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Comment Anybody else wish .... (Score 1) 320

by phoxix on Wednesday November 12, 2008 @12:20PM (#25734523) Attached to: First Trek Film Footage Unveiled

... producers would stop obsessing about the original series, and make like ... an updated Star Trek movie ??

Maybe with the casts of TNG and DS9 ??

I wouldn't be surprised if there were many other trekkies who love the newer stuff, but don't give a damn about the old material ...

*raises hand*

Its interesting because in the Slashdot poll of Which Trek is Best, the original series actually lost to DS9. If Slashdot isn't a place to guage this sorta thing ... you couldn't do it anywhere else.

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Space Litter To Hit Earth Tomorrow 443

Posted by kdawson on Saturday November 01, 2008 @05:39PM from the leave-only-memories-take-only-footprints dept.

A refrigerator-sized tank of toxic ammonia, tossed from the international space station last year, is expected to hit earth tomorrow afternoon or evening. The 1,400-pound object was deliberately jettisoned — by hand — from the ISS's robot arm in July 2007. Since the time of re-entry is uncertain, so is the location. "NASA expects up to 15 pieces of the tank to survive the searing hot temperatures of re-entry, ranging in size from about 1.4 ounces (40 grams) to nearly 40 pounds (17.5 kilograms). ... [T]he largest pieces could slam into the Earth's surface at about 100 mph (161 kph). ...'If anybody found a piece of anything on the ground Monday morning, I would hope they wouldn't get too close to it,' [a NASA spokesman] said."

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Private Firm Plots Robotic Lunar Exploration 75

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 01, 2008 @05:16AM from the hope-they-have-a-big-enough-movie-studio dept.

DeviceGuru writes "Astrobotic Technology has unveiled plans for a series of robotic expeditions to the Moon. The lunar rovers will explore high-interest areas of the Moon's surface and beam the data back to the Earth. The plan is to accumulate an extensive library of lunar data and sell it to governments and private corporations (PDF), much as Navteq's data forms the backbone of most terrestrial GPS services. Astrobotic's first goal is to win Google's $30 million Lunar X Prize, with a May, 2010 trip to the Apollo 11 landing site at Mare Tranquillitatis."

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Submission + - AMD releases register specs for R5xx and R6xx (arstechnica.com) 2

Submitted by ianare on Sunday September 23, 2007 @11:05AM

ianare writes: AMD has recently released register specifications for the ATI Radeon R5xx and R6xx graphic devices. This allows the OSS community to develop 2D (and theoretically 3D) drivers, given time. In fact, engineers from Novell have released a first alpha quality Open Source driver which currently supports initial mode settings. Although current work is focused on 2D, rather than 3D acceleration, this type of information sharing could conceivably lead to an OSS 3D driver.

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Submission + - NYT & Economist articles on Algorithms (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Soylent Mauve on Sunday September 23, 2007 @10:59AM

Soylent Mauve writes: The trend toward data- and algorithm-driven tuning of business operations has gotten a lot of attention recently — check out the recent articles in the New York Times and the Economist. It looks like computer scientists, especially those with machine learning training, are getting their day in the sun.

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