Some sort of added value in the form of editorial commentary, or similar? Maybe pose some interesting questions about the topic at hand? Since when has slashdot been in the business of "You heard it here first, folks?" It's an aggregator. So aggregate.:)
Then why post low-content live-bloggish "articles" here on slashdot? Post an article linking to one or two of those live blogs instead, or even add some sort of editorial commentary to the post.
What was posted, though, I expect to be signed as "Sent from my Android" or similar.
I mean really, maybe some information beyond this vaguely twitter-esque, detail-lacking post? A picture of something? This is about as low-content as you can go while still technically providing information.
Or at least put it in a separate "here's my live slashdot blog" section.
My money's on the week-long delay between break-in and public statement about what information was grabbed was because Sony wanted to give its legal department a week to wind up before lawsuits started coming in. I bet that within 12 hours of Sony discovering the break-in, they knew exactly what was going and fired up their legal department, calling in every single lawyer they have access to, and said lawyers have been working around the clock to brace for the impending legal storm.
When they were saying crap like "We're assessing the situation," it was entirely true...they just didn't specify that it was from a legal standpoint, rather than a technical one.
And after you've asked that prepubescent child how many centimeters are in a kilometer, ask him whether knowing that will ever matter.
The things we measure in miles we don't need to (or want to) measure in feet. The things you measure in km you won't ever want to measure in cm.
How about feet vs. inches, or centimeters vs. meters? I have to make those conversions ALL THE TIME in ordinary, every day life. An 8'x4' sheet of plywood is 96"x48"? That's...useful. And don't forget fractional inches.
The point is, anyone can come up with an example conversion that is pointless and will never be used. Will I ever need to convert millimeters to kilometers? Probably not. Will I need to convert millimeters to centimeters? Much more likely. And volumes are even more fun. Milliliters to liters? Yes please. Liquid ounces to quarts? I'd rather not.
Even if you did start watching from the very beginning, you'd have a tough time tracking down all the episodes, since a good number of them are simply lost to time. That is to say, there's NO way to watch them all. Some have been found again, some have been animated based on radio broadcasts, some have been restored...but some are just gone.
My advice for someone new to Who: give the new series a go. It's incredibly accessible and available, and David Tennant does a great job at playing the Doctor. If he can't make you fall in love with the whole thing, maybe it's not for you. And once you're in love with the series, you'll probably have an easier time accepting the older, lower-budget episodes of days gone by, and you'll be positively drooling for the back story the older episodes provide.
Of course, someone with a different favorite Doctor may tell you to start elsewhere, but I think my argument of accessibility/availability is still a good one.:)
Wow, your post might have been interesting or even insightful, but you you write like an asshole and any useful information you may have had was lost in the noise.
They left it out of the article and video, but the greatest feature about this particular item is that each time you fire it, it makes one of four sound effects, until the fifth shot, when it cycles through all four in sequence. Sounds include "laser blast," "machine gun," "scanner ray," and "falling bomb." The inventor was quick to point out that his favorite is when it does all four. "I usually just shoot it in the air four times so that next time I pull the trigger, it'll play all the sounds."
No, you see, that's the joke, that FF is an "upgrade" from IE! Ha ha ha! Ho ho ho! Oh, my side, I seem to have developed a stitch. I hope he'll be here all week, and I'll remember to tip my waitress.
What'll be interesting news is the discovery of three astronomical bodies in a "Scottish reel" orbit, which was proved possible several years ago, but to my knowledge hasn't actually been observed yet. Possible places to find them are in the asteroid belt, in Jupiter's "Trojan" asteroid clumps, and in the Kuiper Belt.
Is an estimated minimum of 2 million more years not stable enough for you? With the two planets orbiting their star about every 10 earth days, that's over 70 million orbits, at minimum. What makes this an interesting find it that it IS unlikely, and it does NOT require external forces. Hence there's an article about it.:)
Those clauses only apply if you are a facebook user. Anyone who is not a facebook user is more than welcome to solicit all the login information they want. Just make sure your hiring board are all non-facebookers. Heck, make sure your entire company is non-facebookers. If the response to the facebook login info request is anything but "the requested information does not exist" then the potential hire is a no-go. It's a self-reinforcing process!
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Some sort of added value in the form of editorial commentary, or similar? Maybe pose some interesting questions about the topic at hand? Since when has slashdot been in the business of "You heard it here first, folks?" It's an aggregator. So aggregate. :)
Then why post low-content live-bloggish "articles" here on slashdot? Post an article linking to one or two of those live blogs instead, or even add some sort of editorial commentary to the post.
What was posted, though, I expect to be signed as "Sent from my Android" or similar.
I mean really, maybe some information beyond this vaguely twitter-esque, detail-lacking post? A picture of something? This is about as low-content as you can go while still technically providing information.
Or at least put it in a separate "here's my live slashdot blog" section.
And then it'll show up on itself in another 30 years.
