God, I'm so stupid. Here I've been hanging out on the internet for decades now, and I never once realized in all that time that all we had to do to make everyone nice to each other all the time was to institute draconian levels of censorship based on arbitrary rules decided upon by the most hypersensitive and litigious subgroups in the community.
When you abbreviate a word you don't tack letters back on the end. We don't shorten Chemistry to Chemy, after all.
Thank goodness. Until I saw this exchange, I thought I was the only one here who wanted to have a fruitless 30-minute argument about where exactly the letter u belongs or doesn't belong.
The way math is taught, Math is a chore. The way common core teaches it, it's a stupid, idiotic chore. There is never an example of the wonders of math. No examples of what can be accomplished and how you can actually benefit.
Can you elaborate with some ideas on how to teach math so that it's more engaging?
I don't know about you, but I'm not getting any cheap, shoddily made helium atoms.
I'm with you. I always buy the Morton Salt at the grocery store because they use only premium sodium atoms. Also, some cheaper salt is made from chlorine atoms that are scavenged from public swimming pool water, basically old and worn out.
Oh ha ha ha, I get it, it's funny because all electrically neutral atoms of a particular isotope of a particular element are the same, right? Yeah, that's oldthink, Captain Caveman. Haven't you ever heard of epichemistry? Oh, I bet you're one of those "skeptics" who says epichemistry is bullshit because it''s not "testable". But if epichemistry was really so outlandish, how do you explain its endorsement by both the National Epichemical Council and the American Homeopathy Union? You can't, can you? Hah!
"Launch into Oblivioon" sounds like a particularly bad anime, in which a group of teenagers is transported into a shadowy realm in which they, as the last hope of humankind, must do battle with an evil force bent on destroying our universe--but mostly they just walk through weird forests and talk about whether character X merely likes character Y, or if he/she like-likes her/him.
Well, sure.. that's likely. Probable I'd even say... with the caveat they specifically selected the one which I'd hate the most.;-)
It just boggles the mind, it used to present as a nice, neat table, which conveyed all information succinctly in one screen, in a way not unlike how an accountant would present it.
Now I have to look all over the place scroll, and click twice as many things, and search among a bunch of clutter and pastel colors. Like that makes sense or adds to the usefulness.
My admittedly curmudgeonly and unscientific theory is that, one, most people are stupid, and two, stupid people hate reading, so three, stupid people react unfavorably to high text density. Plus, the kind of people who volunteer to participate in market research are even stupider on average. So when UI designers ask this supposedly random sampling of people which interface they like better, most of them, being stupid, choose whatever has the least text, because on some subconscious level they're afraid that they're going to be asked to read it.
So I've read the Wikipedia articles on the 7-X and on stellarators in general, but I'm not a physicist.
Can someone knowledgeable tell me how to feel about this? Does this represent meaningful progress toward fusion power? If so, how meaningful? Is fusion still 50 years away, or are we down to 49 now?
Why not? As resolutions tend towards movie-ilke quality, the more valuable they are perceived by the TV studios.
Music companies don't care if you copy low-quality music (like concerts or cassettes), but will sue if you copy high quality (256-bit mp3 and higher) music files.
"Yeah, you can copy the odd-numbered samples, go ahead, we don't care about them. But don't you dare copy the even-numbered samples, because that's where we put all the creativity!"
Japanese broadcasters have indicated that 4k and 8k broadcasts may have recording disabled via a 'do not copy' flag [via Google Translate], which receivers would be expected to obey.
Wait, they're demanding that their content receive special legal protections solely on basis of its resolution? Wow, I thought I couldn't be any more disgusted with IP lobbyists, but as usual, Japan is always finding new ways to surprise me.
Could someone correct the spelling? It makes it hard to read.
Yeah, no kidding. C'mon, editors, how hard is it to run a spell check before you click submit?
