaths with bragging rights.
So he runs an illegal monopoly rough shod over the competition, destroying companies and lives, and now he gives a few pennies to promote his image. Yawn. Do NOT fall for this. Why Malaria? Because no one was doing it yet. Bragging rights. I can think of a dozen better ways to spend that money, but other rich fucks have those already. If he wants to do good, how about paying taxes, reparations for the companies that he destroyed, jail time for the politicians that he bought, etc.
Now mod me to oblivion. For some reason Slashdot just can't not drink this cool-aid.
I don't know what Kool-Aid are you drinking or if Al-Qaeda got into you, but even with all its faults, the US still is a great country. Do travel to crappy places in the world to realize that the standard of living in the US is still way higher than in a lot of places. And last time I checked the US economy still leads the world by a very wide margin. And I wonder what makes you come to a US website if everything is so screwed up, LOL.
And more and more that wealth is being sold overseas. Just take a look at what American money has built in Dubai. Check out the opulent pools and hotels. That's all new construction, in the last decade, when major defense contractors and oil conglomerates started moving their headquarters out of the country (See Bush and Cheney). Your tax dollars at work. Meanwhile, we can't come up with enough money to give our citizens basic healthcare, or a livable minimum wage. Face it. This country is being cashed out, sold to the highest bidder. The rich have never been richer (with all their untaxable riches) and poor have never been poorer, and the trend is that not only will this continue, but it is accelerating. If you can't recognize a sinking ship, then enjoy your swim with the rest of the rats. Today will not last.
I think it's nearly impossible to over-value great leadership. I think the problem is that some tend to over-value the people in leadership positions (regardless of their actual leadership skills.)
That's the response that I expect from the majority of Slashdot, but I have to disagree. The concept here is that it's us (the developers) verses them (management). We've all been burned by bad management, and is more the norm than the exception. But a good leader/manager, with technical skills, can be worth 100 engineers. How do you ask? Well one engineer can only do the work of one person. But having 100 engineers working on a project that is pointless, has no potential, has no value, that is a waste of 100 people. A good leader is one who gets those engineers working on worthwhile projects, playing interference from those trying to sabotage it, and make sure that the result is complete and used properly. These leaders are few and far between, but you know the names of those with successful, groundbreaking, and influential products. We use them every day. And those would never have come to being with even the best engineers working without direction and constant interference.
I admit, IANAL, but doesn't this give grounds for any convicted drug felon to try for a retroactive mistrial?
No, but it does open up the prospect for some country to start taking US refugees from our corrupt corporate dictatorship. When your only hope of being treated fairly is to leave the country, what's the point of sticking around?
But look, the attorney said and I think that if I had mouthed off to the cop, or really said anything, like "WHY DID YOU DO THAT?! ARE YOU CRAZY?!" that i could have been beaten up and had the book thrown at me.
Bullshit. There's no evidence of you saying or not saying anything. Unless there is a witness, the police can testify that you said anything they want to make up. Your word verses theirs. They can say that you confessed to anything. All that matters is what you sign, in front of witnesses. The rest is just bluster and insane stormtroopers getting off on their abuse of power.
I think lab-grown meat is the future. For quite a lot of people, meat is just too tasty to be given up completely.
That's solved in one generation.