jaapkroe - Slashdot User

Comment Re: Really? (Score 1) 255

by jaapkroe on Monday June 02, 2014 @07:54PM (#47150927) Attached to: A Measure of Your Team's Health: How You Treat Your "Idiot"

Always funny these "too lazy to RTFA" comments which turn into a book themselves.

Comment Re:Horrible article - auto-plays video (Score 5, Funny) 100

by jaapkroe on Sunday January 06, 2013 @10:04PM (#42500067) Attached to: Has CES Lost Its Star Appeal?

Why.. you mean people actually click those links??

Comment Re:Working with his father... (Score 1) 247

by jaapkroe on Sunday January 06, 2013 @10:00PM (#42500029) Attached to: Teenager Makes Discovery About Galaxy Distribution

From TFA... (NGI is the kid) You must it is a great publicity move by his father. Also nice for the boy and a great way to get him involved/interested in Science. Contributions All authors assisted in the development and writing of the paper. In addition, the structural and kinematic properties of the dwarf population, and the significance of the Andromeda plane were determined by R.A.I., G.F.L. and A.R.C., based on distances determined by the same group (as part of the PhD research of A.R.C.). In addition, A.W.M. is the Principal Investigator of PAndAS; M.J.I. and R.A.I. led the data processing effort; R.A.I. was the Principal Investigator of an earlier CFHT MegaPrime/MegaCam survey, which PAndAS builds on (which included S.C.C., A.M.N.F., M.J.I., G.F.L., N.F.M. and A.W.M.). R.M.R. is Principal Investigator of the spectroscopic follow-up with the Keck Telescope. M.L.C. and S.C.C. led the analysis of the kinematic determination of the dwarf population, and N.F.M. led the detection of the dwarf population from PAndAS data. N.G.I. performed the initial analysis of the satellite kinematics.

Comment Re:"among" the best?? (Score 1) 186

by jaapkroe on Friday February 03, 2012 @08:28PM (#38922727) Attached to: Canada's Internet Among Best, Report Says

The Financial Post newspaper is one of the lowest forms of media on the planet, right next to British tabloids

That doesn't place slashdot editors very high in this case.

Comment "among" the best?? (Score 2) 186

by jaapkroe on Friday February 03, 2012 @08:02PM (#38922451) Attached to: Canada's Internet Among Best, Report Says

I imagine this could be news of a local Canadian newspaper but Slashdot... Why?? I am from the Netherlands and live in Switzerland, both of which are "among" the best in terms of internet by some arguable measure, like Canada. The only newsworthy fact would perhaps be some nice ranked list but the article refers only to some Excel sheets, which place Canada far from number one. Better info can be found on Wikipedia.

Comment Re:And science fiction got there first. (Score 1) 532

by jaapkroe on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @06:48PM (#34553778) Attached to: Why Special Effects No Longer Impress

Robert A. Heinlein, in his 1950 essay "Where to?" mentioned as a law of nature that a nine-day wonder is taken as a matter of course on the tenth day, and Frederic Brown, in his 1954 story "Preposterous" told of a man who lives in a future so advanced even we haven't gotten there, and that man took for granted things like the "Fourth Martian War" and the "Immortality Center" who ridiculed science fiction and at the end of the story, "he quirtled."

He did what? Sorry, English isn't my native language but "quirtled" only gets 9 google hits. If that's a real word you've a googlewhack as quirtled immortalitx! (y=x, not to destroy it prematurely)

M.U.L.E. Is Back 110

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 08, 2010 @04:04AM from the not-for-the-red-wings dept.

jmp_nyc writes "The developers at Turborilla have remade the 1983 classic game M.U.L.E. The game is free, and has slightly updated graphics, but more or less the same gameplay as the original version. As with the original game, up to four players can play against each other (or fewer than four with AI players taking the other spots). Unlike the original version, the four players can play against each other online. For those of you not familiar with M.U.L.E., it was one of the earliest economic simulation games, revolving around the colonization of the fictitious planet Irata (Atari spelled backwards). I have fond memories of spending what seemed like days at a time playing the game, as it's quite addictive, with the gameplay seeming simpler than it turns out to be. I'm sure I'm not the only Slashdotter who had a nasty M.U.L.E. addiction back in the day and would like a dose of nostalgia every now and then."

The First Phone Call Was 133 Years Ago 196

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday March 11, 2009 @05:01AM from the come-here-mister-watson dept.

magacious writes "March 10 is the 133rd anniversary of the first telephone call. It occurred between Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Thomas Watson back on this day in 1876. But there is some debate about whether Bell is actually the rightful owner of the crown for such invention. Having worked on the idea of transmitting speech using electricity for some time, Bell filed his patent on 14 February 1876, either just before or just after his main rival for the title of inventor of the telephone, Elisha Gray, filed his own. Bell won the patent and Gray died in obscurity."

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