But, on the other hand, if we did send people to orbit Mars without landing...
...it would be a stupid waste of billions of dollars. Humans can't do anything from Mars orbit a machine (specially a 2030s machine) can't do much better.
Actually, I'm not a big believer on Mars missions at all. I think the Moon is a better near-term target, and asteroid mining a much better long-term approach. We don't need more gravity wells.
While I know the comment was meant to be sarcastic, it sort of backfired, because the reason for Apple's success is that they do all of those, *on aggregate*, to a greater extent than any other company.
I think someone is using a seriously non-standard definition of the word "trend". People have been running Linux on Mac hardware since before the Intel switch. This is neither new, nor on the increase.
You know what's even more messed up? To throw someone in a vat of acid for reporting a problem. Like the arrest, that did not happen either, but since facts don't matter it would have made a better headline, right?
The "living forever" thing is a daft straw man. What people want is basically "not to die while they still want to live." That can be a hundred years, a million years or a trillion years, depending on the individual.
"I didn't think colossally stupid people existed on Slashdot"
Any thread with more than a dozen or so comments should be sufficient to disabuse you of that notion...
The fact that you dismissively refer to user experience as "shiny things" goes some way towards explaining why the Year of Linux on the Desktop will lag the Year of the Commercial Fusion Reactor by several decades.
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But, on the other hand, if we did send people to orbit Mars without landing...
...it would be a stupid waste of billions of dollars. Humans can't do anything from Mars orbit a machine (specially a 2030s machine) can't do much better. Actually, I'm not a big believer on Mars missions at all. I think the Moon is a better near-term target, and asteroid mining a much better long-term approach. We don't need more gravity wells.
Right alongside heavier-than-air flight.
While I know the comment was meant to be sarcastic, it sort of backfired, because the reason for Apple's success is that they do all of those, *on aggregate*, to a greater extent than any other company.
I think someone is using a seriously non-standard definition of the word "trend". People have been running Linux on Mac hardware since before the Intel switch. This is neither new, nor on the increase.
"...mine is only 186" Well, if anybody was heretofore unclear as to the definition of "humblebrag"...
Having used both, I can't wait for Max to die in a fire...
Sorry to nitpick, but Alias|Wavefront combined Alias PowerAnimator and Wavefront Dynamation into Maya. Wavefront was a company, not a product.
Harsh, but fair.
You know what's even more messed up? To throw someone in a vat of acid for reporting a problem. Like the arrest, that did not happen either, but since facts don't matter it would have made a better headline, right?
If I owned a billion dollar company, I would purchased other manufacturers instead of just the parts.
That's why you don't own a billion-dollar company.
Don't anthropomorphise the Sun, he hates it.
The competition accept the SCHAFT.
Either Slashdot has somehow bridged two parallel Earths here, or we're operating under completely different definitions of the word "droves".
Obviously everybody needs to submit their temperature preferences to Taco Cowboy for approval before setting their thermostats.
Then again, they had already been fighting the Japanese in Manchuria before the war started officially...
I imagine it is because Apple users are made feel as welcome here as a fart in a spacesuit.
The "living forever" thing is a daft straw man. What people want is basically "not to die while they still want to live." That can be a hundred years, a million years or a trillion years, depending on the individual.
"Basically, democracy tends toward more and more socialistic policies. " One of its many advantages, yes.
Well, maybe they will when they can ferry their own astronauts up to the ISS again...
Every Slashdot thread of sufficient length degenerates into a pissing contest.
"I didn't think colossally stupid people existed on Slashdot" Any thread with more than a dozen or so comments should be sufficient to disabuse you of that notion...
"The Starship Troopers movie was a travesty that RAH would have hated!" "RAH would have hated it" counts as a positive for me.
"Is someone trying to kill slashdot??" If so, they are a few years too late.
The fact that you dismissively refer to user experience as "shiny things" goes some way towards explaining why the Year of Linux on the Desktop will lag the Year of the Commercial Fusion Reactor by several decades.
Thanks for doing the legwork. Not that facts matter an iota to the haters, though; it's like talking to creationists.