Actually, the idea of a so-called "O'Niell Cylinder" was put forward in 1973 by Arthur C. Clarke in a book titled Rendezvous with Rama.
It's true that Rama was, like an O'Neill Cylinder, a cylindrical habitat with rotational pseudogravity. However, Rama was made from unobtainium, while a true O'Neill Cylinder is instead made of unaffordium.
Immediately after the Apple Keynote, famed Ubuntu laptop and desktop seller, System76, saw a huge jump in traffic from people looking to buy its machines.
Pfft. Idiots. Good luck trying to compete when you're spending all your time escaping out of applications and powering off the machine with errant key presses and picking your emojis from a list like a bunch of animals.
Jersey Mike's here in the midwest is the only store I've seen with a sign that says no masks allowed.
I'd be ashamed to walk into a Jersey Mike's without wearing a mask.
Yeah, but that gets too confusing, because the staff there is generally trying to conceal their shame already. If the let us wear masks, too, nobody would know who the customers were.
In females, hormonal birth control mostly works by tricking the body into thinking it's already pregnant. For humans, it's a significant evolutionary advantage not to become double or triple pregnant, so the body does most of the work for you. It's fairly "natural" because you're basically just reproducing a situation that the female body is designed for.
For males, though, there's no evolutionary reason to ever stop producing sperm. So any cocktail of hormones that shuts off fertility in males has not been through those same millions of years of QA. So I would want to see at least a couple more decades of testing on this before injecting it into my body.
Experience has taught me to be very skeptical of the pharmaceutical industry, so I also can't help but wonder if researchers are saying it's safe only because they, for example, consider a 15% occurrence of male breast enlargement and/or lactation an acceptable side effect.
A hotel executive said a recently-passed New York law cracking down on Airbnb hosts will enable the company to raise prices for New York City hotel rooms...
"Dammit, Mark! We all agreed! We don't teach the easants-pay about asic-bay economics-way!"
Based on this and other responses, plus my own experience with outages, it sounds like what America really needs now is some better methods for tracking where the existing infrastructure is, better standards for placing new infrastructure so that the next crew can put something else in without destroying what's already there, and better laws for determining who's liable when things go wrong.
Of course, when I say "what America needs now", what I really mean is "what America needed 100+ years ago, when they first started putting these things in".
I don't think you have the foggiest idea what you are proposing. I have immediate family that has been in the business of laying underground cable. There is a lot more to it than digging a trench and dropping a cable to the bottom of it.
Great! Can you please elaborate? Particularly about equipment costs and stuff?
Dammit! How hard is it to dig a trench and lay a cable in it? I know the trench-digging part at least is easy, because where I live they manage to knock out at least one vital utility a year digging around at random.
Do I have to do it myself? Because me and at least 20 people I know would gladly volunteer to buy a spool of fiber and dig a mile of trench each with hand shovels if we knew for sure they wouldn't arrest us for it.
The real question, of course, is how hard it is for local politicians not to take bribes from incumbent telecom providers to slow things down. And the answer is, apparently, pretty hard.
Actually the statement "Queue the world ending in 5... 4... 3... " isn't an incorrect statement, it just doesn't mean what the OP thinks it does or meant to say.
Or maybe he meant that the world is ending in so many ways now that they have to take turns.
AT&T's $85B US Bid For Time Warner Sparks Antitrust Fears in Washington
An antitrust suit? In 2016? Where have these guys been?
We don't do antitrust in America any more. If we encumbered our industrialist plutocrats by forcing them to follow laws and stuff, we'd get eaten alive by the Soviet Union, I mean Mexico, I mean Japan, I mean China, I mean the Martians.
Congress needs to shut up and start doing its job, which is to completely fail to learn from history, and convince the electorate to do the same, by inciting them to focus on largely irrelevant cultural distinctions.
Consumer: While artificial intelligence may one day provide many benefits for humanity, in the immediate term, these advances have the potential to be incredibly disruptive and even harmful to our culture, economy, and legal system. Thus the widespread dissemination of these technologies must be deliberate and carefully considered..
