Comment Re:The tagline displays for me just fine (Score 1) 291
How, exactly, would the appearance of six words on screen improve your Slashdot experience?
How, exactly, would the appearance of six words on screen improve your Slashdot experience?
my phone has maybe 100kB of worthwhile stuff on it, the other 31.99GB is bullshit that I don't need long term. I can prove this by when I upgrade my phone I'm not going to copy a lot over other than the address book (which the cloud will do automatically for me)
Also, those tape sizes assume 50% compression. The raw sizes are: DAT 72 = 36 GB, DAT 160 = 80 GB
Maybe he's just got an art hobby, nothing wrong with wanting to preserve the work you did. Maybe 20 years down the road he'll want to process those photos into a completely different composition.
before being intentionally smashed into a metaphorical brick wall.
Surely the real news here is that they've been able to make functional use of abstract concepts.
Next they'll announce that they've slashed the electricity bill by powering the magnets with love.
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The article could have told us what the protons were actually smashed into, instead...
No, you're just failing to read properly.
They can't really spin the drives faster than 7,200 RPM without increasing heat and the rate of failure.
I have never understood why they can be convinced that a random rock they find in the desert is actually from Mars.
So, do some readingon the topic, and then you will understand. In the meantime, your lack of understanding doesn't change the fact that they can do this.
but it is magical thinking to hold that such a rock definitely came from Mars.
No, it's magical thinking to assume that science must be wrong because you know less than science does.
Given the science used, it would probably require magical thinking to hold that such a rock did not come from Mars.
The article says it left Mars 5 million years ago, which I think clears up both of your confusions.
Dibs on the Daryl Hannah bot.
Were they really nice cigarillos?
The problem is it can be unclear what is meant, or if something is being implied, when people start throwing in synonyms for no real reason. We're not all experts in the field, so when a summary throws in two terms - especially one which, in common usage, often implies a deliberate act (a detonation being the initiation of an explosion) - it's not unexpected that some people might find it confusing - even if all it does is raise suspicion that there might be some extra meaning for the differentiation that's escaping the reader.
I bring you peace.
It's bringing peace! Don't let it get away!
Break its legs!
This, sir, is a pavilion!
You would make Descarte proud.
Well, maybe, but how would I know?
Oh god. And it's also Roko's Basilisk.
It is obvious to the extreme that computers don't think, and aren't aware of anything.
Why is it obvious?
Also, "don't" does not mean "never will."
An amoeba is aware of its surroundings because it is alive.
For a particular definition of "aware" which seems rather circular, perhaps. Is a robot which can hear the name of an object being spoken, identify that object within it's visual field and pick it up with a robot hand aware of its surroundings? It's certainly capable of acting as if it is aware - and taken to an extreme, that's about all I can really say about other people.
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan
