Comment Re:Not sure how standing up would solve anything.. (Score 3, Funny) 312
No, some parallel programming
No, some parallel programming
You could install a threadmill behind your desk.
Unless it is haunted by a Maxwell demon.
The problem with that is that it will cool down the inside of the Earth.
You can have a look at the movie "The Core" to see what will happen then...
Perhaps we have moved towards an "on-demand" style of consuming.
We're not reading an article anymore because an editor assumed we had to read it.
Instead, we're reading an article because we were actively looking for it.
Perhaps we should move to a different voting system:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
In politics, sortition (also known as allotment or the drawing of lots) is the selection of decision makers by lottery. The decision-makers are chosen as a random sample from a larger pool of candidates.
Really? Democracy, the end of history?
Democracy is a system which is somehow stable, for the ones in power have no incentive to change it, and the people's voice is transformed/interpreted in such a way that it has no effect.
So yes.
Democracy does not exist. Here's an example theorem that shows it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
I have *0* respect for a person who submits to photographs, fingerprints, credit checks or drug tests to get a job.
I work for a modeling agency, you insensitive clod!
The space elevator is so passé.
I'd rather see they research things like molecular biology. There's so much more to gain there, imho.
Anyway, it is nice to see that they do more than developing boring online office applications.
I wouldn't trust Apple. When this becomes successful, before you know it, they will force other manufacturers out of the market. Look at how they are controlling the app-store, and forcing developers to not compete with Apple's products.
That's a factor of 100 less than what's available in Facebook's and Google's databases separately.
For example, I have some processes that involve visual basic scripts that run on a windows virtual server and send data files to a Unix server that reformats the files using Perl, preparing them to be ingested into an Oracle database.
I guess that answers the question of how many times one can curse in one sentence.
Patents are slowing down innovation.
If Einstein hadn't had those insights, someone would have, probably within a decade of 1905.
Incorrect. According to patent-officer's logic, no person can come up with the same idea as anyone else.
The moon is made of green cheese. -- John Heywood