I for one am looking forward to the "mobile VR" phenomenon.
I plan on finding a nice comfortable seat at an outdoor cafe and watching hipsters walk into traffic. This is my dream for the future. I even have a nice spot scoped out. It's on Division St near Paulina in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood. The food is good and the drinks aren't watered down. Plus there's a Starbucks on the corner that's a honeypot for hipsters. Any of you from Chicago know exactly where I'm talking about.
On the (R) side we have a crony capitalist progressive who wants to "open up libel laws" so that he can sue people he doesn't like, and on the (D) side we have a marxist criminal progressive who wants to shred the second amendment
Neither Trump nor Clinton are progressive, except in the definition you'd find on a drunken Glenn Beck's chalkboard.
My favorite part of the convention was when Johnson mentioned that he was OK with the idea of people having to take a test to get a drivers license and the audience started booing and screaming, "BULLSHIT!" When he said he supported the Civil Rights Act - sorta- I thought he was gonna be run out of the venue on a rail.
It's a good thing Big-L Libertarians are too high to ever amount to anything, or we'd all be in trouble. But I do like the fact that the candidate for party chair came out on stage and took all his clothes off, proudly displaying his giant Iron Cross tattoo.
The only question though... is WHY THE FUCK IS THIS ON SLASHDOT?
Someone needs to start a bot Slashdot account that posts, "Why is this story on Slashdot" in the comments section of every single story. It would be sort of like the "cows say moo" guy, except with "BUT HOW IS THIS NEWS FOR NERDS?"
You think they have an ugly website and therefore their reporting on the cellphone study is wrong??
No, those are two separate conditions. The first is true and the second is false. My wanting cell phones to cause cancer is not going to make it so.
However, that Vox is an ugly website is not a matter of opinion.
If anyone doesn't believe me, here, go look for yourself. I want someone here to come back and tell us that it's not an ugly website. If one person (not an AC) believes that this is a well-designed and attractive website, I will retract my words and refund your money.
Yeah, no, sorry, I don't buy the cellphone-cancer study.
No, of course I don't buy it either, no matter how much I'd like it to be true.
I just aim to point out the toxic waste dump that is Vox, and I do so every chance I get. No Slashdot story should cite a Vox article, under any circumstances.
I'm curious as to how RF causes cancer only in *male* rats and why they live longer anyhow, or why the middle exposure group tended to have zero rats with cancer
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying exposure to RF causes cancer. I'm saying exposure to Vox causes cancer.
However, that being said, if there's one thing that should cause cancer in a just universe, it's cell phone usage.
I like memes as much as the next Pepe, but damn, can you imagine the notion that a group of journalists believed that they needed to explain THIS ONE to people?
OK, I just realized that there are some of you who may believe that I'm overdoing my criticism of vox.com, so I'm going to post a story from their motherfucking front page today. It's an "explainer cardstack" about a meme that I guarantee you have not heard of or seen if you are out of junior high school. A news story about a meme.
Imagine, these are people with advanced degrees in journalism who are writing this shit.
Vox is strongly criticizing coverage of a supposed link between cellphones and cancer
Vox is a highly-leveraged company that makes money with a news site that's designed for use on mobile devices. What the fuck you think they're gonna say?
Plus, Vox is the absolute ugliest news site every on the internet. I'm not joking. If you visit their page, be careful ow whiplash when you involuntarily turn your head away in horror. And their stock in trade are these hot-take "explainer cardstacks" which is some jargon bullshit for a web page with almost no information that prompts you to click on many other pages in order to read the whole story, which inevitably turns out to be disappointing, with mostly pictures and great big infographics without labels that make you come away feeling like you learned something when in fact you are stupider than when you started.
A bunch of refugees from other hipster publications started Vox, and they stand as a shining example of bad journalism, bad design and a bad business model.
Something's fishy about this article. I'm not sure if my superpower to detect P.R. campaigns has developed to the point where I can get it in just one post, but my senses are tingling about this story. Let's see if there are a rash of IoT stories over the rest of the weekend.
There are elements of calculus that could easily be introduced in elementary school
Absolutely. And further, teaching Calculus should take place over a few weeks as it does overseas instead of several semesters the way it does in the US. Calculus, like the gap width for spark plugs and error codes, is something that's best looked up when you need it. But you have to first teach students that it exists and what it's for.
Fair enough. But the cost of housing is one important factor in, "Do I want to live there?" As someone who's lived in places that have very high cost of living, it's nice for a while, but it starts to weigh you down after a while. Paying half your salary just to have a roof over your head can make it feel like you're getting nowhere. And there are a lot of nice places to live with lower cost of living.
There's an oversupply of basketball players and painters.
We're talking about the 4th grade here. You don't paint or play basketball in the 4th grade because you're going to do it for life. You do them because it helps you develop as a human being, unlike coding, which seems to hinder that process given what I've seen here at Slashdot.
Actually, I was a little more serious. In the 4th grade, engaging a visual medium like painting, that requires imagination, observation, etc and a physical activity like a sport, will both make you a more well-rounded, happy individual and give you skills and health that will make you a better coder should you choose to go that way.
You can always learn how to code. Nobody here learned to code in the 4th grade. It's like calculus. It's a tool and you learn it when you need it. But learning art, or music and being physically active makes every day of your life better. And you'll probably be more successful because of it.
Slashdot Mirror
I for one am looking forward to the "mobile VR" phenomenon.
