It's weirdly eroded surface looks like nothing else in the solar system seen so far
That's a patently false statement. Walk up to any person with a printout of this photo, and ask them, "Hey, does this look like anything you've seen in the solar system so far?" They'll probably say, "Yeah, it looks like a sponge" or "Yeah, it looks like pumice" or "Yeah, it looks like my mother-in-law's face".
Perhaps it doesn't look like any other celestial body we've seen so far.
When evaluating this technology's potential, one must take care to separate criticism of its view from the inherent data representation underneath.
For instance, as useful as Google is, it's a pain to try to perform queries for things such as "a disease that begins with the letter 'c' and involves a body's inability to produce energy from flour-based foods". With an ontology-based data source, one simply needs to write an interface that allows the user to construct such queries using a formal grammar:
x.term.beginsWith ('c')
x.classification ('medical disease')
x.attributes.symptoms.searchTerms ('flour produce energy')
etc. that's just one possible example, but semantic knowledge is infinitely more powerful than grammatical knowledge, and ontology is the genesis requirement of semantic webs.
Maybe I don't understand the issue thoroughly, but I think that fragmentation would actually be good. The "information infrastructure" is becoming just as critical to us as our "power grid", or other major utility. Why would any government trust a resource that critical to be managed by any organization outside of its control?
My opinion is that an international institution should define global standards that each country can than agree or disagree to implement, and if the US wants to be separate at that point, so be it.
The average Windows user tends to be less than satisfied with Windows. And that's no surprise, either, given the rather woeful state of its default applications.
Oh yeah? That's funny. I'm not less than satisfied with Windows, and I could care less about its default applications. I buy the software that I need.
Passwords are too complicated to remember. So are username, account details, etc. That's why I just hack into other people's accounts. Their passwords are much easier.
Well, yesterday they just cracked down on Suicide Girls, a site portraying bondage etc. While that's not my cup of tea, I hardly consider that to be a subject so obscene that the federal government needs to get involved.
...because of the FBI's recently-announced task force to crack down on "deviant" porn on the Internet. Should you be detained or arrested for such a crime, even if not found guilty, your DNA would be tied on-file to the sexual preferences which caused you to get busted.
I often wonder if I'm the only person in the world who likes to delete things that have no value whatsoever.
Yes, if I need to migrate my mail or back it up for some reason, do I want to have to worry about whether I 've gotten all of the 1,800 emails, most of which are junk? Or do I want to rest assured knowing that yes, there's those 200 emails that are really worth saving, and sigh it's so much easier to know I've backed them up safely.
"You had to give it to him. He had a plan. And it started to make sense in Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide."
This article has given me a great idea. I'm going to create an operating system called RetardOs, so that hapless users don't even need to know that they're using a computer to, well, use it.
Here are the official file types supported by RetardOs:
Picture, Song, Sound, Movie, TV Show, Media Clip, Advertisement, Radio Channel, Spreadsheet, Letter, Web Page
Here are the official applications that come bundled with RetardOs:
Picture Viewer, Song Player, Sound Player, Movie Player, TV Show Player, Media Clip Player, Advertisement Viewer, Radio Channel Player, Spreadsheet Editor, Letter Editor, Web Page Viewer, Calculator, Calendar, File Finder, Porn Finder, Porn Hider
That's it, that's all they need. No confusing concepts like multiple file types or "menus", god forbid.
As you probably know, this discovery actually happened a while ago in time (cause of the time it took the light to travel). So the star could be flinging itself at us AS WE SPEAK.
Actually, the discovery happened just recently - the actual event happened a long time ago.
But regardless, you're actually exhibiting a common logic falacy. Because the star is travelling at less than the speed of light, it's impossible for the star to "sneak up on us" by arriving here before it's lightwaves do.
I'm not the ultrageek who is certain just what the name 'slashdot' is meant to mean
It's a play on information assymetry. When slashdot's URL is pronounced out loud, it sounds like "H-T-T-P colon slash slash slash dot dot org". To the normal person, that's uber nonsense. But to those "in the know", it's like a secret pun.
Granted, most people would now pronounce it like "H-T-T-P colon forward-slash forward-slash slash dot dot org", which loses some of the cleverness.
