Comment Re:Well - Joe Dumbass will object (Score 1) 753
Judging by other replies to this article, Joe Dumbass now reads Slashdot.
Comment Re:No thank you (Score 1) 345
Unless it was Blazers vs. Rockets last Saturday. bleh.
Comment Re:Stupid (Score 1) 383
Perhaps they foresaw the huge internet bitchfest that would result if they overturned the results of one group of internet zealots for another?
Comment Re:Not needed for server apps (Score 1) 133
Sigh. This isn't for servers. This is for developers. You know, the people who develop that which is eventually deployed to your precious servers, without which those servers would be useless â" as servers tend to require something to, you know, SERVE.
Jesus. Server administrators should be happy about this. Let Joe Developer hack away at his Wordpress install on his local machine, rather than bugging you right away to install it on the server.
Jesus. Server administrators should be happy about this. Let Joe Developer hack away at his Wordpress install on his local machine, rather than bugging you right away to install it on the server.
Comment Re:No Addons? (Score 1) 662
Comment Re:Mashups (Score 2, Insightful) 492
Thank you. Well said. I think "the future of entertainment!!1!" is a bit overstating it, since entertainment has to be good on its face, rather than good based on how difficult it was to pull off - but that said, these are freaking amazing. Most Slashdot commentors right now are displaying are remarkable level of either knee-jerk negativism, get-off-my-lawn style myopia, or a shocking lack of understanding of just how difficult this was, technically.
Seriously, slashdot: wtf? if you're not willing to approach this as a musical achievement, approach it as a technical achievement. It's a music and video hack, if you will. I see fewer negative posts in the style of "why would someone even want to?" when somebody retrofits an arcade cabinet with MAME or puts Linux on a digital watch.
Seriously, slashdot: wtf? if you're not willing to approach this as a musical achievement, approach it as a technical achievement. It's a music and video hack, if you will. I see fewer negative posts in the style of "why would someone even want to?" when somebody retrofits an arcade cabinet with MAME or puts Linux on a digital watch.
Comment Re:In other news... (Score 1) 743
"McNeil-Lehrer News Hour"
If you want to rag on the young-uns, it might be best not to use an example that went off the air 13 years ago.
If you want to rag on the young-uns, it might be best not to use an example that went off the air 13 years ago.
Comment And so the cycle begins anew... (Score 5, Funny) 291
The Apple Product Cycle:
"An obscure component manufacturer somewhere in the Pacific Rim announces a major order for some bleeding-edge piece of technology that could conceivably become part of an expensive, digital-lifestyle-enhancing nerd toy."
"An obscure component manufacturer somewhere in the Pacific Rim announces a major order for some bleeding-edge piece of technology that could conceivably become part of an expensive, digital-lifestyle-enhancing nerd toy."
Comment Re:release date (Score 1) 483
I bet you're fun at parties.
Comment Re:Just don't (Score 1) 229
Myspace does that.
Comment Re:Yes, RT (Score 1) 321
In the modern world, well written web software can be customized to a large degree WITHOUT hacking core files.
Comment Re:Fighting over the same file (Score 1) 264
I second this. Makes it really easy to install eAccelerator/Xcache as well.
Miscalculation Invalidates LHC Safety Assurances 684
KentuckyFC writes "In a truly frightening study, physicists at the University of Oxford have identified a massive miscalculation that makes the LHC safety assurances more or less invalid (abstract). The focus of their work is not the safety of particle accelerators per se but the chances of any particular scientific argument being wrong. 'If the probability estimate given by an argument is dwarfed by the chance that the argument itself is flawed, then the estimate is suspect,' say the team. That has serious implications for the LHC, which some people worry could generate black holes that will swallow the planet. Nobody at CERN has put a figure on the chances of the LHC destroying the planet. One study simply said: 'there is no risk of any significance whatsoever from such black holes.' The danger is that this thinking could be entirely flawed, but what are the chances of this? The Oxford team say that roughly one in a thousand scientific papers have to be withdrawn because of errors but generously suppose that in particle physics, the rate is one in 10,000."
Comment Re:DRM? (Score 1) 179
Flamebait, perhaps - but true nevertheless.
Comment Re:Good for employment, bad for productivity. (Score 1) 809
Good post. And me without mod points. Sigh.
