Comment Re:It was a "joke" back then (Score 2) 276
That would depend on the physical size of the display and your distance from it.
That would depend on the physical size of the display and your distance from it.
Why? No one cares. You won't be missed.
By his own actions he revealed himself to be an extremist.
Donating money to a cause makes you an extremist?
I must be on the top of one crazy watch list.
Last time I checked, the west coast of the United States does not own exclusive viewing rights to the solar system.
Well, times have changed. If you want to look up, you'd better get packing.
Whos gonna do it if not Slasdotters?
Competent people?
And your qualification or citation to make that claim is?
Says the guy with no formal education.
You've got balls, I'll give you that.
They're trying to catch up to Blackberry?
They're masters of the one-handed interface.
my undergraduate student loan debt is 4 times my annual income.
How did you manage that? Did you spend 6-years at Princeton studying basket weaving only to find work in a Malaysian sweatshop?
Also, I will no longer test the software I develop with their browser. In this way, I will contribute to making Firefox deliver a substandard user experience to those who do choose to support them.
How consistent are you?
Do you use Google Chrome? Google openly supports gay marriage, so you must not test your code in their browser either, right? So does Microsoft, so IE is right out.
Ah, you must be a Safari user! Oh, wait. Apple also openly supports gay marriage. I guess that can't be it.
So... with what browser DO you test your software? Are you the last HotJava user? That would be pretty wild.
Wow, total fail. You should probably learn a tiny bit about science.
How about breakthroughs in understanding how consciousness emerges
How about breakthroughs in understanding IF consciousness emerges?
or the achievement of strong AI/the singularity?
Pure religious fantasy. It's not the 1970's anymore. That silly belief cannot be defended.
You should move to Somalia. It's a libertarian paradise where all of the things you're wishing for are true.
That's right, Max, there's nothing big left to discover. It's better that you don't study physics. We've got it pretty much all sorted.
It's not like you'll revolutionize everything and get a unit named after you or something.
(More seriously: Doesn't the author understand science? That's not how it works.)
Sorry, we don't want facts here. The Slashdot MRA crowd will not, under any circumstances, accept facts, reason, or logic. Their simple-minded and grossly incompetent notion of equality shall not be challenged!
This. Deaf "culture" is significantly responsible for many of the problems facing the deaf community, such as the outrageously high unemployment rate, and abysmally low literacy rate, and unimaginably poor deaf schools.
Deaf "culture" can't die soon enough.
For large values of one, one equals two, for small values of two.
