Simple fix for that. We can improve our mileage through a simple accounting adjustment. We should measure it it KPG, Kilometers Per Gallon. And then the oil companies can start selling gasoline at the pump in liters. So gasoline will be seem cheaper and you'll seem to get better mileage. Marketing whiz kids take note!
I love Neuticles. I think they are one of the best products on the market for dogs. I can picture this endorsement:
Customer: After I had my first dog, Scamp, snipped, he just didn't lick himself with the same enthusiasm. When we were going to get our second dog, Arny, snipped we heard about neuticles. After they removed his manhood, we had the install a big ole pair of neuticles. He was unsure of himself for a few days. He sniffed at them tentatively, gave them a lick and he was hooked. I decided to get a pair for Scamp installed. And boy was he happy. Now, both dogs lick themselves with the same enthusiasm as if they had real balls.
I think all children should be taught to use the VMS OS and AS/400 OS. For those who don't quit from frustration in the first five minutes when they switch to DOS and Linux, those shells will seem intuitive in comparison.
Indeed. I recently converted to Python after learning PHP for convenience and a being a long time fan of Perl. I heard an interview on Python 411 where the interviewee said something like Python had the usefulness of Perl and the elegance of Java.
I sure am envious of that 16GB dongle. Who cares if it's too big to put on a key chain? I'd hang that sucker on a lanyard and put it around my neck. Darn I'm stuck with a 6GB dongle. I know some poor geeks only have a 2GB or 4GB dongle. We won't even mention the 1/2GB dongles.
Personally I'd love to see us progress to the point where it was possible to grow just the meat itself without the animal. That would end all the ethical issues with raising an animal for food, potential issues from mad cow disease, bird flu and whatever the next media induced panic is.
Let's take it to next logical step. Why not clone human flesh? I mean after all there'd be no ethical issues involved with it. They could take those new ethicly created stem cell lines to make human meat. And since breast milk is the best, why clone giant boobies to produce all of our dairy needs. No I see no ethical problems at all.
What about calling it a Clydon or even a Tombaughn after the guy who discovered Pluto. Better yet. Since he was from Kansas. We could call them Kansons or Americons.
The burden of scientific proof is on Steorn. It's not up to the scientific community to accept the challenge. Besides the Irish are notorious for pulling people's legs. The only thing they are getting for free is publicity. Velikovsky would be proud.
As we age our brains may ossify and turn us all into natural luddites. But, it seems that a "hi-tech" solution to another "hi-tech" solution is a problem. We need to step back and look at how this bacterial problem occurred in the first place. Say hello to the high density feedlot where cows live in great metal buildings standing around in their own filth being fed unnatural foods and pumped full of hormones and antibiotics. Antibiotics? The overuse of antibiotics has created superstrains of bacteria. And it is those stronger strains that are showing up in our meat supply.
The practical solution is simple. Grass finished beef. Corn fed isn't natural or healthy. Let the steers eat grass for their last two weeks before slaughter. They can still do the dense feedlots, CAFO's but most of the problems caused by CAFO's are mitigated by grass finishing diet. But they determined it wouldn't be cost effective so they pass the real cost onto the consumer to make sure their meat is properly handled and cooked and the medical costs associated with tainted meat. Oh well.
The real solution is free range grass fed beef. Read Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and check out Joel Salatin's Polyface Farms. After reading about CAFO's, I can see why some people become vegans and vegetarians, but I won't stop eating meat. I'll just eat meat that is safer and healthier for me.
I've seen some really, really, really lame stories posted on Slashdot, but this one has to be the most retarded I've seen yet. The moon will be classified as a planet in a few billion years under the new proposed definition. I don't know where to begin to say how utterly stupid and asinine that sounds. Because of the Moon is so large relative to the Earth, some astronomers refer to the Earth-Moon system as a double planet. Charon as a moon is even larger relative to Pluto and so could also be called a double planet.
There are so many exotic objects in space that run the whole spectrum of sizes from stars to brown dwarfs to planets to moons to asteroids and comets it is sometimes hard to say where does one begin and other end. We should use working definitions for purposes of scholarly debate. And say this is the best description we have to date of what a planet is or is not. And for those objects that fall into a grey area we may have to decide what they are on a case by case basis. To say the Moon will be a planet in a few billion years is about as useful as saying the Earth won't be a planet in a few billion years when the Sun expands and becomes a red giant and vaporizes it. So what? That's not what it is today.
