Nevermind as decades pass, not ONE of the dire consequences ever comes to pass. I recall a short stint with "Global Cooling" that was trapped, as if in amber in "Barney Miller" in 1977 or so. Around that time Ted Danson, working with the usual suspects was heard to say "By 1980, children will no longer go outside to play, thanks to AcidRain(TM)."

The left (That'd be the party trying to choose for us our toilets, foods, cars and everything else) always has a set of dire predictions to sell. That's how they roll. Worse yet, it's how they take your freedom.

So, Firefox 1.0 came out in Fall 2004, and only in Fall 2011 will the Linux version be as fast as the Windows version?

Only more evidence that Linux on the desktop is still a toy for masochistic nerds.

Ya don't think?

Right now if you demand a congressman show where his latest law is allowed by the Constitution, YOU are the extremist!

I'm just shocked that the word "terrorist" ends up on the same page with the article talking about Muslims. We can't act like they don't mean to kill us; how BLIND would you have to be?

OK, you can mark me as "Troll" now; I've used those two words on the same article, and by open-minded Slashdot law, I, too, and an "Extremist".

(It doesn't stop them from sawing off heads.)

Sure; not knocking laziness!

I'm just saying with one HARD thing to do, which needs to be mastered before you count on it,versus an easy thing you do all the time...that's not being conservative.

Most are pro-abortion, happy about socialist overlords, and think we're about to find another Earth just any day; which is great, since they all believe in the junk-science of ManMadeGlobalWarming(TM).

No, they're not Conservative, they're LAZY. Unicode isn't easy. ASCII is. It's actually that simple.

But let's check the data's source, first. Slashdot. Often times 'breakthroughs' are noted here to get grant money. I can't tell you how many times since about 1996 I've seen "flexible LCD displays for $10" and similar claims I've yet to see.

Until I pat someone on the back and they glow, I'm not getting my hopes up.

BUT YOU: get to the patent center, NOW.

Tractor beams.
Light Sabers.
Ray guns (not laser guns, but when are they getting upgraded?)
Flying cars (not these toys)
Supersonic (super-hydronic?) submarines.
$10 laptops.
Cheep mylar high-def, color screens that roll up like scrolls.
Fuel Cells.
Power for internal silicon from the blood stream.

How many times do we have to SEE such things advertised "now available" that never come to fruition?

I mean really. I've been seeing "cheap, rollup displays" announced about every year since 1996. When do they actually GET here, or should we just stop listening?

These things would make GREAT data-monitors. The touch screen and the X server would let ya do just about anything remote to a machine without an interface.

I'm actually looking for something like this....

I'm glad you mentioned that. The two stories are closely related.

First: a place where Conservatives are voting things DOWN? Amazing. They're so used tot having it done to them (see also ABC/CBS/NBC/MSNBC/etc who all carry the same message).

Second: Who uses DIGG, anyway? I can find my own stories and make my own judgements.

Third: Slashdot's a great example of the way things are online (as in #1). Wanna get modded down? Say something with the word "Christ" in it. Or say how you don't understand how spending every penny we can borrow makes us rich.

Both are Christian and Conservative viewpoints strictly forbidden here. I've had a "Bad" karma or worse for years, and it has nothing to do with name-calling or giving away nuclear secrets.

It's also why I scan headlines, and never point anyone back to this site. It still retains a little interest. No room for enlightenment, no room for challenge- you're just relegated to the bottom.

Clearly "diversity" has no room in the liberal mind.

There's a guy here in Indiana, a teacher, exposed for child porn on the computer in the teacher's lounge in 1994. No one ever asked the question why anyone would use porn in such a public place...and he's been jailed for a long time. I'm not sure he's out YET.

Putting a person in jail isn't a joke, a trick or prank. It's a kind of misery that causes some to kill themselves inside. It also causes people who aren't flushed with cash to lose their homes, families, cars....anything with a loan payment...to go away or divorce you.

I'm happy to see this bastard caught red-handed.

No, it's really not.

Running Ubuntu Linux would be even cheaper, since no A/V software is needed and you won't be taking the box to a snot-nosed kid who'll search your drive for porn while charging $100 to remove the virus that software misses.

I know this; I worked at a PC repair depot. Recently.

To make things worse, you wouldn't NEED a backup disk for Ubuntu Linux. You usually run it until the drive dies, not the next crash.

When we DO care, we'll see even more desktop conversions.

This is the NYT; poster of national secrets- controller of the direction of the JournalList Listserv.

Would anyone PAY for this leftist crap? It's *precisely* the same news in all other places, other than FoxNews.

Seriously: why didn't Air America earn it's keep? Think about it.

I've felt the same way; just _because_ you can create 1,000,000 CPUs connected to a single bus doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. We're still limited to physics, and if they're x86 cores, we're still dealing with all that "address bus is multiplexed" crap that was a problem in 1985. (!)

I have the feeling that, if we're so enamored with multiple cores, they need to be smaller, simpler, and able to communicate amongst each other. This is how (in the real world) multiple CPUs actually map like the human brain.

Just how much memory and refresh cycles ARE there in synapse? (See the point?)

If we can arrange types of CPUs, give them the ability to communicate with every other node, put that 1,000,000 into a net with neural-net style layouts, and THEN we're talking.

Consider the Texas Instruments 1-bit CPU. Only 16 instructions and something like 7 of them are no-ops! All programs take the same amount of time to execute. You can make BANKS of these things, to create 2048-bit computers if you like. Of course, it helps to do this at the core-level, not the 8-pin DIP level. :)

Unfortunately for the traditional integrators, THIS is how we're going to the next level of operation. The PC has little in common with brains. It's a metaphor.

I think the term was...oh, yeah:

C L I M A T E G A T E?

People in this group are natural thinkers. Are we also natural forgettors?

Al Gore shows the two, seemingly identical charts on roll-arounds because he wants to hide a one fact, and create another: that CO2, per the fossil record and no one's opinion, actually COOLS the planet, not heats it. The 800-year delay is the data that gets lost because they're on different charts. After the ocean has been "hot" 800 years, the CO2 in the ocean is released in great quantity and resolves the problem.

Then we have all that "here's how we make this information up" discussions from a dozen various "science" outlets.

So who GIVES A SHIT about tuning for zero-carbon? I think we have much bigger problems.