Tesla: Don't worry about it, that won't be an issue.
Consumer: Really? You've figured out some way to limit the harm?
Tesla: No, we've found a way to limit those "benefits to humanity" you mentioned.
By law, boffintry can only be granted to citizens of the UK.
This is a common misconception, but in fact any member of the British Commonwealth can qualify for boffin status. There is lively competition between English, Scottish, Welsh, North Irish, Australian, Kiwi, and even Canadian boffins.
In fact, I hear that many boffins vied to bring us this information.
Early this year, analyst Trip Chowdhry from Global Equities Research predicted that the tech world was going to see big layoffs in 2016 -- some 330,000 in all at major tech companies... So, was Chowdhry right? "Yes," he told me when I asked him this week. "The layoffs I predicted have been occurring."
I call bullshit on this guy. There's a table of predicted versus actual layoffs in the article. Of the 14 companies he made predictions about, only four of them seem to have any actual layoffs, and the actual numbers are generally a fraction of the predicted number. Layoffs for companies that he didn't even make predictions about are given, in an apparent effort to buff his credibility, but some of those companies are not exactly household names (WTF is "Zenefits"?), and as for the rest, their predicted layoffs are in the 5-to-10 percent range.
Not that further layoffs are necessarily unlikely, especially with this presidential election coming up. But it's already October, and it's been nowhere near as bad as this clown predicted. You don't get to say you were right when the data proves you wrong. You don't get credit for predicting layoffs in 2016 if they happen in 2017. You don't get to just make a blanket prediction like "layoffs will happen in the future" and get points when they eventually happen.
It's time to ditch touchpads entirely and switch to trackpoints.
Sorry, what were you saying? I couldn't hear you over the rattle of this bottle of arthritis pills I got prescribed in my mid-twenties for playing too much Solitaire using a TrackPoint.
If I were the king of the world, I would use my infinite power to have every artist sign the following document at the beginning of their careers:
"Politics and religion can be good subjects for art, but only if the artist abstains from picking sides, or at least effectively conceals their choice. Otherwise, it all just turns into a big giant circle-jerk."
For sanity read: "The way potheads like me want them to be so we can buy and smoke our sorry little losers narcotic without being bothered by the police".
And for "potheads" read "about half of Americans".
Not that I'm pro-pothead, necessarily, because I've known my share, and so I can safely say that I like people way better when they aren't high. But continuing to outlaw an activity that 150 million people support seems kind of dumb, not to mention a failure of democracy. See: Prohibition.
Apple CEO Tim Cook Remembers Steve Jobs On Fifth Anniversary of His Death
"Heh, check out this picture. It's a turtle wearing a turtleneck. Say, that reminds me of that Steve guy who used to work here. Remember him? He was my boss for a while? Sure you do, he was that guy who used to say all these crazy things, and from time to time he would present what were really pretty ordinary tech advances as earthshaking paradigm shifts of breathtaking ingenuity? Oh, and he used to eat just fruit. Not just vegetables or just plants, but just fruit. They actually put me in charge of supplying him with fruit a few years ago. Yeah, I was supposed to drop off a crate full of fruit in front of his office once a week. I don't remember ever actually doing it, though...
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Actually, the idea of a so-called "O'Niell Cylinder" was put forward in 1973 by Arthur C. Clarke in a book titled Rendezvous with Rama.
It's true that Rama was, like an O'Neill Cylinder, a cylindrical habitat with rotational pseudogravity. However, Rama was made from unobtainium, while a true O'Neill Cylinder is instead made of unaffordium.
Immediately after the Apple Keynote, famed Ubuntu laptop and desktop seller, System76, saw a huge jump in traffic from people looking to buy its machines.
Pfft. Idiots. Good luck trying to compete when you're spending all your time escaping out of applications and powering off the machine with errant key presses and picking your emojis from a list like a bunch of animals.
Grow up and get serious, you dinosaurs.
Jersey Mike's here in the midwest is the only store I've seen with a sign that says no masks allowed.
