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Comment Hard drives are cheaper now. (Score 5, Insightful) 370

by jumpingfred on Monday April 27, 2009 @01:53PM (#27733203) Attached to: GE Introduces 500GB Holographic Disks

1 terra byte drives cost around $100. That is 10 cents a gig at retail. So they cost less than 10 cents a gig to manufacture.

Microsoft Adding jQuery To Visual Studio 67

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 06, 2008 @10:14AM from the well-isn't-that-special dept.

Tim Anderson writes "Microsoft's Scott Guthrie, Corporate VP of the .NET developer division, announced that the open source jQuery Javascript library will be integrated into Visual Studio, the main Windows development tool. Further, Microsoft will treat jQuery as a supported product within technical support contracts, and will use jQuery to build new controls for ASP.NET, its web platform."

Comment Re:what to do with a giant parabolic dish... (Score 1) 552

by jumpingfred on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @09:28PM (#24206817) Attached to: Alternative Uses For an Old Satellite Dish?

It has been done. It was used only for good.

http://www.cockeyed.com/incredible/solardish/dish01.shtml

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