Comment robots.txt (Score 1) 203
I think it still exists?
International Organization To Assess Earth Defense From Space Dangers 93
arisvega writes in with a story about an international organization that is trying to come up with options to save the planet from a large asteroid or comet collision. "NEOShield is a new international project that will assess the threat posed by Near Earth Objects (NEO) and look at the best possible solutions for dealing with a big asteroid or comet on a collision (PDF) path with our planet. The effort is being led from the German space agency's (DLR) Institute of Planetary Research in Berlin, and had its kick-off meeting this week. It will draw on expertise from across Europe, Russia and the US. It's a major EU-funded initiative that will pull together all the latest science, initiate a fair few laboratory experiments and new modelling work, and then try to come to some definitive positions. Industrial partners, which include the German, British and French divisions of the big Astrium space company, will consider the engineering architecture required to deflect one of these bodies out of our path."
Comment Re:Company owning itself (Score 4, Informative) 521
Yes, the shares are "extinguished." So all the remaining shareholders now own a larger percentage share of the company, because there are fewer shares in existence. I just sold a bunch of shares back to a company... it was somewhat handy because they gave preference to odd lots (had 84 shares) so it helps to "clean things up" a bit. Also, they paid above the market rate (which didn't quite jump to the buyback value because they did not buy an unlimited number).
Comment Re:due diligence? (Score 5, Insightful) 95
Almost as crazy as naming your product "iPhone" when there was already another phone with that name.
Comment People still dial telephones? (Score 1) 393
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Comment Re:What was her password? (Score 1) 100
hunter2
doesnt look like stars to me
Comment What was her password? (Score 1) 100
She should post the password she used so we can tell if it was likely to be a brute force type attack.
Comment Re:Gallium - probably too expensive (Score 2) 360
The solar cells you're thinking of are based on GaAs. This is GaN. While they both contain Ga, they aren't particularly similar. The cost of Gallium isn't what makes GaAs based multi-junction solar cells expensive by the way, it's the cost of manufacturing.
Comment Sounds like you want Dolby Volume (Score 1) 294
Comment Re:5.0 is much better (Score 3, Interesting) 250
The mac version does not have the compact view option for some lame reason. You also can't turn off display of profile pictures in the contact list.
Comment Could be better than the alternatives (Score 0) 531
Perhaps this is what you get for your top dollar and the other manufacturers are even worse!
Comment Re:Oh Noes! (Score 1) 1049
Maybe you need a brighter bulb.
Comment Re:Use LaTeX. (Score 1) 814
There is also the ~ character which prevents enlarging the space and also prohibits a linebreak, eg. Dr.~Knuth
The \@ code is for when a period is used after an upper case character and actually ends a sentence (rather than being used for an abbreviation), eg. I like BASIC\@. What about you?
Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday 701
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Donald Knuth is planning to make an 'earthshaking announcement' on Wednesday, at TeX's 32nd Anniversary Celebration, on the final day of the TUG 2010 Conference. Unfortunately, nobody seems to know what it is. So far speculation ranges from proving P!=NP, to a new volume of The Art of Computer Programming, to his retirement. Maybe Duke Nukem Forever has been ported to MMIX?" Let the speculation begin.
Comment Re:GV is great-- here are two ideas (Score 1) 185
Beg them for incoming fax handling. That would be HUGE.
Isn't fax a dead technology?
