Well, it still makes more sense than going to Mars. Satisfying scientific curiosity aside, the only point of Mars is a balls-out terraforming effort; otherwise you're better off bringing asteroids to Earth orbit and constructing habitats there.
Interestingly, for many years iOS had a greater market share and a much greater installed base than Android, not to mention generally more affluent users. Where was all the iOS malware then?
The absolute worst piece of consumer electronics I've ever owned was a Samsung digital set-top box. There's nothing I will put past them in terms of releasing catastrophically shit products.
I'm pretty sure the directors, the producers and those on the cast with profit-sharing deals are the ones who least need to worry about paying the bills, so you can boycott to your heart's content without worrying too much about sending someone's family to live under a overpass.
Personally, I'm not going to boycott the movie, because I thought the book was shite, and I don't think it counts as boycott if you had zero interest in the first place.
You haven't really thought this through. People who annoy you with their screens are sitting in front of you, so unless you move to a seat in front of them, you aren't going to blind them with a flashlight.
Maybe someone should read the patent itself, rather than the submitter's regurgitated and likely misleading summary, before declaring the patent bogus?
The quantum effects are obviously useful for *something*, or D-Wave wouldn't manage to be selling these things. As far as I know, nobody has made any claims of general-purpose quantum computing.
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This project isn't above criticism, of course. On the other hand, Slashdot isn't the place for intelligent architecture criticism.
I would point out that "efficiency" (even your comically naive understanding of it) isn't the only factor at play when one designs a building...
Sad, isn't it? Slashdot used to be *the* place for nerd conversation. Now we get the dregs that wouldn't pass muster on Gizmodo.
The Pentagon is the low-poly version.
The last reason left to have Java installed?
I think the Surface RT can only be described as "inexplicable".
the Slashdot community tends to harbor foaming-at-the-mouth purposeless hatred for everything Microsoft does
Unless, of course, a comparison is being made with Apple at the time...
...whether Google behaves ethically. I frequent the BoingBoing site, so I'm used to Doctorow's inane drivel, but this probably takes the biscuit.
*Two* governments. China are still at it.
Well, it still makes more sense than going to Mars. Satisfying scientific curiosity aside, the only point of Mars is a balls-out terraforming effort; otherwise you're better off bringing asteroids to Earth orbit and constructing habitats there.
Indeed. The quip about "two turkeys not making an eagle" is applicable here.
I mean, it has to be. That's serious Onion-levels of having us on.
Interestingly, for many years iOS had a greater market share and a much greater installed base than Android, not to mention generally more affluent users. Where was all the iOS malware then?
Looks like according to some people here, the "UNIX market" must necessarily exclude Apple, because 'teh openz' or something.
Because there's a fucking asteroid with our name on it out there, and all our eggs are in one basket, that's why.
The absolute worst piece of consumer electronics I've ever owned was a Samsung digital set-top box. There's nothing I will put past them in terms of releasing catastrophically shit products.
Please accept our collective apologies if your delicate earholes were offended.
I'm pretty sure the directors, the producers and those on the cast with profit-sharing deals are the ones who least need to worry about paying the bills, so you can boycott to your heart's content without worrying too much about sending someone's family to live under a overpass. Personally, I'm not going to boycott the movie, because I thought the book was shite, and I don't think it counts as boycott if you had zero interest in the first place.
If I have to see ads at all, I'd sooner they be of stuff I may be interested in, to be honest.
Alternatively, we can just treat his agenda-driven scaremongering with the scorn and derision it deserves.
You haven't really thought this through. People who annoy you with their screens are sitting in front of you, so unless you move to a seat in front of them, you aren't going to blind them with a flashlight.
Maybe someone should read the patent itself, rather than the submitter's regurgitated and likely misleading summary, before declaring the patent bogus?
The quantum effects are obviously useful for *something*, or D-Wave wouldn't manage to be selling these things. As far as I know, nobody has made any claims of general-purpose quantum computing.
I hope it catches on. Just give me a tickbox if I want masking when in a public place.
"Carreon Up the Khyber", indeed.