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  1. Re:Here's the answer on Tech Reporting Is More Negative Now Than in the Past (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you win. Sadly.
    It was a great lot of fun while it lasted.

  2. Re:Is it TECH reporting or WALLED GARDEN reporting on Tech Reporting Is More Negative Now Than in the Past (betanews.com) · · Score: 1
    Yes, they're going for the LCD. Slashdot included.

    Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  3. Re:Left and right on Tech Reporting Is More Negative Now Than in the Past (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Much longer than fifteen years. The romantic era is a rejection of the cold emotionless age of enlightenment. It takes generations before people begin to see the effects.
    'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism

  4. Re:The magic is dead. on Tech Reporting Is More Negative Now Than in the Past (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I blame it all on AOL!

    YES! Although it didn't get as bad as it is today until digg changed their format causing people to look elsewhere.

  5. Re:I want this now on Microsoft Research Developing An AI To Put Coders Out of a Job (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    uneasinnese in their voices

    Clueless people are always going to be uneasy. They're usually some of the first to be fired.

  6. Re:This is different from the status quo how? on Microsoft Research Developing An AI To Put Coders Out of a Job (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not AI, it's a macro.

  7. Re:dealing with the human element on Microsoft Research Developing An AI To Put Coders Out of a Job (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1
  8. Re:This is pretty obvious. on Microsoft Research Developing An AI To Put Coders Out of a Job (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    Poverty has always existed and mankind seems to be doing well at over 7 billion people.

  9. Re:This is pretty obvious. on Microsoft Research Developing An AI To Put Coders Out of a Job (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 2

    We had self diving cars in the 1980's, a few of which drove all the way across the US. I think they go back to the world's fair in the 1930's. The problem is being able to handle all scenarios that might arise like a police officer standing in the road giving you specific directions.

  10. Re: I know I'm being selfish, but... on Microsoft Research Developing An AI To Put Coders Out of a Job (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    A flying car for five people might seem practical. We have them now and they're called "airplanes" or "helicopters" if you can't them to do something fancy like deliver you to your rooftop hotel, but not so much so in a city of a million people. Not to mention the incredible loss in efficiency unless you are going the airplane route.

  11. Re:Don't worry on Microsoft Research Developing An AI To Put Coders Out of a Job (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yeah, my company has been working on this for over twenty years and is probably a world leader in the field and has been used to develop systems for as long as I've been around with it. It's the first I've heard anyone call it AI. I think it's due to the labeling of what's considered intelligent being dropped.

  12. Re:Tesla (not the car company) on Disney Develops Room With 'Ubiquitous Wireless' Charging (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Even longer ago than that, Fermat was convinced that he had proof no three positive integers a, b, and c satisfy the equation a^n + b^n = c^n for any integer value of n greater than 2.

  13. Re:No wi-fi on Disney Develops Room With 'Ubiquitous Wireless' Charging (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Magentism is not easily filtered. You need a super conductor for that. See London (meisner) effect

  14. Re:Efficiency? on Disney Develops Room With 'Ubiquitous Wireless' Charging (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    What does efficiency matter if it saves you from having to plug in.

    Think about it...

    You don't have to plug it in

    I don't think that you are thinking hard enough about this. Imagine never being inconvenienced to find a plug in the dark to chard you smartphone. And think of all the boxes of mismatched cables that you have. The infomercials write themselves with all the advantages. That's worth an extra $20 a year in additional power bills easily.

  15. to over a 100 objects seems a bit silly

    Why? Why not further classification to rocky planets and gas giant planet also? Note I come from a geophysical background.

  16. " if there is life there, [we will know] within a on Thrilling Discovery of Seven Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting Nearby Star (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
    decade"

    Awesome. That's sooner than we'll know if there's life on Mars

  17. Re:No shit? on Tinder Wants AI To Set You Up On a Date (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What's next, using a washing machine to clean your clothes?

    You shouldn't post your ideas so lightly on public web boards. I just patented that idea. Sucks to be you

  18. Re:Snarky course title on University Offers Course To Help Sniff Out and Refute 'Bullshit' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    haha, duh.Wrong direction. ...well, high school was a long time ago

  19. Apple and Google beat them to it.

  20. Re:Basic stuff on Cellphones As a Fifth-Order Elaboration of Maxwell's Theory (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I said competent :) Honestly, I wouldn't know nearly as much or have been as useful, but I could have done 90% of my engineering work straight out of high school

  21. Re:Yes, it's *giants* all the way down. on Cellphones As a Fifth-Order Elaboration of Maxwell's Theory (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    But in physics, newton is mentioned prominently and in many classes. Physics 1, modern physics ((quantum & relativity), mechanics and even occasionally in thermo dynamics and e&m. There are many people who made as big or bigger contribution to science than tesla, he just has a weird cult around him fo some reason.

  22. Re:Snarky course title on University Offers Course To Help Sniff Out and Refute 'Bullshit' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    ln|x|

    +c

    That's a high school level question :)

  23. adweek.com

    On slashdot?

    I remember when nerds used to shun such things. I guess it wasn't profitable.

  24. Re:Like nearly all tech companies on Cellphones As a Fifth-Order Elaboration of Maxwell's Theory (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    uber