Why on earth would you need a remote controlled dishwasher? So you can load it in the morning and turn it on just before leaving work so you have sparkling clean dishes to use for supper?
This technology is much better for ovens, heating systems, VCRs/PVRs, pet food dispensers or whatever. Not that I'd trust an remote control connected to the net to control any of these things. It can all be achieved with a timer.
And no, I'm not humor impaired. But it seems that every time an article gets posted on slashdot, the only posts that get moderated up are the +1 Funny.
10) Price of Windex goes up due to increased demand. 9) Massive bandwidth shortages because of holographic file transfers. 8) Gay midgets porn on the increase. 7) No contact dances. 6) No specific scents. 5) Playstation 2 holographic mod chip not legal in the USA. 4) Invention of vapor technology. 3) ??? 2) Profit! 1) Jizz moppers Union 341 is already asking for an injunction on this technology.
If they put all of it up on the internet, it would discredit Christianity and the Catholic Church so much that it would be the final nail in the coffin.
Bullshit.
The documents in the Vatican Library are there for a reason. When St. Augstine ordered the selection of books which would make up the Bible circa 300 AD, a shitload of books were NOT included. They still kept them as supporting evidence of the existance of Jesus, even though their accounts were way off (some had dragons, virgin sacrifices etc). And that's just Jesus - there are texts supporting the evidence of a global flood, texts supporting the 10 plagues, texts to back up the entire Bible.
Warhol didn't create the Velvet Underground. They existed before he hired them to do some soundtrack stuff for his movies. They had their own attitude and their own look - he just asked them to write some songs for him.
This was their first album, the one with Nico. They had 3 other ones, with the last one being the best of them all. If you listen to their complete recordings, you will see that their influence was mainly blues - a style that Warhol didn't invent.
And while he did help them get noticed, their earned their own laurels.
The point of slashdot has become to get your post or story in before everyone else does. Gone are the days when people actually considered if they had something to add to the discussion. These days, everyone jumps right in, with 30% of the posts belonging to trolls, 50% to people who are (attempting to be) funny and the rest to people who actually add insightful or informative information to the article.
Slashdot has become a parody of itself - the site that offers the freshest news offers the stalest of ideas (beowulf clusters, petrified natalie). Even a post like this is uber-meta: it doesn't deal with the site, it deals with the users and what has become of them.
If any of you mod this up, know that this post is completely offtopic.
You and the formidable mass of 10,000 other geeks will surely make an impact on a society which has embraced the MP3 format. And it's not like OGG offers lossless compression, either, so you can't even claim that advantage over MP3s.
So stop trying to be cool by endorsing a format which will never be accepted because it doesn't offer technological advantages.
Let me explain this in laymen's terms: The geek who spent the past 8 years of his life crunching numbers has definately not gotten laid during that period. This is his day of glory, his existance peaks here.
He can then ride the wave of mathematical fame for about a week - but he can use it to score with the hottest of hotties. Chicks dig brains.
In terms of the actual experiment, the results will allow us to develop a kernel module which can predict how long it will be before you have sex. The more shell logins, complicated bash scripts and mount commands you use, the longer your wait until The Big Day.
How come you didn't have the cojones to post this shit when moderators were still looking? Now you can run along and remove a karma point from my account, and I don't really care.
Because in the end, it *is* correct to say: "Are there any chinese slashdotters."
Articles like this always bring out prostalgia. We all start longing for things that don't exist yet and cursing current technology - I know I do.
We've been promised so many things by science fiction and very few of them have become a reality. Where are our flying cars, our jetpacks, our teleporters, matter synthesizers, travel to other planets and video telephones? I curse the fact that I have to drive to work every day, sit in traffic, that my dentist still uses a drill, that I can't have my meal from a tube and that holographic 3d tv doesn't exist yet.
Science fiction spoiled us. It's time we accepted that we won't see the things I mentionned above in our lifetime, and got on with our lives using current technology.
Right. But by only using metric units, you would know that meters are much smaller than kilometers. If the area was given in millimeters, you'd think twice before being impressed.
As is, I had to use a converter to find out what 600 acres was in square miles and kilometers. (I'm fairly proficient in both.)
Using metric units would prevent such problems. I insist on metric because that's what most of the world uses. Just look at your cars - all metric. Plus having everything a multiple of 10 makes things a lot easier than converting 11/16" into decimals.
It doesn't seem like a lot of land when you consider that it's less than one square mile.
I wish we could finally adopt the metric system. Big numbers and odd units really impress people. If everyone used the same system, you wouldn't need to know what a quart, stone or a furlong is.
600 acres is roughly 1 square mile (see for yourself). A typical battlebot has enough juice for a 5 minute round, including moving the opponent and use of weapons.
Ignoring the fact that you would have trouble seeing your battlebot at one mile, and assuming it doesn't consume any energy for the weapons, it would have to travel at a minimum of 6 mph just to reach the opponent (assuming the opponent is moving towards you in a straight line at the same speed). That spends all of its battery power on traveling.
What do you get? People racing battlebots towards each other.
Slashdot Mirror
Image is available here, conveniently sized at 1280x960.
It may damage your screen, though, and you may be forced to go to the library to check out a book.
Version 2.0 is here.
The Sony MD players are very popular with the bootleg crowd. I imagine a Beowulf cluster of those will do the job (the players, not crowds).
Why on earth would you need a remote controlled dishwasher? So you can load it in the morning and turn it on just before leaving work so you have sparkling clean dishes to use for supper?
This technology is much better for ovens, heating systems, VCRs/PVRs, pet food dispensers or whatever. Not that I'd trust an remote control connected to the net to control any of these things. It can all be achieved with a timer.
