Sorry. Nobody wants to die in misery. May be you do. In constant pain, disease, disability, mental decline.
I think you are confusing wisdom with age. You can gain experience without aging in the current sense of the word.
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/konovalenko20130227
No Thank You. I used to use TMN for a while and many times it produced freakish stuff, not harmless looking garbage but the kind that would attract surveillance. Terrible Add On that you do not want unless you want the Feds knocking your door.
That may be. The funniest thing is that Unity sucks even more. But still Unity is becoming popular (at least according to TFA).
The best thing I learned from TFA is that someone is developing an incognito version of CyanogenMod. When and if it gets rolled out, the guy deserves to be given money by every privacy-conscious Android user who decides to use it.
This. Mod parent up. If only we could get some informed opinion on Slashdot as opposed to categorical judgments based on group think and most often without even RTFA.
In addition, it is not that it didn't happen, or the extent or the rate. In fact even in the past, it was probably caused by the life around then (their metabolism etc). But guess what? A lot of life perished, including probably the causative agents. So it is entirely conceivable that we are causing it, entirely conceivable that it happened before by other living organisms, and conceivable that Antarctica was warm. But the organisms that caused it most likely ended up extinct.
There are plenty of haters of Gandhi in India, who want to discredit him for being in favor of minorities (like Muslims, Christians, untouchables etc). In fact he was killed by such people. There is to this day a sizeable cultural supremacist fraction who believe in using every forum and medium to reduce the respect and effect of Gandhi. Never knew it gained enough international traction to mod the parent a +5 it got. Truly a sad state of affairs.
Stop this shit Windows XP news. It's 2013. Why is this relevant news for nerds? I mean come on editors! Is this submission better than so many other worthy submissions? How many of us care about this crap? Stop assuming that most of us are some XP support drones looking for jobs on Dice.com. Many of us are scientists, engineers etc in various fields.
As someone who grew up reading your articles, I remember very well your contribution to my interest in PCs, hardware and eventually linux. Too bad and too young to die. RIP Atul.
This. This deserves a +10 mod. I am ok with pat downs. Just make sure they happen in public when everyone is watching. The TSA agents on the groping job that I've met so far were extra polite and careful. Most of the jerks were in the baggage screening. Another thing I never understood is why they do the extra checking of baggage (after they've passed through the X-ray scanner) if I opt for a pat down.
The answer to both is yes. At least in a few years, for the gas SUV, economically enough. Speaking as someone in the biorenewables industry. So this is not a particularly strong line of argument. For now, the Tesla wins hands down.
I cannot understand why anyone would call parent a troll. He is making a good point (in a genuine tone for those of you who care). A lot of us would love this OS.
If all you want is to make a living then even college education may be optional. However if you are passionate about a science subject, gone are the days when you can pursue it as a career (and not just as a hobby). For having science and research as a career, it is good to have a graduate school stint. May be not required but highly recommended.
A thousand years later some of us may be a lot more connected with direct-brain-interfaces, to the point that there will be multihumanic species (like multicellular). It doesn't mean that the multihuman consciousness won't have curiosity, wants etc. Don't we, multicellular beings want to live, eat etc? Aren't we curious about bacteria? The whole article is pretty bad.
In my opinion it could have been far more convincing. It is not just an "optional" desire to explore the reason we should fund NASA. It is the moral and logical imperative in order to survive as species. For the survival of intelligent species on earth. Larry Niven's line comes to mind: The dinosaurs are extinct because they did not have a space program. We need more telescopes around the earth and Venus to look for incoming small and large objects that can hit earth. And then we need to devise ways to intercept and avoid them. This argument does not make space exploration an optional luxury, but a critical necessity.
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Sorry. Nobody wants to die in misery. May be you do. In constant pain, disease, disability, mental decline. I think you are confusing wisdom with age. You can gain experience without aging in the current sense of the word. http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/konovalenko20130227
Yeah. We solved world hunger before we went into space.
