I was thinking that missing spider, after being exposed to radiation from solar flares while in a hard vacuum, finally returned to earth.
And it's mad.
These days, acronyms should Google well. Google for VIVACE, MUSIC, or ESPRIT and you'll get page after page of irrelevant sites. Scientists should try to name their projects with unique names, names that will let interested people search the web and *find* their projects.
No. No. No. Scientists, and anyone, should name things what they want, and Google should make a considerably higher effort to make search work MUCH better than it currently does. This just shows you how bad search is, and far it has to go. Google needs more competition.
We may well need an army of Mammoths to fight the mutant tool-equipped space spiders from that other earlier story. $10 million is a small price to pay to save humanity from the giant space webs.
You need to copyright that before JJ Abrahms makes it into a movie. Though, someone SHOULD make that movie -- just not JJ Abrahms. Evil Spider Space Station, I'd pay to see that.
If they're a non-profit entity, there are a different set of rules that must be obeyed.
Generally speaking -- and I'm not specifically accusing Mozilla -- non-profit status is rarely what it seems. Usually the motivation in setting this status up is to avoid certain rules or taxes. It's only proper that this is investigated in Mozilla's case, if most of their income does come from a large highly-successful company.
The IRS should also be taking a very, very close look at Wikipedia. For those reasons, and also the fact that there have been individuals in that organization that have shady financial histories.
There are no stupid questions. But there are stupid places to ask them. Try elsewhere, for better sources of information.
Really? Considering the amount of SEO spam that's corrupted Google search results, considering the cabals, corruption and low quality of most wikipedia results, and considering that many of the world's experts on most science and technology fields ARE regularly reading slashdot, then I seriously doubt there IS ANY better place to ask a science related question than on this site.
Of course, the downside is that there are some grumpy, elitist pedants here.
Because of THOMAS, the human brain makes us feel good when we help others -- this is the basis for attachment to family and friends and cooperation with strangers.
I suggest this guy needs to read Dostoevsky as a matter of urgency. He clearly has limited experience with actual members of the human race. Greed is the primary motivation for most of the species.
I would like to research, for example, whether the Pope is Catholic, or whether bears shit in the woods. Does anyone at the University of Maryland know where I can get funding, since they have so much success with similar quests.
Anyway, if you weren't unhappy to start with, watching 90% of the 2008 fall schedule on TV will make you that way pretty quickly. Writer's strike aside, this is one of the worst new seasons in the history of TV. Kath and Kim? Knightrider? Worst Week? Heroes? Are you kidding, Network Execs? You can pretty much cancel every show that debuted in 2008, on every network. You all fucked up.
This should come as no surprise. Just as it should have been no surprise when the British Empire fell either.
It's very hard to understand why Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" is not required reading for politicians and corporate leaders. If you depend on slave labor (in the US case, outsourcing) then ultimately your empire will fall. It's inevitable. And yet so avoidable. Eventually, there is a payback for greed, and this's just yet more proof that politicians are ultimately self-centered morons.
Wikipedia plans to hold a public consultation process to decide whether and how to migrate to CC-BY-SA.
Which, if it's anything like any other wikipedia discussion, will result in one cabal fighting another, and end up with an anonymous admin (or Jimbo himself) just deciding whatever they want, regardless of truth or majority viewpoint.
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The headline in today's Arachnid Advertiser states:
Biped Puppets Successfully Complete Engine Test. The Grand Plan Still On Schedule.
On top of the toolbag as it glides, sits Doolittle the Spider.
Yes, but how much is that in football fields?
Considering that Equifax is no stranger to being fined for breaking the law, I'd say it actually counts as "Evil" with a capital "E".
Google needs competition. Their honeymoon period is over.
And don't forget, it has tools too.
No. No. No. Scientists, and anyone, should name things what they want, and Google should make a considerably higher effort to make search work MUCH better than it currently does. This just shows you how bad search is, and far it has to go. Google needs more competition.
I think it's unlikely you will ever see those. After all, it's very hard to hack records written in blood.
We may well need an army of Mammoths to fight the mutant tool-equipped space spiders from that other earlier story. $10 million is a small price to pay to save humanity from the giant space webs.
In space no one can hear you spin.
You need to copyright that before JJ Abrahms makes it into a movie. Though, someone SHOULD make that movie -- just not JJ Abrahms. Evil Spider Space Station, I'd pay to see that.
Generally speaking -- and I'm not specifically accusing Mozilla -- non-profit status is rarely what it seems. Usually the motivation in setting this status up is to avoid certain rules or taxes. It's only proper that this is investigated in Mozilla's case, if most of their income does come from a large highly-successful company.
The IRS should also be taking a very, very close look at Wikipedia. For those reasons, and also the fact that there have been individuals in that organization that have shady financial histories.
Really? Considering the amount of SEO spam that's corrupted Google search results, considering the cabals, corruption and low quality of most wikipedia results, and considering that many of the world's experts on most science and technology fields ARE regularly reading slashdot, then I seriously doubt there IS ANY better place to ask a science related question than on this site.
Of course, the downside is that there are some grumpy, elitist pedants here.
the numbers of woolly mammoths has tripled in the past six months...
Spam's off.
Did you come here for an argument?
Space Porn!!!
I suggest this guy needs to read Dostoevsky as a matter of urgency. He clearly has limited experience with actual members of the human race. Greed is the primary motivation for most of the species.
EAL11+ is also know by its codename: SKYNET.
I don't know how many elephants, but I do know that the number that makes up 300 tons has tripled in the past six months.
The fact that first posts exist is conclusive proof that no-one is running the Universe.
How do you get one of these grants?
I would like to research, for example, whether the Pope is Catholic, or whether bears shit in the woods. Does anyone at the University of Maryland know where I can get funding, since they have so much success with similar quests.
Anyway, if you weren't unhappy to start with, watching 90% of the 2008 fall schedule on TV will make you that way pretty quickly. Writer's strike aside, this is one of the worst new seasons in the history of TV. Kath and Kim? Knightrider? Worst Week? Heroes? Are you kidding, Network Execs? You can pretty much cancel every show that debuted in 2008, on every network. You all fucked up.
This should come as no surprise. Just as it should have been no surprise when the British Empire fell either.
It's very hard to understand why Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" is not required reading for politicians and corporate leaders. If you depend on slave labor (in the US case, outsourcing) then ultimately your empire will fall. It's inevitable. And yet so avoidable. Eventually, there is a payback for greed, and this's just yet more proof that politicians are ultimately self-centered morons.
So, other than creating a public nuisance almost certain to result in getting your face punched, what EXACTLY is the point of this device?
And, while we're here, The reason why he open sourced it, is purely for the purpose of getting a slashvertisment -- and successfully too.
Which, if it's anything like any other wikipedia discussion, will result in one cabal fighting another, and end up with an anonymous admin (or Jimbo himself) just deciding whatever they want, regardless of truth or majority viewpoint.
so not only is idle "pants," but it is also "wrong" and possibly "libelous."
Nice work. When will this section die?