Where did he say he was collecting anything, fucktard? I've spent time 'on the bench' but I'd saved enough in the good times that I wouldn't have been eligible for any form of dole even if I'd applied.
Biological systems don't obey any distributions. Certain attributes of members of populations may may follow a distribution, but for it to be a gaussian distribution there would have to be a quantifiable, real, unit (e.g. meters for height, kg for weight).
Seem the Bible-thumpers have prayed for mod points again. Explain to me (without mentioning intelligent design, please) how something that ahs not been rated can be overrated.
Only problem is, your argument can be applied to everything
Close, but no cigar. Having had your wrong statements about the current state of play shot to bits (you even emphased IS - that's the present tense, fuckwad), you 1) change the subject and 2) attack a strawman argument (look it up) about whether research should be done (which by definintion, can only influence the future, not the present), and has nothing to do with how things are now.
implying that we should never have moved beyond single-cell life...
"Seriusly, what does Amazon's patents have anything to do with their 10 year anniversary? Can't you have left that out of the story? What was the relevance here?"
Whooosh.
It's a joke, fucktard.
You can't spell...
... or do grammar, specifically subject-verb agreement.
for the vast majority of computer users (be they regular or occasional users) speech IS faster than typing.
Speaking to
another correctly set up human might be faster, bearing in mind the other human (particularly if it's in visual range and correctly oriented) has a very sophisticated feedback & error correction mecahanism. The computer doesn't. But what the heck, you're going to post a link proving your assertion, aren't you? Perhaps even your very own PhD thesis on HCI?
And yet here we are reminded that one of our foremost scientific forebears dabbled in a lot of stuff that, today, we see as rather esoteric (to be charitable). I think the reason he is seen as a giant of science is because he was not straightjacketed by orthodoxy.
Firstly, you're confusing cause and effect; just because some currently accepted theory seemed mad at the time doesn't mean that all mad sounding theories will be widely accepted in the future.
Secondly, most of the mad sounding theories that turned out not to be true have ended up on the cutting-room floor of history, along with their proponents. Newton is remembered because of the stuff he got right.
You probably got modded down because what you write sounds more like a cross between Star Trek technobabble and a scientology pamphlet than a scienific treatise: "Alchemy is equally applicable in representing the character of judicial proceedings, no less as electricity in the movement of societal energy". That's such twaddle it's not even wrong. For the benefit of the 'dromer who modded the grandparent up, the google link goes to a list of circuit diagram symbols. Very insightful.
If you'd get off your high-horse for a minute, Mr smarty-pants, maybe you'd realise that the reason he[1] didn't understand was becaue TFA was so badly written and ambiguous.
[1] And many others it seems, including me. We can't all be stupid.
If they opened the source to previous operating systems and unsupported software, it would expose code used in current products. You don't think they write each iteration from scratch do you?
Yes. I mean, they expect you to pay for it each time, and it would be ridiculous to suggest they'd rip anybody off.
Comparing apples & oranges, not insightful. Metamods please take note.
How is free software supposed to solve a specific company's specific needs? I can use an open source IDE or an open source HTTP server written by someone I've never met because evreyone knows, to a reasonable level of approximation, what an IDE or HTTP server is supposed to do.
But how is someone who's never heard of "Acme Inc"(1) supposed to know every wrinkle of their byzantine procurement procedures (2)? Similar kinds of fascinating things are what most in-house development entails.
(1) Even if he'd already developed the equivalent at Bloggs & Co, you can bet they do it different. (2) Probably none af Acme's employees does either, least of all the purchasing manager.
Who the heck modded that insightful? Since when did insightful mean "full of blather and bullshit; long-winded; talking a lot and saying nothing"? Sheesh.
Wrong. Someone working there (for example on an H1 visa) pays it. Whether he's technically a resident or not, he certainly cannot vote. Tourists pay it and they certainly aren't residents.
I suppose that they could be used to take something apart, or perhaps even force one's way into the pilot's compartment.
Wow. So you can get through locked doors and open bank vaults by removing the screws? Maybe I should patent the idea of placing the screws & bolts so they can only be accessed from the inside, or when the door is open.
Well, if you're moderating posts based on the content within the story thread, it seems illogical.
Which, lets face it, is the sensible thing to do. For one thing "offtopic" becomes a bit of a nebulous concept if it's defined in terms of all of slashdot since forever. Oh, and no hyphen[1] in commonplace.
However, if you're moderating based on the attitudes prevalent in the community, then it's perfectly reasonable to mod redundant a comment that is so common-place and uninsightful that it is a predictable response
Meh. Are you arrogant or just autistic? Just because you or some other random apology for a spunkwipe has seen it before doesn't mean everybody has. Leaving aside the fucking obvious fact that (for no readily apparent reason, I admit) new people join every day, not everyone has time to read every comment of every thread. Some of us have like jobs and stuff.
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Where did he say he was collecting anything, fucktard? I've spent time 'on the bench' but I'd saved enough in the good times that I wouldn't have been eligible for any form of dole even if I'd applied.
Mod parent up and grandparent down.
Metamods please take note.
- Whooosh.
- It's a joke, fucktard.
- You can't spell
... - ... or do grammar, specifically subject-verb agreement.
- Did I mention that it's a joke?
P.S. It's a joke, fucktard.Mod this guy up. And damn the godless communists like buskers, pub singers and all such fellow-travellers!
Secondly, most of the mad sounding theories that turned out not to be true have ended up on the cutting-room floor of history, along with their proponents. Newton is remembered because of the stuff he got right.
You probably got modded down because what you write sounds more like a cross between Star Trek technobabble and a scientology pamphlet than a scienific treatise: "Alchemy is equally applicable in representing the character of judicial proceedings, no less as electricity in the movement of societal energy". That's such twaddle it's not even wrong. For the benefit of the 'dromer who modded the grandparent up, the google link goes to a list of circuit diagram symbols. Very insightful.
Let the 'redundant' modding and subsequent bitching begin.
Whereas Michael Moore is considered a bigoted prick everywhere else.
[1] And many others it seems, including me. We can't all be stupid.
Even the *cough* russian *cough* sort? In that case they should call it a pedobox.
How is free software supposed to solve a specific company's specific needs? I can use an open source IDE or an open source HTTP server written by someone I've never met because evreyone knows, to a reasonable level of approximation, what an IDE or HTTP server is supposed to do.
But how is someone who's never heard of "Acme Inc"(1) supposed to know every wrinkle of their byzantine procurement procedures (2)? Similar kinds of fascinating things are what most in-house development entails.
(1) Even if he'd already developed the equivalent at Bloggs & Co, you can bet they do it different.
(2) Probably none af Acme's employees does either, least of all the purchasing manager.
Who the heck modded that insightful? Since when did insightful mean "full of blather and bullshit; long-winded; talking a lot and saying nothing"? Sheesh.
Looks more like Misinformative to me.
Well I got it. In fact, I nearly posted the same gag. So I dodge a redundant mod and get an OT instead. Same old same old.
Insightful my fat hairy arse.
[1] That's a "take away sign" to you.