I'd be ashamed to walk into a Jersey Mike's without wearing a mask.
Yeah, but that gets too confusing, because the staff there is generally trying to conceal their shame already. If the let us wear masks, too, nobody would know who the customers were.
Mmm, inexplicably wet sandwich.
That's why Jesus died for a second time on the cross on Halloween. To give girls the right to wear skimpy "sexy ______" costumes.
"Wow, I didn't think the costume designers could actually do it, but I have to admit, that is indeed a really sexy blank."
In females, hormonal birth control mostly works by tricking the body into thinking it's already pregnant. For humans, it's a significant evolutionary advantage not to become double or triple pregnant, so the body does most of the work for you. It's fairly "natural" because you're basically just reproducing a situation that the female body is designed for.
For males, though, there's no evolutionary reason to ever stop producing sperm. So any cocktail of hormones that shuts off fertility in males has not been through those same millions of years of QA. So I would want to see at least a couple more decades of testing on this before injecting it into my body.
Experience has taught me to be very skeptical of the pharmaceutical industry, so I also can't help but wonder if researchers are saying it's safe only because they, for example, consider a 15% occurrence of male breast enlargement and/or lactation an acceptable side effect.
"I defy you to tell me how the Facebook Kwik-N-Easy Discrimination Toolkit can be used to discriminate!"
The city legislature of Seoul, South Korea, is considering implementing a law that would ban after work messaging to employees...
It's about time. What a chaebol's employees choose to do between 2 and 6 AM is their own damn business.
A hotel executive said a recently-passed New York law cracking down on Airbnb hosts will enable the company to raise prices for New York City hotel rooms...
"Dammit, Mark! We all agreed! We don't teach the easants-pay about asic-bay economics-way!"
Based on this and other responses, plus my own experience with outages, it sounds like what America really needs now is some better methods for tracking where the existing infrastructure is, better standards for placing new infrastructure so that the next crew can put something else in without destroying what's already there, and better laws for determining who's liable when things go wrong.
Of course, when I say "what America needs now", what I really mean is "what America needed 100+ years ago, when they first started putting these things in".
I don't think you have the foggiest idea what you are proposing. I have immediate family that has been in the business of laying underground cable. There is a lot more to it than digging a trench and dropping a cable to the bottom of it.
Great! Can you please elaborate? Particularly about equipment costs and stuff?
Dammit! How hard is it to dig a trench and lay a cable in it? I know the trench-digging part at least is easy, because where I live they manage to knock out at least one vital utility a year digging around at random.
Do I have to do it myself? Because me and at least 20 people I know would gladly volunteer to buy a spool of fiber and dig a mile of trench each with hand shovels if we knew for sure they wouldn't arrest us for it.
The real question, of course, is how hard it is for local politicians not to take bribes from incumbent telecom providers to slow things down. And the answer is, apparently, pretty hard.
Actually the statement "Queue the world ending in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... " isn't an incorrect statement, it just doesn't mean what the OP thinks it does or meant to say.
Or maybe he meant that the world is ending in so many ways now that they have to take turns.
My plea to designers and software engineers: Ignore the fads...
Web designers? Ignore a fad?
Hahahahahahahahahaha!
AT&T's $85B US Bid For Time Warner Sparks Antitrust Fears in Washington
An antitrust suit? In 2016? Where have these guys been?
We don't do antitrust in America any more. If we encumbered our industrialist plutocrats by forcing them to follow laws and stuff, we'd get eaten alive by the Soviet Union, I mean Mexico, I mean Japan, I mean China, I mean the Martians.
Congress needs to shut up and start doing its job, which is to completely fail to learn from history, and convince the electorate to do the same, by inciting them to focus on largely irrelevant cultural distinctions.
Consumer: While artificial intelligence may one day provide many benefits for humanity, in the immediate term, these advances have the potential to be incredibly disruptive and even harmful to our culture, economy, and legal system. Thus the widespread dissemination of these technologies must be deliberate and carefully considered..
Tesla: Don't worry about it, that won't be an issue.
Consumer: Really? You've figured out some way to limit the harm?
