Comment Red Mars gene therapy (Score 1) 554
So is this the first steps towards the gene therapies in Red Mars books? Finally!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy
Comment Re:They already do! (Score 1) 246
"changes land on a daily basis".
Excuse me, but they already do. What the heck is update manager, but a means for updates to land when needed?
Normal updates are just for fixes.
However the optional backports are for introducing new versions so they already partially do this.
Comment Not Vehicles, gadgets is more ideal (Score 2, Interesting) 161
I would prefer that we convert the phone booths to mobile phone, iPod, etc ie gadget charging stations.
May need to offer some lockable lockers with chargers similar to what they offer at music festivals. But not sure terror / vandal paranoid people would accept that.
I have to admit I still use phone booths, but only as a quiet place to talk on my mobile...
After Learning Java Syntax, What Next? 293
Niris writes "I'm currently taking a course called Advanced Java Programming, which is using the text book Absolute Java, 4th edition, by Walter Savitch. As I work at night as a security guard in the middle of nowhere, I've had enough time to read through the entire course part of the book, finish all eleven chapter quizzes, and do all of the assignments within a month, so all that's left is a group assignment that won't be ready until late April. I'm trying to figure out what else to read that's Java related aside from the usual 'This is how to create a tree. This is recursion. This is how to implement an interface and make an anonymous object,' and wanted to see what Slashdotters have to suggest. So far I'm looking at reading Beginning Algorithms, by Simon Harris and James Ross."
Comment Re:Rating every YouTube video? (Score 1, Funny) 197
When the current reviewer gets promoted to rating PornTube
Comment First? (Score -1, Offtopic) 197
First post?
Comment If I knew what Interstitial was I might pick it (Score 1) 507
Since I voted before I googled the meaning of "Interstitial" my vote is now probably still correct as I hate hovering ads.
But voting is biased due to over engineering the voting options! Simple english: More accurate voting as catering for non native English speakers which probably outnumber the readers from the UK and former colonies..
Comment Re:Small Businesses Will Take a Hit (Score 2, Informative) 796
Nope, small businesses just require people to transfer money directly into their account. Either pre-, before whatever it is, so they can verify it, or post- (invoice) if they can trust them.
Thats how small sports teams, private instructors, charities etc do it over here(Norway).
Since transfers are free and nowadays pretty instant or at worst a few hours delayed this is quick and easy.
And these days people now can transfer money via their mobiles so this is now even easier.
When I first moved to the UK in the 90s I was surprised they still used cheques, and now nearly into 2010s it is quite bizarre. Since the rest of Europe has been fine without cheques for 20+ years I don't really think they need to worry!
Comment Re:The desktop is dead (Score 1) 1365
Ermmm. Sure about that? Don't most medium to large non-IT companies mostly outsource their IT infrastructure? Which is another corporation...
Including email, intranet, internet web servers etc.
