We can't make FTL travel work today, even in the most basic theoretical sense, but I can't get on board with the idea that it can't possibly ever happen.
To paraphrase Fermi's Paradox, if FTL travel is possible, why haven't we seen any evidence of time travelling aliens?
Just imagine if they started to hold politicians accountable for their claims!
Politicians don't have to stand by their word. Obama said "No boots on the ground in Syria". He simply ignored what he said. His spokespeople explained saying that there was a change in policy would be misleading.
If the US has launched a land invasion of Syria, that's news to me. A few special forces types in an advisory or training role is not what most people call "boots on the ground" even if it is literally true.
Keep in mind that the "Slashdot consensus" was that Facebook would be out of business by 2008, that the Google IPO would tank, and that the iPhone would be dead-on-arrival.
Slashdot is great for investment advice: you simply do the opposite of what the hive mind says.
How is this possible if only 50 phone fires have been reported and the majority of those reports are unsubstantiated? Is this a new use of the word "many" that I have been unaware of? Does the word "many" mean "extremely few compared to the number of sold phones" in this context?
I think "many" can legitimately mean "more than one single freak accident" in the context of an exploding consumer device.
Why do senior managers keep thinking that we want social networks at the office? My previous company tried to foist Jive on us, and other than an initial token gesture by senior management, they didn't use it... and guess what? It's them who already needed to improve their communication with the rest of the company. I really don't give a shit about whatever banal thing somebody's doing today, right this moment. It's just noise. I will socialise in the pub after work, or even at lunch time, where I can speak my mind if I wish. Otherwise these overpriced toys don't help me get anything done.
Senior management love to have big sounding objectives like "I will continue to improve communications with my staff" on their performance reviews. It's an easy box to tick by posting a couple of blogs copied from press releases and a tweet about the Xmas party during the year.
I don't imagine it will be any more optional than refusing to use your work email or phone. Not keeping an up to date profile will reflect badly in your end of year review. Managers will compete with each other to post the wackiest work-related items at two o'clock in the morning.
agreed. Through all the dozens of phones ive ever had, i dont think ive ever looked at one & said "you know what this phone needs? to be thinner"
More rugged yes, better battery life HELL YES.. but thinner? its never even entered into my mind that i want a thinner phone.
And yet its all any of the phone manufacturers are ever concerned about, its the only thing they change from model to model, its gotta be thinner! thinner! THINNER!
Where the hell are they doing their market research??
Do you think it is just barely conceivable that you are in a minority and that one of the world's richest companies may, indeed, spend quite a lot of money on market research?
Slashdot Mirror
Ever see Star Trek? When Picard went to a replicator and said 'Earl Grey Tea, hot' and poof, tea came out?
That has always really annoyed me. Who ever asked for a cold cup of tea?
To paraphrase Thomas J Watson "I think there is a world market for about twenty Saturn rockets." And that's not just counting the Saturn Vs.
Unimaginative.....If only they'd have kept building them, through economies of scale, we'd have a Saturn rocket in every household appliance by now.
I'm sure by leveraging some synergies and optimising their best-of-breed supply chain logistics they'd be giving them away free with cornflakes.
History has taught us that the if it can be dreamed of then it can be made possible. We will find a way to travel extremely long distances in space.
Untrue. I can dream of a time machine that lets me go back and kill Hitler's grandmother. That doesn't mean it's possible.
We can't make FTL travel work today, even in the most basic theoretical sense, but I can't get on board with the idea that it can't possibly ever happen.
To paraphrase Fermi's Paradox, if FTL travel is possible, why haven't we seen any evidence of time travelling aliens?
Just imagine if they started to hold politicians accountable for their claims!
Politicians don't have to stand by their word. Obama said "No boots on the ground in Syria". He simply ignored what he said. His spokespeople explained saying that there was a change in policy would be misleading.
If the US has launched a land invasion of Syria, that's news to me. A few special forces types in an advisory or training role is not what most people call "boots on the ground" even if it is literally true.
