Given that we now have (to the best of our knowledge) accurate estimates as to the size and make up of the Universe, probability wise, this is common sense.
Hawking is a long way past his prime. Once your average Scientist hits 30, their mind will slow down, and it's likely you won't see much groundbreaking research from them.
If you want to be vegetarian, then thats just GREAT (More meat for me). What I really fail to understand, is why, having become a veggie, you INSIST in eating foods that imitate meat.
Veggie sausages, veggie steaks, veggie chicken nuggets, why pretend to eat what you berate others for eating?
The OLPC project is a shining example of a great idea, implemented apallingly badly. They started out as an idealist business, and turned into a mismanaged charity.
It has been a total fuck up from start to finish, and their cause should be taken up by a competant company.
Doctors will start prescribing this rather than regular penicillin (because drug companies love a new, expensive drug), they'll treat the most minor infection with it (it's all about the money people). Then soon, after we've all been pumped full of the stuff, the clever little bacteria will evolve, become resistant, and it'll be ineffective again.
Still, the drug companies made a quick buck, and people still want an antibiotic that works, so they go find another, and start again.
I've always said, medical care and for-profit-companies, should be kept as far away from each other as possible. Luckly I live in the UK where I can hurt myself as much as I like, and not expect a bill.
The US Gov don't give a shit about the Constitution? How is this news?
You've been happily torturing people for about 4 years now, you've smashed the Geneva convention into tiny little peices, by using your broken legal system to massage the people into doing what you want
"They're not prisoners of war! They're terrorists!", The lawyers cry! Tell that to the hundreds of innocent civilians tortured (many to death) and held without trial by the Bush administration for YEARS.
Only when they start to encroach on YOUR precious liberties do you lot give a shit.
You reap what you sow America, and you planted some real problems when you decided to give up on thinking and let your government turn your country into a police state.
What interests me, is what caused PointDev to think their software was being used illegally? It's seems stretching it a little to think that they just "got lucky"
It appears Creative have joined the ever growing ranks of vendors who don't give a SHIT about their customers.
Luckly we live in a free market, where competitor products are freely available, and so the answer is clear, STOP buying Creative products. Sure they used to be the best around, but that changed long ago.
Linux has been around a long time, and it's still nowhere near ready to replace Windows on the desktop, say what you like, 99% of people can't deal with config files and CLI and compiling from source.
Microsoft should however be very worried about the trend toward online applications, Silverlight was too little too late and still isn't gaining much traction compared to Adobe Flex. Their monopoly on the desktop won't be challenged, it'll simply become less relevant, and when a user friendly OS DOES appear, then Microsoft will become a costly option with the same features.
...what would happen if the list of banned sites, and more importantly the list of banned terms were made public, then the Chinese people would have a list of all the things their government didn't want them to know about. I'm sure they'd discover many things they'd simply never heard of owing to the suppression.
Slashdot Mirror
I for one welcome our new Robot overlords.
This is too little, too late. I gather 95% of domains today are owned by 10 companies.
Well done Dell, you just made a lot of money.
Next PC I buy, I'm going back to Dell (HP Screwed me recently on a repair).
...a watch that cost me £5 that's more robust the the Diebold Voting Machines.
Given that we now have (to the best of our knowledge) accurate estimates as to the size and make up of the Universe, probability wise, this is common sense.
Hawking is a long way past his prime. Once your average Scientist hits 30, their mind will slow down, and it's likely you won't see much groundbreaking research from them.
and thus forcing them to innovate??? :o
We can't have this...
Oh bugger off PETA, nobody cares.
If you want to be vegetarian, then thats just GREAT (More meat for me). What I really fail to understand, is why, having become a veggie, you INSIST in eating foods that imitate meat.
Veggie sausages, veggie steaks, veggie chicken nuggets, why pretend to eat what you berate others for eating?
The OLPC project is a shining example of a great idea, implemented apallingly badly. They started out as an idealist business, and turned into a mismanaged charity.
It has been a total fuck up from start to finish, and their cause should be taken up by a competant company.
...for about three years.
Doctors will start prescribing this rather than regular penicillin (because drug companies love a new, expensive drug), they'll treat the most minor infection with it (it's all about the money people). Then soon, after we've all been pumped full of the stuff, the clever little bacteria will evolve, become resistant, and it'll be ineffective again.
Still, the drug companies made a quick buck, and people still want an antibiotic that works, so they go find another, and start again.
I've always said, medical care and for-profit-companies, should be kept as far away from each other as possible. Luckly I live in the UK where I can hurt myself as much as I like, and not expect a bill.
...is this guy going to float his company.
The US Gov don't give a shit about the Constitution? How is this news?
You've been happily torturing people for about 4 years now, you've smashed the Geneva convention into tiny little peices, by using your broken legal system to massage the people into doing what you want
"They're not prisoners of war! They're terrorists!", The lawyers cry!
Tell that to the hundreds of innocent civilians tortured (many to death) and held without trial by the Bush administration for YEARS.
Only when they start to encroach on YOUR precious liberties do you lot give a shit.
You reap what you sow America, and you planted some real problems when you decided to give up on thinking and let your government turn your country into a police state.
Wow. It's a sad day when dealing with one's own government can be considered "clandestine" behaviour.
Is it the Slashdot crowd? Or have you Americans reached a stage where you geniunely consider your own government to be the enemy? DON'T VOTE FOR THEM.
What interests me, is what caused PointDev to think their software was being used illegally? It's seems stretching it a little to think that they just "got lucky"
Why? Market forces dictate demand for a skill or service, this is simply shameless promotion of his own language.
If we really DID need better/more C++ coders, then they would appear.
You don't fuck with WikiLinks without raising a few eyebrows.
and we just added a Slashdot effect :p Go Wikileaks!
It appears Creative have joined the ever growing ranks of vendors who don't give a SHIT about their customers.
Luckly we live in a free market, where competitor products are freely available, and so the answer is clear, STOP buying Creative products. Sure they used to be the best around, but that changed long ago.
I disagree.
Linux has been around a long time, and it's still nowhere near ready to replace Windows on the desktop, say what you like, 99% of people can't deal with config files and CLI and compiling from source.
Microsoft should however be very worried about the trend toward online applications, Silverlight was too little too late and still isn't gaining much traction compared to Adobe Flex. Their monopoly on the desktop won't be challenged, it'll simply become less relevant, and when a user friendly OS DOES appear, then Microsoft will become a costly option with the same features.
...what would happen if the list of banned sites, and more importantly the list of banned terms were made public, then the Chinese people would have a list of all the things their government didn't want them to know about. I'm sure they'd discover many things they'd simply never heard of owing to the suppression.
I always suspected that Matt and Trey were MrTwig.net users, I guess this confirms it.
the Ultimate culinary beast. Imagine bacon, metres long or Fillet steaks weighing as much as a grown man.
How wonderfully naive. Wait for the campaign contributions to come in and then watch as the worm turns.
We have apparently entered an age where congress don't fully understand the the bills they pass.
Inspiring stuff.
Good timing what with Stage6 kicking the bucket. They were brilliant...
Possibly the best idea since Thalidomide.