If Microsoft says open source software is too complex, it must be so. Gosh, I'd have to say Microsoft nails it on the head every time they open their mouths about open source. This proves yet again that a Slashdot post has a intelligent headline and insightful blurb. Oh, and by they way, monkeys might flight out my ass.
'The treaty requires that the U.S. government help enforce other countries' 'cybercrime' laws--even if the act being prosecuted is not illegal in the United States.
No shit, Sherlock! The treaty may be evil. It may suck ass. But that's what a treaty is. When two states sign a treaty they give up a bit of their sovereignty. Read up on what a treaty is at Wikipedia. Or better yet read the US Constitution. You'll be a leg up on the Bush administration who'd rather wipe their collective asses with it.
From the blurb I was reminded of the movie Andromeda Stain. When I saw it I remember the scene where they cut open a dead man's wrist and all these red granules poured out.
SCO is still around? They haven't been on my news radar since, uhm... uuhhhhh.... I think.... uh since before the invasion of Iraq. SCO is a lot like the Bush administration. The Bushites looked for the WMD's and didn't find them. SCO is still looking for the infringing code and not finding it. At least SCO doesn't steal elections, invade countries on false pretexts, detain people without trial, and then torture detainees. No SCO is just a bunch of litiginous bastards. SCO should have hired Jack (abram)Off while they still had a chance.
I've created customized a string of DNA and put it on a bumper sticker. The genetic sequencing of letters spells out: If you can read this you are too close
I doubt most Americans know, much less care, that they have a team in the World Cup or even what the World Cup is. So the rest of the Internet may melt down but not here in the good ole US of A.
The only thing that'll bond a soldier to a robot is superglue. Someone's watched Star Wars one too many times. It's a machine. If you put the robot in a larger context, we do develop emotional attachments to cars and boats. And we tend to anthropomorphize things like that. There are times when you bang your head on a car trunk lid that you'd wish it could feel pain and you wish you could knock the crap out of it.
Calling it a bond is the wrong word. A toaster cannot tell you it loves you. Well unless someone installs a chip that has a pre-recorded voice with a tiny speaker and it goes off when the toast pops. I like my car and I take care of it. I do not feel affection for it and if it were to be totalled I'd be upset. We also develop a love-hate attitude towards Windows which is a piece of software. Some people love the MacOS, some people even love computer languages (Perl, Python, PHP).
The soldiers may develop a strong attachment to a device that can save their life and lives of others, but it's not a bond because the robot can't return the emtion.
*You should be ashamed* by your lack of professionalism.
Well said.
I was originally going to bash Java and make a few snide remarks about Ruby on Rails. But yes. Slashdot is terrible. Calling it yellow/tabloid journalism is too good. I don't know why I keep reading the site.
Should we adapt to the computer or should we adapt the computer to us? I've never understood the term computer literate. It's not a fucking book. We don't talk about people being telephone literate, VCR literate, car literate, or toaster literate. Perhaps computer savvy? At one point computer 'literate' meant knowing how to use assembly language, punch cards, and paper tape. The command line prompt was a big improvement. Now we have GUI's, mice, and touch screens. Eventually they'll respond to voice commands and project images in 3D. Computers are a moving target. We have to design them to not only be user friendly but abuser friendly. Does computer literate mean knowing how to use a flash drive or swapping out a hard drive, formatting and installling the OS? Or does it mean knowing how to order a pizza or download a song from a website to a computer to your MP3 player?
Personally, I think every computer should come with a DWIM button (Do What I Mean) and it should be placed right next to the Any key. And yes, all I read was the blurb. It's not worth the effort to go and read the linked story.
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Simple fix for that. We can improve our mileage through a simple accounting adjustment. We should measure it it KPG, Kilometers Per Gallon. And then the oil companies can start selling gasoline at the pump in liters. So gasoline will be seem cheaper and you'll seem to get better mileage. Marketing whiz kids take note!
AMEN!?!
