I thought the names were pretty pointless to start with. Who came up with the idea that the parenthetical name was necessary? Doesn't "Ubuntu 8.10" tell us all we need to know?
No, and it's my daughter's fault. I've been trying to get her to invent one since her 7th grade science fair project. Now she's almost out of college, and she still refuses to do it. Kids just don't have proper respect for their parents any more.
Too bad the title and summary are both wrong. The linked article talks about beer that fights aging and heart disease. For some stupid reason they stuck in a couple of unrelated paragraphs about cancer-fighting nanotech. It never says anything about the beer fighting cancer.
ANH +3: Empire - Arguably the high point ANH +0: A New Hope - Pretty good ANH -19: Revenge Of The Sith - Bad ANH -22: Clone Wars - Very bad. ANH -32: Phantom Menace - Terrible
Bravo! Handled as a true scientist. Leave out the data point (Return of the Jedi) which doesn't support the desired conclusion. You're now ready for a lucrative career in grant-collecting. PS: I will allow that the missing point makes a case for a classic bell curve.
...Give a man unemployment pay and you feed him for a month. Teach a man to design radiation hardened telecom transceivers and you feed him (and 100 others) for life.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll spend his days in a boat, drinking beer and getting sunburned.
...is tidally locked to Earth, so there's a Near side and a Far Side...
So what do you call that side when you're in a spaceship that's orbiting the Moon? What if you're living in a telescope lab on that side? It would be kind of dumb to call the side you're on the far side now wouldn't it?
I have a solution that will work for everyone. Unplug the boob tube and read a book or go outside.
I'll have to remember that next time there's a major storm in my area, and I want to see the projected path. I'm sure I can find a good book that will tell me. Or maybe I can just stand in my yard use my compass to determine from which direction the hail stones are hitting me.
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Progman3K,
Your target demographic is people who want something for free. Do you really expect them to click on ads for for stuff that costs money?
I'm pretty sure I don't have any Hammond enclosures lying around my house. Maybe I'm just not geeky enough.
I thought the names were pretty pointless to start with. Who came up with the idea that the parenthetical name was necessary? Doesn't "Ubuntu 8.10" tell us all we need to know?
I don't even care what it does. Plasmonic nanolithography is just a freaking awesome name for something.
...do we not have working teleporters yet?
No, and it's my daughter's fault. I've been trying to get her to invent one since her 7th grade science fair project. Now she's almost out of college, and she still refuses to do it. Kids just don't have proper respect for their parents any more.
Is this a car? It has wheels and travels on the ground.
Too bad the title and summary are both wrong. The linked article talks about beer that fights aging and heart disease. For some stupid reason they stuck in a couple of unrelated paragraphs about cancer-fighting nanotech. It never says anything about the beer fighting cancer.
What I really want is a beer that fixes obesity.
...I specifically rememeber someone saying they wanted to erase their first sexual experience.
I suspect the conversation was more like, "I'm sure I must have had a sexual experience, but someone erased my memory of it."
ANH +3: Empire - Arguably the high point
ANH +0: A New Hope - Pretty good
ANH -19: Revenge Of The Sith - Bad
ANH -22: Clone Wars - Very bad.
ANH -32: Phantom Menace - Terrible
Bravo! Handled as a true scientist. Leave out the data point (Return of the Jedi) which doesn't support the desired conclusion. You're now ready for a lucrative career in grant-collecting.
PS: I will allow that the missing point makes a case for a classic bell curve.
...Give a man unemployment pay and you feed him for a month. Teach a man to design radiation hardened telecom transceivers and you feed him (and 100 others) for life.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll spend his days in a boat, drinking beer and getting sunburned.
The terraproximate side and the terradistant side? Inventing words is fun :-)
Nicely done. Have a cookie.
...is tidally locked to Earth, so there's a Near side and a Far Side...
So what do you call that side when you're in a spaceship that's orbiting the Moon? What if you're living in a telescope lab on that side? It would be kind of dumb to call the side you're on the far side now wouldn't it?
..."The dinosaurs went extinct because they didn't have a space program"...
Best argument I ever heard for cancelling the space program.
Where are the other globules?
Oh, you know. Just here and there.
What happens if we hit one?
Big Bang?
Where did the globules originate?
Existentialism.
Is that larger void a super-large globule itself inside a still larger void?
Sure.
Make more Diet Mt Dew. You can never make too much of that.
I think you were looking for this.
I have a solution that will work for everyone. Unplug the boob tube and read a book or go outside.
I'll have to remember that next time there's a major storm in my area, and I want to see the projected path. I'm sure I can find a good book that will tell me. Or maybe I can just stand in my yard use my compass to determine from which direction the hail stones are hitting me.
...This device is FAR more accurate than humans...
Yeah, if you're willing to discount the fact that all of that 78% were actually false positives. None of those people were really terrorists.
...what's important is the false positive rate, ie. the proportion of people with no malicious intent who get flagged up...
In this case it seems to have been about 80% false positive since none of those people were actually planning to blow anything up.
Is anybody else feeling really inadequate right now?
Sure I am.
Why should I feel any different right now than I do the rest of the time?
Daddy wanted press, so he had little Billy say he came up with it.
Ding Ding Ding
Congratulations on guessing the correct answer.
She'd probably make more money if she just set up a website where we can all contribute $5 to keep her from publishing a new book.
But wait. What if it's not the junk food that's killing us? What if it's really been the containers all along.
OK. I'm going with this model, because I would much rather have junk food than platics.
Congratulations on being the 500th Slashdotter to miss the point of the article.
Forget Alien vs Predator. I am so waiting for Dinosaurs vs Crurotarsans.