Correlation is not causation, they may have common causes, for example

*ducks*

No need to be cubes, it's sufficient to be in 3D. Also, I don't think it's healthy for a 2m person to have the same girth as a healthy 160cm man who is thin or just right even for his height.

In the meantime, unless there is study to the contrary, the cubic ratio is the most reasonable assumption to go by, especially around the population mean or median.

> Three sentences is
> Just enough information
> For stupid people

A dumb, Haiku-loving person, reading an article on Slashdot, which used to stand for 'News for Nerds', encounters an article about a novel news service. The blurb is using terms which the reader might be unfamiliar with, such as 'sentence', and mistakes it with 'row'; he also fails to take into account the possibility for complex and/or compound sentences. Having demonstrated his lack of grasp on the matter publicly - with the foresight of posting as an Anonymous Coward however -, somebody else, who on the other hand hasn't read TFA, comes and points out the irony for him.

In a humorous way, GP anon makes the valid point that, ObjC can become marginalised over time if Swift gains followers in the general population, despite the fact that iOS / OS X system libraries will continue to exist, or be created in ObjC. For there are a _lot_ more people working on 'apps' than there are people making ObjC or C++ libraries that work under the hood, beneath opaque APIs (typically Apple employees, for libraries like Core Animation, Metal etc.). From the application developer's viewpoint, it usually doesn't matter if the system library beneath an API is implemented in C, assembly, Swift, Fortran etc. as he just calls the API functions from within, e.g., Swift. The GP, mind you, doesn't make the point that Swift will prevail over ObjC among app developers, just challenges the notion that the use through an API of an opaque library written in language X makes you a user of language X, or in some way make you count toward the use of language X.

Disgust for the convicted monopoly-abuser microsoft is a better reason for ripping off the windows key than sheer utility. In fact, a screwdriver is a pretty gentle tool - another version is if you don't buy a laptop or keyboard that has an 'in your face' ms marketing key in a prime location. Thinkpads held up for a good while. Btw. the GP probably has better motor control than you, evidenced by your untreated La Tourette syndrom, or worse, emotional need for behaving this way.

tl;dr the windows key is useful on all platforms but windows

Photosynth

But oh it's too late, you outed their secret! Unless it was intentionally misleading!

Tape is even less expensive, yet the mainstream moved away from it. A disk is just tape that's been wound up into a smaller space.

Right after the acquisition, they decided to lay off the team responsible for the 'non-smart' phones so that all development funds can be channeled into the 'non-dumb' phones.

However, due to a glitch at accounting, they forgot to hand out slips or cancel payroll. The team members were already prohibited from mingling with the rest of the crew, lest some smartish feature creeps into the product ideation. So they lived their corporate lives unknowingly and developed the goodies and then it was too late.

This, mod parent up. It's weird to have a solid concept wandered around in the summary when it has a name. Neoteny is in play not only with humans (we're neotenic monkeys), but also with dogs, which is why they don't just eat us up as wolfs would do.

Whoosh ;-)

My father has space on a farm and built a rotating roof structure on the ground, with about 20 panels that are highly sensitive to light directiion. There are two light detectors: one is an ambient photoreceptor, in order to detect that the sun is shining. If it is above a threshold, it activates the rotary motor (salvaged from a washing machine) that turns the contraption until another light sensor measures bright light. This second sensor sits deeply in a slit, therefore it only detects bright light if the vertical slit directly aligns with the Sun. If the Sun moves (well, the Earth, or both, but anyway) then the slitted sensor will taper down suddenly, but the ambient sensor will still signal, so it'll apply rotation until the slit is lit again. Once it bumps into a terminal button, or a timer is activated, it winds back, otherwise it would be the end for the cords. It wasn't all fine and dandy: a year long legal battle was needed to convince the power utility to settle the net balance rather than the gross balance (inclusive of network charges etc.). Then lightning stroke and it all went out (with essentially all other electronics on the farm). Luckily my father had insurance, but it took about a year to collect and repair.

When I was a student, I came across some blueprint and made a monitor cable that allowed the use of less expensive, commodity IBM PC compatible monitors on Apple computers, and created a little company to commercialize it. As I lacked funds, or a PC, a monitor or an Apple computer, I borrowed a large CRT monitor from a distributor and brought it to an Apple retailer for the demo via public transportation. So much about budgeting for proper testing and QA. I was lucky with the soldering and it worked straight away. Due to reported availabilty from some asian 'competitor', no order was placed but I got paid for the prototype. I carried back the borrowed monitor and recovered the safety deposit.