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Lack of Manpower May Kill VLC For Mac 398

Posted by timothy from the vlc-generally-rocks dept.
plasmacutter writes "The Video Lan dev team has recently come forward with a notice that the number of active developers for the project's MacOS X releases has dropped to zero, prompting a halt in the release schedule. There is now a disturbing possibility that support for Mac will be dropped as of 1.1.0. As the most versatile and user-friendly solution for bridging the video compatibility gap between OS X and windows, this will be a terrible loss for the Mac community. There is still hope, however, if the right volunteers come forward."
Space

Super-Earths Discovered Orbiting Nearby, Sun-Like Star 242

Posted by Soulskill from the i-for-one dept.
likuidkewl writes "Two super-earths, 5 and 7.5 times the size of our home, were found to be orbiting 61 Virginis a mere 28 light years away. 'These detections indicate that low-mass planets are quite common around nearby stars. The discovery of potentially habitable nearby worlds may be just a few years away,' said Steven Vogt, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UCSC. Among hundreds of our nearest stellar neighbors, 61 Vir stands out as being the most nearly similar to the Sun in terms of age, mass, and other essential properties."
Image

In Praise of the Sci-fi Corridor 171

Posted by samzenpus from the getting-there-is-half-the-fun dept.
brumgrunt writes "Technically a corridor in a science-fiction movie should just be a means of getting from one big expensive set to the next, and yet Den Of Geek writes lovingly of the detailed conduits in films such as Alien, Outland, Solaris and even this year's Moon by Duncan Jones."
Technology (Apple)

Apple Tablet Rumors Again (Still?) 165

Posted by CmdrTaco from the never-ending-story dept.
LSU_ADT_Geek writes "With a conventional netbook clearly out of the question, researchers for Piper Jaffray said Thursday there's mounting evidence to suggest Apple next year will introduce its own take on the market in the form of a tablet-based device that will sell for $700 or less."

Comment Inaguration, Octoshape and post-Inaguration access (Score 1) 254

by youngjohn14 (#26747731) Attached to: CNN Uses P2P Video & Adds Terrible EULA
Hi All, living outside the US but anxious to watch the Obama Inaguration in all its glory I installed the octoshape application and used CNN, which was the most reliable video I found on my 1Mb DSL circuit. A few days later I noticed that my P2P would shut down after an hour or so, and I could not repair the internet connection. Have to reboot. I had not connected Octoshape with this behavior, but it started at about the same time and until this /. article I had not thought about Octoshape at all. (Thanks to FuturePower!). Wondered if anyone else had seen this...? I googled and did not spot anything. Thanks, YJ14
Science

Chemists Synthesize "Impossible" Molecule 9

Posted by timothy from the but-that's-unpossible dept.
neilest writes "Organic chemistry textbooks will need to be revised to recognize a chemical species that chemists have discovered at Northwestern University. The species -- pentamethylcyclopentadienyl cation -- was thought not to exist for long because theory said it was unstable. The full story can be found at this suntimes article"

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