Here's a wild idea. What if you simulated the processing done by the visual cortex in a chip and then fed the result into the retina?
Wha? The visual cortex is a region of the brain where visual input is processed. It gets its input via the optic nerve from the retina in the first place. What you're suggesting makes about as much sense as physically showing the magnetic tape from a video cassette to a camera and expecting the camera to see what's recorded on the tape.
Maybe rather than create a bunch of useless top level domains, there should be a.sucks or something that would be reserved for criticising and could not be sold to the entity that has the.com version of of a name.
What do you do when (say) The Yankee Group registers "microsoft.sucks" and just... you know... never quite finds the time to get a web site put up?
But the argument for potential confusion is there.
So long as the site at bosleymedical.com doesn't pretend they ARE Bosley Medical, where's the confusion? You get to the site and see it's a complaint site, and the confusion is over.
With *sucks or *reallysucks domains the confusion argument is rendered mute by the bulk of US court decisions.
Forcing all protest into something like a "(whatever)sucks.com" is like saying picketers can only march along a 40' section of sidewalk around the corner, next to the building loading zone.
Also, the word you're looking for is "moot", not "mute". Arguments are rendered moot.
Umm, you could have approached almost anyone and said "Oh I just love your shirt, what is that material, vegetable lamb?
True, but I already make so many obscure reference jokes* that no one would ask what I was talking about, they'd just say "yeah....sure... So, you got that server up yet?".
* you know, the kind that require two or three layers of explanation before the punch line makes sense, and at that point it's not really funny anymore
He he! I'd never heard of the "Vegetable Lamb" before. Thanks for the link!
That's what I love about slashdot. I've been waiting twenty-plus years to find a way to work the "Vegetable Lamb of Tartary" into a conversation.
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The Baby Bootstrap?
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Who calls what you describe "baby boostrap"?
I've also noticed that nobody seems to make Horseless Carriages anymore (and after they showed such promise). Likewise, the Difference Engine has been a total flop. I do, however, expect we will see in the future some use made of the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, though no use has been made of it in the last 1000 years since it was discovered.
Keep in mind that the Supreme Court does limit things when the gun lobby pays it to.
Don't be a dimwit. Supreme court justices are appointed for life, not elected. Furthermore, they're highly paid, so there's neither motive, nor real opportunity for them to accept bribes. You're thinking of congressmen and presidents.
Nor shall we forget the all important: Amendment X The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. If the people want the right of privacy, that power is granted to them.
I think the 9th is more applicable there. It basically says that the constitution is not an exhaustive list of the people's rights and that there are many other rights not enumerated. It's basically yet another way to hammer home that the constitution was meant to be an enumeration of the limited powers of the federal government, and nothing else.
Should've trusted you when you said that. Totally irrelevant. Precious time wasted. Consider writing sitcoms.
You committed yourself to wasting precious time when you came to/. in the first place, man. Besides, it wasn't irrelevant, only TANGENTIAL. Hughes Missile Systems was almost totally DoD/DARPA funded, so that story could perhaps be construed as anecdotal rebuttal to the contention that universities waste more DoD money than corps do. Besides, isn't the amusement value of the mental image of a building full of angry 1970's engineers with black-framed glasses, wide ties, and sideburns, standing on chairs hanging paper and cardboard contraptions from air vents worth the "precious time" you spent?
Now this post does indeed constitute a totally irrelevant waste of precious time.
OK so it is still the fastest computer in the world.
Technically the description wsa accurate, however.
Actually, technically the description was incorrect, as the term "making" requires that the subject initially not be what it was made into, i.e. not the fastest computer in the world.
But yeah, this is all splitting hairs, and I should be ashamed of myself for even mentioning this...
At a private company I used to work at, when there was a minor problem with my working environment (too cold), it took a day or two to fix. At a top-rated university, a more serious problem (lights that turn off by themselves every ten minutes) took seven months to fix.
Total tangent here, but my father used to work for Hughes Aircraft Company (back when they still existed) and the numbnuts facilities manager of the building in which he worked, in an attempt to "save electricity" and earn some brownnose points, decided to replace all the office light switches with motion sensor switches to turn off the lights when no one was there. Well, in a building full of engineers where they frequently spent hours at a time making notes or calculations by hand on paper (this was the 70's), those motion sensors would shut off the lights because an angineer writing at his desk wasn't moving enough to trigger the sensor. In the end, two hundred-odd irate engineers made a variety of breeze-driven "movement generators"-- everything from a single sheet of paper on a string to complex windmills and mobiles-- and hung them from the AC/heat vents. In order for them to work, they had to have constant air flow so they kept the blower fans running all day. So the final result was a net LOSS, as the lights still stayed lit, but the fans ran all day every day instead of intermittently. Sometimes nothing wastes like conservation.
