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ScottMaxwell writes
"Spirit, the Mars rover designed for a 90-day mission, has now outlasted the Viking 2 lander. Viking 2 survived until its 1281st sol (Martian day); Spirit is now on sol 1282 and counting. Assuming both rovers continue to weather the ongoing dust storms, Spirit's sister, Opportunity, will reach the same age in a few weeks. They aren't breathing down the neck of the all-time record just yet, though — the Viking 1 lander lasted 2245 sols on the surface of Mars; Spirit and Opportunity won't break that record for another 2.7 Earth years."
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LittleRedStar writes:
Tonight into early Monday morning the annual Perseids meteor shower peaks. The timing of the shower this year is excellent with no moon and should result in a great show. The shower has been ramping up all week and reaches maximum tonight. Go out where its dark and enjoy the night sky.
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pretygrrl writes:
a short nifty writeup in the WSJ with some basic stats on women in IT, management. From the article: "And teenage girls are less interested in computer science than they are in other scientific fields. Only 12% of the finalists in the 2005 Intel Science and Engineering Fair, a national competition for high-school students, were girls, compared to 54% of the finalists in biochemistry. Similarly, only 15% of the high-school students taking the AP computer science test in 2006 were girls compared to 48% of the students who took the AP calculus test."
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aphexddb writes:
I read about some neat software awhile ago. In order to bring better signal-to-noise meaning to email, the software gives email users a fixed number of points each day. Then people assign point values to emails they send, effectively weighting them. This way you can assume that when someone spends 20 of their daily 30 points on an email for you, its super important. And you can see based on trends that you may need to spend 5 points to have someone even notice your email. It's definitely available as an outlook plug-in/addon as well.
Problem is I never bookmarked it and I can't freaking find this product on Google! Ahh! 1 hour of searching and the signal to noise ratio is off the charts when searching for email, collaboration, etc. Does anyone have any tips on how to find something long after its left your browser history and short term memory?