If only I had mod points... Sick how many people on this supposedly literate site make this mistake.
Start with trackmenot and go from there.
No Thank You. I used to use TMN for a while and many times it produced freakish stuff, not harmless looking garbage but the kind that would attract surveillance. Terrible Add On that you do not want unless you want the Feds knocking your door.
Commenting to undo accidental modding...
The best thing I learned from TFA is that someone is developing an incognito version of CyanogenMod. When and if it gets rolled out, the guy deserves to be given money by every privacy-conscious Android user who decides to use it.
This. Mod parent up. If only we could get some informed opinion on Slashdot as opposed to categorical judgments based on group think and most often without even RTFA.
In addition, it is not that it didn't happen, or the extent or the rate. In fact even in the past, it was probably caused by the life around then (their metabolism etc). But guess what? A lot of life perished, including probably the causative agents. So it is entirely conceivable that we are causing it, entirely conceivable that it happened before by other living organisms, and conceivable that Antarctica was warm. But the organisms that caused it most likely ended up extinct.
There are plenty of haters of Gandhi in India, who want to discredit him for being in favor of minorities (like Muslims, Christians, untouchables etc). In fact he was killed by such people. There is to this day a sizeable cultural supremacist fraction who believe in using every forum and medium to reduce the respect and effect of Gandhi. Never knew it gained enough international traction to mod the parent a +5 it got. Truly a sad state of affairs.
Stop this shit Windows XP news. It's 2013. Why is this relevant news for nerds? I mean come on editors! Is this submission better than so many other worthy submissions? How many of us care about this crap? Stop assuming that most of us are some XP support drones looking for jobs on Dice.com. Many of us are scientists, engineers etc in various fields.
Yeah.. if you enjoying freezing your ass everyday in winter waiting for 'public transportation'.
As someone who grew up reading your articles, I remember very well your contribution to my interest in PCs, hardware and eventually linux. Too bad and too young to die. RIP Atul.
This. This deserves a +10 mod. I am ok with pat downs. Just make sure they happen in public when everyone is watching. The TSA agents on the groping job that I've met so far were extra polite and careful. Most of the jerks were in the baggage screening. Another thing I never understood is why they do the extra checking of baggage (after they've passed through the X-ray scanner) if I opt for a pat down.
The answer to both is yes. At least in a few years, for the gas SUV, economically enough. Speaking as someone in the biorenewables industry. So this is not a particularly strong line of argument. For now, the Tesla wins hands down.
I cannot understand why anyone would call parent a troll. He is making a good point (in a genuine tone for those of you who care). A lot of us would love this OS.
Wish I had mod points. Had no clue what TFS was talking about, so went and read the freaking link. 5 minutes that are not coming back.
If you still don't know "wtf it is", whose fault is it? Go RTFA! Though I agree it should have been in TFS.
If all you want is to make a living then even college education may be optional. However if you are passionate about a science subject, gone are the days when you can pursue it as a career (and not just as a hobby). For having science and research as a career, it is good to have a graduate school stint. May be not required but highly recommended.
Well... may be not everything a politician says should be interpreted so cynically.
Someone mod up please.
Oh for mod points...
Wish I had mod points...
A thousand years later some of us may be a lot more connected with direct-brain-interfaces, to the point that there will be multihumanic species (like multicellular). It doesn't mean that the multihuman consciousness won't have curiosity, wants etc. Don't we, multicellular beings want to live, eat etc? Aren't we curious about bacteria? The whole article is pretty bad.
Meh
In my opinion it could have been far more convincing. It is not just an "optional" desire to explore the reason we should fund NASA. It is the moral and logical imperative in order to survive as species. For the survival of intelligent species on earth. Larry Niven's line comes to mind: The dinosaurs are extinct because they did not have a space program. We need more telescopes around the earth and Venus to look for incoming small and large objects that can hit earth. And then we need to devise ways to intercept and avoid them. This argument does not make space exploration an optional luxury, but a critical necessity.