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Lake On Titan Winks From a Billion Kilometers Away 139

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 17, 2009 @10:48PM from the next-time-send-chocolate dept.

The Bad Astronomer writes "NASA's Cassini spacecraft took an image of Saturn's giant moon Titan earlier this year that serendipitously provides proof of liquid (probably methane) on its surface. The picture shows a glint of reflected sunlight off of a monster lake called Kraken Mare (larger than the Caspian Sea!). Scientists have been getting better and better evidence of liquid methane on Titan, but this is the first direct proof."

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Comment Re:Visual Studio Express is quite good (Score 1) 1055

by chronos on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @03:44AM (#28106185) Attached to: What Free IDE Do You Use?

Lately I have had to write code in Visual Studio and I find that I don't like it at all.
It seems like for every little task I have to fight it every inch of the way.
The IDE assumes that it knows more than I do and so tends to get in the way.

I would much rather deal with emacs or vi since I can get them to do what I want
with little effort. These editors may not have the cute graphics but they do have
the virtue of doing what I want.

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IBM Withdraws $7B Offer For Sun Microsystems, Says NYT 291

Posted by timothy on Sunday April 05, 2009 @07:43PM from the what-color-is-your-trial-balloon? dept.

suraj.sun points to a story in the New York Times indicating that the much-rumored merger (or purchase) that would have united Sun with IBM may have dissolved before it began. Excerpting: "I.B.M., after months of negotiations, withdrew its $7 billion bid for Sun Microsystems on Sunday, one day after Sun's board balked at a slightly reduced offer, according to a person close to the talks. The deal's collapse raises questions about Sun's next step, since the I.B.M. offer was far above the value of the Silicon Valley company's shares when news of the I.B.M. offer first surfaced last month. .. Since last year, Sun executives had been meeting with potential buyers. I.B.M. stepped up, seeing an opportunity to add to its large software business, acquire valuable researchers and consolidate the market for larger, so-called server computers that corporations use in their data centers. ... Now, Sun is free to pursue other suitors, including I.B.M. rivals like Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems. Cisco recently entered the market for server computers."

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Comment Re:I don't think this will work (Score 1) 248

by chronos on Friday May 02, 2008 @07:52AM (#23272872) Attached to: Oregon's New Censorship Law Challenged In Court

Oregon has a much stricter version of the First Amendment in its Constitution. The "family values" types tried pass an amendment that would have created and exception that would shut down the strip clubs.

For once the electorate showed some sense and voted it down.

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