Wouldn't the sound of a muppet getting its head lightsabered off be something more like, "Arrgh! My hand! My hand was in there you jerk!" At least it's instantly cauterized.
Well, in that case, maybe it's time for a button in the preferences. Set a flag for stories that have been moderated as repeats, and you can choose whether you want to see the repeats, perhaps for some macabre reason you actually want to see a second discussion on the topic. For the rest of us though, it would be nice if once a story is identified as a repeat, if we could just skip it as easily as though it were a story by Jon Katz. Professional Therapist.
Okay, the editors are human and make mistakes.. you can't expect everyone to know what everyone else has put on the site.. but this is a repost of front page news from yesterday.
It wouldn't surprise me to find that claims of such a high failure rate were true. What with the new, bigger, better product coming out X months (sometimes weeks) from now, and the corresponding drop in price of "older" hardware, I think your average gamer, who arguably is the real driver of the hardware industry, doesn't care so much about things like reliability, because it'll be time to upgrade again in a couple of months. Who cares if their HD was only going to work for a month or two after that? Manufacturers seem to only be interested in being able to put higher numbers on their product, instead of building a product that actually will work properly for any significant amount of time. (caveat) This is based on mostly anecdotal evidence. I guess i've just been lucky, i've been using computers since '84, and the worst hardware problem i've had is a capacitor dying on a monitor.
So, theoretically, the shape and structure and position if you neglect the uncertainty principle could be mathematically defined.. and we could all be "shadows" of a 4th dimensional world? Makes me wonder what that does to free will.
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Wouldn't the sound of a muppet getting its head lightsabered off be something more like, "Arrgh! My hand! My hand was in there you jerk!" At least it's instantly cauterized.
Well, in that case, maybe it's time for a button in the preferences. Set a flag for stories that have been moderated as repeats, and you can choose whether you want to see the repeats, perhaps for some macabre reason you actually want to see a second discussion on the topic. For the rest of us though, it would be nice if once a story is identified as a repeat, if we could just skip it as easily as though it were a story by Jon Katz. Professional Therapist.
Okay, the editors are human and make mistakes.. you can't expect everyone to know what everyone else has put on the site.. but this is a repost of front page news from yesterday.
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http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/1
If it's a repost of an old article, it's understandable.. but articles that are still on the front page? C'mon guys, there's just no excuse for that.
It wouldn't surprise me to find that claims of such a high failure rate were true. What with the new, bigger, better product coming out X months (sometimes weeks) from now, and the corresponding drop in price of "older" hardware, I think your average gamer, who arguably is the real driver of the hardware industry, doesn't care so much about things like reliability, because it'll be time to upgrade again in a couple of months. Who cares if their HD was only going to work for a month or two after that? Manufacturers seem to only be interested in being able to put higher numbers on their product, instead of building a product that actually will work properly for any significant amount of time.
(caveat) This is based on mostly anecdotal evidence. I guess i've just been lucky, i've been using computers since '84, and the worst hardware problem i've had is a capacitor dying on a monitor.
So, theoretically, the shape and structure and position if you neglect the uncertainty principle could be mathematically defined.. and we could all be "shadows" of a 4th dimensional world? Makes me wonder what that does to free will.