AT&T agreed to offer $10 DSL as a condition of merging with Bell South. I tried many times, calling AT&T, Googled a ton, etc. They fucked us. They probably offered the $10 DSL to exactly one rich ass hole. Why should we expect better this time around?
You know that you don't have to just add useless and uninteresting words to something that already had substance, right? At least borrow some quotes from Socrates' Dialogues to spice things up: There is admirable truth in that. That is not to be denied. That appears to be true. All this seems to flow necessarily out of our previous admissions. I think that what you say is entirely true. That, replied Cebes, is quite my notion. To that we are quite agreed. By all means. I entirely agree and go along with you in that. I quite understand you. I shall still say that you are the Daedalus who sets arguments in motion; not I, certainly, but you make them move or go round, for they would never have stirred, as far as I am concerned. If you're going to say _nothing_, at least be interesting about it, post anonymously, or risk looking more clueless / foolish. This is why the moderation system is in place, and mods typically don't listen to inanities like "Well said" when deciding on what to spend their points.
1. I'm too busy to sit around thinking up additional words to throw in so I can score "mod" points
2. The people I like on Slashdot are too busy to read a bunch of additional words I only threw in so I can score "mod" points
3. It's not in my nature to waste words, or to waste time
where Gates & Jobs got all their ideas from.
Actually, Jobs just brought people over to see the demo. No one actually saw any code.
It's why Woz had to invent (and patent) "regions" which was needed because it's the way to handle overlapping windows. (Woz got in a plane accident a short while later where he supposedly told Jobs when he visisted, "Don't worry, I didn't forget regions").
It was only after it was all said and done did someone from Xerox tell Woz their Alto didn't have overlapping windows.
If other posts here on Slashdot are any indication, "Mr. Councilman" is just as likely to lose political points by supporting the poor.
Actually this particular councilman represents an extremely high-rent district--Manhattan's upper east side. I doubt there are many wealthier neighborhoods in the world. He's not doing this to 'score points', he's doing it to do the right thing.
so I started working on a telepresence bot.
Pics?
[If you mean Comicon-like conventions, have you "cosplayed" the casing as a SF/comic/video-game robot?]
painting the output onto the inside of a sphere with the viewer at the origin; the viewer also looks from inside the sphere, but isn't tied to the actual camera angle.
That is not just clever, but the more superior "obvious in hindsight" clever.
It is my opinion that poverty is partially systemic. Our economic system depends on there being a pool of available workers (unemployed and underemployed). So as long as there is capitalism and a functioning free market, there will always be poor people. That being the case, we have a responsibility to make sure the basic needs of everyone are met. Increasingly in order to succeed in school and in life, Internet access isn't really a luxury.
Well said
Time and again, history has shown a healthy middle class is the best road to alleviate poverty on a grand scale.
Let me fix that for you:
Time and again history has shown the way to have a healthy middle class is to alleviate poverty on a grand scale.
shutup. just shut the fuck up. you neither know you are talking about, nor have any valid point to make. its not about solving the digital divide any more than the housing thing is about solving poverty. its been widely and clearly shown that there is an increase in opportunity and outcomes between homes with and home without internet access. you're essentially complaining about improving someones potential opportunities to enrich themselves and make their life better and maybe even get out of that housing you mock. but again, you have no valid point, so therefore theres little sense in talking sense, like pointing out to you that without subsidized housing many of these people would be on street, homeless, increasing both crime rates and homeless and deaths among the impoverished. Theoretically we are a civilized nation. But a civilized nation doesnt advocate intentionally making it harder if not impossible for those most disadvantaged to improve themselves, nor advocate for them to die quickly and get out of the way.
Well spoken, bro
AFAIK the Orthodox also include the apocrypha. Blame Martin Luter for including it in a separate part of this translation of the Bible (probably couldn't be assed to translate the entire thing in one volume) and maybe the Jews because it actually isn't in their Ancient Testament (whoops). Allegedly the earliest copies are in Greek.
Heck I dunno.
Supposedly the angels, also created by God, are immortal too. Calling them gods is extreme. They are supposedly supremely powerful but still servants of God. Although since they possess free will they can rebel. As that other dude you talked about.
What I find a lot more fascinating is the story about angels from the sky killing a Dragon. Since this matches more or less Japanese myth as well. For the story to spread that far it must be pretty old.
Well the Ark of Noah episode is actually a rather blatant ripoff of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Well perhaps ripoff is too strong a word since the Jewish people allegedly also migrated from Mesopotamia and the story was probably transmitted orally along the ages. It's in Summerian and Akkadian myth.
They constrained the distribution of the electron's probability without affecting the electron. That's very, very weird.
IAMA physicist, but not a very good one and this isn't my field.
From what I gather, they got liquid helium to react to the wavefunction of an electron without reacting to the electron itself. In other words, an electron approached the surface of a vat of liquid helium, the helium reacted (by forming bubbles), but the electron continued and eventually reacted somewhere else.
If true, this is really, deeply, weird. The wavefunction is supposed to be just a mathematical model of where the electron should be. Instead, this suggests that the wavefunction is a field with physical reality. A physical reality that can be studied in parts, not necessarily as a whole. It's pretty mindblowing and could lead to new physics -- gluon-like particles that carry wavefunction potential, maybe? But I'm skeptical until these results can be duplicated.
Note that the entire article is written in adherence to the Copenhagen interpretation. If you look at it via the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum physics, it gets even weirder -- is the helium responding to events in parallel universes? Luckily, I've always preferred the Copenhagen theory.
Gee, sounds like you need some kind of smartphone.
So why the fuck would you buy something that is intended to solve Arth1's specific issue?
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion
