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Comment Re:Reinvent the browser again? (Score 1) 318

The summary here is horrible. It doesn't actually have vi keybindings. The default bindings are decidedly vi-like, but it's hardly a selling-point of the browser. The vi bindings are merely a convenience to get you started in configuring it. In fact, the whole thing is quite unlike vi in many ways. You virtually have to implement all of the vi bindings yourself if you want more than just hjkl.

The real selling point is that you can configure everything that the browser can do. Everything from the way cookies are handled to the way the UI functions.

Comment Re:Call him Monkey Boy all you want (Score 1) 616

They did precisely the same thing with the PS2. Early games were kinda shitty because no one could figure out how to program it. Fast-forward 7+ years and newer games are getting more elaborate visuals and take better advantage of the very unusual hardware.

I imagine a lot of people felt this way about the PS1 when it came out.

Feed New Scientist: Moon is younger and more Earth-like than thought (pheedo.com)

The Moon is 30 million years younger than thought and is not composed mostly of the remnants of a long-gone world
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Space

Submission + - Solar System Date of Birth Determined (ucdavis.edu)

Invisible Pink Unicorn writes: "UC Davis researchers have dated the earliest step in the formation of the solar system — when microscopic interstellar dust coalesced into mountain-sized chunks of rock — to 4,568 million years ago, within a range of about 2,080,000 years. In the second stage, mountain-sized masses grew quickly into about 20 Mars-sized planets and, in the third and final stage, these small planets smashed into each other in a series of giant collisions that left the planets we know today. The dates of these intermediary stages are well established. The article abstract is available from Astrophysical Journal Letters."

Feed Wired: FCC List: Companies to Battle for 700-MHz Spectrum (wired.com)

The FCC releases names of 266 companies officially planning to bid in the government's upcoming 700-MHz-spectrum auction. More than half those botched their initial applications, including big names like Verizon, AT&T, Qualcomm and Alltel. They have until Jan. 4 to qualify for the auction.


Portables

Nanowires Boost Laptop Battery Life to 20 Hours 238

brianmed writes to tell us that Stanford researchers have created a new use for silicon nanowires that promise to reinvent lithium-ion batteries. "The new version, developed through research led by Yi Cui, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, produces 10 times the amount of electricity of existing lithium-ion, known as Li-ion, batteries. A laptop that now runs on battery for two hours could operate for 20 hours, a boon to ocean-hopping business travelers. [...] The lithium is stored in a forest of tiny silicon nanowires, each with a diameter one-thousandth the thickness of a sheet of paper. The nanowires inflate four times their normal size as they soak up lithium. But, unlike other silicon shapes, they do not fracture."

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