Except people tend to talk louder on the phone than in person...
I heard that part of this is because mobile phones, unlike fixed line phones, don't echo back what you say. We (us old fogies, anyway) are so conditioned by years of hearing our own voice coming back out of the speaker (albeit at a low level) on a fixed line that when we use a mobile phone, our brains immediately think it's not working and we crank up the volume.
What's the problem? You can always find '3' and '5'. It's not like they hide or something.
The problem is you're not getting it. The unproved, but widely believed to be true, conjecture is: you will always be able to find, as you count higher and higher, more pairs of primes separated by 2.
At first I thought it was Yitang Zhang who settled "a long-standing open question". But the first sentence is actually talking about the eight - James Maynard.
It was Yitang Zhang who settled the original long-standing open question - that being, is there any number such that you will always find pairs of primes separated by that number or less. The ultimate goal is to solve the twin prime conjecture - bringing the number in question down to 2.
Your own wording is a little confusing - I'm not sure who the "eight" are, or whether "eight - James Maynard" refers to seven mathematicians, in which you couldn't describe them all as "an obscure mathematician";)
His finding was the first time anyone had managed to put a finite bound on the gaps between prime numbers
This (from the summary) is a bit of an ambiguous way to put it - it's not a bound on gaps per se, because there could still be consecutive primes separated by 70 million (such as 70,000,000! and it's neighbour), but there will always be another pair further along separated by less.
the games themselves aren't necessarily ambidextrous
Tangential aside: Link from the Zelda games has always been left-handed, but for the Wii version of Twilight Princess they flipped the entire game left-to-right so it he'd be right-handed like the majority of players.
Wow, two! One might just be a crazy person, but two? This I gotta see.
are Tweeting that Instagram, had it stayed an independent company, could be worth between $5 billion and $15 billion today.
Or it could be worth nothing. Or monkeys could fly out of my butt.
considering how its growth and sizable user base.
I think you accidentally a verb.
Propelled by dreams of ever-increasing millions (perhaps billions!) startup founders could end up turning down perfectly good acquisition offers in favor of continuing to bootstrap — and find their businesses eroding and imploding, as the market for their particular app or service either fades away
So what you're saying is, business is risky? Prices may go down as well as up? Terms and conditions apply?
Ubuntu developer Oliver Grawert does not prefer to do online banking with Linux Mint.
"prefers not" would be a less ambiguous way of putting it. But hey, you just copy-pasted the whole thing, it's not like Slashdot expect to you to write summaries in your own words. Oh wait, they totally do.
One of the Ubuntu developers, Oliver Grawert, originally pointed out that it is not necessary that security updates from Ubuntu get down to Linux Mint users since changes from X.Org, the kernel, Firefox, the boot-loader, and other core components are blocked from being automatically upgraded.
Err, what? I honestly can't be sure what this means. First, Grawert was already introduced in a previous line of the summary/article. Doing so again is just confusing, but even more so is that it's impossible to tell whether this second sentence, containing as it does the word "originally," is meant to agree or disagree with the idea that Mint is vulnerable.
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Pi is not a ratio.
Who needs to go back to math class now?
The number [pi] is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter,
That's a ratio, in case you missed it. A ratio.
PI is a ratio. Just like 1/3, neither can be precisely represented using decimals.
pi can't be printed in full in any base, but 1/3 can. 0.1 in base 3.
Aleksandr Orlov. Computer-ma-bob.
Except people tend to talk louder on the phone than in person...
I heard that part of this is because mobile phones, unlike fixed line phones, don't echo back what you say. We (us old fogies, anyway) are so conditioned by years of hearing our own voice coming back out of the speaker (albeit at a low level) on a fixed line that when we use a mobile phone, our brains immediately think it's not working and we crank up the volume.
I said we CRANK UP THE VOLUME.
Utter nonsense. It breaks nothing to disable third party cookies. Absolutely nothing.
It broke YouTube commenting.
This is FUD. Please demonstrate any problems with default 3rd party blocking, other than advertising and tracking.
Inability to comment on YouTube after the switch to Google+.
Not as much as you'd think, but it's collect only.
Just for kicks I want a dino-bone shaped liberator
Really now, calling it that is just taking feminism too far.
Oh, wait, it's a gun? Never mind.
