The Higgs should be renamed the Cow Particle, because it's outstanding in its field.

If companies are paying their staff such low wages that they need public assistance just to survive, then the guys at the top need to subsidise public assistance. Tax them at 90%.

It isn't up to me to decide how much salary they want to vote themselves out of the company's coffers. They're managing their company, it's theirs to manage.

But if you're making $100 Big per year in salary or other considerations, you should bloody well be taxed at 90%. Worked for Eisenhower.

Er.
If the program that checks the proof is considered part of the proof, isn't that one of those recursive situations that Kurt Godel warned us about, as popularised in Hofstadter's GEB?

Memory is suddenly expensive? That commonly-available eight core Intel I7 cpu is suddenly too slow?

Was somebody perhaps solving the wrong fecking problems?

And were all those efficiency gains worth the loss of the ability to run overlapping windows?

When my nice, reliable and stable, easy-to-use Windows 7 instance can no longer be supported, I can promise I will not switch to Windows 8 because I freaking hate the interface. I have quite a few clients at the top of town who depend on my advice, and I can guarantee you W8 is getting the sad head shake.

Type the first few letters of an app, instead of choosing from a start menu? No, wrong.

Wrong.

Read. My. Lips. W8 is wrong.

Ada Lovelace.
Grace Hopper.
My wife.
Your argument is invalid.

You are lost in a maze of scripty little passages, all alike. If you continue, you are likely to be eaten by a Grue.
Get-help.

(Where are my mod points when I need them?)

If/when there is a leadership spill (and let it be soon) I would bet that Malcolm would step forward. I'd also bet he'd quickly do a backflip on the NBN. I believe he's smart enough to know FTTP is a better option, but he's being wheel-clamped by Tony, Rupert's Boy.
 

Yes.

Am I alone in being utterly terrified at this trend in research?

"Um, you might want to get a second opinion on that."

You've just accomplished several things by that statement.

(a) Boss' ego is boosted. You're telling your boss that he's engaged professional talent, but that the problem is really thorny (and he was justified in spending the money).
(b) You've given him an out that involves more money spent (not always a bad thing to a manager).
(c) You've effectively put into your boss' mind that the consultant is an idiot.

By their very velocity, wouldn't hypersonic missiles have limited ability to jink?

Also, the beta sucks.

Slashdot is having a Jump The Shark moment.

There is little need to change in order to scale up, provided the old simple text-based format is being used. Remember, it was always other sites being Slashdotted, never Slashdot itself.

Maybe the world needs a brand new competitor to Slashdot to be introduced, competing with modern Slashdot by being more focused on text, rather than gadgetry -- well, by being an earlier Slashdot, to be frank.

Groklaw was an excellent site with a text-oriented format. Content ruled, and there was no moderation, but it Seriously Did Not Suck.
Whirlpool.net.au is a brilliant tech site, and I suspect I'll be spending more time over there.
Slashdot? Not so much, any more.

Goodbye.

Slashdot was a reasonable source of technical dialogue once. Solved a lot of problems by talking to each other.
I'll miss it.

Goodbye.

Well, it's apparently too kind to trolls, for a start.