Dice, Editors, your silence is deafening! Slashdot is News for Nerds but no true Nerd wants your Beta. Stop pretending this problem will go away. Maybe you actually hope it will go away, maybe you hope Slashdot itself will go away. Whatever - at least have the decency and respect for your long term readers to give some kind of response to all the negative feedback. Why not keep two versions of the site? If Beta was done properly it would all be a CSS skin with some scripts that could all be swapped out. You already have a mobile site, so it can't be to improve appearence on mobiles, tablets, phablets, touchscreens, etc. Oh sorry, I forgot, that wouldn't keep the advertisers happy. Slashdot was awesome while it lasted.

Thanks for your honesty but I abhor change for its own sake when it throws many of the great features of an old website. I've seen it happen so many times. Selling out to the mobile / tablet form factor with huge headings and everything spaced out and chunky. I don't blame the developers. They're building things to specification and have doubtless worked very hard. Reinventing the wheel for its own sake though when the new wheel is this unpopular - well sorry, I just have to let my frustration be known.

Dice have done far worse than kill Slashdot, they've hurt Slashdot and they intent to go on hurting Slashdot. They'll leave it marooned for all eternity in the centre of a dead fanbase ... Buried in whitespace ... Buried in whitespace ... Buried in whitespace.

I care what he thinks. Apple's existence is actually ruining other platforms and their diversity. Look at how much Unity sucks. That's Apple's fault. Windows 8? Apple!

Don't you realise there's a whole LOAD of electronic music on vinyl? What do you think DJs in clubs were using? Some choose to do it without the vinyl now but it's still been the definitive medium for underground dance singles.

The thing is when work loathing people like that are forced into jobs, I think in many cases they will actually make their employing company worse off than if the position had remained vacant. An incompetent, work hating rebel can do a lot of damage when they're not being sacked and I'm sure there are thousands in large companies going un-noticed. They can cost the company financially and destroy the quality of the company's products or services. They can end up costing the economy more than the basic social benefits they could have been paid not to work.

Now Russia can do the same with all America's nukes! They won't mind!

You could add an extra 6km or so to that for every kilometre you could raise it off the ground, couldn't you? The tallest building right now is apparently 829.8m tall though I suppose the goal is to get it a uniform height from the centre of the Earth. Of course, raising it up means you have to build more of it versus just digging a tunnel underground.

16:10 FTW!

LMAO this is hilarious. Wish I had mod points!

I'm probably being very naive attempting to understand this article that has probably already been massively dumbed down, but, how can the probabilities of all possible outcomes of an interaction not add up to one? Surely they add up to one by definition, otherwise they are not probabilities? For example outcome X having a probability of 1/3 means, on average, you can multiply the number of times you observe the interaction by 1/3 and get the expected number of times you would see outcome X. If the probabilities in your statistical trials didn't add up to 1, doesn't that mean adding up the numbers of individual outcomes observed would give a number bigger (or smaller) than the total number of interactions observed? Obviously it cannot mean that, as that fails basic arithmetic.

I can imagine tossing a fair coin - heads has probability 0.5, tails 0.5, total 1. So now how about a 3 sided coin without unitarity? Let's say the probability of heads is still 0.5, tails 0.5 but it has a third side, bodies that also has probability 0.5 of occurring. That sounds mathematically impossible. It could be a mind-reading coin, where you pick heads and find that then occurs on half your coin tosses. Later you pick tails, and that occurs on half your coin tosses, but when you pick bodies, that also occurs on half of those coin tosses. OK, I give up! Can anyone who really understands unitarity enlighten me please? Is this anything like the uncertainty principle?

I just tried to tag this article !!pentium but they wouldn't let me. It also instantaneously gave me The Contradictor achievement which is kind of cool if it's for being self-contradicting.

If Nokia hadn't killed their wonderful flagship Communicator platform to jump on the oh-so-dull Crapple rounded rectangle touchscreen bandwagon a lot of their hardcore fans in the western world might not have defected (myself included). The E90 was a beautiful phone and Maemo looked a promising OS for a successor (though the renaming to something as silly as MeeGo was asking for it to die LoL!). A contemporary clamshell phone with dual screens and full QWERTY running Linux or Android would be just lovely for me. The closest thing I could find was the HTC Desire Z (HTC Vision) which was a nice keyboarded smartphone but is now getting dated. I hope this dumb touchscreen only fad dies soon! Nokia were once an innovative icon. Oh how the mighty have fallen.

Stop saying "poster child"!

The phrase poster child is unsustainable!

I prefer the term $92 billiard.

I know, the Long Scale is seen as very archaic these days but the short scale just seems to run out of puff too quick. Quadrillion, indeed!