The article is grabbing headlines because they packaged it into a eye-glass format.
O2-amp
Although perhaps tellingly I can't find any real demo images...
I have done much soul searching on the subject and I'm quite settled into the fact that I'm not racist.
If you had to think about it that hard, had to "settle into" it, and still feel you have to mention it...
What I'm getting at is that the only "pure human" seems to be the black African human.
Which black African humans are you referring to, exactly? Modern black Africans are just as distantly related to Mitochondrial Eve as the rest of us.
Everyone else is kind of based on that but also mixed with something else, or as suggested, mixed with several possible somethings else.
Where did these something elses come from?
phlebotomists
Heh. Botom.
What's the problem? You can always find '3' and '5'. It's not like they hide or something.
The problem is you're not getting it. The unproved, but widely believed to be true, conjecture is: you will always be able to find, as you count higher and higher, more pairs of primes separated by 2.
It's simply a distribution for people with a job to do, wonkey monkey.
Then call it "an OS for professionals."
"Grown-ups" sounds, ironically, childish.
It doesn't have a lack of clarity, it has none
It probably doesn't help that at least one of those involved lack an understanding of the word "lack."
Narf!
(such as 70,000,000! and it's neighbour)
Err, ignore this. Getting confused.
At first I thought it was Yitang Zhang who settled "a long-standing open question". But the first sentence is actually talking about the eight - James Maynard.
It was Yitang Zhang who settled the original long-standing open question - that being, is there any number such that you will always find pairs of primes separated by that number or less. The ultimate goal is to solve the twin prime conjecture - bringing the number in question down to 2.
Your own wording is a little confusing - I'm not sure who the "eight" are, or whether "eight - James Maynard" refers to seven mathematicians, in which you couldn't describe them all as "an obscure mathematician" ;)
His finding was the first time anyone had managed to put a finite bound on the gaps between prime numbers
This (from the summary) is a bit of an ambiguous way to put it - it's not a bound on gaps per se, because there could still be consecutive primes separated by 70 million (such as 70,000,000! and it's neighbour), but there will always be another pair further along separated by less.
You could probably take a low-flying one down with a trebuchet.
Just cheetos. It's a Pavlovian thing.
the games themselves aren't necessarily ambidextrous
Tangential aside: Link from the Zelda games has always been left-handed, but for the Wii version of Twilight Princess they flipped the entire game left-to-right so it he'd be right-handed like the majority of players.
openSUSE 13.1 review – an OS for grown-ups
If you have to call it "an OS for grown-ups" it makes it sound like it really isn't.
Did you mean hipsters?
Why couldn't an operating system just write a big block of 0xFF bytes to an unused sector
My desktop background is a white .bmp, you insensitive clod!
Two investors
Wow, two! One might just be a crazy person, but two? This I gotta see.
are Tweeting that Instagram, had it stayed an independent company, could be worth between $5 billion and $15 billion today.
Or it could be worth nothing. Or monkeys could fly out of my butt.
considering how its growth and sizable user base.
I think you accidentally a verb.
Propelled by dreams of ever-increasing millions (perhaps billions!) startup founders could end up turning down perfectly good acquisition offers in favor of continuing to bootstrap — and find their businesses eroding and imploding, as the market for their particular app or service either fades away
So what you're saying is, business is risky? Prices may go down as well as up? Terms and conditions apply?
Well, no shit.
Ubuntu developer Oliver Grawert does not prefer to do online banking with Linux Mint.
"prefers not" would be a less ambiguous way of putting it. But hey, you just copy-pasted the whole thing, it's not like Slashdot expect to you to write summaries in your own words. Oh wait, they totally do.
One of the Ubuntu developers, Oliver Grawert, originally pointed out that it is not necessary that security updates from Ubuntu get down to Linux Mint users since changes from X.Org, the kernel, Firefox, the boot-loader, and other core components are blocked from being automatically upgraded.
Err, what? I honestly can't be sure what this means. First, Grawert was already introduced in a previous line of the summary/article. Doing so again is just confusing, but even more so is that it's impossible to tell whether this second sentence, containing as it does the word "originally," is meant to agree or disagree with the idea that Mint is vulnerable.
Also L. Ron Hubbard was a member, so... there's that.