Actually, I would say teenagers would do the absolute minimum to exist, but use the absolute maximum. These microbes are kind of the anti-teenagers of the biosphere.
Because when I am heavily multi-tasking and am concentrating intensely, it would really help to get some unexpected interface changes and "helpful" suggestion pop-ups.
Clippy: I see that you are trying to work. Would you like me to interrupt everything and change your workspace?
Actually I disagree that the first item in your list should be classified in Y. The ability to walk should never be considered a "privilege". Otherwise, the next thing we know, there will be people out to confiscate our limbs for not having a walking license registered with the state or federal authorities. Hm...reminds me of a Monty Python sketch....
Let me shed some light on this guy. Regardless of what you think of his politics on a national level, he is a terrible senator for KY. He goes on these crazy crusades without spending any time on....oh....I don't know....his electorate? We have been having some financial problems in the state lately, but instead of addressing those and helping his fellow Kentuckians, he is out campaigning for his daddy. Anyway, if you guys love him so much (talking to you, Texas and California), you can have him. We don't need another Tea Bagger who supports Sarah Palin's "ideals".
Also, for you tin foil hatters, he was a member of the same college secret society as George W. Bush and Kenneth Star. Apparently they were all good buddies back in Texas. He's a Texan all the way through, and carpet-bagged here to be a U.S. Senator.
Remove the TSA? Um, thanks Mr. Paul, but what about our state debt???
Why would anyone use GPL? A much better license is [license name]. It is obvious to anyone that the advantages include [arbitrary reasons]. In fact, [ad hominem]. When I was faced with this situation, I [irrelevant anecdote]. -- Vote Ron Paul, because [thinly veiled "I said so"].
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This is really cool! My family and I just learned about this from a researcher at the Cincinnati Museum a week ago. They were holding their "Nano Days" event, and this was one of the booths. It turns out that a solution containing gold nano particles in a small enough amount is actually red. She explained the same concepts used in the article, and how gold nano particles can be used to target cancer cells, bind to them, and release a dose of cancel-killing drugs (similar to current chemotherapy) with a laser and/or heat dose. Our 10-year old daughter thought it was quite awesome.
Someone else already (albeit rudely) suggested the idea of allowing for excluding SlashdotTV items from the main page. I am all for new content and features, but be sure to make them opt-in. That way, everyone can have what they want.
That said, I will repeat a previous suggestion when SlashdotTV launched. Please include full transcripts of all videos when posted either on tv.slashdot.org or on the main page as a story. Not everyone can listen to the audio, because of technical issues or hearing issues. Or like me, we are at work and cannot stop to listen to a video in an office environment.
Other than that, keep up the great job, Slashdot! And thanks for being free!
I doubt the Government would put any secret info on a website.
Given what the U.S. government has been doing lately about publicly exposing "secret" information, including granting web access to core intelligence servers, I would definitely mod you as Funny. That is, I would if I had mod points.
According to the language rankings by TIOBE, Java is still very much in the lead, with only C as a "competitor" (although I think the practical usages of both languages are disjoint enough to not worry about competition). Everything else is training behind by a fair margin.
According to their Wiki page, Best buy has over 1150 stores worldwide. Closing 50 of them is barely a blip - hardly indicative of them going out of business.
If and when the next natural disaster happens, how will we know if it is spawned by climate change, or if it is something that would have happened anyway? How do meteorologists make that determination? I seriously would like to know.
Is Sony being too overzealous in its fight against piracy?
If it means that customers who paid for games but are not going to receive them nor receive a refund, then yes, they are being too overzealous. But that isn't the word I would use here. I find that FRAUD is a better fit.
I think that having a new tv.slashdot.org is completely fine and even a little cool. However, my preference is that these videos should only be posted to that site, and not to "regular" Slashdot. Or at least provide a standard tag or category which we can filter out if we choose. We know where to go if we want to watch videos - the TV icon at the top (nice job on that btw, it was immediately obvious to me what that new icon signified even before reading this article). Otherwise, I'm just looking for text blurbs and snarky/humorous user comments, sometimes with optional videos behind the summary's links. Maybe we can just get the story summary text, with a link below the summary that says "Check out the video over on Slashdot TV!"?
Oh, transcripts for all videos on the TV site would be helpful for many as well.
I completely agree. The rampant elitism in academia is another contributing factor to how broken modern science is, I believe. I used to find it hilarious back in grad school how professors would never want anything to do with their students. Should a student produce something meaningful, however, you should see the scramble of the faculty to ride their coattails. It seems you can only be successful in science these days if you produce something that will make the faculty important and/or famous and/or wealthy.
V for Vendetta...the movie or the graphic novel? The movie was just a thinly veiled propaganda against the Bush presidency. The graphic novel, on the other hand, was actually good.
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Actually, I would say teenagers would do the absolute minimum to exist, but use the absolute maximum. These microbes are kind of the anti-teenagers of the biosphere.
Because when I am heavily multi-tasking and am concentrating intensely, it would really help to get some unexpected interface changes and "helpful" suggestion pop-ups.
Clippy: I see that you are trying to work. Would you like me to interrupt everything and change your workspace?
*squints eyes* Can't tell if joking or "whoosh"....
