Heya, thanks for clearing that up, I really missed that part in the article, thanks in most part to the way it was structured. I guess this is the first time scientists were able to actually go from saying "There's dark matter 'somewhere'" to "Look at this data, we were able to indirectly locate some of it". Cool thing, it might just get us a step closer to understanding the whole subject better.

...but I fail to see the 3D that was promised by TFA.
I agree it's a nice picture but there seems to be no explanation as to what these colours actually mean, let alone any kind of conclusion drawn from what I presume to be "pockets of dark matter".

Anyone care to enlighten me?

As someone who has taken a class in electronics I can assure you that the efficiency of electronic equipment drops with increases in temperature as leaking currents are increasing. This may even lead to a thermal run-away situation.
Running hot is also pretty bad as far as reliability goes.

...sounds like a great choice as resources to use. As Sand is basically silicon and readily available, magnesium is also the 7th most abundant in th earths crust. It seems like this thing could go a long way towards very cheap mass production of all sorts of solid things very cheaply. There is also the RepRap project but they use plastics which I'm afraid are quite expensive as resource, although they kind of target a different area. I'm excited by this, I've been following these ideas for a while and it seems to be going somewhere, I guess we're getting closer to general purpose building machines.

Microsoft didnae believe in the internet... it was not until the mid 90ies when they realised that it had taken off without them aboard.

Just to recap.. the video on their website states it's just below 3W per Gbit.
They actually put up a photo here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cisco_pics/4406738473

Now... if i do the maths, that turns out to be 322000 Gbit * 3 = 966000W.
It strikes me as not very easy to handle from a heat dissipation point of view.

To be honest, same here. I'd like to think i can type pretty fast and not do a whole lot of mistakes, but i do need to correct things (which i mostly notice on the fly).

I've never tried to learn how to type properly. People told me they thought it looks really weird that i use three to four fingers on my right hand but only the index finger on my left, but it works for me.

I also like to think that looking at the keyboard (though I can type without looking at the keyboard just fine) kind of lets me think about what it is that I'm typing a bit more. Takes the eyes off the screen and focuses one on the individual words.

Been a developer for 10 years, never hurt me.

As a matter of fact, "minor crime" does not refer to murdering someone :)

How about this - Prisons are not meant to be used for revenge? How about.... the justice system is not meant to be used for revenge? If I go ahead and kill someone, do you lock me up as part of revenge? In America, this seems to be true, there's just no way anyone would ever think for a moment beyond what first comes up in their minds and you'll hear the mob shout out "ELECTROCUTE HIM!".. It's. just. wrong! What do you think happens to people who get jailed for minor crimes? Do you think jail time is going to make them any -less- criminal?

WHY do people think their engine stop when they shut it off ? It only stops if you depress the clutch, otherwise it will be driven by the wheels and it *will* actually add to braking power because of friction.

WRONG! VM does not even offer 40Mbit/sec, it offers 50MBit/sec which is actually what youre going to get. I got a 50Mbit/sec connection myself and it's been great ever since they installed it. They do *not* traffic shape the 50Mbit/sec package: http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html On your lats bit about support: That's simply not true, i've had an outage once and was able to contact virgin media support (knowledgable people, not your usual unqualified support guys) on a newsgroup at 10 PM on a weekend (think it was staurday or sunday, they do work on sundays too!) and they rectified it within 1-2 days.

Go for Linux Mint, it's based on Ubuntu (*not* Kubuntu, which is usually much less stable and less supported out there). LinuxMint tries to be the prettiest out there and even as a power-user, I love to see and use all the bling. Unlike your usual GNOME environment, the system bar is at the bottom, and doesn't look much different than the windows one. I've never had a problem with LinuxMint stable-wise and the distrowatch.com index seems to agree that it's a very good platform.

...you ignore when learning things on your own. Seriously, if you teach yourself a language it's usually by developing a project of your choice (mostly for the fun of it, as it has been for me). What people do is, they go for the fun bit of hacking things together to get a working piece and pick one of two choice: * Try to use all the language features even if this means overkill for simple situations. * Go on to piece it together and leave a horrible mess. I used to do the latter >10 years ago in that situation, starting out in the mess that Visual Basic itself is, never really realising just how bad it was. I was proud of what I'd achieved! Looking back, I can't believe I published any of that. It's when people go for the first choice and start realising how software is meant to look like from the source that they learn to be a competent programmer. There's all these intricate details like Garbage-Collection, String-Manipulation, Floating-Point Math (the point being that it is unlike mat taught at school !) and many more things like Memory-Management and some such that one *can* get to work sloppily, but it's only when one realises how to utilise these things in the correct way that i would agree self-teaching is the way to go. I'm a self taught programmer, still in university (3rd year with an average mark of 1.8), employed as a software engineer and I'm 100% certain I wouldn't have been able to achieve 1 quarter of these things without teaching myself how to program. ....Yeah... it is at this point that people can rightfully say they *do* waste quite some time in university.

+5 Insightful, not Funny, nope.. insightful, only on slashdot could such a thing happen. Part of the reason i love it as much as i do, oh and while you're here: I'm a prince from the far lands of absurdistan and would like to ask if you would like to [insert random passage of text here]

Innovation means taking risks when going into directions that may not immediately turn a profit form time to time. Google has been doing this with their 20% rule http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/googles-20-percent-time-in-action.html for quite a while now and some nice projects have resulted. If this philosophy, which often enough might not result in immediate profit for the company is to be stopped the way you seem to have in mind, then the very thing google stands for could be lost. In the end, turning to profits like that might be the best way to commit suicide for a company that relies on innovation, good PR and fanboyism as much as google.