Tesla: No, we've found a way to limit those "benefits to humanity" you mentioned.
By law, boffintry can only be granted to citizens of the UK.
This is a common misconception, but in fact any member of the British Commonwealth can qualify for boffin status. There is lively competition between English, Scottish, Welsh, North Irish, Australian, Kiwi, and even Canadian boffins.
In fact, I hear that many boffins vied to bring us this information.
[Ducks.]
Early this year, analyst Trip Chowdhry from Global Equities Research predicted that the tech world was going to see big layoffs in 2016 -- some 330,000 in all at major tech companies... So, was Chowdhry right? "Yes," he told me when I asked him this week. "The layoffs I predicted have been occurring."
I call bullshit on this guy. There's a table of predicted versus actual layoffs in the article. Of the 14 companies he made predictions about, only four of them seem to have any actual layoffs, and the actual numbers are generally a fraction of the predicted number. Layoffs for companies that he didn't even make predictions about are given, in an apparent effort to buff his credibility, but some of those companies are not exactly household names (WTF is "Zenefits"?), and as for the rest, their predicted layoffs are in the 5-to-10 percent range.
Not that further layoffs are necessarily unlikely, especially with this presidential election coming up. But it's already October, and it's been nowhere near as bad as this clown predicted. You don't get to say you were right when the data proves you wrong. You don't get credit for predicting layoffs in 2016 if they happen in 2017. You don't get to just make a blanket prediction like "layoffs will happen in the future" and get points when they eventually happen.
Images Show Further Damage To Great Barrier Reef, But Scientists Assure It's Not Dead
It's not dead, it's just CRESTing!
It's time to ditch touchpads entirely and switch to trackpoints.
Sorry, what were you saying? I couldn't hear you over the rattle of this bottle of arthritis pills I got prescribed in my mid-twenties for playing too much Solitaire using a TrackPoint.
Hear, hear! It's about time we got support for more and fancier trackpad gestures! I wholeheartedly appr--
[Accidentally scrolls the Slashdot comment interface off the screen due to an errant flick of the trackpad.]
[In a reflexive effort to correct that mistake, changes browser zoom level to 350%.]
[Panics, begins to flail, accidentally submits the comment as is, and somehow manages to open four Outlook windows and MS Paint.]
If I were the king of the world, I would use my infinite power to have every artist sign the following document at the beginning of their careers:
"Politics and religion can be good subjects for art, but only if the artist abstains from picking sides, or at least effectively conceals their choice. Otherwise, it all just turns into a big giant circle-jerk."
"bringing our drug laws closer to sanity"
For sanity read: "The way potheads like me want them to be so we can buy and smoke our sorry little losers narcotic without being bothered by the police".
And for "potheads" read "about half of Americans".
Not that I'm pro-pothead, necessarily, because I've known my share, and so I can safely say that I like people way better when they aren't high. But continuing to outlaw an activity that 150 million people support seems kind of dumb, not to mention a failure of democracy. See: Prohibition.
I'm sure my fellow slashdotters will find copious reasons why this is worthy of everyone's unquestioning contempt.
I mean, we've all got our prejudices, but if there are indeed "copious reasons" for the contempt, then it's not really "unquestioning", is it?
Apple CEO Tim Cook Remembers Steve Jobs On Fifth Anniversary of His Death
"Heh, check out this picture. It's a turtle wearing a turtleneck. Say, that reminds me of that Steve guy who used to work here. Remember him? He was my boss for a while? Sure you do, he was that guy who used to say all these crazy things, and from time to time he would present what were really pretty ordinary tech advances as earthshaking paradigm shifts of breathtaking ingenuity? Oh, and he used to eat just fruit. Not just vegetables or just plants, but just fruit. They actually put me in charge of supplying him with fruit a few years ago. Yeah, I was supposed to drop off a crate full of fruit in front of his office once a week. I don't remember ever actually doing it, though...
Hm, I wonder what happened to that guy?"
Let it be called KremLinux and all is forgiven!
KremLinux is for losers. I'm going with KGBSD.