Comment Re:WTF Yahoo! (Score 1) 396
Is there a "slashdotted" .gif? They appear to need one of those now.
Comment Re:Internet Archived; Time to Move On (Score 1) 396
Funny, I was just about to suggest that, logged in, and there was already a recommendation. But yeah, dropbox is very good, you get 2 GB of free storage and it is about as user-friendly as it can get.
Submission + - Finally! Conversation threads for twitter!
An anonymous reader writes: The new service http://3ad.at/ enables users to start and participate in conversation threads using their twitter accounts. This is a feature many have been missing for such a long time. Jaiku, Facebook and others lets their users comment and discuss status updates in threads, but not twitter. 3ad.at is an attempt to solve this.
Comment Re:Quantum CPU extensions? (Score 1) 117
No. Maybe corresponds to a 1 probability of something being true. In a quantum computer, the probability of true is 1 and the probability of false is 1, thus the "yes and no".
Comment Re:flat (Score 1) 670
I see you have never used Wikipedia before. The article is not the proof, the sources of the article are. Welcome to the 21st century, AC.
Comment Re:reality is librul (Score 1) 670
A personal attack and an astounding ignorance of basic maths - it's all the fine points of Slashdot, condensed into a single sentence!
Comment Re:Ah.. (Score 1) 134
It is unlikely that the neurons will be microchips, connected by copper wires. A more reasonable prophecy is that the neurons are simulated by software, and a single impulse between two neurons will not be a single electrical signal, but quite a number (storing a number in memory, accessing the number, etc...). Perhaps someone more into mips and flops than me could crunch the numbers.
Comment Re:There is no debate (Score 1) 423
By that definition, it is my right to murder anyone. Doesn't seem like a very good definition, does it?
Comment Re:The Mysterious Reoccurrence of Mr. Freckles (Score 1) 290
Funny, perhaps, but true. BjÃrn is a Swedish word that is pronounced very similar to the "bjourn" in webjournal. It means "bear", and it is also a common given name.
For some reason, Slashdot garbles my characters. Imagine à being a o with two dots over.
For some reason, Slashdot garbles my characters. Imagine à being a o with two dots over.
Comment Re:I'll Be Damned (Score 1) 504
That goes to show how far you read.
Comment Re:I'll Be Damned (Score 1) 504
It's awfully glib to say we shouldn't be upset about being ripped off just because we have a choice. In a free market, with healthy competition, the price of goods and services should fall to just above their actual cost. That obviously isn't happening with SMS: customers would like to pay less, but no one is offering SMS for less, even though it costs almost nothing to provide. Doesn't that suggest a market failure?
I don't know about the US, but here in Sweden, a lot of mobile plans come with free SMS (up to a limit of 3000 per month or something like that). Also, often you can buy free SMS as an addition to a normal plan for ~$7 a month. It sounds like our market is ahead of yours?
Comment Re:Swordfighting (Score 1) 153
Slightly offtopic, but interesting: The swords wouldn't break. Mythbusters tried it out. Breaking swords by hitting them with other swords is exceptionally hard; they'll just bend. At most, there will be some severe dents in both blades.
Comment Re:Difference between purchase and service? (Score 1) 613
I don't understand. Most games prohibit you from playing online on official servers unless you have a valid cd-key. This check is easy to implement and not intrusive at all, and provides a benefit for paying customers. So why haven't they done so in this case?
Comment Re:To be or not to be... (Score 1) 1582
...you can get laid?
Comment Re:Corporate culture (Score 3, Informative) 883
That is true. Excessive CO2 can actually hurt plants.
