I thought the reason why we were using the cavendish is because all of the other palatable banana varieties had already fallen prey to fungus varieties. Isn't the cavendish the only one left? Gros Michel already has its arch nemesis fungus and can only be grown in special environments where care is taken to avoid contamination.

The coral reef is saved! Hell, the Earth is saved! You see, nature has a way of balancing things out. So, even if we humans manage to completely fark up the environment, the Earth has self-regulating mechanisms to make sure it survives and life carries on. There was nothing to worry about after all! Oh yeah, and /s, in case that wasn't obvious enough.

I'm surprised I had to scroll this far down to find this comment. I kind of expected to see more "purists" here on /., but I guess there are even more "futurists" who want technology to progress forward. Guess we will just have to continue to grow old while cursing at every TV we see in public with "motion smoothing" turned on. It's just our fate.

I've never seen The Hobbit in high frame rate, but I do recall that Redletter media said that the high frame rate really bothered them. Of course a high framerate is technically superior, but it does look noticeably bad to a lot of people. Admittedly, mostly because of the history of using 24fps for movies, so it just looks more "cinematic" when in 24fps. I also agree with this guy in the video below, too. (Though the like/dislike rate of the video suggests that a lot of people don't.) https://youtu.be/EM16aiSSpFk

Must be a really slow news day.

If they are making so much money for themselves and "all of us", then why are they having so much trouble paying off their debts? Face it, the majority of these people struggling to pay off student loans are not in professions that have much value to society.

Bingo. That is the main point, right there.

So, basically like power cycling the eye, right? Gotta remove the battery from the mother board and let it sit for a while for the RAM to clear, I guess. This should fix most minor eye issues I would assume. Similar processes should also work for the ears, nose, etc.

Astronomers have detected chemical precursors of building blocks of the components needed to construct the conditions required to make the environment necessary to gather the required elemental components of life.

"The hands that threaten doom."

That's what happens when you mimic the morphology of an animal that can hardly "walk" in the first place. Next time, try a bird. They can walk a lot better than bats.

Then everyone would know that it isn't real. And that would take away all the fun, wouldn't it?

In all seriousness, the Lindt Excellence 99% chocolate bar along with my black coffee in the morning is one of my guilty pleasures. I may be among the small minority of human beings who actually likes to eat cocoa at that level of purity, but I will go to great lengths to get it. Once when the store I usually buy it from ran out of stock, I searched all over the Internet for a retailer that carries it, and ended up ordering a case of them from France. (Luckily, it's easy to obtain here in my city again now.) So, to summarize, it is me who is eating the world's chocolate supply.

I live in Tokyo, and I've seen tons of similar-looking arcades close within the last 10 years I've been here, including some in very recent years. Video arcades are still somewhat of a thing here in Japan, unlike most other countries - though they are rapidly disappearing here as well. As others have pointed out, judging by some of the games pictured, this arcade hasn't been closed for more than maybe 10-15 years at the very most, and I'll bet it's actually a lot less than that. I should mention that I do collect arcade boards a bit myself, so I have an idea of what the market is like here in Tokyo. To put it bluntly, the majority of this is considered junk here - especially the cabinets, which all have CRT displays. CRT cabinets are desirable to classic arcade game collectors - maybe to have just one or two at home for personal use - but the majority of them get hauled to the dump nowadays since there is little demand for large quantities of them in still-operating arcades. As for the boards, I'm sure there might be a few semi-rare ones in there that might sell for a few hundred dollars, but I can tell you with certainty that most of them would likely sell for the equivalent of $5-30 US$ in an online auction in Japan. To be blunt, the reason this stuff is still in this building is because the previous occupants didn't have the money to have it hauled to the dump - and little of it has higher value than it did when the arcade was closed. Most of it has probably actually gone down in value. This is really a poor excuse for news, and I'm surprised Slashdot bothered posting it. It might look like a cool find to people outside of Japan and people who don't know much about arcade equipment, but to those who do know, this find is barely worth mentioning at all. I would consider it a pretty cool find if a friend had found it, for instance, but it's certainly not international news-worthy.

Better not tell the universe it shouldn't exist. We don't want it to realize that and suddenly stop existing - like when Wile E. Coyote realizes he has already ran off the edge of a cliff and is running in thin air.