If you can convince the NIH to fund a case study whose principle researcher admits he can't understand anything the quantitative guys put out

Ethics is one of those areas that's difficult to quantify in any meaningful or useful way though some (notably J.S. Mill) tried.

you're a better grant-writer then I.

I sincerely hope he isn't worse at any kind of writing.

There's this little thing called "qualitative research" you may want to look into one day.

Or as most people call it, storytelling.

WTF? Software isn't subject to physical wear like an engine. Do you think friction will eventually turn a 1 into a 0 somewhere in the code?

it's launching into a very different market than what the original DS XL faced in 2009.

Is Ernie Wise submitting stories now?

The article crashed my browser so I can't decisively, notwithstanding that it was in quotes, determine if that awful prose you rightly cited is the submitter's own words or not, however it is undeniably (though some might disagree) neither the first, nor likely on the balance of probability the last heap of inaccurate, illegible and (to some ears, arguably illegible) tripe to be posted on Slashdot, all of which begs the question: "is our editors editing?"

Scientists have produced the world's most powerful optical microscope, which could help understand the causes of many viruses and diseases.

Do viruses have a cause?

allow us to examine closely viruses and biomedicine for the first time.'"

Biomedicine is an academic discipline. You don't need a microscope to examine it. Here's a jar of physics, go and check if it contains any thermodynamics. Careful with that flask, it's full of chemistry!

Partly because of the cost but also partly because selecting student's

Selecting his/her what?

Researchers say that alumni of the most selective colleges earn, on average, 40 percent more a year than those who graduated from the least selective public universities, as calculated 10 years after they graduated from [huh?-Ed] and found that 'attendance at an elite private college significantly increases the probability of attending graduate school, and more specifically graduate school at a major research university.'

That is NOT a correct sentence. Even if you removed the superfluous preposition it would still, quite frankly, be a shit one.

"We cannot call it nothing other than a mockery"
Hang on. So they can call it something other than a mockery? So it's OK, then.

CmdrTaco claims he rejected a story. Yeah right. Want to buy a bridge?

Then you'd starve, and he'd be alive to take his gold back.

So what do you do when the food turns out to be poor?

I send it back. One aspect of the service is how well they deal with that. Having said that, I've had 100 instances of poor service for every time the food's been bad. The point is it shouldn't be there as something that I'm expected to negotiate down. The system as it is generally works as long as dickheads like you don't abuse it.

That saves about 50,000 nerd-hours per day.

And nothing of value was gained.

Why is paraphrasing the first sentence of the article (while attempting to contradict something that GP didn't actually say) modded informative?

Why not stick a "service charge" on the bill (aside from the obvious benefit of tax evasion)

Because under that system the customer has to pay for service whether it was poor, mediocre, or entirely absent?