Comment: Atomtronics? (Score 2) 42
I thought Disney World mastered that stuff years ago.
Comment: Re:This thought crosses my mind a lot. (Score 1) 808
Hmm, fembots. I suppose the Apple model will be prettier, but much more expensive?
The real problem is that it will demand ecosystem monogamy.
As long as they come out with a new model every 12-18 months, that shouldn't be a problem.
(I wasn't logged in when I started to type this and the Captcha was "Chest" )
Comment: Re:WHY!? (Score 1) 614
For one thing, there is no constitutional requirement to link the offices. They are very much separate offices, the linkage is just the result of
Well, I guess now we know why McCain is so opposed to bundling.
Comment: Re: My theory (Score 4, Insightful) 1010
Have you no respect for tradition?
I agree. I remember this from back on Compu$erve even.
Sincerely,
90125,423
(or some such number)
Comment: Re:Place names (Score 5, Insightful) 642
"It is pretty neat, but it still reflects 18th century thinking"
...
And if you want to understand the reasons for that feel free to read the federalist papers (particularly Federalist 10).
So, how is reading the document written 1787 supposed to convince him it's not 18th century thinking?
Comment: Re:You're being played (Score 1) 813
... It won't pass. It won't be signed. You're being played...
You underestimate how many idiots we have in our state legislature. There are enough Republicans to override any veto as long as they vote together. Hopefully they wouldn't on something like this. But anytime you start a sentence "The Missouri legislature couldn't possibly be stupid enough to..." you are probably wrong.
Comment: Re:Fuck that state (Score 1) 813
that was supposed to say:
Comment: Re:Fuck that state (Score 1) 813
Federalize that state.
We see your "Federalize that state" and raise you one "Congressman Senator Todd Akin, R-MO".
Comment: Re:It's a race... (Score 5, Funny) 813
Teach Darwin, Teach Spinoza and Godel.
This list will never be complete. Or if it is, it will be inconsistent.
Comment: Re:Isn't this just bulimia? (Score 1) 483
In my experience,
Maybe the pet shop got your order wrong: "No I said Mastiff - not masochistic!"
Does All of Science Really Move In 'Paradigm Shifts'? 265
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Soulskill
from the corporate-science-certainly-does dept.
from the corporate-science-certainly-does dept.
ATKeiper writes "Thomas Kuhn's landmark book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions just turned fifty years old. In that book, Kuhn coined the expression 'paradigm shift' to describe revolutionary changes in scientific fields — such as the replacement of the geocentric understanding of the universe with the heliocentric model of the solar system. The book was hotly debated for claiming that different scientific paradigms were 'incommensurable,' which implied (for example) that Newton was no more right about gravity than Aristotle. A new essay in The New Atlantis revisits the controversy and asks whether the fact that Kuhn based his argument almost exclusively on physics means that it does not apply as well to major developments in biology or, for that matter, to the social sciences."
Slashdot Asks: What would you like to see at CES? 102
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timothy
from the car-stocked-with-food-and-blankets dept.
from the car-stocked-with-food-and-blankets dept.
This year's Consumer Electronics Show has nearly arrived. Later today, I'll be hurtling (or perhaps just slogging) across the West Texas desert, bound for Vegas. CES is far too big an event to see very much of, no matter what: the endless aisles (highways!) of cheap laptop bags and e-cigarettes alone take up an incredible amount of floor space, but the good stuff takes up at least as much. The categories represented aren't necessarily new, but the trends vary each time: remote-controlled helicopters, from Parrot and others, have been been getting more capable for a few years running, along with 3D televisions, action cameras, ever-bigger displays, toys for kids, toys for adults, and the newest/slimmest/priciest/cheapest laptops and handhelds. Last year I had a chance to get close-up video views at Ubuntu TV and the successfully crowdfunded TouchFire keyboard, as well as interviews with John Ryan of Pixel Qi and Raspberry Pi instigator Eben Upton. I'll be on the lookout for some of my usual obsessions (open source in consumer products, bright LED-based projectors, interesting input devices), but what would you like to see up-close from this year's crop of exhibitors (sorry, it's a long list), and why?
Comment: Re:It goes the other way, too (Score 5, Funny) 420
it was determined that at TV frequencies the Earth was the brightest (known) object in the galaxy.
That is until they learn to decode the signals. Then they will stop thinking we are bright.
Is the Flickr API a National Treasure? 101
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timothy
from the coerce-and-control-network dept.
from the coerce-and-control-network dept.
First time accepted submitter somekind writes "Over the past few months Twitter imposed restrictions on the use of its client API, and Facebook shut down the facial recognition API supporting face.com after acquiring the company. Mathew Ingram noted these and other examples (Google starting to charge for high-volume use of Google Maps) as evidence that 'open APIs' published by a single vendor can't be trusted by outside developers. Worried about the possibility that Yahoo! might do the same with Flickr, Dave Winer has just launched a petition to Obama asking the President to declare the Flickr API a National Historic Landmark, thus (by Dave's reckoning) legally protected from arbitrary withdrawal or wholesale changes by its corporate masters."
Comment: Re:That's great... (Score 5, Funny) 151
Come on, there's always a catch...
don't be so negative there is no catch drinking coffee coffee doesn't have a catch I drink lots of coffee and I don't have any side-effects I think you are being paranoid ha ha I'm not going to have oral cancer and you are just mad about it why don't you chill out and have a cup of coffee like everyone else I think I need another cup of coffee what the hell is this slashdot says I have to wait 30 seconds to post aaahhhh *click* *click* *click* ahhh still 28 more seconds