Okay, fine, I'll do it for you. So, let's see, looks like the most common typo in this submission, is "rkt". Let me copy that into Microsoft Word. Okay, done. Did you mean to type "rot", "rut", "rat", "ret", or "Rita"?
Productive and stimulating exchanges like this are why it's always a good idea to simplify debates on public policy into cartoonishly broad messages of support or antipathy towards particular politicians who might have little or no direct involvement in the issues at hand. This sort of thing really adds something to the discourse, and is always welcome.
"Reached for comment, a representative of the Ministry of Silly Talks said that Mr. Cleese's talk wasn't very silly at all, and thus would not qualify for a grant."
From what I can see, it's not so much that Mayer has made a bunch of bad decisions, but rather that she hasn't made any decisions at all. Well before she took over, everyone knew that Yahoo was in trouble and that their status quo wasn't tenable. So she was fully expected to come in and make sweeping and disruptive changes, hopefully thereby saving the company.
But what has she even attempted to change? From the outside at least, Yahoo as it exists in 2016 still seems fundamentally identical to Yahoo as it was in 2012, or for that matter, in 2006. The only plan I even heard about was that idea to split off the company into two pieces, let the unprofitable half (i.e. Yahoo) die off, and focus on the profitable half (i.e. partial ownership of Alibaba). And that's not really even a plan, that's just surrender.
Do something, at least. This wait-and-see stuff is no good. I'm pretty sure you won't like seeing what you waited for.
Predictive keyboard? Sounds like autocorrect to me. And I hate those things. They make too many assumptions. I mean, how does it know I wasn't going to write about my "gigantic throbbing coconspirator"?
It's called a "backdoor" and here is a link to more information (the link posted in the summary has nothing to do with the backdoor):
Probably whoever came up with "backhole" didn't want to use "backdoor" because they felt that, since doors aren't naturally occurring, describing this security vulnerability as a "door" means that it must have been put there intentionally. Whereas, in fact (as near as I can tell), this vulnerability is due to a software error, albeit seemingly an failure of release management rather than programming per se. Thus, "hole" instead of "door".
That said, I'd like to leave our distinguished editor Timothy with this thought:
"Stop trying to make backhole happen! It's never going to happen!"
Babylonian religion predates Judaism and Islam by a long time, they worshiped lots of gods, lots of statues, a good deal of it adapted from Sumerians.
Well, it sure didn't take long for this discovery to spark a war over priority. I guess "The Babylonians ripped off proto-calculus from the Sumerians" is the new "Leibniz was actually using calculus years before Newton."
I'm a little late to the unsolicited advice party here, but here's some anyway:
I invite the new corporate overlords to think of Slashdot as a cougar in a cage. If you feed him meat, he will tolerate you. If you keep trying to feed him stuff that's not meat, he will eventually die, but not before he makes his best attempt to catch and eat you. If you attempt to sell him consulting services or try to force him to behave like a "civilized human being", he will initially ignore you, because he is in fact a cougar, and has no need for either consulting services or manners. And if you persist at it long enough to become annoying, he will, again, attempt to eat you.
Legacy Slashdotter: Okay, Chuan-Li, this is a story about a personnel change in the production team for a prequel to the Star Trek reboot, so you're going to need to say something snarky about U.S. labor law, but phrase it in terms of the plot of episode three of season four of TNG.
Slashdot Mirror
God, I'm so stupid. Here I've been hanging out on the internet for decades now, and I never once realized in all that time that all we had to do to make everyone nice to each other all the time was to institute draconian levels of censorship based on arbitrary rules decided upon by the most hypersensitive and litigious subgroups in the community.
Wired? Hell they still exist?
I haven't read them in decades...
Also, what's with the name, still? It's 2016: Calling a tech magazine "Wired" is like calling a car magazine "Horse and Buggy Monthly".
apparntly in America there is only one math.
When you abbreviate a word you don't tack letters back on the end. We don't shorten Chemistry to Chemy, after all.