I plan on finding a nice comfortable seat at an outdoor cafe and watching hipsters walk into traffic. This is my dream for the future. I even have a nice spot scoped out. It's on Division St near Paulina in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood. The food is good and the drinks aren't watered down. Plus there's a Starbucks on the corner that's a honeypot for hipsters. Any of you from Chicago know exactly where I'm talking about.
Those three million are the ones whose password is "passw0rd".
After all, this is Tumblr we're talking about.
Neither Trump nor Clinton are progressive, except in the definition you'd find on a drunken Glenn Beck's chalkboard.
My favorite part of the convention was when Johnson mentioned that he was OK with the idea of people having to take a test to get a drivers license and the audience started booing and screaming, "BULLSHIT!" When he said he supported the Civil Rights Act - sorta- I thought he was gonna be run out of the venue on a rail.
http://nmpoliticalreport.com/4...
It's a good thing Big-L Libertarians are too high to ever amount to anything, or we'd all be in trouble. But I do like the fact that the candidate for party chair came out on stage and took all his clothes off, proudly displaying his giant Iron Cross tattoo.
Someone needs to start a bot Slashdot account that posts, "Why is this story on Slashdot" in the comments section of every single story. It would be sort of like the "cows say moo" guy, except with "BUT HOW IS THIS NEWS FOR NERDS?"
Yeah, why would the history of cryptography interest Slashdot readers?
I know I speak for everyone when I say how much you've been missed.
One born every minute.
No, those are two separate conditions. The first is true and the second is false. My wanting cell phones to cause cancer is not going to make it so.
However, that Vox is an ugly website is not a matter of opinion.
If anyone doesn't believe me, here, go look for yourself. I want someone here to come back and tell us that it's not an ugly website. If one person (not an AC) believes that this is a well-designed and attractive website, I will retract my words and refund your money.
http://www.vox.com/
No, of course I don't buy it either, no matter how much I'd like it to be true.
I just aim to point out the toxic waste dump that is Vox, and I do so every chance I get. No Slashdot story should cite a Vox article, under any circumstances.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying exposure to RF causes cancer. I'm saying exposure to Vox causes cancer.
However, that being said, if there's one thing that should cause cancer in a just universe, it's cell phone usage.
You show courage in admitting that. I salute you.
I like memes as much as the next Pepe, but damn, can you imagine the notion that a group of journalists believed that they needed to explain THIS ONE to people?
No. It's a garbage site brought to you by Ezra Klein.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
OK, I just realized that there are some of you who may believe that I'm overdoing my criticism of vox.com, so I'm going to post a story from their motherfucking front page today. It's an "explainer cardstack" about a meme that I guarantee you have not heard of or seen if you are out of junior high school. A news story about a meme.
Imagine, these are people with advanced degrees in journalism who are writing this shit.
http://www.vox.com/2016/5/27/1...
Vox is a highly-leveraged company that makes money with a news site that's designed for use on mobile devices. What the fuck you think they're gonna say?
Plus, Vox is the absolute ugliest news site every on the internet. I'm not joking. If you visit their page, be careful ow whiplash when you involuntarily turn your head away in horror. And their stock in trade are these hot-take "explainer cardstacks" which is some jargon bullshit for a web page with almost no information that prompts you to click on many other pages in order to read the whole story, which inevitably turns out to be disappointing, with mostly pictures and great big infographics without labels that make you come away feeling like you learned something when in fact you are stupider than when you started.
A bunch of refugees from other hipster publications started Vox, and they stand as a shining example of bad journalism, bad design and a bad business model.
Something's fishy about this article. I'm not sure if my superpower to detect P.R. campaigns has developed to the point where I can get it in just one post, but my senses are tingling about this story. Let's see if there are a rash of IoT stories over the rest of the weekend.
Absolutely. And further, teaching Calculus should take place over a few weeks as it does overseas instead of several semesters the way it does in the US. Calculus, like the gap width for spark plugs and error codes, is something that's best looked up when you need it. But you have to first teach students that it exists and what it's for.
Fair enough. But the cost of housing is one important factor in, "Do I want to live there?" As someone who's lived in places that have very high cost of living, it's nice for a while, but it starts to weigh you down after a while. Paying half your salary just to have a roof over your head can make it feel like you're getting nowhere. And there are a lot of nice places to live with lower cost of living.
A recent jump in real estate values might be a reason why the answer it "No".
Why would a company want to locate in a place where they'll have to pay their workers more just to live?
We're talking about the 4th grade here. You don't paint or play basketball in the 4th grade because you're going to do it for life. You do them because it helps you develop as a human being, unlike coding, which seems to hinder that process given what I've seen here at Slashdot.
Actually, I was a little more serious. In the 4th grade, engaging a visual medium like painting, that requires imagination, observation, etc and a physical activity like a sport, will both make you a more well-rounded, happy individual and give you skills and health that will make you a better coder should you choose to go that way.
You can always learn how to code. Nobody here learned to code in the 4th grade. It's like calculus. It's a tool and you learn it when you need it. But learning art, or music and being physically active makes every day of your life better. And you'll probably be more successful because of it.
I would suggest that learning to paint and play basketball in the 4th grade will serve you better over your lifetime than learning to code.
It's the first hot holiday weekend of the summer, so give 'em a break. They've probably been drinking since like 11am.
But truly, isn't not getting Facebook updates from your friends the same as having your entire family executed?
Can't get more pitiful than this:
It's hard to imagine what life must be like for this poor slob.