You should know by now that slashdot is a news aggregator. If there are loads of linux / technology april fools jokes across the internet, it will pull in all of them.
Yes, but it seems to me that the editors are choosing to aggregate ONLY the jokes today, byspassing anything that might actually pass as news in favor of some of the stupidest attempts at humor I've ever seen. Are you really suggesting that the is nothing on the internet today but very, very stupid April Fool's hoaxes?
No shit, man. Isn't the really cleverness of April Fool's jokes in the subtlety of their presentation? The best ones are plausible falsehoods slipped in amongst the real thing. But not on/., of course. No, here we get to endure 24 hours of the Worst Jokes Ever, each one dumber that the last. Wait, I got some news story ideas guys! "Disney buys the ISS"! "Microsoft releases WinNT source"! "Linux cancelled forever"! Those are GREAT! HAHAHAHAHA!!
DNS isn't a context-sensitive search engine, and as soon as people get over thinking of it that way, we'll all be quite a lot better off.
Or, we could just slightly modify the way DNS is handled instead. It'd be fairly trivial to have the TLD administrator return a search page full of possible alternates if someone types in a name that doesn't resolve. Everyone would be happy then, right?
It may just be an urban myth, but didn't they fund an entire public health system from domain name sales?
Really... are the people likely to be more worried about getting myname.tv, or getting fixed up when someone hits them because they didn't look while crossing the road?
With only 8km of roads total, none of them paved, I don't think crossing the road is any particular danger there. But yeah, they might as well have sold off the.tv domain, seing as how they don't even have a TV station there. The place literally has nothing of value.
It says "Firearm-related crime has plummeted since 1993", but when you look at the graph it is labeled "NONFATAL Firearm-related crime has plummeted since 1993" which is something quite different. I could not find a chart about "FATAL firearms-related crime" or combined firearms-related crime. Why was that left out? Is there an agenda? Why does the book "How to lie with statistics" come to mind?
"Fatal firearms-related crimes" is essentially covered by "homicides". There's no agenda. It's just not with the effort to create a "gun homicide" graph when homicides by knife, poison, rope, car, and what have you have little statistical significance because a) there aren't nearly as many, and b) they go up and down right along with gun homicide.
Without the missing facts here is a scenario which could explain that graph: if firearm-related crime became more fatal in that time period, then the nonfatal firearm-related crime would decrease even if firearm-related crime was constant.
Guns are no more deadly now than they have been historically, and I seriously doubt that murderers have decided to get marksmanship training. Therefore, I don't think the scenario you outline is likely. After all, it'd show up in the homicide rate, right?
How is this flamebait? It's a well known fact that the user known as bonch (and rd_syringe and Overly Critical Guy) espouses a right wing philosophy. Parent post was just pointing out the hypocrisy. Nice job in helping a karma whore like bonch get even more underserved karma.
If you'd included the above information, it probably wouldn't have been modded down. You see, without knowing that, your original comment simply sounds snide and accusatory.
Re:We want someone who doesn't want it THAT Bad
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The problem with ALL presidents and ALL politicians who really really WANT to be President is that they are evil, power hungry bastards who will do almost ANYTHING to become President.
A good president could be someone who is actually DRAFTED into the job. That is the only way to get a good president. THe only real qualifications are that they be decently educated and have an open mind, and have a life besides plotting and scheming to be President.
Absolutely goddamn right. The very fact that someone wants to be president is, in my opinion, proof that they are the last person you want to give the job to. I would, in fact, extend this to cover most of those nutcases in the house and senate as well.
When you use... (Score:0, Offtopic)
by bryanthompson (627923) on Tuesday March 29, @03:08PM (#12083006)
(http://www.e4industries.com/bryan)
an ellipses (...) in the subject, you don't have to repeat your subject in the body of your message. See how much better my message flows than yours?;-)
No, when you put complete sentences in the body, unlike your message, it flows better (see above).
You're assuming that the regular brakes come on because the battery can't take the charge quickly enough. I'm not a mechano-electrical engineer, but I'm pretty sure there's only so much force a given engine can put out that way.
