nitrogen oxygen and hydrogen are pretty common throughout the universe. It would be reasonable to assume many planets had water at least at some point in their existence.
Yep. Nobody accidentally downloads and installs Korean Windows. It's a fucking nightmare to install unless you speak the language. It's not like a European language where you can guess the meaning, like "oh installaciÃn must mean installation."
If you're saying it was a false flag operation (trying to make it look like it came from Koreans), it's possible. But who would do that? Normally hackers like to brag and build up their rep. It could be state-sponsored hackers from another country, but then why would China or Iran specifically target Sony Pictures? AFAIK only N. Korea has a beef with Sony.
It's because so many recent Slashdot articles are about male chauvinistic pigs who keep aspiring women programmers/gamers down, that when an article appears without any detectable feminist agenda, it's like a breath of fresh air and must be tagged "NOT SEXIST".
Don't rage over little stuff like this. Nobody's perfect.
Usually the people who make "would of" and "there/their/they're" mistakes are the ones who didn't read much during childhood and think primarily in verbal language. Whereas the kids who took a liking to reading while young think visually (the written word appears in their mind... it does for me anyways)
But guess what, I've seen some smart people with perfect spelling and grammar skills, and watching them throw a basketball is comedic. It's like, how can an adult male who grew up in a nation that invented basketball, in which every school from K through 12 has multiple basketball courts, be so bad at this? It's a simple technique that can be taught in 2 minutes plus a little hand-eye coordination. Yet do I rage when I see a man making a free throw like a girl? No, I just chalk it up to him being a NERD and move on.
2 types of drives for the foreseeable future.... SSD main drive for the OS and programs, HDD for storing pron. Better get used to it.
Here is my desktop setup: - One fast SSD main drive - One 3 TB HDD for video/picture/mp3/document storage - Second 3TB HDD, gets synched to the first HDD nightly as a backup
SSD gets a manual disk image stored on the first HDD once in a while.
I feel pretty good with this setup, as I'm protected from any single drive failure. Also I have some accidental deletion/corruption protection as the two HDDs are not mirrored in real time.
The pits on a blu ray disc are optimized for reading with a blue laser. Sun's output have more energy at the other end (red spectrum). I'm thinking they might get even better efficiency if they tried a disc pitting pattern that was meant for reading with a red laser.
Did I say European engineers are idiots? Or any engineers?
Of course they can make it work, I was saying the project will fail due to economics, not because they can't engineer. Like the Concorde, an engineering marvel but economic failure.
Here's an earlier Slashdot story and comment that sums it up nicely:
Stop trying to be so nice and polite. What you really meant to say is that this aint ever gonna work because salt water is a crazy fucked up environment. Harebrained schemes like this always fail because seawater is so corrosive that maintenance costs will eat up any and all profits.
Haven't seen anyone mention it yet, but only a couple months ago there was a Slashdot story about another wave power generation scheme that failed. Cause? Salt water and high maintenance costs.
I am unfamiliar with E-sports so please bear with me. Do you mean to say the players play from home on their own computers via the internet? Like regular gamers?
And anyone is surprised that people hacked?
I was under the impression that E-sports was like regular sports (NFL, etc) and that players got together in real life in the same location and played on identical computers provided by event organizers. I guess this is this not the case?
Nobody has to volunteer to suicide or murder. All we need is for each person to have 0 or 1 offspring. It wouldn't take many generations before population reaches optimum hunter-gatherer levels.
Most slashdotters are already doing this (0 or 1 offspring), we just need to convince the rest of humans.
Agriculture is killing you. You shouldn't be growing crops at all.
Studies have shown that the paleo diet is the healthiest way for humans to eat. And we all know that the earth is overpopulated. Any and all environmental problems, including greenhouse gases and climate change, all disappear if we reduce human population to < 100 million. That means going back to the lifestyle of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Have you seen the movie Avatar? If we all lived like the blue people, the world would be a better place.
Singularity is about as likely as the second coming of Jesus. Put another way, singularity is the nerd's version of Rapture.
I am a big proponent of self-driving cars. The idea of kicking back and watching a movie during my morning commute is so appealing that I am rooting for Google to go all-out and produce an AI driver ASAP.
Then a couple weeks ago I read on Slashdot that even after years of hard work, Google car can't even see a red traffic light! Machine vision is still so poor as to be nonexistent. Google car can only drive around a carefully mapped and modeled area in Silicon Valley.
If someone as simple as a self-driving car ain't happening, the idea of a self aware intelligent AI singularity will be science fiction... forever.
I thought the ultimate goal was to have the 1st and 2nd stages return to launchpad on their own. That would've been cool, but I guess they decided it was too hard.
An autonomous barge and precision landing would still be a lot cheaper than deploying a dozen US Navy ships and thousands of sailors looking for a capsule.
I'm not talking about *you* per se, I'm talking about poor people in Africa. A healthy hunter-gatherer lifestyle seems preferable to dying from lack of clean water.
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nitrogen oxygen and hydrogen are pretty common throughout the universe. It would be reasonable to assume many planets had water at least at some point in their existence.
Yep. Nobody accidentally downloads and installs Korean Windows. It's a fucking nightmare to install unless you speak the language. It's not like a European language where you can guess the meaning, like "oh installaciÃn must mean installation."
If you're saying it was a false flag operation (trying to make it look like it came from Koreans), it's possible. But who would do that? Normally hackers like to brag and build up their rep. It could be state-sponsored hackers from another country, but then why would China or Iran specifically target Sony Pictures? AFAIK only N. Korea has a beef with Sony.
