Interesting idea, but prolly not. Sharks and rays are a completely different brand of creatures than the moray eels, which belong to the bony fishes. Sharks, which are cartilaginous fishes, are also far older.
"Its propeller is clearly visible -- this was a major no-no on the part of someone at the Bangor Sub Base. The designs of such stealth propellers have been secret for decades."
Whaddya mean? Everyone of us knows what a nuclear (nukular) propeller looks like.
Yeah. Slashdot should definitely update that icon to a Borg Steve Ballmer. "Sweaty chairs will be thrown at you. Resistance is futile. Developers developers developers developers!"
Yeah, this is ooold. Homo habilis's status as a species of Homo has been challenged many times before this. It has even been called Australopithecus habilis by some researchers. The views on the family tree of the human species are constantly changing, but AFAIK, Homo (?) habilis has for some time not been considered to be on the lineage that leads to us.
In TFA there was a Flash ad about biblical prophesies concerning the Middle East. What the heck? "YOU need to understand what is prophesied yet to happen in the MIDDLE EAST." Yeah, right. And this is related to IT in..what way?
They seem to be talking about the most important game ever. SMB might well be just that, for the reasons they gave, but that doesn't make it the best game ever (althoughit is indeed an excellent one).
"...the name is not based on the slang for orgasm, it's the name of it's creator, Orkut Büyükkökten (kinda strange naming one social networking site after yourself, but...)"
Thanks, I know. The name means something pleasant and relevant in Turkish (the native country of Orkut Büyükkökten, too lazy to check it on Wikipedia though), so maybe it wasn't a bad idea after all.
Oh well, checked it anyway. "Orkut is an old Turkish word that means "city of happiness, pleasure, joy, luck,". I guess you can call a social networking website that. Minus the fakers and trolls. And people with a taste for horrible layouts, colors, and fonts, of course.
It's strange that of all the places on teh Intarwebs Slashdot (or at least a part of its readers) is oblivious to Orkut. Or maybe it's just a testimony to the general American unawareness of the rest of the world even on the Net.
You can hardly call Orkut obscure. To put it short, Orkut is the MySpace of the Third World. AFAIK, it first got popular in Brazil and now apparently in India, too. Google bought it a while ago and integrated it to its services.
I've encountered Orkut many times before, even though I don't use it. And yes, "orkut" is also Finnish slang for "orgasms".
Next, think about the difference between floating ice and continental ice. The grandparent does have an interesting point, though. (BTW, the text image you have to type when posting was 'warmers'. Eerie.)
We forget easily that choice itself is a choice. It's really something optional. Choice is a good thing to exist, because at some point people will always ask for something different and better. N00b and Joe Sixpack users, however, only get confused by too much choice. They'll be happy with the tools that come bundled with their OS/computer. When (if) they become more computer and internet literate, they'll come looking for a replacement for that blue E, for example. To put it short: initial myriads of choice is bad, it confuses the user. The possibility to have more choice is good.
True. Macs were really a niche phenomenon here, but since two years or so and especially after the introduction of the Intel Macs (and of them, the MacBook) Macs seem to be popping up everywhere. Could be the iPod halo effect as well.
"Or do birds and those big land dinosaurs share a common ancestor, technically also a dinosaur, that was smaller?"
Yes. T. rex and Triceratops didn't evolve into birds (which is something stories like these make people think, unfortunately). Instead they share a common ancestor that was also a dinosaur, probably something closely related to dromaeosaurid dinosaurs (aka 'raptors'). However, T. rex and its ilk are more closely related to birds and share a common ancestor within a shorter timespan than Triceratops which belongs to the more distantly related branch of dinosaurs (ornitischia).
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Not much historic data on hole? But people at /. have posted links to goatse for years now!
Interesting idea, but prolly not. Sharks and rays are a completely different brand of creatures than the moray eels, which belong to the bony fishes. Sharks, which are cartilaginous fishes, are also far older.
"Its propeller is clearly visible -- this was a major no-no on the part of someone at the Bangor Sub Base. The designs of such stealth propellers have been secret for decades."
Whaddya mean? Everyone of us knows what a nuclear (nukular) propeller looks like.
Yeah. Slashdot should definitely update that icon to a Borg Steve Ballmer. "Sweaty chairs will be thrown at you. Resistance is futile. Developers developers developers developers!"