And no, I'm not humor impaired. But it seems that every time an article gets posted on slashdot, the only posts that get moderated up are the +1 Funny.
10) Price of Windex goes up due to increased demand.
9) Massive bandwidth shortages because of holographic file transfers.
8) Gay midgets porn on the increase.
7) No contact dances.
6) No specific scents.
5) Playstation 2 holographic mod chip not legal in the USA.
4) Invention of vapor technology.
3) ???
2) Profit!
1) Jizz moppers Union 341 is already asking for an injunction on this technology.
Money which you don't have in the first place canot be lost or stolen.
The most that happened is that a few CEOs and executives didn't take home a bonus because the revenue for that year was slightly lower.
I posted a mirror here.
If they put all of it up on the internet, it would discredit Christianity and the Catholic Church so much that it would be the final nail in the coffin.
Bullshit.
The documents in the Vatican Library are there for a reason. When St. Augstine ordered the selection of books which would make up the Bible circa 300 AD, a shitload of books were NOT included. They still kept them as supporting evidence of the existance of Jesus, even though their accounts were way off (some had dragons, virgin sacrifices etc). And that's just Jesus - there are texts supporting the evidence of a global flood, texts supporting the 10 plagues, texts to back up the entire Bible.
Which can only give it more credit.
Warhol didn't create the Velvet Underground. They existed before he hired them to do some soundtrack stuff for his movies. They had their own attitude and their own look - he just asked them to write some songs for him.
This was their first album, the one with Nico. They had 3 other ones, with the last one being the best of them all. If you listen to their complete recordings, you will see that their influence was mainly blues - a style that Warhol didn't invent.
And while he did help them get noticed, their earned their own laurels.
The point of slashdot has become to get your post or story in before everyone else does. Gone are the days when people actually considered if they had something to add to the discussion. These days, everyone jumps right in, with 30% of the posts belonging to trolls, 50% to people who are (attempting to be) funny and the rest to people who actually add insightful or informative information to the article.
Slashdot has become a parody of itself - the site that offers the freshest news offers the stalest of ideas (beowulf clusters, petrified natalie). Even a post like this is uber-meta: it doesn't deal with the site, it deals with the users and what has become of them.
If any of you mod this up, know that this post is completely offtopic.
You and the formidable mass of 10,000 other geeks will surely make an impact on a society which has embraced the MP3 format. And it's not like OGG offers lossless compression, either, so you can't even claim that advantage over MP3s.
So stop trying to be cool by endorsing a format which will never be accepted because it doesn't offer technological advantages.
I see a number of posts saying "So what?".
Let me explain this in laymen's terms: The geek who spent the past 8 years of his life crunching numbers has definately not gotten laid during that period. This is his day of glory, his existance peaks here.
He can then ride the wave of mathematical fame for about a week - but he can use it to score with the hottest of hotties. Chicks dig brains.
In terms of the actual experiment, the results will allow us to develop a kernel module which can predict how long it will be before you have sex. The more shell logins, complicated bash scripts and mount commands you use, the longer your wait until The Big Day.
So this is good for Linux.
Prejudiced is not only a verb, it's an adjective - and used as such in this case.
You also forgot a "g" in your second-to-last post.
Where do you get off callin me prejudice?
should be:
Where do you get off calling me prejudiced
Shine on, you crazy english major.
As opposed to some l33t skr1pt k1dd13 who has a number in his name. Fuck you and your prejudice.
Oooh! Big boy writes back!
How come you didn't have the cojones to post this shit when moderators were still looking? Now you can run along and remove a karma point from my account, and I don't really care.
Because in the end, it *is* correct to say: "Are there any chinese slashdotters."
See you in the funny pages.
I'm one of the least qualified people to correct mistakes, but your question should read:
Are there any chinese slashdotters?
(/offtopic)
Articles like this always bring out prostalgia. We all start longing for things that don't exist yet and cursing current technology - I know I do.
We've been promised so many things by science fiction and very few of them have become a reality. Where are our flying cars, our jetpacks, our teleporters, matter synthesizers, travel to other planets and video telephones? I curse the fact that I have to drive to work every day, sit in traffic, that my dentist still uses a drill, that I can't have my meal from a tube and that holographic 3d tv doesn't exist yet.
Science fiction spoiled us. It's time we accepted that we won't see the things I mentionned above in our lifetime, and got on with our lives using current technology.
Right. But by only using metric units, you would know that meters are much smaller than kilometers. If the area was given in millimeters, you'd think twice before being impressed.
As is, I had to use a converter to find out what 600 acres was in square miles and kilometers. (I'm fairly proficient in both.)
Using metric units would prevent such problems. I insist on metric because that's what most of the world uses. Just look at your cars - all metric. Plus having everything a multiple of 10 makes things a lot easier than converting 11/16" into decimals.
If you start them off 50 feet apart, why not use a smaller area? Unless you're planning some kind of Battlebot orgy, it would be wasted.
It doesn't seem like a lot of land when you consider that it's less than one square mile.
I wish we could finally adopt the metric system. Big numbers and odd units really impress people. If everyone used the same system, you wouldn't need to know what a quart, stone or a furlong is.
Oh right.
600 acres is roughly 1 square mile (see for yourself). A typical battlebot has enough juice for a 5 minute round, including moving the opponent and use of weapons.
Ignoring the fact that you would have trouble seeing your battlebot at one mile, and assuming it doesn't consume any energy for the weapons, it would have to travel at a minimum of 6 mph just to reach the opponent (assuming the opponent is moving towards you in a straight line at the same speed). That spends all of its battery power on traveling.
What do you get? People racing battlebots towards each other.