Thank goodness. Until I saw this exchange, I thought I was the only one here who wanted to have a fruitless 30-minute argument about where exactly the letter u belongs or doesn't belong.
The way math is taught, Math is a chore. The way common core teaches it, it's a stupid, idiotic chore. There is never an example of the wonders of math. No examples of what can be accomplished and how you can actually benefit.
Can you elaborate with some ideas on how to teach math so that it's more engaging?
I don't know about you, but I'm not getting any cheap, shoddily made helium atoms.
I'm with you. I always buy the Morton Salt at the grocery store because they use only premium sodium atoms. Also, some cheaper salt is made from chlorine atoms that are scavenged from public swimming pool water, basically old and worn out.
Oh ha ha ha, I get it, it's funny because all electrically neutral atoms of a particular isotope of a particular element are the same, right? Yeah, that's oldthink, Captain Caveman. Haven't you ever heard of epichemistry? Oh, I bet you're one of those "skeptics" who says epichemistry is bullshit because it''s not "testable". But if epichemistry was really so outlandish, how do you explain its endorsement by both the National Epichemical Council and the American Homeopathy Union? You can't, can you? Hah!
Why is that surprising? White women aren't magically exempt from being racist, just like black men aren't exempt from being sexist.
Right. Remember, only minority-race non-males are magically exempt from being either racist or sexist.
Hmm. I gotta be honest, none of that stuff sounds much like us...
"Launch into Oblivioon" sounds like a particularly bad anime, in which a group of teenagers is transported into a shadowy realm in which they, as the last hope of humankind, must do battle with an evil force bent on destroying our universe--but mostly they just walk through weird forests and talk about whether character X merely likes character Y, or if he/she like-likes her/him.
Firefox Adopts a 6-8 Week Variable Release Schedule
Thanks for the info. Around here we dump our garbage on Tuesdays. Or Wednesdays if there's a three-day weekend.
Well, sure .. that's likely. Probable I'd even say ... with the caveat they specifically selected the one which I'd hate the most. ;-)
It just boggles the mind, it used to present as a nice, neat table, which conveyed all information succinctly in one screen, in a way not unlike how an accountant would present it.
Now I have to look all over the place scroll, and click twice as many things, and search among a bunch of clutter and pastel colors. Like that makes sense or adds to the usefulness.
My admittedly curmudgeonly and unscientific theory is that, one, most people are stupid, and two, stupid people hate reading, so three, stupid people react unfavorably to high text density. Plus, the kind of people who volunteer to participate in market research are even stupider on average. So when UI designers ask this supposedly random sampling of people which interface they like better, most of them, being stupid, choose whatever has the least text, because on some subconscious level they're afraid that they're going to be asked to read it.
Bah, humbug, get off my etc.
So I've read the Wikipedia articles on the 7-X and on stellarators in general, but I'm not a physicist.
Can someone knowledgeable tell me how to feel about this? Does this represent meaningful progress toward fusion power? If so, how meaningful? Is fusion still 50 years away, or are we down to 49 now?
Holy kek...I can't help but get a mental image of a Japanese Sheila Broflovski rallying the housewives in the streets.
Kairu's mom is a bichu.
Why not? As resolutions tend towards movie-ilke quality, the more valuable they are perceived by the TV studios.
Music companies don't care if you copy low-quality music (like concerts or cassettes), but will sue if you copy high quality (256-bit mp3 and higher) music files.
"Yeah, you can copy the odd-numbered samples, go ahead, we don't care about them. But don't you dare copy the even-numbered samples, because that's where we put all the creativity!"
Japanese broadcasters have indicated that 4k and 8k broadcasts may have recording disabled via a 'do not copy' flag [via Google Translate], which receivers would be expected to obey.
Wait, they're demanding that their content receive special legal protections solely on basis of its resolution? Wow, I thought I couldn't be any more disgusted with IP lobbyists, but as usual, Japan is always finding new ways to surprise me.
