Slashdot Mirror


User: Gilgaron

Gilgaron's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,787
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,787

  1. Re:I was wrong...THIS might be Dotcom Bubble 2.0 on People Have Spent Over $1M Buying Virtual Cats on the Ethereum Blockchain (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah but when mortgages crash it has consequences, when the cryptocurrencies crash some nerds have more video cards then they really need and have a harder time gaining from ransomware. Its the tulip crash if instead of money people were offering to buy the tulip bulbs with beanie babies.

  2. Virtual currency for virtual cats? on People Have Spent Over $1M Buying Virtual Cats on the Ethereum Blockchain (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It might be interesting as a social phenomena, but it isn't much different than getting all excited about dropping a bunch of in-game currency on a set of ebony armor in Skyrim. Weren't people selling their shorts on the housing market right before the bubble? Speculation built on speculation...

  3. Re:Spaceballs figures on Elon Musk Trolls the Media With a Clip From 'Spaceballs' (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    Same reason Weird Al gets permission for his parodies: it makes things easier, and people get long better.

  4. They probably can't figure out how to have the award named after themselves without having to pony up all the money individually to become the next Nobel or whatnot.

  5. Re:Wrong conclusion? on Bacteria Found On ISS May Be Alien In Origin, Says Cosmonaut (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Exactly, even if based on DNA/RNA the codons wouldn't even necessarily be triplets, let alone correspond to the same amino acid alphabet we use.

  6. Re:Wrong conclusion? on Bacteria Found On ISS May Be Alien In Origin, Says Cosmonaut (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That doesn't have much to do with the specificity of our tests that can find life. Essentially, if it doesn't eat what we eat and doesn't poop what we poop it will be very hard to find.

  7. Re: I doubt it on Study Finds Dogs Are Brainier Than Cats (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 1

    Dogs manipulate stuff with their paws all the time. They have an easier time if the front dewclaws haven't been removed.

  8. Re:They have DNA sequencer on board on Bacteria Found On ISS May Be Alien In Origin, Says Cosmonaut (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Yet there'd be little reason to expect any similarity with the DNA codons to protein translations, even if DNA were to be somewhat inevitable. If we found an alien world teaming with life much like ours here, it would be shocking if we could eat the fruit there, for example.

  9. Re:Wrong conclusion? on Bacteria Found On ISS May Be Alien In Origin, Says Cosmonaut (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are plenty of native bacteria that won't grow in culture, and one reason archaea took so long to elucidate is that it is hard to use PCR on "unknowns." Since we wouldn't have primers for an alien bacterium (and really no reason to expect it to be using DNA or RNA at all, unless panspermia is correct and it has common ancestry with us) we'd mostly have to be lucky that it was able to be cultured. It'll be a while before we can find truly alien microbes with any ease.

  10. I don't know if I'm just too old or whatever, but I've never understood the point of One Note, but I guess I was too cheap to get a laptop in college and just took notes on spiral notebooks. Certainly it doesn't seem to be useful for anything at work, but I still use the spiral notebooks even though I have a laptop...

  11. Re:Ask the Dutch how worried we should be on Could Collapsing Antarctic Glaciers Raise Sea Levels Sooner Than Expected? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would flood protection be a one time cost?

  12. Re:Maybe the game is deeper than realized on Comcast Hints At Plan For Paid Fast Lanes After Net Neutrality Repeal (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The rules are already allowing consolidation of other media, consolidating the internet by choking competitors and buying them out will be just as sure to follow. Hell, buy the local TV stations and the local Telco and Cableco and don't even sell ads to your competitors!

  13. Well they'd have to change how they market it, since it is sold as bandwidth.

  14. I stopped playing much multiplayer before these schemes got popular, but I think it is to incentivize more of the loot boxes and so on. Like if you could pay real money to avoid grinding in Diablo II back in the day.

  15. Re:Honest question about NN on Petition Calls for Ouster of FCC Chairman Pai (whitehouse.gov) · · Score: 1

    ...what problem would that solve? The absence of NN is potentially bad for the citizens of the USA, and the corporations that want open access to that market.

  16. Re:Excel has made IT Consultants a fortune on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    That is a good point... my developer has a lot easier time writing up a program for me when I can hand him a functional Excel prototype.

  17. Re:What would replace Excel? on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah it sounds like a workflow problem. That and if they're reinventing the wheel then some qualified spreadsheets and document control would streamline stuff even if they stick with Excel.

  18. Re:Folks, we are in big trouble on FCC Will Also Order States To Scrap Plans For Their Own Net Neutrality Laws (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Eh I dunno, it is pretty hard to aim well in a stressful situation. That's why when you read about police shootings and how many rounds fired versus hit the suspect they have such a low hit percentage, even though they train at the range on a regular basis. From the ones I've seen at the range they are very skilled, but no doubt it gets worse when in the field.

  19. I like their controllers better. The Playstation ones only feel ergonomic if I hold them upside down and use my fingers instead of my thumbs.

  20. Re:GMO trees... on What They Don't Tell You About Climate Change (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure but they're only actively sinking more carbon if they're growing. So for an industrial scale you're better off harvesting and replanting.

  21. Where'd you get that idea? Population genetics is still 'a thing'

  22. Mixing races and incest are at opposite ends of deleteriousness in terms of genetics... especially considering you can undo inbreeding with a good outcrossing.

  23. Re: Well... on 46% of Americans Now Have High Blood Pressure (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I suppose showing both values would be the best of both worlds.

  24. Re:Now the nutrition experts emerge again on 46% of Americans Now Have High Blood Pressure (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    To an extent it is a bit of a psychological defense mechanism to believe that all you need to do is eat well and you'll be healthy. It plays a role in health, obviosuly, but like you I have noticed a bit of pseudo-religious thought to it all.

  25. Re:wrong diet on 46% of Americans Now Have High Blood Pressure (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I was reading a book on the history of brewing in America and it was interesting to read that the rice, at the time Budweiser pilsner was 'invented', was a premium ingredient. I prefer more full bodied ales, myself, but it is actually pretty tricky to make crisp pilsners by comparison. There aren't enough flavors in there to cover any mistakes. Similarly, vanilla ice cream is made first at the factory and if it has problems then it is remade into chocolate ice cream because it can cover the flavor issues better.