The braking force exerted by a motor/generator is proportional to the load on it. Many diesel-electric locomotives brake by shunting the drive motors into a dynamic braking grid (actually a humongous resistor) which provides resistive loading on the motor/generators. In the case of hybrid cars, the batteries can only absorb so many amps, and therein lies the limitation of their regenerative braking.
One could easily add some small gyros to a handheld steadicam design and still come out fairly inexpensive. Take three 6v electric motors and a 6v battery. Add a wheel on the end of each motor, and mount them so that the wheels spin in three planes. Add weights to the wheels to balance them. Continue adding weights until you have enough stabilization. Place this apparatus in a padded box to keep it quiet, and mount the box.
Since all you really need to dampen is movement along the pitch and roll axes, a single gyroscope with the axis mounted vertically would be adequate. And rather than trying to build and balance your own, you'd do well to save yourself the headache and pick up a nice surplus military missile guidance gyroscope, like this. Knock that spinner out of its gimbals and I bet it'd be just right...
"for all intensive purposes" supplanting "for all intents and purposes." It's not just that it's a mistake, it's a mistake based on a pretentious attempt to sound sophisticated.
Sometime people trying to sound smart are too smart for their own good. The best example yet was related to me by a friend who teaches Photoshop at an adult school (pity him):
Student: "I guess they shouldn't take it for granite that (something or other)"
Teacher: "Take it for granite?"
Student: "Yeah, you know, like 'set in stone'."
Teacher: "...."
Slashdot Mirror
Wha? The visual cortex is a region of the brain where visual input is processed. It gets its input via the optic nerve from the retina in the first place. What you're suggesting makes about as much sense as physically showing the magnetic tape from a video cassette to a camera and expecting the camera to see what's recorded on the tape.
What do you do when (say) The Yankee Group registers "microsoft.sucks" and just... you know... never quite finds the time to get a web site put up?
So long as the site at bosleymedical.com doesn't pretend they ARE Bosley Medical, where's the confusion? You get to the site and see it's a complaint site, and the confusion is over.
With *sucks or *reallysucks domains the confusion argument is rendered mute by the bulk of US court decisions.
Forcing all protest into something like a "(whatever)sucks.com" is like saying picketers can only march along a 40' section of sidewalk around the corner, next to the building loading zone.
Also, the word you're looking for is "moot", not "mute". Arguments are rendered moot.
True, but I already make so many obscure reference jokes* that no one would ask what I was talking about, they'd just say "yeah....sure... So, you got that server up yet?".
* you know, the kind that require two or three layers of explanation before the punch line makes sense, and at that point it's not really funny anymore
That's what I love about slashdot. I've been waiting twenty-plus years to find a way to work the "Vegetable Lamb of Tartary" into a conversation.
I've also noticed that nobody seems to make Horseless Carriages anymore (and after they showed such promise). Likewise, the Difference Engine has been a total flop. I do, however, expect we will see in the future some use made of the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, though no use has been made of it in the last 1000 years since it was discovered.
How I wish I were still making royalties on the gymnasium wood floors that I laid down when I was younger. :)
Heh. Forget that, I want royalties on the meals my grandfather prepared as a master chef fifty years ago!
Don't be a dimwit. Supreme court justices are appointed for life, not elected. Furthermore, they're highly paid, so there's neither motive, nor real opportunity for them to accept bribes. You're thinking of congressmen and presidents.
I think the 9th is more applicable there. It basically says that the constitution is not an exhaustive list of the people's rights and that there are many other rights not enumerated. It's basically yet another way to hammer home that the constitution was meant to be an enumeration of the limited powers of the federal government, and nothing else.
Hogwash. Name one vaccine that was discovered by iterative modeling. Nearly all work is still done by testing on actual live organisms.
You committed yourself to wasting precious time when you came to /. in the first place, man. Besides, it wasn't irrelevant, only TANGENTIAL. Hughes Missile Systems was almost totally DoD/DARPA funded, so that story could perhaps be construed as anecdotal rebuttal to the contention that universities waste more DoD money than corps do. Besides, isn't the amusement value of the mental image of a building full of angry 1970's engineers with black-framed glasses, wide ties, and sideburns, standing on chairs hanging paper and cardboard contraptions from air vents worth the "precious time" you spent?
Now this post does indeed constitute a totally irrelevant waste of precious time.
Because hunger is not a MATH problem.
Because civil wars are not a MATH problem.
Because disease is not a MATH problem.
There's only so much you can do with iterative models.