Could someone correct the spelling? It makes it hard to read.
Yeah, no kidding. C'mon, editors, how hard is it to run a spell check before you click submit?
Okay, fine, I'll do it for you. So, let's see, looks like the most common typo in this submission, is "rkt". Let me copy that into Microsoft Word. Okay, done. Did you mean to type "rot", "rut", "rat", "ret", or "Rita"?
BERNIE FOR PRESIDENT 2016
"I'm With Stupid =>" #FeelTheBern
Ah, a Trump fan. You are a moron.
Productive and stimulating exchanges like this are why it's always a good idea to simplify debates on public policy into cartoonishly broad messages of support or antipathy towards particular politicians who might have little or no direct involvement in the issues at hand. This sort of thing really adds something to the discourse, and is always welcome.
"Reached for comment, a representative of the Ministry of Silly Talks said that Mr. Cleese's talk wasn't very silly at all, and thus would not qualify for a grant."
From what I can see, it's not so much that Mayer has made a bunch of bad decisions, but rather that she hasn't made any decisions at all. Well before she took over, everyone knew that Yahoo was in trouble and that their status quo wasn't tenable. So she was fully expected to come in and make sweeping and disruptive changes, hopefully thereby saving the company.
But what has she even attempted to change? From the outside at least, Yahoo as it exists in 2016 still seems fundamentally identical to Yahoo as it was in 2012, or for that matter, in 2006. The only plan I even heard about was that idea to split off the company into two pieces, let the unprofitable half (i.e. Yahoo) die off, and focus on the profitable half (i.e. partial ownership of Alibaba). And that's not really even a plan, that's just surrender.
Do something, at least. This wait-and-see stuff is no good. I'm pretty sure you won't like seeing what you waited for.
Predictive keyboard? Sounds like autocorrect to me. And I hate those things. They make too many assumptions. I mean, how does it know I wasn't going to write about my "gigantic throbbing coconspirator"?
It's called a "backdoor" and here is a link to more information (the link posted in the summary has nothing to do with the backdoor):
Probably whoever came up with "backhole" didn't want to use "backdoor" because they felt that, since doors aren't naturally occurring, describing this security vulnerability as a "door" means that it must have been put there intentionally. Whereas, in fact (as near as I can tell), this vulnerability is due to a software error, albeit seemingly an failure of release management rather than programming per se. Thus, "hole" instead of "door".
That said, I'd like to leave our distinguished editor Timothy with this thought:
"Stop trying to make backhole happen! It's never going to happen!"
Babylonian religion predates Judaism and Islam by a long time, they worshiped lots of gods, lots of statues, a good deal of it adapted from Sumerians.
Well, it sure didn't take long for this discovery to spark a war over priority. I guess "The Babylonians ripped off proto-calculus from the Sumerians" is the new "Leibniz was actually using calculus years before Newton."
I'm a little late to the unsolicited advice party here, but here's some anyway:
I invite the new corporate overlords to think of Slashdot as a cougar in a cage. If you feed him meat, he will tolerate you. If you keep trying to feed him stuff that's not meat, he will eventually die, but not before he makes his best attempt to catch and eat you. If you attempt to sell him consulting services or try to force him to behave like a "civilized human being", he will initially ignore you, because he is in fact a cougar, and has no need for either consulting services or manners. And if you persist at it long enough to become annoying, he will, again, attempt to eat you.
Legacy Slashdotter: Okay, Chuan-Li, this is a story about a personnel change in the production team for a prequel to the Star Trek reboot, so you're going to need to say something snarky about U.S. labor law, but phrase it in terms of the plot of episode three of season four of TNG.
Chuan-Li: I... want a raise.
The Future of Astronomy: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
You know what they say: The James Webb Space Telescope is the future of astronomy, and it always will be.
"Quit explaining things! Can't you see I just want to be mad?!"