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Comment Re:Slashdot achievements (Score 1) 1582

by Arch24 on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @11:31AM (#27418199) Attached to: Slashdot Launches User Achievements

SO?

Comment Re:it should be interesting... (Score 1, Insightful) 70

by Arch24 on Sunday October 26, 2008 @02:20AM (#25515239) Attached to: Interest Growing For Pre-Paid Game Cards

If anything I think most people will invest their $15 per month in a virtual vacation. MMO's help to distract from real life woes.

Australian State May Give Students Linux Laptops 302

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 14, 2008 @07:02PM from the keep-it-cheap dept.

Whiteox writes "The Australian Prime Minister's plan to equip high schools with 'one laptop per child' may go open source. Kevin Rudd's $56 million digital revolution will include 'laptops [that will] run on an open source operating system with a suite of open source applications like those packaged under Edubuntu. This would include Open Office for productivity software, Gimp for picture editing and the Firefox internet browser.' So far this has been considered for New South Wales and I think other states may follow."

China To Snap 4 Space Ships Into a Station 340

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @11:19AM from the legoland-space-edition dept.

hackingbear writes "According to a report by Hong Kong newspaper Mingpao Daily (poor Google translation), quoting the Director of Jiuquan Launch Center, China is set to build a space station by snapping together four spaceships (Shenzhou 7, 8, 9, and 10), to be launched sequentially. Though other reports indicates that taikonauts abroad SZ 7 will return to Earth on September 28, the official said the ship will remain in the orbit to be docked with unmanned Shenzhou 8 and 9. Finally, the manned spaceship Shenzhou 10 will be launched and dock with the other three, completing the space station." A story at Space.com also briefly mentions Shenzhous 8 and 9 (with no mention of number 10), and adds that China has selected its first spacewalker.

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