What hostility? All I'm reading is a healthy dose of skepticism. Those of us who have been observing the world for awhile, I'm 50, get tired of discrediting hoaxes. This is a hoax and it's unconscionable to encourage scientists to interrupt research which could decrease our dependence on fossil fuels. This is nothing more than a publicity stunt to attract investors.
According to TFA, (1)Steorn will pay for the research, (2)publish the research themselves and (3) develop products based on the research. Here's a translation: (1) We aren't applying for grant money. We know our "research" wouldn't stand up to the scrutiny required. (2) By publishing the research ourselves, we have complete control over it. (3) Okay, there won't be any products developed but if we can keep the research going for a couple of years, we'll get more victims^h^h^h^h^h^h^h investors.
This is so predictable... when will Slashdot quit falling for these stories.
The difference is whether the independent variable is the base or the exponent. A power function is something like f(x)=x^(.5) whereas an exponential function could be f(x)= (.5)^x.
From TFA: Licensing details for the technology are still being ironed out. These could be a concern, Crow [program manager for Windows Media Photo] acknowledged, but "the philosophy has been that licensing should not be a restriction" to adoption, he said.
Okay you heard it here first, Microsoft now offically has stated that licensing shouldn't be a restriction to adoption. Supercool! I'll bet next week they'll be dropping lawsuits around the worldd...
My name is David and I'm mad! After seeing what Google had done to ServersCheck I decided to see what they had done to my name.
"D" - the results include dictionary, dog, and desperate housewife. Oh my gosh, they are evil. Just a "d" and they are already defining my wife as a bitch.
"Da" - the results include davids bridal, dating and da vinci code. Are they implying that I need to date and get married? Or are the alluding to the implication that Jesus married Mary Magdalene? Either way can't Google just stay out of my marriage and my religious beliefs.
"Dav" - David Letterman, David Beckham, David Bowie. Are they trying to play good cop/bad cop with me? Now they are associating me with celebrities. Can't they just let me be me?
"Davi" - Hmm, now they're getting the idea. One of the suggestions, finally, is just plain David, but they're still courting me with davids bridal and a slew of celebrities, one interesting addition this round is david and goliath. Are they advocating that I use violence against them? I know that the little guy won in that story!
"David" - Now you'd expect they'd settle down and just let me be me, but no we keep all the other celebs and gain David Hockney. Oh, well I guess there's worse things to be associated with than an aging Pop Artist.
Now lets see what happens if I start typing in failure...
Fuel cells are an energy storage medium, not an energy source.
You are half right. Fuel cells are neither an energy storage medium nor an energy source. The source of the electricity used to hydrolyze the water is the energy source. Hydrogen is the energy storage medium The fuel cell is an energy conversion device same as an internal combustion engine except way more efficient.
What you are talking about is a whole different business model.
How is this a whole new business model? Sounds like the same old same old to me...
Now I'll admit I'm not much of a TV watcher anyway, but I'm not particularly interested in web-content that turns my PC into a small, lo-res television complete with 16 minutes of ads per hour. What's new about that???
What would be cool is if the site remembers exactly where I was when I last watched. Dynamically generate a short recap of my last session to remind me of the highlights of what I last watched. Allow me to link to excerpts from previous episodes when they're alluded to. Maybe even have a writer's forum where they can go deeper into background and get feedback from the audience as the show unfolds.
Just using TCP/IP instead of cable or radio waves doesn't begin to constitute a new business model.
How many slashdotters know of Fleischmann only as a yeast company? I understand that yeast has played a major role in genetic research, but fusion!? What the heck have they been smoking???
Sigh...another IE exploit. Seems to me if a hacker really wants some bragging rights they'd start exploiting the patches. There are certainly enough of them out by now!
"If you look at DistroWatch, you'll see zillions of these distributions. Which one should we do? And, everyone keeps telling us that they want different distributions. So, our conclusion is to do them all and let the customer decide."
We love Linux, and we're doing our best to support the Linux community.
