JAK - Slashdot User

Comment Even better... (Score 1) 231

by JAK on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @12:43PM (#29287349) Attached to: Astronomers Search For the Calmest Place On Earth

... no pesky ozone layer to hinder the telescope!!

'Because the sky there is so much darker and drier, it means that a modestly-sized telescope would be as powerful as the largest telescopes anywhere else on earth.'

Comment my problem with sirius (Score 1) 397

by JAK on Sunday November 30, 2008 @01:29PM (#25934147) Attached to: iPhones, FStream and the Death of Satellite Radio

...was that they did not make the same channels available over internet that did on their satellite broadcast. The terrestrial coverage didn't work for me in my location. Had they just made the same channels available via internet, I'd still have my subscription today ($12/month, I think is what it was a couple of years ago).

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