Actually I disagree that the first item in your list should be classified in Y. The ability to walk should never be considered a "privilege". Otherwise, the next thing we know, there will be people out to confiscate our limbs for not having a walking license registered with the state or federal authorities. Hm...reminds me of a Monty Python sketch....
Let me shed some light on this guy. Regardless of what you think of his politics on a national level, he is a terrible senator for KY. He goes on these crazy crusades without spending any time on....oh....I don't know....his electorate? We have been having some financial problems in the state lately, but instead of addressing those and helping his fellow Kentuckians, he is out campaigning for his daddy. Anyway, if you guys love him so much (talking to you, Texas and California), you can have him. We don't need another Tea Bagger who supports Sarah Palin's "ideals".
Also, for you tin foil hatters, he was a member of the same college secret society as George W. Bush and Kenneth Star. Apparently they were all good buddies back in Texas. He's a Texan all the way through, and carpet-bagged here to be a U.S. Senator.
Remove the TSA? Um, thanks Mr. Paul, but what about our state debt???
Just saying, "this is an assault on privacy and should be rejected" is not very
Oh crap! Look everyone! He got cut off by CISPA!
Hey! That's my soul up there, you insensitive clod!
He's a witch! Burn him!!! Burn him!!!
Seriously, though, it sounds like he is a fugitive on the run that got fingered.
Why would anyone use GPL? A much better license is [license name]. It is obvious to anyone that the advantages include [arbitrary reasons]. In fact, [ad hominem]. When I was faced with this situation, I [irrelevant anecdote].
--
Vote Ron Paul, because [thinly veiled "I said so"].
You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.
When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to [...] modify, [...] such content.
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This is really cool! My family and I just learned about this from a researcher at the Cincinnati Museum a week ago. They were holding their "Nano Days" event, and this was one of the booths. It turns out that a solution containing gold nano particles in a small enough amount is actually red. She explained the same concepts used in the article, and how gold nano particles can be used to target cancer cells, bind to them, and release a dose of cancel-killing drugs (similar to current chemotherapy) with a laser and/or heat dose. Our 10-year old daughter thought it was quite awesome.
Someone else already (albeit rudely) suggested the idea of allowing for excluding SlashdotTV items from the main page. I am all for new content and features, but be sure to make them opt-in. That way, everyone can have what they want.
That said, I will repeat a previous suggestion when SlashdotTV launched. Please include full transcripts of all videos when posted either on tv.slashdot.org or on the main page as a story. Not everyone can listen to the audio, because of technical issues or hearing issues. Or like me, we are at work and cannot stop to listen to a video in an office environment.
Other than that, keep up the great job, Slashdot! And thanks for being free!
U.S. is not an aristocracy and titles are not granted for life nor can they be inherited.
You may want to check with the Bush family on that - specifically H.W. and W.
Ah, good. Some good old fashioned nightmare fuel.
I doubt the Government would put any secret info on a website.
Given what the U.S. government has been doing lately about publicly exposing "secret" information, including granting web access to core intelligence servers, I would definitely mod you as Funny. That is, I would if I had mod points.
Why not? It looks like this will be the year of the linux desktop!
According to the language rankings by TIOBE, Java is still very much in the lead, with only C as a "competitor" (although I think the practical usages of both languages are disjoint enough to not worry about competition). Everything else is training behind by a fair margin.
According to their Wiki page, Best buy has over 1150 stores worldwide. Closing 50 of them is barely a blip - hardly indicative of them going out of business.
If and when the next natural disaster happens, how will we know if it is spawned by climate change, or if it is something that would have happened anyway? How do meteorologists make that determination? I seriously would like to know.
Is Sony being too overzealous in its fight against piracy?
If it means that customers who paid for games but are not going to receive them nor receive a refund, then yes, they are being too overzealous. But that isn't the word I would use here. I find that FRAUD is a better fit.
I think that having a new tv.slashdot.org is completely fine and even a little cool. However, my preference is that these videos should only be posted to that site, and not to "regular" Slashdot. Or at least provide a standard tag or category which we can filter out if we choose. We know where to go if we want to watch videos - the TV icon at the top (nice job on that btw, it was immediately obvious to me what that new icon signified even before reading this article). Otherwise, I'm just looking for text blurbs and snarky/humorous user comments, sometimes with optional videos behind the summary's links. Maybe we can just get the story summary text, with a link below the summary that says "Check out the video over on Slashdot TV!"?
Oh, transcripts for all videos on the TV site would be helpful for many as well.
I completely agree. The rampant elitism in academia is another contributing factor to how broken modern science is, I believe. I used to find it hilarious back in grad school how professors would never want anything to do with their students. Should a student produce something meaningful, however, you should see the scramble of the faculty to ride their coattails. It seems you can only be successful in science these days if you produce something that will make the faculty important and/or famous and/or wealthy.
V for Vendetta...the movie or the graphic novel? The movie was just a thinly veiled propaganda against the Bush presidency. The graphic novel, on the other hand, was actually good.
And replace him with what....Romney? Gingrich?! Santorum??!!
Let's face it. Whomever wins the next presidential election, the citizens will lose.
Somehow I read this as "Facebook meets American Idol"...
Sorry, I just threw up a bit in my mouth.