Mr. Dell,
Please put your products where your mouth is. If you are so supportive of Linux, please put your suppliers on notice that you will not buy from them without Linux drivers, please design and promote your full line of PCs as "Linux ready", provide strong customer support for 3 or 4 distros (they really aren't that different under the hood) and please, oh please, sell them at a price that doesn't include an M$ tax.
I grew up with magazine rack in the bathroom, and it has been my experience that most home bathrooms still have some reading material, even if its just a stack of Reader's Digests on the counter.
We still have the magazine rack but since my wife got a Palm T5 with a wifi card it's been largely ignored in favor of the internet.
Surowiecki gives many examples of how aggregated knowledge of a lot of fools usually beats the experts. The research cited in TFA begins to explain the mechanism by which that works.
I'm betting hunting for a new job takes significantly more than 30 minutes.
True, but even very significant amounts of time can be broken down in 30 minute chunks. Don't downplay the time spent on such Slashdot to be time unable to be spent doing the important stuff. Realize that Slashdot is a decision made at the expense of other stuff!
Recently I installed wifi at home for my wife's T5 and since then she does about 80% of her browsing on that. It can be a great experience on well designed sites or sites that are handheld specific, but on sites which assume an 800 or 1024 pixel-width, ahem!, I don't normally use that kind of language.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot didn't "fall" for it
It's a publicity stunt. Slashdot is providing publicity. QED.
A college friend has been doing this for the last few years with great success. Go figure...
I don't see why the hostility.
What hostility? All I'm reading is a healthy dose of skepticism. Those of us who have been observing the world for awhile, I'm 50, get tired of discrediting hoaxes. This is a hoax and it's unconscionable to encourage scientists to interrupt research which could decrease our dependence on fossil fuels. This is nothing more than a publicity stunt to attract investors.
According to TFA, (1)Steorn will pay for the research, (2)publish the research themselves and (3) develop products based on the research. Here's a translation: (1) We aren't applying for grant money. We know our "research" wouldn't stand up to the scrutiny required. (2) By publishing the research ourselves, we have complete control over it. (3) Okay, there won't be any products developed but if we can keep the research going for a couple of years, we'll get more victims^h^h^h^h^h^h^h investors.
This is so predictable... when will Slashdot quit falling for these stories.
The difference is whether the independent variable is the base or the exponent. A power function is something like f(x)=x^(.5) whereas an exponential function could be f(x)= (.5)^x.
yourself, ten beautiful women and I a way to cross over to that parallel universe
Hope those ten beautiful women are also intelligent enough to differentiate between object pronouns and subject pronouns!
From TFA: Licensing details for the technology are still being ironed out. These could be a concern, Crow [program manager for Windows Media Photo] acknowledged, but "the philosophy has been that licensing should not be a restriction" to adoption, he said.
Okay you heard it here first, Microsoft now offically has stated that licensing shouldn't be a restriction to adoption. Supercool! I'll bet next week they'll be dropping lawsuits around the worldd...
You left out some...
Database is not Access
Graphics editor is not Photoshop
Level Two
OS is not Windows
or actually
The operating system is not the GUI.
My name is David and I'm mad! After seeing what Google had done to ServersCheck I decided to see what they had done to my name.
...
"D" - the results include dictionary, dog, and desperate housewife. Oh my gosh, they are evil. Just a "d" and they are already defining my wife as a bitch.
"Da" - the results include davids bridal, dating and da vinci code. Are they implying that I need to date and get married? Or are the alluding to the implication that Jesus married Mary Magdalene? Either way can't Google just stay out of my marriage and my religious beliefs.
"Dav" - David Letterman, David Beckham, David Bowie. Are they trying to play good cop/bad cop with me? Now they are associating me with celebrities. Can't they just let me be me?
"Davi" - Hmm, now they're getting the idea. One of the suggestions, finally, is just plain David, but they're still courting me with davids bridal and a slew of celebrities, one interesting addition this round is david and goliath. Are they advocating that I use violence against them? I know that the little guy won in that story!
