Comment By the way... (Score 1) 263
There's a chilean cable provider which seems to have been inspired by the Slashdot logo.
Comment By the way... (Score 1) 333
There's a chilean cable provider that seems to have been inspired by the Slashdot logo.
Comment It's computer-generated... (Score 1) 263
I can tell by the pixels, and having shop at many supermarkets in my day.
Comment Re:Element 112 (Score 2, Funny) 461
I thought Plutonium no longer was an element...
Comment 3D Visualization (Score 3, Interesting) 46
Does it say anything about 3D Visualization of data? a very handy tool is VPython.
Comment Boa Constructor (Score 1) 1055
My favorite IDE is the combination of Python + wxPython + Boa Constructor. I tried to make the switch to IronPython, but it seems that it still lacks all the functionality of wxPython. Maybe in the future there will be a Visual Python Express Edition, only not yet.
Comment Clear and present danger? (Score 1) 573
Not so sure.
As far as I know there's only one country who has ever used nuclear weapons against inocent civilians...twice. Yet that doesn't necesarily implies that any other country could become equally insane.
Comment Acquine is an Opus Dei!! (Score 1) 125
According to him, this picture sucks.
Comment Drobo (Score 1) 393
Perhaps a Drobo could be a good solution for you?
Comment Nothing new here. (Score 1) 360
Opera has been doing that for years. You can use all your search tools (even user-defined) as commands on the address bar.
For instance, if on my Opera address bar I type 'ext mdb', that will take directly to http://filext.com/file-extension/mdb
Comment An alternative solution (Score 4, Funny) 492
Capture a 150ft (50m) asteroid and throw it into the middle of the Atlantic. That will rise A LOT of water into the atmosphere.
Remember, you heard it first from me.
Comment Greetings, Professor Falken (Score 1) 269
"An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines"...and nobody made a single WarGames joke? Slashdot user base seems to be getting way too young.
Submission + - The Best Stem Cells - Discovered in the Menstrual (softpedia.com)
raguirre writes: Cloning poses a huge ethic debate. That's why scientists have been focusing on various sources for getting stem cells, necessary for technologies of organ replacing. We have witnessed tests made on stem cells coming from skin, fatty tissue, bones, testicles, and now, from an unsuspected source: menstrual blood!
Submission + - Star is found to be 13.2 billion years old
raguirre writes: Physorg.com reports that a star is found to be 13.2 billion years old . Recent cosmological studies show that the Big Bang occurred 13.7 billion years ago. The metal-poor star HE 1523 formed in our Milky Way galaxy soon afterwards, cosmologically speaking: 13.2 billion years ago. The primitive star contained the radioactive heavy elements uranium and thorium, and the amounts of those elements decay over time, each according to its own half-life. Today, astronomer Anna Frebel of the the University of Texas at Austin McDonald Observatory and her colleagues have deduced the star's age based on the amounts of radioactive elements it contains compared to certain other "anchor" elements, specifically europium, osmium and iridium.