FACT: any sentence that starts with FACT: is a fact. and that's a FACT.
This sentence is a lie.
That us, without a doubt, one of the most idiotic reasons to vote for someone to lead a country and I've heard plenty of stupid ones.
Who's voting *for*? I'm voting *against*.
There is no such thing as a negative vote.
black men have longer ... you know, than white men
I think you're allowed to say "cocks" on the internet.
(Never mind the fact that it's not true).
Govt says I can't say something? There's an amendment for that.
Yes, that's why newsreaders regularly slander people on live TV and say "fuck" a lot.
This is impressive and all, but I won't believe in AI until I see a computer that can win at Mornington Crescent
Or Numberwang.
A rich, healthy person born in 1990 has far more in common with a rich, healthy person born in 1960 than a poor, sick person born in 1990.
Keep in mind that the "Slashdot consensus" was that Facebook would be out of business by 2008, that the Google IPO would tank, and that the iPhone would be dead-on-arrival.
Slashdot is great for investment advice: you simply do the opposite of what the hive mind says.
How is this possible if only 50 phone fires have been reported and the majority of those reports are unsubstantiated? Is this a new use of the word "many" that I have been unaware of? Does the word "many" mean "extremely few compared to the number of sold phones" in this context?
I think "many" can legitimately mean "more than one single freak accident" in the context of an exploding consumer device.
Please read before commenting.
Wow, you really must be new here.
Why do I have to enter my name and e-mail address, if they're free?
You don't HAVE to enter anything.
A goodly number of us slashdotters work in IT, meaning we're well-paid and can easily afford those kinds of expenditures...
But an even goodlier number are penniless high school students weeping in their mom's basement.
Were they holding it wrong too?
No. But thank you for providing the sort of insightful, fact-filled rebuttal I've come to expect from Apple Haters.
It. Was. A. Joke.
obvious things like the vast left wing media conspiracy
This only makes sense if by "left wing" you mean "not as right wing as Hitler".
Do you have a "slave mentality" if you put money in the collection plate in Church too?
No, because unlike taxes the Church doesn't literally extract payment at the point of a gun as libertarians here are fond of saying.
Related to that, "all but". "He all but lost the election." So he won or tied? No, he lost decisively.
No, that would mean he won the election, but only just.
The way you would actually say that in real English would be "he very nearly lost the election" which makes it clear that he did not, in fact, lose.
Why do senior managers keep thinking that we want social networks at the office? My previous company tried to foist Jive on us, and other than an initial token gesture by senior management, they didn't use it... and guess what? It's them who already needed to improve their communication with the rest of the company. I really don't give a shit about whatever banal thing somebody's doing today, right this moment. It's just noise. I will socialise in the pub after work, or even at lunch time, where I can speak my mind if I wish. Otherwise these overpriced toys don't help me get anything done.
Senior management love to have big sounding objectives like "I will continue to improve communications with my staff" on their performance reviews. It's an easy box to tick by posting a couple of blogs copied from press releases and a tweet about the Xmas party during the year.
But is it equally as useless as Linkedin?
When my daughter's friends come over, all mobile phones go into a basket in my kitchen.
I bet you're constantly mentioning you don't own a television
I certainly wouldn't join it at work even.
I don't imagine it will be any more optional than refusing to use your work email or phone. Not keeping an up to date profile will reflect badly in your end of year review. Managers will compete with each other to post the wackiest work-related items at two o'clock in the morning.
Welcome to the future.
agreed. Through all the dozens of phones ive ever had, i dont think ive ever looked at one & said "you know what this phone needs? to be thinner"
More rugged yes, better battery life HELL YES.. but thinner? its never even entered into my mind that i want a thinner phone.
And yet its all any of the phone manufacturers are ever concerned about, its the only thing they change from model to model, its gotta be thinner! thinner! THINNER!
Where the hell are they doing their market research??
Do you think it is just barely conceivable that you are in a minority and that one of the world's richest companies may, indeed, spend quite a lot of money on market research?