I remember reading about Deep Space 1 and it's Ion engine about 8 years ago. I was most impressed that the thrust is about that felt on your hand by a piece of paper when held on Earth. The key is that it accelerates the ship to a speed much greater than traditional rockets, not how quickly it does that. Besides, you don't want to go from 0 to 60 in.058 seconds, unless you want to be a smear on the bulkhead.
Generating tourism isn't dependent on there being 500 of them though. With wind towers, the more the merrier the people will be since they can run more stuff on the grid. After all, who likes rolling blackouts over unlimited air conditioning?
Well, since Spybot has fixed almost every computer with a problem I've put it on, and Norton AV has broken more than 3 computers I've seen it on, I'd have to go with Spybot's version of events.
I've seen an IBM hotswappable server hard drive fan with two LED indicator lights on it cost $850+ in total to replace. Not much IBM can charge would surprise me now.
That's right. If Microsoft doesn't try to plug the holes in mainstream commercial operating system choices, by providing their software on those platforms, then Open Office could gain a foothold in word processing on the Mac, much how Adobe did with Photoshop and other Mac software.
They should allow the processing of zip files with exe files in them, but bash the user over the head with a blunt warning such as, "The probability that this file contains a virus is extremely high. Please confirm using direct communication with the sender, that the file is not generated by a virus."
That way, geeks can send attachments, and ordinary users might not run the.exe.
And preferably, when the virus scanner detects identically sized.zip files going to EVERYONE or multiple times to the same user, then it would start stripping the files or emails by default.
I used to get about 35 spam a day in my primary hotmail account that I'd had since 1997. Now it gets about 4 a day so things have improved, but my biggest concern about Hotmail is that its virus scanning is horrible. There have been several times when it would have let me download a virus attachment, or allowed multiple obvious virus messages through. They've switched to Trend from McAfee, but I think the problem still remains.
I think not everyone is groggy for long after waking up, because some people get enough sleep. It's more common for people to sleep less than 7hours a night these days, so it's more common to know groggy people.
Do they call it "groggy" because it's as if you've had too much "grog"?
The reason we're looking, as scientists, to put nails into ID's coffin, is because ID is being used to combat science, not to enhance it. ID is not a science, it's politics by religious people using fake-science to convince school boards that it's a valid scientific theory that must be part of a biology class. I wouldn't mind if ID is taught in a mythology class as an example of how people use modern understandings of the world [in our case science] to argue the case for religion.
I'm quite serious. I get more hits from a +5 comment than I do by being the author of an article. People just don't click the author that much, plus I've been around for so long that lots of people will either know who I am, or have looked an no longer care. Comments/signatures are easier to notice than author links.
" I don't want to read a blog of somebody's opinion about a scientific discovery that gives a link to NewScientist - I'd rather read the NewScientist article directly."
Why can't both be given? As the presenter of the link, the article submitter should get first dibs on presenting their take on it. Since an article shouldn't be more than about 5 lines long to be on the front page, and only book reviews and Taco rants get a "cut" where the rest of the analysis is behind the comments link, that means it should be OK to link to a blog with analysis, and also give the direct link to the story.
"That way, you can publish the stories, and let the users decide what they want to see."
But instead of a "I Digg It" link, it would say, "I Slash It"?
I think story moderation should go to experienced users only, so base it on ones with good karma or higher, which would prevent abusive anonymous story boosting clicks.
Submitters are a dime a dozen, Taco says as much in his rant. Sometimes a unique gem comes along, or one has to be tossed because the summary is unreadable, but mostly a single link must get submitted several times in several ways if it's a big story. news.google.com is your friend after all, as is digg.com [sorry not offtopic]. I've often submitted something, only to see it appear later on the front page with a different author. There's even a/. policy to stop people from ranting that they weren't the one chosen.
The lifeblood of the community is you an I, having this disagreement, where anyone can join in with their two cents. Sure a single article is tying our comments together, but [nearly] any doofus can quote from an article and paste a link if they know simple HTML.