Actually, technically the description was incorrect, as the term "making" requires that the subject initially not be what it was made into, i.e. not the fastest computer in the world.
But yeah, this is all splitting hairs, and I should be ashamed of myself for even mentioning this...
Total tangent here, but my father used to work for Hughes Aircraft Company (back when they still existed) and the numbnuts facilities manager of the building in which he worked, in an attempt to "save electricity" and earn some brownnose points, decided to replace all the office light switches with motion sensor switches to turn off the lights when no one was there. Well, in a building full of engineers where they frequently spent hours at a time making notes or calculations by hand on paper (this was the 70's), those motion sensors would shut off the lights because an angineer writing at his desk wasn't moving enough to trigger the sensor. In the end, two hundred-odd irate engineers made a variety of breeze-driven "movement generators"-- everything from a single sheet of paper on a string to complex windmills and mobiles-- and hung them from the AC/heat vents. In order for them to work, they had to have constant air flow so they kept the blower fans running all day. So the final result was a net LOSS, as the lights still stayed lit, but the fans ran all day every day instead of intermittently. Sometimes nothing wastes like conservation.
Yes, but it seems to me that the editors are choosing to aggregate ONLY the jokes today, byspassing anything that might actually pass as news in favor of some of the stupidest attempts at humor I've ever seen. Are you really suggesting that the is nothing on the internet today but very, very stupid April Fool's hoaxes?
No shit, man. Isn't the really cleverness of April Fool's jokes in the subtlety of their presentation? The best ones are plausible falsehoods slipped in amongst the real thing. But not on /., of course. No, here we get to endure 24 hours of the Worst Jokes Ever, each one dumber that the last. Wait, I got some news story ideas guys! "Disney buys the ISS"! "Microsoft releases WinNT source"! "Linux cancelled forever"! Those are GREAT! HAHAHAHAHA!!
Or, we could just slightly modify the way DNS is handled instead. It'd be fairly trivial to have the TLD administrator return a search page full of possible alternates if someone types in a name that doesn't resolve. Everyone would be happy then, right?
heh. maybe not.
With only 8km of roads total, none of them paved, I don't think crossing the road is any particular danger there. But yeah, they might as well have sold off the .tv domain, seing as how they don't even have a TV station there. The place literally has nothing of value.
"Fatal firearms-related crimes" is essentially covered by "homicides". There's no agenda. It's just not with the effort to create a "gun homicide" graph when homicides by knife, poison, rope, car, and what have you have little statistical significance because a) there aren't nearly as many, and b) they go up and down right along with gun homicide.
Without the missing facts here is a scenario which could explain that graph: if firearm-related crime became more fatal in that time period, then the nonfatal firearm-related crime would decrease even if firearm-related crime was constant.
Guns are no more deadly now than they have been historically, and I seriously doubt that murderers have decided to get marksmanship training. Therefore, I don't think the scenario you outline is likely. After all, it'd show up in the homicide rate, right?
If you'd included the above information, it probably wouldn't have been modded down. You see, without knowing that, your original comment simply sounds snide and accusatory.
Absolutely goddamn right. The very fact that someone wants to be president is, in my opinion, proof that they are the last person you want to give the job to. I would, in fact, extend this to cover most of those nutcases in the house and senate as well.
by bryanthompson (627923) on Tuesday March 29, @03:08PM (#12083006)
(http://www.e4industries.com/bryan)
an ellipses (...) in the subject, you don't have to repeat your subject in the body of your message. See how much better my message flows than yours?
No, when you put complete sentences in the body, unlike your message, it flows better (see above).
The braking force exerted by a motor/generator is proportional to the load on it. Many diesel-electric locomotives brake by shunting the drive motors into a dynamic braking grid (actually a humongous resistor) which provides resistive loading on the motor/generators. In the case of hybrid cars, the batteries can only absorb so many amps, and therein lies the limitation of their regenerative braking.
Since all you really need to dampen is movement along the pitch and roll axes, a single gyroscope with the axis mounted vertically would be adequate. And rather than trying to build and balance your own, you'd do well to save yourself the headache and pick up a nice surplus military missile guidance gyroscope, like this. Knock that spinner out of its gimbals and I bet it'd be just right...
Sometime people trying to sound smart are too smart for their own good. The best example yet was related to me by a friend who teaches Photoshop at an adult school (pity him):
Student: "I guess they shouldn't take it for granite that (something or other)"
Teacher: "Take it for granite?"
Student: "Yeah, you know, like 'set in stone'."
Teacher: "...."