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Comment Metal-Tipped Darts (Score 2) 46

I hate to highjack such an interesting thread, but now we have to talk about the incredibly unsafe crap our parents let us do in the 70's and 80's. My contribution is this: Remember those big lawn darts with a metal tip from the 70's? They weighed almost a pound and would kill a Corgi if you threw it just right. You'd try to throw one to land in a hoop laying on the ground 30 feet away - much like horseshoes. You'd win a point if you got one in the circle, but to me and my teenage beer-drinking friends, you'd get two points if you caught your opponent's dart mid-air as you stood by the target hoop. What blinding fun! And then in 1988, they were banned due to the rising toll on Corgis and children's eyeballs.

Comment Intellectual Damage? (Score 4, Insightful) 40

I sure hope the Indian government is tracking how this affects the population. There are reports here and there about AI assistants making their users lazy/dumb, as these users rely on the AI instead of their own brains. There are other reports of students using an AI to write papers, and then college professors using AI to grade them. Neither the students nor the teachers are going to learn/grow much using this approach.

Since we're using the drug dealer analogy on this one, AI offers immediate wonders, but may leave users bereft in the end.

Comment How About Graphics Drivers? (Score 3, Interesting) 36

As you correctly point out, passing messages between kernel space and user land consumes resources, which is why Microsoft moved graphics drivers inside the kernel back in the 90's. That led to a decade of "replace your graphics driver with the generic Microsoft one" advice to solve Windows crashes. The graphics vendors eventually got their act together, but I'm pretty sure graphics drivers still have kernel acccess. Maybe they can be next for banishment to user land?

Comment Where's John? (Score -1) 21

It's been a while since I've smelled manure, but what happened to John Deere? Where did John go? Did he write a "Dear John" letter and slip out the back? Did he know the jig was up and leave Deere holding the bag? I'll bet he's basking on a beach somewhere sipping a tropical refreshment containing miniature lawn furniture, laugh about his fortuitous timing. Well done John! (you were always the better one)

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