If the/. profile is always the link, then I wouldn't enjoy having my submissions posted quite as much. It punishes the non-malicious submitters to do that change.
The Edit option is higher stress on the/. Editors, so make a moderation pool for stories, so moderators can determine if a person can submit stories in the future. If the submitter is modded down, they'll have to rebuild "story karma" first, or post anonymously when they submit a story in the future.
There aren't even that many hits on an author link. The biggest benefit is the extra street cred among geek friends, and some better google rank possibly. The most hits I've seen on my site from a front page acceptance, was about 100. 20 from a Science page submission.
I'm sure having a page linked in the article summary is the way to go, but I think I get more hits from getting the occasional +5 Funny or Informative than an article on the front page.
"50 fun things to do with your iPod besides listening to music with those white earbuds:"
I was going to suggest 48 too. Hearing societies recommend against using earbud style earphones since they are further down the ear canal and thus cause more damage to hearing when turned up too loud. Personally I think loud music from regular headphones will cause the same level of damage at the same perceived volume, since that's the volume that someone wants to listen at anyway, not a set number on the dial.
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I remember reading about Deep Space 1 and it's Ion engine about 8 years ago. I was most impressed that the thrust is about that felt on your hand by a piece of paper when held on Earth. The key is that it accelerates the ship to a speed much greater than traditional rockets, not how quickly it does that. Besides, you don't want to go from 0 to 60 in .058 seconds, unless you want to be a smear on the bulkhead.
Hey, what are you trying to do, Slashdot them or something? I'm sure the editors have their reasons for putting "target" in the URL.
Generating tourism isn't dependent on there being 500 of them though. With wind towers, the more the merrier the people will be since they can run more stuff on the grid. After all, who likes rolling blackouts over unlimited air conditioning?
Well, since Spybot has fixed almost every computer with a problem I've put it on, and Norton AV has broken more than 3 computers I've seen it on, I'd have to go with Spybot's version of events.
I've seen an IBM hotswappable server hard drive fan with two LED indicator lights on it cost $850+ in total to replace. Not much IBM can charge would surprise me now.
That's right. If Microsoft doesn't try to plug the holes in mainstream commercial operating system choices, by providing their software on those platforms, then Open Office could gain a foothold in word processing on the Mac, much how Adobe did with Photoshop and other Mac software.
They should allow the processing of zip files with exe files in them, but bash the user over the head with a blunt warning such as,
.exe.
.zip files going to EVERYONE or multiple times to the same user, then it would start stripping the files or emails by default.
"The probability that this file contains a virus is extremely high. Please confirm using direct communication with the sender, that the file is not generated by a virus."
That way, geeks can send attachments, and ordinary users might not run the
And preferably, when the virus scanner detects identically sized
I used to get about 35 spam a day in my primary hotmail account that I'd had since 1997. Now it gets about 4 a day so things have improved, but my biggest concern about Hotmail is that its virus scanning is horrible. There have been several times when it would have let me download a virus attachment, or allowed multiple obvious virus messages through. They've switched to Trend from McAfee, but I think the problem still remains.
I think not everyone is groggy for long after waking up, because some people get enough sleep. It's more common for people to sleep less than 7hours a night these days, so it's more common to know groggy people.
Do they call it "groggy" because it's as if you've had too much "grog"?
Perhaps in the future, a swimming pool will hold 10,000 Litres of data by using phase changing properties to store binary computer data.
The reason we're looking, as scientists, to put nails into ID's coffin, is because ID is being used to combat science, not to enhance it. ID is not a science, it's politics by religious people using fake-science to convince school boards that it's a valid scientific theory that must be part of a biology class. I wouldn't mind if ID is taught in a mythology class as an example of how people use modern understandings of the world [in our case science] to argue the case for religion.