I love Neuticles. I think they are one of the best products on the market for dogs. I can picture this endorsement:
Customer: After I had my first dog, Scamp, snipped, he just didn't lick himself with the same enthusiasm. When we were going to get our second dog, Arny, snipped we heard about neuticles. After they removed his manhood, we had the install a big ole pair of neuticles. He was unsure of himself for a few days. He sniffed at them tentatively, gave them a lick and he was hooked. I decided to get a pair for Scamp installed. And boy was he happy. Now, both dogs lick themselves with the same enthusiasm as if they had real balls.
Arny & Scamp: (in unison) Woof! Woof!
I think all children should be taught to use the VMS OS and AS/400 OS. For those who don't quit from frustration in the first five minutes when they switch to DOS and Linux, those shells will seem intuitive in comparison.
Indeed. I recently converted to Python after learning PHP for convenience and a being a long time fan of Perl. I heard an interview on Python 411 where the interviewee said something like Python had the usefulness of Perl and the elegance of Java.
I sure am envious of that 16GB dongle. Who cares if it's too big to put on a key chain? I'd hang that sucker on a lanyard and put it around my neck. Darn I'm stuck with a 6GB dongle. I know some poor geeks only have a 2GB or 4GB dongle. We won't even mention the 1/2GB dongles.
Personally I'd love to see us progress to the point where it was possible to grow just the meat itself without the animal. That would end all the ethical issues with raising an animal for food, potential issues from mad cow disease, bird flu and whatever the next media induced panic is.
Let's take it to next logical step. Why not clone human flesh? I mean after all there'd be no ethical issues involved with it. They could take those new ethicly created stem cell lines to make human meat. And since breast milk is the best, why clone giant boobies to produce all of our dairy needs. No I see no ethical problems at all.
What about calling it a Clydon or even a Tombaughn after the guy who discovered Pluto. Better yet. Since he was from Kansas. We could call them Kansons or Americons.
The burden of scientific proof is on Steorn. It's not up to the scientific community to accept the challenge. Besides the Irish are notorious for pulling people's legs. The only thing they are getting for free is publicity. Velikovsky would be proud.
As we age our brains may ossify and turn us all into natural luddites. But, it seems that a "hi-tech" solution to another "hi-tech" solution is a problem. We need to step back and look at how this bacterial problem occurred in the first place. Say hello to the high density feedlot where cows live in great metal buildings standing around in their own filth being fed unnatural foods and pumped full of hormones and antibiotics. Antibiotics? The overuse of antibiotics has created superstrains of bacteria. And it is those stronger strains that are showing up in our meat supply.
The practical solution is simple. Grass finished beef. Corn fed isn't natural or healthy. Let the steers eat grass for their last two weeks before slaughter. They can still do the dense feedlots, CAFO's but most of the problems caused by CAFO's are mitigated by grass finishing diet. But they determined it wouldn't be cost effective so they pass the real cost onto the consumer to make sure their meat is properly handled and cooked and the medical costs associated with tainted meat. Oh well.
The real solution is free range grass fed beef. Read Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and check out Joel Salatin's Polyface Farms. After reading about CAFO's, I can see why some people become vegans and vegetarians, but I won't stop eating meat. I'll just eat meat that is safer and healthier for me.
I've seen some really, really, really lame stories posted on Slashdot, but this one has to be the most retarded I've seen yet. The moon will be classified as a planet in a few billion years under the new proposed definition. I don't know where to begin to say how utterly stupid and asinine that sounds. Because of the Moon is so large relative to the Earth, some astronomers refer to the Earth-Moon system as a double planet. Charon as a moon is even larger relative to Pluto and so could also be called a double planet.
There are so many exotic objects in space that run the whole spectrum of sizes from stars to brown dwarfs to planets to moons to asteroids and comets it is sometimes hard to say where does one begin and other end. We should use working definitions for purposes of scholarly debate. And say this is the best description we have to date of what a planet is or is not. And for those objects that fall into a grey area we may have to decide what they are on a case by case basis. To say the Moon will be a planet in a few billion years is about as useful as saying the Earth won't be a planet in a few billion years when the Sun expands and becomes a red giant and vaporizes it. So what? That's not what it is today.
A friend of mine once said: There are more birth defects among Born Again Christians than any other religious group. I think survey proves this point.
If Microsoft says open source software is too complex, it must be so. Gosh, I'd have to say Microsoft nails it on the head every time they open their mouths about open source. This proves yet again that a Slashdot post has a intelligent headline and insightful blurb. Oh, and by they way, monkeys might flight out my ass.
