things in which "catastrophic failure" also includes "catastrophic consequences"...
It depends on the time scale. This particular catastrophe is nothing on the geological time scale. In fact no one will probably remember this spill 100 years from now.
By doing so they improved the constant by a factor of 40. Unless the number of projects keeps multiplying with number of people involved, O(n^2) remains of the same order.
A Linux startup out of MIT claims to have busted the myth,
No they didn't. The communication cost remained O(n^2), they just improved the constant multiplier, not the order. To actually bust the MM theory, they should have quadrupled a couple times more, and see whether the productivity going down the drain or is as scalable as they claim.
666 to 10 would be much cooler. But that would enable the ACTA proponents to use the devil clause and throw the vote out. Now they are just shit out luck.
You got it wrong, even though the cannon is submerged into ocean it is not going to shoot whales into space. And even if it did, I am not sure how tylenol would help them.
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Whatever. The fact that they successfully landed on a freakin' moving asteroid is an accomplishment in itself.
It is not like the asteroid was actively trying to avoid the probe.
things in which "catastrophic failure" also includes "catastrophic consequences"...
It depends on the time scale. This particular catastrophe is nothing on the geological time scale. In fact no one will probably remember this spill 100 years from now.
Frankly, I would do exactly the opposite. I would take the money and refuse to give away the proof of the Riemann conjecture, which I recently solved.
Now we can produce twice as many chicken breasts.
I'd be more impressed if they found a confused half-chicken half-buffalo.
40 more-or-less separate projects.
By doing so they improved the constant by a factor of 40. Unless the number of projects keeps multiplying with number of people involved, O(n^2) remains of the same order.
A Linux startup out of MIT claims to have busted the myth,
No they didn't. The communication cost remained O(n^2), they just improved the constant multiplier, not the order. To actually bust the MM theory, they should have quadrupled a couple times more, and see whether the productivity going down the drain or is as scalable as they claim.
666 to 10 would be much cooler. But that would enable the ACTA proponents to use the devil clause and throw the vote out. Now they are just shit out luck.
It's time to quit when the patient says it's time, and it's not the business of the spouse, the church, or the government to decide otherwise.
But later he may change his mind and be pissed at his wife for listening to him.
Is Google so big that even Google can not google it?
Then you need to get out more, obviously.
You must be new here. Oh wait.
Who's going to buy the tylenol for the whales?
You got it wrong, even though the cannon is submerged into ocean it is not going to shoot whales into space. And even if it did, I am not sure how tylenol would help them.
What's about mounting cannons on rockets?
The bandwidth sucks.
And the more it sucks the better it is.
Doesn't Detroit have pot on every street corner?
Just imagine the other inmates, 'So, what are you in for?'
Drilling holes with deep penetration. With a ground shaking climax.
I'd be highly surprised if most of Slashdot was clued-in enough to the real world to understand that reference.
Google is as good as real world gets.
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Fuck everything, we are going five screens.
Depends on how open your mind is.
They ought to change title to
Mark Cuban's plan to kill top 1000 web sites
You 'd better make sure that you paid cash for your netbook. Did you wear a ski mask in the store?
Think of the lawyers!
does this make it an "Ex-Box"?
thank you thank you... i'm here all week.
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Rather, Strugatskys were prophets in their Definitely Maybe.
Define natural water. Distilled water is not particularly conductive.