"David" - Now you'd expect they'd settle down and just let me be me, but no we keep all the other celebs and gain David Hockney. Oh, well I guess there's worse things to be associated with than an aging Pop Artist.
Now lets see what happens if I start typing in failure
and my brain just keeps seeing GOOGLE AJAX WEB DEVELOPMENT
Maybe we should just call it GAWD for short!
... and on the Internet anyone can be a 14 year old girl.
Since I started using Google, I just always click on I'm Feeling Lucky . After all who am I to second-guess the Great and All-knowing Google.
Fuel cells are an energy storage medium, not an energy source.
You are half right. Fuel cells are neither an energy storage medium nor an energy source. The source of the electricity used to hydrolyze the water is the energy source. Hydrogen is the energy storage medium The fuel cell is an energy conversion device same as an internal combustion engine except way more efficient.
What you are talking about is a whole different business model.
How is this a whole new business model? Sounds like the same old same old to me...
Now I'll admit I'm not much of a TV watcher anyway, but I'm not particularly interested in web-content that turns my PC into a small, lo-res television complete with 16 minutes of ads per hour. What's new about that???
What would be cool is if the site remembers exactly where I was when I last watched. Dynamically generate a short recap of my last session to remind me of the highlights of what I last watched. Allow me to link to excerpts from previous episodes when they're alluded to. Maybe even have a writer's forum where they can go deeper into background and get feedback from the audience as the show unfolds.
Just using TCP/IP instead of cable or radio waves doesn't begin to constitute a new business model.
... from which many ethical and legal issues can and do arise.
How many slashdotters know of Fleischmann only as a yeast company? I understand that yeast has played a major role in genetic research, but fusion!? What the heck have they been smoking???
Sigh...another IE exploit. Seems to me if a hacker really wants some bragging rights they'd start exploiting the patches. There are certainly enough of them out by now!
"If you look at DistroWatch, you'll see zillions of these distributions. Which one should we do? And, everyone keeps telling us that they want different distributions. So, our conclusion is to do them all and let the customer decide."
We love Linux, and we're doing our best to support the Linux community.
Mr. Dell,
Please put your products where your mouth is. If you are so supportive of Linux, please put your suppliers on notice that you will not buy from them without Linux drivers, please design and promote your full line of PCs as "Linux ready", provide strong customer support for 3 or 4 distros (they really aren't that different under the hood) and please, oh please, sell them at a price that doesn't include an M$ tax.
Still waiting after all these years.
I grew up with magazine rack in the bathroom, and it has been my experience that most home bathrooms still have some reading material, even if its just a stack of Reader's Digests on the counter.
We still have the magazine rack but since my wife got a Palm T5 with a wifi card it's been largely ignored in favor of the internet.
Parent was intended to be funny in an ironic sort of way. Any moderators out there with a sense of humor :-/
Google is working on a project to create its own global internet protocol network
In Soviet Russia the global internet protocol network (sic) creates Google.
Oh, wait...
For more on this topic, check out The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki.
Surowiecki gives many examples of how aggregated knowledge of a lot of fools usually beats the experts. The research cited in TFA begins to explain the mechanism by which that works.
I'm betting hunting for a new job takes significantly more than 30 minutes.
True, but even very significant amounts of time can be broken down in 30 minute chunks. Don't downplay the time spent on such Slashdot to be time unable to be spent doing the important stuff. Realize that Slashdot is a decision made at the expense of other stuff!
Yahoo should take a lesson from Avis...
Uhmmm, that's not a dupe... but why isn't it funny???
I probably see about 25% of the stories on slashdot before they appear on slashdot
Ans: 480x320
Recently I installed wifi at home for my wife's T5 and since then she does about 80% of her browsing on that. It can be a great experience on well designed sites or sites that are handheld specific, but on sites which assume an 800 or 1024 pixel-width, ahem!, I don't normally use that kind of language.