'The treaty requires that the U.S. government help enforce other countries' 'cybercrime' laws--even if the act being prosecuted is not illegal in the United States.
No shit, Sherlock! The treaty may be evil. It may suck ass. But that's what a treaty is. When two states sign a treaty they give up a bit of their sovereignty. Read up on what a treaty is at Wikipedia. Or better yet read the US Constitution. You'll be a leg up on the Bush administration who'd rather wipe their collective asses with it.
No, Dammit! I want Ben Affleck. He is every bit as bad an actor as William Shatner. Let's see who do I want for Spock? Hmmm. Here is the cast I want.
Kirk - Ben Affleck
Spock - Tom Cruise
McCoy - Matthew McConaughey
Scotty - Hugh Jackman
Uhura - Halle Berry
Yeoman Rand - Tricia Helfer
Nurse Chapel - Pamela Anderson
Checkov - Wil Wheaton
Sulu - Daniel Dae Kim
From the blurb I was reminded of the movie Andromeda Stain. When I saw it I remember the scene where they cut open a dead man's wrist and all these red granules poured out.
SCO is still around? They haven't been on my news radar since, uhm ... uuhhhhh .... I think .... uh since before the invasion of Iraq. SCO is a lot like the Bush administration. The Bushites looked for the WMD's and didn't find them. SCO is still looking for the infringing code and not finding it. At least SCO doesn't steal elections, invade countries on false pretexts, detain people without trial, and then torture detainees. No SCO is just a bunch of litiginous bastards. SCO should have hired Jack (abram)Off while they still had a chance.
I've created customized a string of DNA and put it on a bumper sticker. The genetic sequencing of letters spells out: If you can read this you are too close
And they could even be armed with Hellfire missiles to stop those runaway cars in wild police chases we see on TV all the time.
I wuz modded troll. Woohoo! I was hoping for Flamebait.
I'm not likely to build a data center any time soon. I'll bet 99% of the other slashdotters won't build one either.
I doubt most Americans know, much less care, that they have a team in the World Cup or even what the World Cup is. So the rest of the Internet may melt down but not here in the good ole US of A.
The only thing that'll bond a soldier to a robot is superglue. Someone's watched Star Wars one too many times. It's a machine. If you put the robot in a larger context, we do develop emotional attachments to cars and boats. And we tend to anthropomorphize things like that. There are times when you bang your head on a car trunk lid that you'd wish it could feel pain and you wish you could knock the crap out of it.
Calling it a bond is the wrong word. A toaster cannot tell you it loves you. Well unless someone installs a chip that has a pre-recorded voice with a tiny speaker and it goes off when the toast pops. I like my car and I take care of it. I do not feel affection for it and if it were to be totalled I'd be upset. We also develop a love-hate attitude towards Windows which is a piece of software. Some people love the MacOS, some people even love computer languages (Perl, Python, PHP).
The soldiers may develop a strong attachment to a device that can save their life and lives of others, but it's not a bond because the robot can't return the emtion.
*You should be ashamed* by your lack of professionalism.
Well said.
I was originally going to bash Java and make a few snide remarks about Ruby on Rails. But yes. Slashdot is terrible. Calling it yellow/tabloid journalism is too good. I don't know why I keep reading the site.
That being said I'm still going to bash Java (and Ruby). I've found a really wonderful video demonstration on why Java sucks ass for developing web apps. So I really don't care if Java becomes truly open source or not.
Should we adapt to the computer or should we adapt the computer to us? I've never understood the term computer literate. It's not a fucking book. We don't talk about people being telephone literate, VCR literate, car literate, or toaster literate. Perhaps computer savvy? At one point computer 'literate' meant knowing how to use assembly language, punch cards, and paper tape. The command line prompt was a big improvement. Now we have GUI's, mice, and touch screens. Eventually they'll respond to voice commands and project images in 3D. Computers are a moving target. We have to design them to not only be user friendly but abuser friendly. Does computer literate mean knowing how to use a flash drive or swapping out a hard drive, formatting and installling the OS? Or does it mean knowing how to order a pizza or download a song from a website to a computer to your MP3 player?
Personally, I think every computer should come with a DWIM button (Do What I Mean) and it should be placed right next to the Any key. And yes, all I read was the blurb. It's not worth the effort to go and read the linked story.