Comment slashdotted (Score 1) 511
but here's the youtube link to the actual interview
Comment Yawn...call me when they invent (Score 1) 268
a self wiping ass.
Comment Photoshopped! (Score 1) 112
"good enough to reveal even the paths worn in the lunar soil by the astronauts' boots."
Yeah, right! It's Photoshopped.
A Half-Gigabyte View of the Moon 112
An anonymous reader writes "A new 24,000-pixel-square half-gigabyte mosaic from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the Moon's nearside as never before. The 1,300 black-and-white frames were acquired during a two-week period in December 2010. There is also video of the half gig moon."
Comment Re:/. News Network (Score 1) 192
You can already have video out from a number of apps; netflix, youtube, etc.
Comment I recall a book from 1994 (Score 1) 262
It was called "The Internet Directory" or something like that, and was nothing but a list of Usenet newsgroups. That's exactly what some people thought it was.
Comment Possibly to be streamed live here (Score 1) 405
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
But I don't know for sure.
Comment So what? (Score 1) 146
There were grayscale image editing programs for Macintosh at that time, and color image editing software for mini computers even earlier.
Comment Re:In defense of Officer Bubbles... (Score 1) 594
She stopped when asked. Watch the video again. After he says "If the bubble touches me, you're going to be arrested for assault," no more bubbles are seen.
Apple vs. Google TVs 403
This SFGate article begins,
"Apple and Google just kicked off the first round of their battle for the living room. Based on what we've seen so far, Apple is in the lead. It's still early, and this could change, but it looks like Apple is making an all-around smarter bet than Google." I haven't tried out the Google device yet. The Apple unit is decent, but it's so focused on TV rental that it makes it difficult to work with an existing library of media; between the transcoding, and tedious menu navigation... well, it's a good thing it's only $99. It's a dang cheap way to get your stuff on your bigger screens, provided you're willing to jump through the necessary hoops.
Comment Direct link to the video (Score 1) 325
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4tyG4upFns
Why do people insist on linking to a blog that links to another blog when all we care about is the video?
Comment Re:OMG (Score 1) 356
Back when the rumored name for the iPad was iSlate, Ballmer whipped out this demo of Slate PCs
Comment Nope Re:60 years? (Score 1) 197
"An ultra-strong glass that has been looking for a purpose since its invention in 1962"
2010-1962=48, !60
"Corning set out in the late 1950s to find a glass as strong as steel."
2010-1958=52, !60
"Then in 1964, Corning devised an ingenious method called "fusion draw" to make super-thin, unvaryingly flat glass."
2010-1964=46, !60
Comment That was me, sorry! (Score 1) 107
I was downloading the torrented facebook files over verizon.
Scientists Discover Biggest Star 202
Hugh Pickens writes "Scientists at the University of Sheffield have discovered the most massive stellar giant, R136a1 measured at 265 solar masses, using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile and data from the Hubble Space Telescope. It's in the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small 'satellite' galaxy which orbits the Milky Way. Previously, the heaviest known stars were around 150 times the mass of the Sun, known as the 'Eddington Limit,' and this was believed to be close to the cosmic size limit because as stars get larger, the amount of energy created in their cores grows faster than the force of gravity which holds them together. 'Because of their proximity to the Eddington Limit they lose mass at a pretty high rate,' says Professor Paul Crowther, the chief researcher in the Sheffield team. Hyper-stars like R136a1 are believed to be formed from several young stars merging together, and are only found in the very heart of stellar clusters. R136a1 is believed to have a surface temperature of more than 40,000 degrees Celsius, and is 10 million times brighter than the Sun. Crowther adds that R136a1 is about as big as stars can get. 'Owing to the rarity of these monsters, I think it is unlikely that this new record will be broken any time soon.'"
