Either is acceptable to most people. There's not central English authority, and nothing is lost by "allowing" the use of the word "less" in this context.
In fact:
Less has always been used in English with counting nouns. Indeed, the application of the distinction between less and fewer as a rule is a phenomenon originating in the 18th century.
So a rocket break up into 4+ parts and 4 of those stay in 30 meter proximity to each other, floating in space?
What else would they do?
With the right angle for the go pro to film?
There was one shot with particularly fortuitous timing (catching the main body splitting at the right point during a rotation), but that's easily explained by the likely multiple attempts they did in order to create this GoPro ad.
You've had it explained to you several times. This is exactly the sort of story that Slashdot should be running. Most of its readers are interested in exactly this kind of inspiring and exciting scientific achievement (also loud rockets and flames and stuff). And that didn't happen by accident, it's Slashdot's raison d'etre.
If you don't like it, just fuck off somewhere else!
Shouldn't we put our resources to better use, like stopping global warming?
Why are you wasting time posting idiotic questions to Slashdot instead of spending every waking moment searching for a cure for cancer, or whatever you believe to be the single most important issue?
Oh my god, you're right, I totally missed the fact that Star Wars is set in a grubby, dirty universe with clunky robots and thinks that fall apart! I mean, it was so subtle I never even saw it. Mind. Blown.
Dune: kid who develops super-powers turns out to be the grandson of the bad guy. Star Wars: kid who develops super-powers turns out to be the son of the bad guy.
Anyway, Star Wars was made in 1977. That's why there are buttons all over the place. Even the glossy, utopian, everything's-perfect sci-fi of the 70s had buttons.
Since April 2016, the largest integer factored on a quantum device is 200099, using D-Wave 2X quantum processor [1].
Whether that's really a quantum computer or not (it didn't use Shor's algorithm, but other "quantum" computers have), we're still not in much danger of encryption being broken any time soon.
Ooh, get you, Mr Important. It affects you about as much as your inane post affects me.
If you find it so aggravating to find your eyes assaulted with headlines about advances in planetary science, kindly piss off elsewhere, or at least STFU.
Simpler question: why the hell did you post in the first place?
Am I the only one whose new posts don't insert themselves properly when submitting? The input box disappears, "Working..." appears, but it never goes away. A refresh shows my post in place as expected.
Also clicking "Disable advertising" has no effect. Not that I should have to keep doing that every few weeks, anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
Swiss City of Zug
Clearly not a real place. Nice try, Craig!
the mouthpiece.
Worst prison nickname ever.
Shippity Doo-dah.
Either is acceptable to most people. There's not central English authority, and nothing is lost by "allowing" the use of the word "less" in this context.
In fact:
Less has always been used in English with counting nouns. Indeed, the application of the distinction between less and fewer as a rule is a phenomenon originating in the 18th century.
To me, "deliberately forgetting" and "not bothering to remember" are two slightly different things.
Might have been good to have a third group who weren't told to remember or forget.
Solar Planes Aren't the Green Future Of Air Travel
I never thought they were. Jeez, why always looking for the negative?
Next: The LHC can't solve global warming.
planes only fly at certain heights
Really? I'm sure I've seen them go up and down. Wouldn't they have to put on all the airports on mountains otherwise?
So a rocket break up into 4+ parts and 4 of those stay in 30 meter proximity to each other, floating in space?
What else would they do?
With the right angle for the go pro to film?
There was one shot with particularly fortuitous timing (catching the main body splitting at the right point during a rotation), but that's easily explained by the likely multiple attempts they did in order to create this GoPro ad.
You've had it explained to you several times. This is exactly the sort of story that Slashdot should be running. Most of its readers are interested in exactly this kind of inspiring and exciting scientific achievement (also loud rockets and flames and stuff). And that didn't happen by accident, it's Slashdot's raison d'etre.
If you don't like it, just fuck off somewhere else!
Shouldn't we put our resources to better use, like stopping global warming?
Why are you wasting time posting idiotic questions to Slashdot instead of spending every waking moment searching for a cure for cancer, or whatever you believe to be the single most important issue?
See sig.
Warning: may destroy your soouul.
And what does Gooood want...
...with a starship?
the teams were able to conduct almost hour by hour observations
Why only almost hour by hour? What stopped them having a sneaky peak at 59 minutes?
Does anyone know why a wood fire melted the most technologically advanced suit of power armor in the universe?
Who said that's what it was?
Star Wars Buttons And Lights You May Have Missed
Oh my god, you're right, I totally missed the fact that Star Wars is set in a grubby, dirty universe with clunky robots and thinks that fall apart! I mean, it was so subtle I never even saw it. Mind. Blown.
Sheesh.
Dune: kid who develops super-powers turns out to be the grandson of the bad guy.
Star Wars: kid who develops super-powers turns out to be the son of the bad guy.
Anyway, Star Wars was made in 1977. That's why there are buttons all over the place. Even the glossy, utopian, everything's-perfect sci-fi of the 70s had buttons.
Do you know that after hitting submit the "Working..." thing just keeps spinning and never goes away?
And the "Disable advertising" button - which I don't know why I have to click every few weeks anyway - hasn't been working for a while.
Blagojevich
Bless you.
Or people feel less guilty about lying if they hadn't fully decided on their prediction yet.
How does a 10 year old getting paid $10k by Facebook affect my life or most people's lives in any significant manner? I'd really like to know.
Again, I would ask why you think it matters to anyone that you, personally, aren't interested in this particular story.
Slashdot isn't here to cater to your personal tastes. If you're not interested in a particular story, just ignore it, you moron.
I expect I'll be downmodded into the oblivion of -1 because nobody can give me a good answer.
No, you'll get downmodded because it's a stupid question from an idiot.
I've still got it, but ticking it does nothing. It's back again on the next reload, unticked.
Submitting a comment doesn't add it to the discussion, either - it just goes "Working...". Reloading the page shows the comment, though.
the whole point of Linux was that you didnt have to make any fucking pledges
Bad headline. Shuttleworth was talking about Ubuntu, not Linux.
Did you even read the summary?
Did you even read the headline?
Did you even read the comment? GP acknowledged the error and blamed Slashdot already.
Since April 2016, the largest integer factored on a quantum device is 200099, using D-Wave 2X quantum processor [1].
Whether that's really a quantum computer or not (it didn't use Shor's algorithm, but other "quantum" computers have), we're still not in much danger of encryption being broken any time soon.
Ooh, get you, Mr Important. It affects you about as much as your inane post affects me.
If you find it so aggravating to find your eyes assaulted with headlines about advances in planetary science, kindly piss off elsewhere, or at least STFU.
Simpler question: why the hell did you post in the first place?
Am I the only one whose new posts don't insert themselves properly when submitting? The input box disappears, "Working..." appears, but it never goes away. A refresh shows my post in place as expected.
Also clicking "Disable advertising" has no effect. Not that I should have to keep doing that every few weeks, anyway.