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Comment Re:I actually looked (Score 2, Informative) 580

Er, what? When I look at the screenshots, I see exact same icons as in XP. So much so, in fact, that I'm certain that they've just ripped them out of XP resource files.

AFAICS the screenshots in the article *are* from XP. This is how it really looks, as per comment #12 from the article:
http://i50.tinypic.com/2lar9s0.jpg

Supercomputing

Roland Piquepaille Dies 288

overheardinpdx writes "I'm sad to report that longtime HPC technology pundit Roland Piquepaille (rpiquepa) died this past Tuesday. Many of you may know of him through his blog, his submissions to Slashdot, and his many years of software visualization work at SGI and Cray Research. I worked with Roland 20 years ago at Cray, where we both wrote tech stories for the company newsletter. With his focus on how new technologies modify our way of life, Roland was really doing Slashdot-type reporting before there was a World Wide Web. Rest in peace, Roland. You will be missed." The notice of Roland's passing was posted on the Cray Research alumni group on Linked-In by Matthias Fouquet-Lapar. There will be a ceremony on Monday Jan. 12, at 10:30 am Paris time, at Père Lachaise.

Comment Re:A better link for full JPL/Phoenix coverage (Score 1) 119

yea, and their streaming video pretty much sucks. In a world where braodband has been around for 10 years NASA TV on the Web is Marginal quality on Windows Media only, or crappy low bandwidth with everything else (they don't even use H.264 for quicktime which is a super small bandwidth link).
There is a link to 1200kbps 640x480 Windows Media stream at Wikipedia entry of NASA TV. Not exactly hi-def, but better.
Television

Submission + - CBS Orders 7 More Episodes of Jericho (cbs.com)

Anssi writes: CBS has announced that they have ordered 7 more episodes of Jericho, the show which was canceled after the first season. The fan campaign involving sending nuts to CBS seems to have been successful, and if the ratings will be good, more episodes will be ordered. Quoting the message from CBS: "On behalf of everyone at CBS, thank you for expressing your support of Jericho in such an extraordinary manner. Your protest was creative, sustained and very thoughtful and respectful in tone. You made a difference."

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