Comment Re:Thicker and heavier than the iPad 2 (Score 5, Informative) 989
0.07 pounds heavier. I stand corrected.
Comment Thicker and heavier than the iPad 2 (Score 2, Interesting) 989
It's a fraction of a millimeter thicker than the iPad 2 and .7 pounds heavier. I guess the product wasn't going to go on getting thinner and lighter asymptotically.
Comment Re:Fermi Paradox (Score 1) 458
If you use the same logic, not observing God interacting with the world does not imply that God does not exist.
So many of the same arguments apply to both proving the existence/nonexistence of God and proving the existence/nonexistence of extraterrestrials. I love the X-Files; that series was awesome at comparing the two questions.
So many of the same arguments apply to both proving the existence/nonexistence of God and proving the existence/nonexistence of extraterrestrials. I love the X-Files; that series was awesome at comparing the two questions.
Comment Re:"12,000 [to] 200,000 years old" (Score 1) 172
You mean:
...found the seagrass was between 12,000 and 200,000 years old and was most likely to be at least 100,000 years old. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk)
The original article has wording that's more precise (http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0030454):
...The scenario of a km-range spread achieved exclusively through clonal growth requires that the clones reach a minimum age of about 12,500 years. Applying the same estimates to the genets shared between the two pairs of meadows, located 7 km apart between Formentera and Ibiza and 15 km apart around a cape in Formentera (Fig. 3), yields a minimum age estimate between 80,000 and 200,000 years, projecting the origin of the clones well into the late Pleistocene.
Comment Re:Is this that creationist place I heard about? (Score 1) 83
If this "meat tree" thing is really an official AIG position, post a link to it. I try to keep up with what they publish, but haven't ever heard of it.
Comment Google Translate FTW! (Score 1) 291
So we just take the next largest Wikipedia, say the French or German one, and run it through Google Translate.
Comment So much for "green" laptops (Score 2, Interesting) 190
Apple makes a big deal about how environmentally friendly their laptop lineup is. Maybe the non-environmentally friendly stuff just stays on the other side of the ocean, somewhere where we'll never hear about it.
Comment Re:Which reminds me... (Score 1) 447
It might be flakey, but there's a CyanogenMod build for the Incredible 2. http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices/htc-incredible-2
Comment Oblig. Toothpaste for Dinner (Score 1) 58
Submission + - Ubuntu 11.10 Released (ubuntubuzz.com)
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Comment Reminds me of an Asimov short story... (Score 1) 107
Green Patches (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Patches), where cats on the spacecraft are born with green patches over their eyes, and it turns out to be an alien organism which has taken control of all life on the planet.
Comment Depends on your definition of geek (Score 1) 949
Is a person a geek because he/she is antisocial, is an expert in something obscure, or for some other reason?
Submission + - Good CS High School Homeschool Curriculum?
dingo_kinznerhook writes: I grew up in a homeschooling family, and was homeschooled through high school. ( I went on to get a B.S. and M.S. in computer science; my mom has programming experience and holds bachelor's degrees in physics and math — she's pretty qualified to teach.) Mom is still homeschooling my younger brother and sister and is looking for a good computer science curriculum that covers word processing, spreadsheets, databases, intro to programming, intro to operating systems, etc. Does the Slashdot readership know of a high school computer science curriculum suitable for homeschooling that covers these topics?
Comment About those of us that aren't plants... (Score 2) 211
There's no mention of how this would affect animal life. Skin tones and fur/feather coloring would be lighter to reflect more of the light, right?
