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Comment Re:Good proprietary RF is much better than Bluetoo (Score 1) 519

I have been using a Radtech BT600 (http://www.radtech.us/Products/BT600.aspx) for a couple of weeks now and I am very impressed, it nicely addresses your USB charging issue and, in a pinch you can use it as a USB mouse also.

The build quality is very good, a solid mouse though it is a little on the small side it doesn't weigh very much and even though I have a lot of bluetooth devices it can pair with it consistently chooses the right one.

Installation was perhaps the smoothest I have ever experienced (Vista x64) - I paired it with the computer and everything just started working within 5 seconds.

It has a convenient recessed off switch on the top, time between on/off switching is about 1 second. Tracking is on par with my favorite wired Intellimouse. The buttons are nice, not too sensitive the left/right are a bit loud, the side buttons are a bit stiff but not bad and the wheel is quiet with a good feel.

I don't know much about the battery life but one review claimed 2 weeks with it switched on all the time.

All in all I am very happy with this mouse.

Comment Re:Next time . . . (Score 2, Interesting) 269

What about a vibrator?

This is the mechanism used to clean the CCD in many high-end digital cameras and since the rovers are obviously built to withstand very high magnitude vibrations why not use a similar system on them?

The rover could be parked on an incline, identical to the technique used to get them maximum solar exposure during "winter", and then vibrate the dust off the panels.

Even the smallest cell phone has a vibrator, they are small and light-weight I'm not sure how energy-efficient they are but I'd wager the power generating improvement would more than offset the expenditure.

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Submission + - Chinese Astronaut Could Be On The Moon In 15 Years

An anonymous reader writes: Xinhua and Reuters are reporting that China will have the technical capability to put astronauts on the moon within 15 years. According to Huang Chunping, chief launch vehicle designer, a Chinese lunar landing will be achievable in that time frame if funding is available and preliminary projects go well. Huang says that China's current generation of Long March rockets are 'slightly' better than Europe's Ariane rockets, but trail the United States and Russia. China achieved its first human space flight in 2003. The United States had its first human space flight in 1961, and put the first astronauts on the moon about 8 years later, in 1969. The US is planning to return to the moon by 2020, 13 years from now.
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Journal Journal: AJAX 404 scripts?

My organization just rolled out its new site design (which includes a good chunk of moved pages), and I just upgraded my copy of Danny Goodman's _Dynamic HTML_ to 3rd edition ("updated for Ajax and Web 2.0"). So I quickly realized we should have an AJAX script on our 404 pages. Parse the given URL, apply some heuristics, test a half-dozen candidate addresses, forward user to the best match.

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