Let's start petitioning for giga funding for a comprehensive study on the way racial slurs work, plus ways to improve on the effectiveness of racial slurs
In line to die are... HTC(doing badly these days)...
I believe that there is a great lesson to be learned from the failure of HTC
HTC had a promised start, but they ended up a big failure, not because they didn't play catch up --- HTC failed because they produced PHONES THAT ARE TRULY NO QUALITY
In other words, HTC failed because they cut-corners - and ended up producing phones with shitty batteries
It's a lesson that every future entrepreneurs should know before they get their feet wetted in any high tech adventure - Never Cut Any Corner
But those who are still not-yet-dead, many are not coming back to Slashdot due to the shitty "First Post" and the racist-ranting that are overpowering all meaningful discussions
Honest Question here - do you really believe that the best way to foster free and open discussion is to severely limit the people that can participate?
It's not about putting any artificial limit
It's about having users that are courteous enough to not post shit on places like Slashdot
Look, this is not a "community site" like Facebook
This is a site where people are interested in tech, in science, in astronomy, physics etc, sharing information and engage in discussion
There have been too many "First posts" and racist rantings
The noise are overpowering genuine discussions and I can see that users are getting discouraged and many have left
If the Slashdot admin don't do nothing to stop this, Slashdot not be Slashdot anymore
What I am afraid is, after ICANN granted the ".tickets" GTLD, someone will find a way to insist that if you want to sell tickets, any kind of tickets, online, you have to sell 'em through one of those ".tickets" domains
My sincere hope is that nobody would do that. But then, when big money is involved, who knows ?
Do you ever never had married and then divorced, do you?
I just talk to my son using his Facebook (as his mother finished any account I had setup for him years ago) or when I call him using the roaming number I pay for him, on the phone I brought and send to him by mail (with a letter to his mother, written by my legal adviser politely explaining what will happen if the phone is lost or keep out of service).
He lives 3500KM (about 2.200 miles) far from me.
I do feel your pain and I do know what you are going through
Unfortunately, our society always side with the mothers.
I do not know why so many people think that "Fathers are bad dudes" while there are so many great fathers around !!
The phrase "Think outside the box" is so common these days. For the mental patients, thinking "inside the box" turns out to be an almost impossible task
And here is the problem -- one can only be allowed to think outside the box after he achieved complete mastery of thinking inside all the boxes involved. Otherwise he would produce ridiculous nonsense that may only by a rare accident happen to be in any way useful
I am afraid I kinda lost you
How can one only allowed to think outside of the boxafterhe achievedcomplete masteryof thinking inside all the boxes involved ?
Nobody should put _any_ limit on his or her own thinking
If you limit yourself in term of "what I should think" or "what I should never think", you are putting yourself into a box of your own making !!
Walt Disney, when he was still alive, purposely set a division of "Imagineering", to encourage people to imagine, to think, to explore the impossible
Unfortunately, nowadays, people have lost sight of the benefits of imagination
Everything is force feed nowadays, people do not even have to think anymore
The secret projects have so much money just lying around that they can build two hubble-class telescopes just like that, and then figure out that they don't need them so they can hand them over to NASA, why don't they need them? Well, probably because they built something a lot better and launched it already.
Those two birds were built in the late 1990's and early 2000's - meaning, they are more or less 10 year old
In the span of 10 year time, NRO could have a generation (or two) newer birds with much better capabilities, already in orbit
Now consider then what else they're doing
NRO could have already pointed their newer birds out to the heavens and might already discovered something ultra-ordinary
But NRO being NRO, they just couldn't tell us what they have discovered, could they?
So... they did the next best thing - they "gifted" these two de-commissioned old generation birds to NASA, hoping that, with these birds, NASA could somehow stumbled upon the same ultra-ordinary things that NRO already discovered, so that the world can get to know about it
and what say NASA could do with even a fraction of the money
Judging from the performance of NASA for the past 2 decades, I doubt NASA could have done much, even if they were funded to the same level as NRO
Seriously, a lot of patients with mental problems are actually very very smart !!
They might be "mentally troubled", but, the manner of their thought process, - the way their brain managing information flow - if can be adapted and applied to research projects, could yield surprising results !!
The phrase "Think outside the box" is so common these days. For the mental patients, thinking "inside the box" turns out to be an almost impossible task
Slashdot Mirror
You need to study your racial slurs
+1
Let's start petitioning for giga funding for a comprehensive study on the way racial slurs work, plus ways to improve on the effectiveness of racial slurs
And a cancer
And throw in a chair
If it is caffeine, then I guess you could conceivably get the same benefit from chocolate
Chocolate ?
Hell, no, I want my JOLT COLA NOW !!
It is the only thing that keeps hundreds of thousands of software devs alive through the endless 24-hour non-stop keyboard banging sessions
... but Itanium being Itanic is much more than one year old
The Itanium chip is a damn sick joke
Someone ought to put it out of its own misery a long, long time ago !
In line to die are ... HTC(doing badly these days) ...
I believe that there is a great lesson to be learned from the failure of HTC
HTC had a promised start, but they ended up a big failure, not because they didn't play catch up --- HTC failed because they produced PHONES THAT ARE TRULY NO QUALITY
In other words, HTC failed because they cut-corners - and ended up producing phones with shitty batteries
It's a lesson that every future entrepreneurs should know before they get their feet wetted in any high tech adventure - Never Cut Any Corner
On the Macs, Apple relies on Microsoft to provide the office suites
On the iPad / iPhone, Apples again relies on others to provide the office suites
Which means, unless Apple purchases a 3rd party which made office suite for iOS, it may have to settle with an office suite that is owned by Google
I have a hunch that "Sierra Nevada" gonna be the candidate that will get axed
Many of the oldbies are not coming back
True, some have died, RIP
But those who are still not-yet-dead, many are not coming back to Slashdot due to the shitty "First Post" and the racist-ranting that are overpowering all meaningful discussions
Honest Question here - do you really believe that the best way to foster free and open discussion is to severely limit the people that can participate?
