Ditto. Things that never stuck in a decade of English classes that finally clicked, made sense, and stuck in my first semester of High School Spanish include gerunds, infinitives, and the subjunctive.

"... problem appears to be getting worse..." [emphasis mine]

Anybody want to bust out some science and actually try measuring something, or just wanna sit around and whine?

Maybe -- just maybe -- you're hearing about it more because thanks to the Internet, there is more info about everything in front of you at all times. So perhaps that explains why you're seeing more bad science? (And everything else.)

Or maybe you could ask the tiny fucking supercomputer that's in your pocket with instant access to 98% of all human knowledge and voice recognition about the state of science today. Jesus fucking christ.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."

Wow, 24 hours after launch? That's AMAZING! That is, if you ignore the fact that precise measurements and high-res images of the real thing have been online for months at apple.com... but other than that, yeah, quite a feat.

LITERALLY 2 weeks? MOVE! You don't have a second to lose.

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/open/salespolicies

> External video is up to 3840 by 2160 pixels.
> Yeah, that missing 160 pixels horizontal
> resolution is Soooooo upsetting.

There might be a nipple in the bottom 80 pixels.

Someone is still using a Blackberry phone?

From my point of view, it's not about freedom of their (Verizon's) speech, or about this being a good way to improve innovation and such. it's about what they advertized my service to be when I signed up, and as I pay for it. If I signed up for a 25Mbit/50Mbit plan, and you have plenty of capacity, then what right do you have to intentionally slow me down below that agreed upon and paid for speed? If you don't have the capacity to reliably provide the advertized, agreed and paid for speed, then why are you offering it? If you are taking on too many customers to continue to provide the advertized/agreed/paid for speed, then please stop taking more on until you are capable of reliably honoring your side of all agreements.

If you want to give us less than what you advertize, then stop advertizing higher speeds, and only advertize and sell what you are capable of.

I'm really getting tired of your Half-Fast B.S. arguments in favor of your bait-and-switch false-advertizing.

Came here to say this if it hadn't already been said. Roll on fellow Browncoat!

I'm sure the name tickles those who obsessively play Kerbal Space Program... not that I do... or know people who do... (hides his drawings of SSTO designs).

Cool concept. Let's hope it comes to fruition.

Give me a ping, Vasili...

I was just in a clearance store today. Got a couple LED ornaments, and some t-shirts for $1.50 each.

So... "everything in moderation"? Just like... everything else? Got it.

Tomorrow on Slashdot: one editor's quest to rid Slashdot of mixed-tense constructions: "... he'll then go in and manually corrects..."*

Interesting fact: he initially was on a quest to rid wikipedia of "should of" and "could of" but the database crashed under the weight of the results. So we went with "comprised of".

* Just kidding. Slashdot editors don't actually edit. But a boy can dream...

And in a similar vein: http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...

Thanks for the perfect setup for this old joke...

On a four-engine plane over the Atlantic the pilot announces on the intercom, "Ladies and gentlemen, we've just lost an engine, but there's nothing to worry about. This plane flies perfectly well on three engines. It just reduces you speed a little so we'll be about a half-hour late."

A few minutes later, another announcement: "Ladies and gentlemen, we've lost another engine. We'll still make it, but that'll slow us down a little more. We'll be about an hour late."

Soon there's yet another message: "We've just lost power on a third engine. I think we'll be OK, but plan on being two hours late."

One of the passengers turns to his neighbor and says, "I hope the fourth one doesn't quit. We'll be up here all day."

The only problem with naming satellites after early astronomers is that when I read the headline, there is a moment where I think "wait -- isn't he dead?"