It's possible but not likely.
More like the wise Hari Seldon who appears in hologram after death to guide the fledgling Foundation in its quest for growth.
It's because so many recent Slashdot articles are about male chauvinistic pigs who keep aspiring women programmers/gamers down, that when an article appears without any detectable feminist agenda, it's like a breath of fresh air and must be tagged "NOT SEXIST".
Don't rage over little stuff like this. Nobody's perfect.
Usually the people who make "would of" and "there/their/they're" mistakes are the ones who didn't read much during childhood and think primarily in verbal language. Whereas the kids who took a liking to reading while young think visually (the written word appears in their mind... it does for me anyways)
But guess what, I've seen some smart people with perfect spelling and grammar skills, and watching them throw a basketball is comedic. It's like, how can an adult male who grew up in a nation that invented basketball, in which every school from K through 12 has multiple basketball courts, be so bad at this? It's a simple technique that can be taught in 2 minutes plus a little hand-eye coordination. Yet do I rage when I see a man making a free throw like a girl? No, I just chalk it up to him being a NERD and move on.
a smartphone and an app!
Well ok so some Italian already discovered Jupiter's moons, but if they hadn't, you could!
was like that
2 types of drives for the foreseeable future.... SSD main drive for the OS and programs, HDD for storing pron. Better get used to it.
Here is my desktop setup:
- One fast SSD main drive
- One 3 TB HDD for video/picture/mp3/document storage
- Second 3TB HDD, gets synched to the first HDD nightly as a backup
SSD gets a manual disk image stored on the first HDD once in a while.
I feel pretty good with this setup, as I'm protected from any single drive failure. Also I have some accidental deletion/corruption protection as the two HDDs are not mirrored in real time.
The pits on a blu ray disc are optimized for reading with a blue laser. Sun's output have more energy at the other end (red spectrum). I'm thinking they might get even better efficiency if they tried a disc pitting pattern that was meant for reading with a red laser.
Did I say European engineers are idiots? Or any engineers?
Of course they can make it work, I was saying the project will fail due to economics, not because they can't engineer. Like the Concorde, an engineering marvel but economic failure.
Here's an earlier Slashdot story and comment that sums it up nicely:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/c...
Stop trying to be so nice and polite. What you really meant to say is that this aint ever gonna work because salt water is a crazy fucked up environment. Harebrained schemes like this always fail because seawater is so corrosive that maintenance costs will eat up any and all profits.
Haven't seen anyone mention it yet, but only a couple months ago there was a Slashdot story about another wave power generation scheme that failed. Cause? Salt water and high maintenance costs.
I am unfamiliar with E-sports so please bear with me. Do you mean to say the players play from home on their own computers via the internet? Like regular gamers?
And anyone is surprised that people hacked?
I was under the impression that E-sports was like regular sports (NFL, etc) and that players got together in real life in the same location and played on identical computers provided by event organizers. I guess this is this not the case?
Wouldn't "Work Hard" be a better name for your app?
but it's ok to burn down a pizza place and pharmacy, right?
Oh look, there goes a McDonald's too. Up in flames.
gamma rays lead to green muscular angry lifeforms in other galaxies.
Africa and Latin America also saw an uptick in their share of the worldâ(TM)s professional migration flows.
If this is true, will we be seeing more high-tech startups opening shop in Africa and Central America?
but found out she's the product.
never mind the greenhouse gases that 7 billion human corpses will release
Huh what? Nobody said anything about killing 7 billions humans. All you need is a reduced birthrate.
And those 7 billion humans are not gonna live forever. They're all gonna die at some point.
Nobody has to volunteer to suicide or murder. All we need is for each person to have 0 or 1 offspring. It wouldn't take many generations before population reaches optimum hunter-gatherer levels.
Most slashdotters are already doing this (0 or 1 offspring), we just need to convince the rest of humans.
Agriculture is killing you. You shouldn't be growing crops at all.
Studies have shown that the paleo diet is the healthiest way for humans to eat. And we all know that the earth is overpopulated. Any and all environmental problems, including greenhouse gases and climate change, all disappear if we reduce human population to < 100 million. That means going back to the lifestyle of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Have you seen the movie Avatar? If we all lived like the blue people, the world would be a better place.
Singularity is about as likely as the second coming of Jesus. Put another way, singularity is the nerd's version of Rapture.
I am a big proponent of self-driving cars. The idea of kicking back and watching a movie during my morning commute is so appealing that I am rooting for Google to go all-out and produce an AI driver ASAP.
Then a couple weeks ago I read on Slashdot that even after years of hard work, Google car can't even see a red traffic light! Machine vision is still so poor as to be nonexistent. Google car can only drive around a carefully mapped and modeled area in Silicon Valley.
If someone as simple as a self-driving car ain't happening, the idea of a self aware intelligent AI singularity will be science fiction... forever.
I thought the ultimate goal was to have the 1st and 2nd stages return to launchpad on their own. That would've been cool, but I guess they decided it was too hard.
An autonomous barge and precision landing would still be a lot cheaper than deploying a dozen US Navy ships and thousands of sailors looking for a capsule.
It's called White Guilt. Google it.
Also, a corollary according to Jerry Pournelle: "Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for Western Civilization as it commits suicide."
I'm not talking about *you* per se, I'm talking about poor people in Africa. A healthy hunter-gatherer lifestyle seems preferable to dying from lack of clean water.