So what I'm getting from this is that if I want to harm the industry financially, the best tactic would be to steal games from second stores, yes?
$17 via iBooks? Yeah right!
My money's on the week-long delay between break-in and public statement about what information was grabbed was because Sony wanted to give its legal department a week to wind up before lawsuits started coming in. I bet that within 12 hours of Sony discovering the break-in, they knew exactly what was going and fired up their legal department, calling in every single lawyer they have access to, and said lawyers have been working around the clock to brace for the impending legal storm.
When they were saying crap like "We're assessing the situation," it was entirely true...they just didn't specify that it was from a legal standpoint, rather than a technical one.
I agree, I was going for "+1 Horrifying." Once again, the slashdot moderation system falls short.
Of course, the solution here is obvious:
Charge everyone more for data plans in order to encourage less use of limited resources!
And after you've asked that prepubescent child how many centimeters are in a kilometer, ask him whether knowing that will ever matter.
The things we measure in miles we don't need to (or want to) measure in feet. The things you measure in km you won't ever want to measure in cm.
How about feet vs. inches, or centimeters vs. meters? I have to make those conversions ALL THE TIME in ordinary, every day life. An 8'x4' sheet of plywood is 96"x48"? That's...useful. And don't forget fractional inches.
The point is, anyone can come up with an example conversion that is pointless and will never be used. Will I ever need to convert millimeters to kilometers? Probably not. Will I need to convert millimeters to centimeters? Much more likely. And volumes are even more fun. Milliliters to liters? Yes please. Liquid ounces to quarts? I'd rather not.
Oh, come on now, let's be fair, they're all really quite sorry...
So... What type of sites do you browse that you don't care for the feds to know about?
All of them.
Even if you did start watching from the very beginning, you'd have a tough time tracking down all the episodes, since a good number of them are simply lost to time. That is to say, there's NO way to watch them all. Some have been found again, some have been animated based on radio broadcasts, some have been restored...but some are just gone.
My advice for someone new to Who: give the new series a go. It's incredibly accessible and available, and David Tennant does a great job at playing the Doctor. If he can't make you fall in love with the whole thing, maybe it's not for you. And once you're in love with the series, you'll probably have an easier time accepting the older, lower-budget episodes of days gone by, and you'll be positively drooling for the back story the older episodes provide.
Of course, someone with a different favorite Doctor may tell you to start elsewhere, but I think my argument of accessibility/availability is still a good one. :)
Oh, well then surely I can just go any make my own operating system and call it Mike's Windows(tm), eh? Shouldn't have any trouble with that!
With that in mind, how do you feel about Windows(tm)? :)
Wow, your post might have been interesting or even insightful, but you you write like an asshole and any useful information you may have had was lost in the noise.
They left it out of the article and video, but the greatest feature about this particular item is that each time you fire it, it makes one of four sound effects, until the fifth shot, when it cycles through all four in sequence. Sounds include "laser blast," "machine gun," "scanner ray," and "falling bomb." The inventor was quick to point out that his favorite is when it does all four. "I usually just shoot it in the air four times so that next time I pull the trigger, it'll play all the sounds."
No, you see, that's the joke, that FF is an "upgrade" from IE! Ha ha ha! Ho ho ho! Oh, my side, I seem to have developed a stitch. I hope he'll be here all week, and I'll remember to tip my waitress.
What'll be interesting news is the discovery of three astronomical bodies in a "Scottish reel" orbit, which was proved possible several years ago, but to my knowledge hasn't actually been observed yet. Possible places to find them are in the asteroid belt, in Jupiter's "Trojan" asteroid clumps, and in the Kuiper Belt.
I googled "scottish reel orbit" and of course the first result was your own post. However, I did come across this, for those who are interested: http://faculty.ifmo.ru/butikov/Projects/Collection3.html
Is an estimated minimum of 2 million more years not stable enough for you? With the two planets orbiting their star about every 10 earth days, that's over 70 million orbits, at minimum. What makes this an interesting find it that it IS unlikely, and it does NOT require external forces. Hence there's an article about it. :)
As referenced by TFA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point
Unless you're claiming that nothing is stable because y'know, entropy, man!
Those clauses only apply if you are a facebook user. Anyone who is not a facebook user is more than welcome to solicit all the login information they want. Just make sure your hiring board are all non-facebookers. Heck, make sure your entire company is non-facebookers. If the response to the facebook login info request is anything but "the requested information does not exist" then the potential hire is a no-go. It's a self-reinforcing process!
Wanted to mod that '+1 Knowledge' but then I realized '++Knowledge' might be more accurate. Slashdot provides neither as an option. :(
...pork meat will become more exercised if you throw it in the washer.
You should still always do this, though. Also run it through the drier with some fabric softener to really get the most out of it.
Then it's his to do with as he pleases, and the ISP should again not be throttling.
My high-resolution display and crisp, anti-aliased fonts tell me your opinion is irrelevant.