I'm quite serious. I get more hits from a +5 comment than I do by being the author of an article. People just don't click the author that much, plus I've been around for so long that lots of people will either know who I am, or have looked an no longer care. Comments/signatures are easier to notice than author links.
"sometimes that might mean EXACTLY re-writing a submission. "
If you [an editor] rewrite a submission, at what point to you claim the article with link to be your own submission, or does that happen ever?
What's more important, getting the cool link out there, or waiting to reward a better writer with the same link submission?
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I don't want to read a blog of somebody's opinion about a scientific discovery that gives a link to NewScientist - I'd rather read the NewScientist article directly."
Why can't both be given? As the presenter of the link, the article submitter should get first dibs on presenting their take on it. Since an article shouldn't be more than about 5 lines long to be on the front page, and only book reviews and Taco rants get a "cut" where the rest of the analysis is behind the comments link, that means it should be OK to link to a blog with analysis, and also give the direct link to the story.
"That way, you can publish the stories, and let the users decide what they want to see."
But instead of a "I Digg It" link, it would say, "I Slash It"?
I think story moderation should go to experienced users only, so base it on ones with good karma or higher, which would prevent abusive anonymous story boosting clicks.
"I just think some things are core to what Slashdot is, and changing them is a bad idea."
You forgot to mention the cliches you insensitive clod. What are you, new around here or something?
Submitters are a dime a dozen, Taco says as much in his rant. Sometimes a unique gem comes along, or one has to be tossed because the summary is unreadable, but mostly a single link must get submitted several times in several ways if it's a big story. news.google.com is your friend after all, as is digg.com [sorry not offtopic]. I've often submitted something, only to see it appear later on the front page with a different author. There's even a /. policy to stop people from ranting that they weren't the one chosen.
The lifeblood of the community is you an I, having this disagreement, where anyone can join in with their two cents. Sure a single article is tying our comments together, but [nearly] any doofus can quote from an article and paste a link if they know simple HTML.
If the /. profile is always the link, then I wouldn't enjoy having my submissions posted quite as much. It punishes the non-malicious submitters to do that change.
/. Editors, so make a moderation pool for stories, so moderators can determine if a person can submit stories in the future. If the submitter is modded down, they'll have to rebuild "story karma" first, or post anonymously when they submit a story in the future.
The Edit option is higher stress on the
That joke might not work for long, since Taco can just Update the article to omit that line :-)
I think it's important to check the link of the submitter, since it could be to a virus page, or Goatse, etc.
There aren't even that many hits on an author link. The biggest benefit is the extra street cred among geek friends, and some better google rank possibly. The most hits I've seen on my site from a front page acceptance, was about 100. 20 from a Science page submission.
I'm sure having a page linked in the article summary is the way to go, but I think I get more hits from getting the occasional +5 Funny or Informative than an article on the front page.
Just don't toss your mouse on the fire first.6 .html
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060109/D8F0QFU8
Sorry about the mway link, maybe google for flaming mouse instead.
"If you care so little why are you posting to games.slashdot.org?"
Perhaps because it's on the front page, and as a former/sometimes gamer I can offer a perspective that you probably can't.
"sequence of images shows that the North Star, Polaris is really a triple star system."
Damit! OK, so which star do I point my sextant at then if I'm trying to find my latitude? Modern science complicates things so much!
[Yes this is a joke, for those who don't get astronomy humour.]
I guess they probably didn't enter the DRM key for the disk right after hitting play? Or did it not even ask for the key?
Either way it's not their fault, they were probably sold a pirated demo disc. It is always the pirates' fault, remember that.
"50 fun things to do with your iPod besides listening to music with those white earbuds:"
I was going to suggest 48 too. Hearing societies recommend against using earbud style earphones since they are further down the ear canal and thus cause more damage to hearing when turned up too loud. Personally I think loud music from regular headphones will cause the same level of damage at the same perceived volume, since that's the volume that someone wants to listen at anyway, not a set number on the dial.