Comment Great idea (Score 1) 86
Brilliant, until some idiot blabs about it.
Comment Garbage (Score 1) 692
With biologists getting closer and closer to reversing the aging process in human cells
Not really.
You can't tell people not to reproduce and you can't kill people to preserve resources and space.
I think you can. On occasion, this has actually happened.
not enough medical care
Why? I thought doctors and nurses started out as people, so if you have more people you have more raw material for making doctors & nurses.
The entire article is built on sand.
Comment Re:Simple Answer: Warfare (Score 1) 692
As an interim measure, some of the critters can get repurposed as food for the other critters.
Comment Are you sure? (Score 1) 100
During this time they shot over 70,000 images, which were combined in to the giant 365 Gigapxiel panorama using a special robotic head with a long 400mm telephoto lens (and a 2x Extender).
I don't think so.
I think it's more likely that they shot over 70,000 images using a special robotic head with a long 400mm telephoto lens, which were combined in to the giant 365 Gigapxiel[sic] panorama.
Comment Re:Stupid (Score 1, Troll) 387
Witeboards are racist. So are blackboards, which is what chalkboards were called before 1886.
Comment Re:I just have to laugh! (Score 1) 529
Say that to the Vietnamese boat people.
Presumably you mean the ones who didn't drown. They did get lucky, compared to the others.
Comment protip (Score 4, Funny) 71
to for surveillance of properties
Protip: if you're not sure which preposition to use, put both.
Comment Protip (Score 1) 270
hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraq's
Protip: try to pair up your errors, and hope that one masks the other.
Comment Re:I just have to laugh! (Score 1) 529
Or he got lucky. In any case, anecdotes prove nothing.
Comment Re:Couldn't care less. (Score 2) 241
Reverting the Windows 8 start screen
So he did the needful?
Comment crap (Score 1) 56
it also kept legitimate commercial entities doing business with the software
How did it do that? By threatening to kill their pets if they stopped?
Comment motto my botto (Score 1) 12
That's not a motto, it's a frickin' list.
Comment Re:This isn't fking starwars (Score 1) 33
The kind that writes 'a collection visualizations', perhaps?
Ask Slashdot: Most Chromebook-Like Unofficial ChromeOS Experience? 99
An anonymous reader writes: I am interested in Chromebooks, for the reasons that Google successfully pushes them: my carry-around laptops serve mostly as terminals, rather than CPU-heavy workhorses, and for the most part the whole reason I'm on my computer is to do something that requires a network connection anyhow. My email is Gmail, and without particularly endorsing any one element, I've moved a lot of things to online services like DropBox. (Some offline capabilities are nice, but since actual Chromebooks have been slowly gaining offline stuff, and theoretically will gain a lot more of that, soon, I no longer worry much about a machine being "useless" if the upstream connection happens to be broken or absent. It would just be useless in the same way my conventional desktop machine would be.) I have some decent but not high-end laptops (Core i3, 2GB-4GB of RAM) that I'd enjoy repurposing as Chromebooks without pedigree: they'd fall somewhat short of the high-end Pixel, but at no out-of-pocket expense for me unless I spring for some cheap SSDs, which I might.
So: how would you go about making a Chromebook-like laptop? Yes, I could just install any Linux distro, and then restrain myself from installing most apps other than a browser and a few utilities, but that's not quite the same; ChromeOS is nicely polished, and very pared down; it also seems to do well with low-memory systems (lots of the current models have just 2GB, which brings many Linux distros to a disk-swapping crawl), and starts up nicely quick.
It looks like the most "authentic" thing would be to dive into building Chromium OS (which looks like a fun hobby), but I'd like to find something more like Cr OS — only Cr OS hasn't been updated in quite a while. Perhaps some other browser-centric pared-down Linux would work as well. How would you build a system? And should I go ahead and order some low-end 16GB SSDs, which I now see from online vendors for less than $25?
So: how would you go about making a Chromebook-like laptop? Yes, I could just install any Linux distro, and then restrain myself from installing most apps other than a browser and a few utilities, but that's not quite the same; ChromeOS is nicely polished, and very pared down; it also seems to do well with low-memory systems (lots of the current models have just 2GB, which brings many Linux distros to a disk-swapping crawl), and starts up nicely quick.
It looks like the most "authentic" thing would be to dive into building Chromium OS (which looks like a fun hobby), but I'd like to find something more like Cr OS — only Cr OS hasn't been updated in quite a while. Perhaps some other browser-centric pared-down Linux would work as well. How would you build a system? And should I go ahead and order some low-end 16GB SSDs, which I now see from online vendors for less than $25?
Comment New submitter? Don't become an old one. (Score 1) 93
The Claudico super computer uses an algorithm to account for gargantuan amounts of complexity by representing the number of possible Heads-Up No-limit Texas Hold'em decisions.
Ummm, wrong. It's the other way round. You don't put shoes on by keeping your feet warm, do you?