Yeah, this is ooold. Homo habilis's status as a species of Homo has been challenged many times before this. It has even been called Australopithecus habilis by some researchers. The views on the family tree of the human species are constantly changing, but AFAIK, Homo (?) habilis has for some time not been considered to be on the lineage that leads to us.
Wow. You know things are really getting bad when Microsoft thinks security measures have become too intrusive and overblown.
That's what I was thinking: which version of MS Office did they raid? XP, 2007? Huh??
Instead of Duck and Cover: Drug and Don't Cower.
In TFA there was a Flash ad about biblical prophesies concerning the Middle East. What the heck? "YOU need to understand what is prophesied yet to happen in the MIDDLE EAST." Yeah, right. And this is related to IT in ..what way?
They seem to be talking about the most important game ever. SMB might well be just that, for the reasons they gave, but that doesn't make it the best game ever (althoughit is indeed an excellent one).
For some reason, screen sizes are always given in inches, even in the metric parts (read: the majority) of the world. That's the explanation.
"...the name is not based on the slang for orgasm, it's the name of it's creator, Orkut Büyükkökten (kinda strange naming one social networking site after yourself, but...)"
Thanks, I know. The name means something pleasant and relevant in Turkish (the native country of Orkut Büyükkökten, too lazy to check it on Wikipedia though), so maybe it wasn't a bad idea after all.
Oh well, checked it anyway. "Orkut is an old Turkish word that means "city of happiness, pleasure, joy, luck,". I guess you can call a social networking website that. Minus the fakers and trolls. And people with a taste for horrible layouts, colors, and fonts, of course.
Well duh, gotta correct myself right away. Google didn't buy Orkut, it was their creation from the beginning.
It's strange that of all the places on teh Intarwebs Slashdot (or at least a part of its readers) is oblivious to Orkut. Or maybe it's just a testimony to the general American unawareness of the rest of the world even on the Net.
You can hardly call Orkut obscure. To put it short, Orkut is the MySpace of the Third World. AFAIK, it first got popular in Brazil and now apparently in India, too. Google bought it a while ago and integrated it to its services.
I've encountered Orkut many times before, even though I don't use it. And yes, "orkut" is also Finnish slang for "orgasms".
And the Oxford American Dictionary on my Mac (I love it) says it can be pronounced like 'yoo-ran-us' (or something like that).
Next, think about the difference between floating ice and continental ice. The grandparent does have an interesting point, though. (BTW, the text image you have to type when posting was 'warmers'. Eerie.)
"Huh? The EU started out as, and effectively remains, an economic organization. How did they "keep the peace"."
By being an economic organisation. The idea was to make European countries dependent on each other through a unified economy.
We forget easily that choice itself is a choice. It's really something optional. Choice is a good thing to exist, because at some point people will always ask for something different and better. N00b and Joe Sixpack users, however, only get confused by too much choice. They'll be happy with the tools that come bundled with their OS/computer. When (if) they become more computer and internet literate, they'll come looking for a replacement for that blue E, for example. To put it short: initial myriads of choice is bad, it confuses the user. The possibility to have more choice is good.
This one was the best this far. Where are my mod points when I need them... It doesn't deserve just +1 Funny, it's actually +1 Insightful.
True. Macs were really a niche phenomenon here, but since two years or so and especially after the introduction of the Intel Macs (and of them, the MacBook) Macs seem to be popping up everywhere. Could be the iPod halo effect as well.
If that's the case, 'online' probably excludes Slashdot.
"Or do birds and those big land dinosaurs share a common ancestor, technically also a dinosaur, that was smaller?"
Yes. T. rex and Triceratops didn't evolve into birds (which is something stories like these make people think, unfortunately). Instead they share a common ancestor that was also a dinosaur, probably something closely related to dromaeosaurid dinosaurs (aka 'raptors'). However, T. rex and its ilk are more closely related to birds and share a common ancestor within a shorter timespan than Triceratops which belongs to the more distantly related branch of dinosaurs (ornitischia).
In post-WW Europe, speed records surrender to the French!
EMI does now offer its entire catalog DRM-free (and in higher quality), first on iTunes.
Expect a phoneless 'iPhone' - that is, a wide-screen, multitouch iPod with greater capacity - to emerge next fall.
BTW, we need a new tag: "iPhone, bitch!!"