Comment Re:No dude... (Score 1) 199
I'm pretty sure they had 3 years to get the site going, of course in government terms that isn't enough time.
Comment Oh yea (Score 1) 114
I can't wait til this comes out with Star Citizen. We are talking nerd heaven........
Comment Re:Dick (Score 1) 95
on bandstand....
Submission + - Peer reviews not working as intended? (scientificamerican.com)
Papaspud writes: According to the author, the process of peer review isn't working very well. She quotes a study which shows that 47 out of 53 major medical studies were flawed, and couldn't be reliably repeated.
Is this due to the pressure put on scientists to publish or die, or is it just the good old boy network, passing each others reviews? Any slashdotters have experience in this?
Read the whole article for a nice insight to the process.
Is this due to the pressure put on scientists to publish or die, or is it just the good old boy network, passing each others reviews? Any slashdotters have experience in this?
Read the whole article for a nice insight to the process.
Submission + - Nate Silver Speaks: The Six Big Takeaways From the Government Shutdown (grantland.com)
Lasrick writes: Nate Silver comes out of transition mode (Fivethirtyeight is in the process of moving to ESPN) to comment on the political impacts of the government shutdown, and the myths that have already sprung up around it.
Submission + - Is apple losing ground in the PC wars? (computerworld.com)
Papaspud writes: According to IDC, apple sales have fallen 11.2% in the last year. At the same time the other big 4 PC makers have seen their shipments in the USA increase.
Does this mean that Apple is finally losing it's shine, maybe that customers are more cost conscious, or that they just haven't really introduced anything compelling in the last year?
Or could this mean that apple is going to slowly exit from the PC market in the future, they don't seem to be very concerned about their PC line. The upgrade to the Air and iMac really aren't that substantial.
Does this mean that Apple is finally losing it's shine, maybe that customers are more cost conscious, or that they just haven't really introduced anything compelling in the last year?
Or could this mean that apple is going to slowly exit from the PC market in the future, they don't seem to be very concerned about their PC line. The upgrade to the Air and iMac really aren't that substantial.
Submission + - US Nuclear Weapons Laboratory Discovers How to Suppress the Casimir Force (medium.com)
KentuckyFC writes: One of the frustrating problems with microelectromechanical devices or MEMs is that the machinery can sometimes stick fast, causing them to stop working. One of the culprits is the Casimir effect--an exotic force that pushes metallic sheets together when they are separated by tiny distances. Now physicists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico have worked out and demonstrated how to suppress the Casimir force. The trick is to create a set of deep grooves and ridges in the surface of one sheet so that the other only comes close to the tips of the ridges. These tips have a much smaller surface area than the flat sheet and so generate much less force. That could help prevent stiction in future MEMs devices. But why would a nuclear weapons lab be interested? MEMs devices are invulnerable to electromagnetic pulse weapons that fry transistor-based switches.and so could be used as on-off switches for nuclear devices.
Comment Re:One more reason that such systems make no sense (Score 1) 308
In America, those exams would be considered racist.
Comment Re: Moral of the story (Score 1) 1737
Why yes, yes you could. Nothing illegal about following somebody- male or female. Might creep them out a little, but you are totally within your rights. Heck,what if I thought she had nice legs and just wanted to admire them for a few minutes.... is that a crime?
Comment Re:First! (Score 0) 84
STFU, you don't have a clue
Comment Re:the maiming and killing must be ok with them (Score 1) 1160
Nicely worded............
Comment Re:As an Alto.. (Score 0) 108
As I am a musician, and sing Alto.. is it mandatory that I use this service?
Yes, but unfortunately you first have to fly to Palo Alto, where you'll have to use this service on a Xerox Alto.
While playing an alto sax the whole time.
Comment Re:Fuck Apple. (Score 1) 543
My Hyundai actually does this too.
Submission + - Chrome getting slower 1
Papaspud writes: For the last 1-2 months, Chrome has really started slowing down loading my home page. I don't have this with other browsers, have tried IE and FF, and it only seems to be the first time load of my homepage, other pages as well as reloading the home page work fine. Has anybody else had the problem? I have tried clearing the cache and disabling the prediction services, nothing seems to help. Many times it will just set there loading until I actually have to refresh or hit the homepage button again. I am using My yahoo as my homepage, I know- I know, and as I said above don't have this problem with IE or FF. Anybody have any suggestions, I really like chrome the best, but I have moved to FF just because my home page takes forever to load. Thanks in advance!
Submission + - Booted from airplane for wearing anti-TSA T-shirt (rt.com)
Cigarra writes: PhD student Arijit learned the hard way that in Brave New America you can't mock TSA's Security Theater and go on about your business. According to a recolection in RT.com:
After being vigorously screened and questioned multiple times, Arijit says he was finally given permission, once more, to board his plane. The pilot of the aircraft, however, had had enough of the whole ordeal and asked the Delta supervisor to relay the message that, due to the discomfort the shirt had caused, neither Arijit nor his wife would be allowed to board the aircraft.
Just how much humiliation is the general American public willing to tolerate in the name of 'security'?
