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Windows 7 Starter Edition — 3 Apps Only 695

Posted by CmdrTaco from the because-they-can dept.
CrustyFace writes "Cybernit reports that the Starter Edition version of Windows 7 will only allow the user to run 3 applications at once. Targeted at notebooks, this doesn't seem like such a bad limitation, however it is a bold move from Microsoft, and it will be interesting to see how the operating system sells."
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Telepresence — Our Best Bet For Exploring Space 309

Posted by Soulskill from the until-we-perfect-the-bussard-ramjet dept.
Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute recently wrote an opinion piece for the NY Times discussing the limitations of our space technology. He makes the harsh point that transporting human beings to other star systems isn't a reasonable goal even on a multi-generational time frame. However, advances in robotics and data gathering could instead bring the planets and stars to us, and do it far sooner. Quoting: "Sending humans to the stars is simply not in the offing. But this is how we could survey other worlds, around other suns. We fling data-collecting, robotic craft to the stars. These proxy explorers can be very small, and consequently can be shot spaceward at tremendous speed even with the types of rockets now available. Robot probes don't require life support systems, don't get sick or claustrophobic and don't insist on round-trip tickets. ... These microbots would supply the information that, fed to computers, would allow us to explore alien planets in the same way that we navigate the virtual spaces of video games or wander through online environments like Second Life. High-tech masks and data gloves, sartorial accessories considerably more comfortable than a spacesuit, would permit you to see the landscape, touch objects and even smell the air."

Comment Re:Amazing Article (Score 1) 96

by mandolin (#27262273) Attached to: AnandTech Gives the Skinny On Recent SSD Offerings

I'm not trying to badmouth him, it's amazing that he does what he does, but it isn't immediately obvious why he carries so much respect.

The site at least (anandtech) gets respect because from them, articles of this quality level are not perceived as a fluke.

Merely as an example, if this had come from Tom's Hardware, I would have been floored.

Comment Re:Warning (Score 1) 877

by mandolin (#26287985) Attached to: Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow?

You do realize that at the end of the world, no one's going to care if you put out a new beta of your new Robocode robot, even if it is unbeatable.

Some of us think it's funny you had to actually link to robocode to call out a nerd. Only nerds make jokes they have to explain.

The rest of us are busy optimizing our movement strategy routines for the next beta.
Image

Obama's Election Means a Return of Vampire Flicks Screenshot-sm 97

Posted by samzenpus from the pet-monsters dept.
gyrogeerloose writes "In a column in Saturday's San Diego Union Tribune, Peter Rowe makes a connection between the popularity of horror movie genres and the political party in the White House. A Republican administration presides over a period of zombie movies while a Democrat in the Oval Office brings on a cycle of vampire movies. Why? Possibly because the two genres 'are really competing parables about class warfare.' Hmmmm, maybe. On the other hand, it might just be a coincidence." Socialists are best represented by lycanthropes, and the Libertarians are most closely tied to any sort of horror from space.

Comment Re:I never knew that command (Score 1) 2362

by mandolin (#25653609) Attached to: (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks?

the tradition is continued by Linux developers who generally provide little or no man page documentation

Debian, at least, requires all packages to provide manpages for every "program, utility, and function". To not do so is a bug (policy manual 12.1)

So at least on that distribution, I find the manpage selection to be very broad. I have also not generally had a problem with manpage quality. But YMMV.

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