...Oh that's easy! If you have Redhat, you have to download quake_3_rh_8_i686_010203_glibc.bin
Dude thanks! I finally know how to install this game on Linux. The last time I tried, I ended up causing my mother's computer to wardial her friends from her recipe club.
Slashdot Mirror
If it's a microscopic picture, I have to ask - what browser are you using to view it?
Bad jokes aside, this is what a magnified grain of salt looks like:
(it's pretty enough to make desktop wallpaper)
That's a patently false statement. Walk up to any person with a printout of this photo, and ask them, "Hey, does this look like anything you've seen in the solar system so far?" They'll probably say, "Yeah, it looks like a sponge" or "Yeah, it looks like pumice" or "Yeah, it looks like my mother-in-law's face".
Perhaps it doesn't look like any other celestial body we've seen so far.
For instance, as useful as Google is, it's a pain to try to perform queries for things such as "a disease that begins with the letter 'c' and involves a body's inability to produce energy from flour-based foods". With an ontology-based data source, one simply needs to write an interface that allows the user to construct such queries using a formal grammar:
etc. that's just one possible example, but semantic knowledge is infinitely more powerful than grammatical knowledge, and ontology is the genesis requirement of semantic webs.The robo-dog may steal owners away from the Tamagotchi virtual pet, which swept the world in the mid-1990s.
Uhm, yeah. This +$2K puppy will surely steal the market share from a $10 toy!
My opinion is that an international institution should define global standards that each country can than agree or disagree to implement, and if the US wants to be separate at that point, so be it.
Oh yeah? That's funny. I'm not less than satisfied with Windows, and I could care less about its default applications. I buy the software that I need.
That's a beautiful poem. You should publish it elsewhere, too.
It was a joke, people.
Well, yesterday they just cracked down on Suicide Girls, a site portraying bondage etc. While that's not my cup of tea, I hardly consider that to be a subject so obscene that the federal government needs to get involved.
On a somewhat related topic, I wonder why the EFF web site doesn't have any updates about the FBI's task force to crack down on deviant pornography.
...because of the FBI's recently-announced task force to crack down on "deviant" porn on the Internet. Should you be detained or arrested for such a crime, even if not found guilty, your DNA would be tied on-file to the sexual preferences which caused you to get busted.
The last thing I want is a phone that crashes and is more susceptible to viruses.
I often wonder if I'm the only person in the world who likes to delete things that have no value whatsoever.
Yes, if I need to migrate my mail or back it up for some reason, do I want to have to worry about whether I 've gotten all of the 1,800 emails, most of which are junk? Or do I want to rest assured knowing that yes, there's those 200 emails that are really worth saving, and sigh it's so much easier to know I've backed them up safely.
The Yahoo! ads, as pointed out by this blogger, really are quite bad - GMail doesn't even come close to having objectionable advertisements.
Here are the official file types supported by RetardOs:
Here are the official applications that come bundled with RetardOs: That's it, that's all they need. No confusing concepts like multiple file types or "menus", god forbid.Well ...
Actually, the discovery happened just recently - the actual event happened a long time ago.
But regardless, you're actually exhibiting a common logic falacy. Because the star is travelling at less than the speed of light, it's impossible for the star to "sneak up on us" by arriving here before it's lightwaves do.
In any event, my original post was just a joke.
I hope one of those stars doesn't fling itself loose towards our lil' planet.
It's a play on information assymetry. When slashdot's URL is pronounced out loud, it sounds like "H-T-T-P colon slash slash slash dot dot org". To the normal person, that's uber nonsense. But to those "in the know", it's like a secret pun.
Granted, most people would now pronounce it like "H-T-T-P colon forward-slash forward-slash slash dot dot org", which loses some of the cleverness.
Guys, you're posting to the wrong web site. This is /. , not ./
Dude thanks! I finally know how to install this game on Linux. The last time I tried, I ended up causing my mother's computer to wardial her friends from her recipe club.
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/0 6/19/1742245&tid=87&tid=189&tid=190&tid=8
Holy crap, way to rob me of any illusion of youth that remains in my mind. Thanks.
Uh, yeah... just because I can mod a media PC doesn't mean I have a server capable of withstanding the /. effect ;)
Seriously, I'll post some pics when I get my web host configured.
JDS may be open source, but Java's not. How can having an open source desktop based on a non-open source platform be truly considered open source?