There is no way to the forest to recover as fast as men can destroy it. Check what just 2 tractors can do http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDK8qY0EKoo

There is no uncontacted tribe living close to a major tributary of the river. You'd have to hike for days, maybe weeks to find an indian in Brazil that has had little contact with the "white man".

This flies all over Rio de Janeiro, throught tunnels, under bridges... makes this NY video boring ;p http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aIq8r4-m3c

And still very small compared to Itaipu Dam at 7,700 m. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itaipu

Thats the headline 95% of the /. audience wants to read.
What the hell, that could happen, the software runs on Windows!

If someone reads slashdot = male
Everyone else = female

TFA says 1 in 10 planes from 30 years to today could have being hit by an meteor.
What are the chances of a car then? Must be much higher...

On Win XP open "Windows Explorer" and click on "My Network Places", there is no "Entire Network" icon.
Workarounds:
1) Hit Refresh.
2) Open Windows Explorer and navigate with the keyboard to that folder.

"In December 2002, neighbors complained of loud construction work being done at the Naval Observatory, which has been used as a residence by vice presidents since 1974." Oh my god, there is a bunker in the VP house?? Is there one under the White House too or is that also top secret?

I second that. Memtest found no error on my system but i found that running 4 sticks of RAM made the system unstable (4x1GB). 3x1GB is running stable for weeks now on Vista 64...

Thats what i'm talking about: "The temperature there reaches 32Â Fahrenheit at the heart of winter." When that happens the news report from the site and everything... lol.

You live in Brazil? The same Brazil i live? I have never head of snow in Brazil, not even in the south region, in high altitude cities... They get a little frost during the night, thats all.

Ethanol cars always had trouble starting up when its cold, and by cold i'm saying Rio de Janeiro cold, 15ÂC. I remember when my father had to add a little gas to the carburetor (i think) to be able to start the car...

This doesn't happen anymore with Gas/Ethanol (flex fuel) cars.

I forgot one thing. Isn't it target to netbooks? You are not supposed to be working on Excel, Firefox, Acrobat and Photoshop at the same time on a netbook!

Why Windows 7 would be different from XP or Vista Starter Editions? They all have the same limitations, its not only the 3 application at a time thing. There are other minor differences too.

This edition is to lower the cost to OEMs in developing countries. This way they keep the Windows everybody wants in theirs PC and MS keeps alternatives away.

And please, RTFA. AntiVirus software isn't included in this 3 app limit!

Some companies in Brazil are selling the cheapest PC you can imagine and shipping it with Linux (Pentium Dual Core 1GB DDR2 120GB hdd etc). Starter Edition comes to lower their cost so that they keep Windows on their PC.

But it doesn't work, most people call their geek friend and have a pirate copy of XP Pro or Vista Ultimate installed.