It's not about putting any artificial limit
It's about having users that are courteous enough to not post shit on places like Slashdot
Look, this is not a "community site" like Facebook
This is a site where people are interested in tech, in science, in astronomy, physics etc, sharing information and engage in discussion
There have been too many "First posts" and racist rantings
The noise are overpowering genuine discussions and I can see that users are getting discouraged and many have left
If the Slashdot admin don't do nothing to stop this, Slashdot not be Slashdot anymore
Some guy makes a witty crack, 1 simple, single sentence post.
If it's a one-off thing, hey, who is complaining?
Unfortunately, that's not the case
Vast majority of Slashdot articles are laced with mindless fucktard "Foist Post"
I'm getting very, very sick of it !!
It's ironic, then, that neither of you have put anything forth to foster the discussion along what you would consider "proper" lines.
Having read two comments from you I've yet to discover one single "proper line"
the Queen's English committee folded yesterday
Many people have difficulties differentiating "their" and "there"
Just when we need someone to educate the public about proper English Grammar the committee folded !!
I thank Google for their concern of users' right
But I wonder, what if the US Government decides to hack into Gmail accounts that they believe belong to members of "terrorist groups"?
Would GMail allow that?
Soulskill, why do you have to put the word "secret" in the title of TFA?
As if the project was done by some secret agency of the Chinese Communist Party, or something like that
It's a real estate development project, for crying out loud
And it's not only China that they are doing that
You go to India, and you will find towns that looks so much like what you get in England, with English bangalows and everything
Why am I not surprised at this type of racist ranting on slashdot anymore?
What I am afraid is, after ICANN granted the ".tickets" GTLD, someone will find a way to insist that if you want to sell tickets, any kind of tickets, online, you have to sell 'em through one of those ".tickets" domains
My sincere hope is that nobody would do that. But then, when big money is involved, who knows ?
And what did [imagineering] accomplish outside of a very narrow area of producing animation for kids?
Android presidents, android pirates, holographic ghosts, theaters with moving seats, polaroid 3D thirty years ago... I see you've never been to EPCOT.
Plus that "water fountain" where the water "jumps" from one spot to another
All those accomplished in the 1960's and 1970's !!
This world that we live in really needs more imagination
Do you ever never had married and then divorced, do you?
I just talk to my son using his Facebook (as his mother finished any account I had setup for him years ago) or when I call him using the roaming number I pay for him, on the phone I brought and send to him by mail (with a letter to his mother, written by my legal adviser politely explaining what will happen if the phone is lost or keep out of service).
He lives 3500KM (about 2.200 miles) far from me.
I do feel your pain and I do know what you are going through
Unfortunately, our society always side with the mothers.
I do not know why so many people think that "Fathers are bad dudes" while there are so many great fathers around !!
The phrase "Think outside the box" is so common these days. For the mental patients, thinking "inside the box" turns out to be an almost impossible task
And here is the problem -- one can only be allowed to think outside the box after he achieved complete mastery of thinking inside all the boxes involved. Otherwise he would produce ridiculous nonsense that may only by a rare accident happen to be in any way useful
I am afraid I kinda lost you
How can one only allowed to think outside of the box after he achieved complete mastery of thinking inside all the boxes involved ?
Nobody should put _any_ limit on his or her own thinking
If you limit yourself in term of "what I should think" or "what I should never think", you are putting yourself into a box of your own making !!
Walt Disney, when he was still alive, purposely set a division of "Imagineering", to encourage people to imagine, to think, to explore the impossible
Unfortunately, nowadays, people have lost sight of the benefits of imagination
Everything is force feed nowadays, people do not even have to think anymore
The secret projects have so much money just lying around that they can build two hubble-class telescopes just like that, and then figure out that they don't need them so they can hand them over to NASA, why don't they need them? Well, probably because they built something a lot better and launched it already.
Those two birds were built in the late 1990's and early 2000's - meaning, they are more or less 10 year old
In the span of 10 year time, NRO could have a generation (or two) newer birds with much better capabilities, already in orbit
Now consider then what else they're doing
NRO could have already pointed their newer birds out to the heavens and might already discovered something ultra-ordinary
But NRO being NRO, they just couldn't tell us what they have discovered, could they?
So... they did the next best thing - they "gifted" these two de-commissioned old generation birds to NASA, hoping that, with these birds, NASA could somehow stumbled upon the same ultra-ordinary things that NRO already discovered, so that the world can get to know about it
and what say NASA could do with even a fraction of the money
Judging from the performance of NASA for the past 2 decades, I doubt NASA could have done much, even if they were funded to the same level as NRO
you cannot steal ideas
Try asking Xerox Palo Alto research center about "mouse", and "Steve Jobs"
... the CPP gonna accidentally China !
Seriously, a lot of patients with mental problems are actually very very smart !!
They might be "mentally troubled", but, the manner of their thought process, - the way their brain managing information flow - if can be adapted and applied to research projects, could yield surprising results !!
The phrase "Think outside the box" is so common these days. For the mental patients, thinking "inside the box" turns out to be an almost impossible task
... I registered for an account
The few times I was there I felt uncomfortable
Everyone was telling everybody else everything about themselves - their name, their phone #, their address, their hobby ... everything
Maybe I'm just old fashion. Privacy for me is something very important
I haven't been to facebook for years, and I don't miss it
I know, I know, RasPi is for UK kids
Let's see what we need to get 3rd world kids to hack into RasPi
* Used keyboard
* Cables
* USB / transformer
* Display device / monitor
Anything else?