At last, mankind will have a convenient and cheap way of intergalactic travel: Wait for it to come to us.

Way to go with the fact checking. Sure, Norwegians celebrate the end of the American Civil War. Just like the US Independence day and Thanksgiving. (We do have a day off for Pentecost, though.)

Also known as the cheap laptop screen.

Since Earth is a lot larger than Mars, and the habitable regions typically lie somewhere near the surface, it's no surprise that a larger proportion of Mars's volume is habitable. (The outer layer of an onion is larger in comparison to the onion when the onion is smaller.) The real question is that of absolute size: How many cubic metres of life-bearing volume is there on Mars in comparison to Earth?

How many pictures will people take? Tons and tons. The real question is how many will they ever print out on their silly "photo quality" printers. I've long ago decided that it's much better to have pictures printed by a place with a proper printing press and sent in the mail, whilst sticking to a monocolour printer for documents. Less hassle, higher quality and probably cheaper in the long run.

Not likely. Before Christmas I had to hand in a project on email, CD and paper with a full code printout. I spent a bit extra for a colour printout on the front page and a nice binder. I'm convinced that's why I got an A, because no other signs of any of it ever being looked at by the professor ever appeared.

When I read "cracker-sized", I thought of petroleum crackers and was very impressed by the sudden audacity.

The submitter had the link (check Firehose), but it seems that the edititors deemd the submission to be too long and chopped it off. After all, this is Slashdot and nobody RTFAs anyway.

I totally agree, and with Scribus coming along nicely for your InDesign needs, there really isn't any reason why a "occasional photoshopper" can't do just fine with free tools instead of pirating Adobe. Plus, free software rarely breaks compatiblity without any sort of migration path, so you don't even have worry about repirating once a year.

Maybe someone should package all these tools into a Free Creative Suite?

I'm disappointed that the words "Murder Simulator" aren't in there anywhere.

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Well, the N900 does Maemo, Meego and Android (if you don't mind a bit of broken stuff). As always, it really is only a question of the hardware drivers being available. Something I'm sure the average Linux user about ten years ago could relate to, but everything gets better with time. Nokia dropping the ball is a bit of a setback in the short term, but I believe that eventually commonality of components means it will go the way of the PC. In X years installing your own OS will be a viable option.

Because he was killed by a very bad man before the world recognized how awesome he was, and the prize can't be awarded posthumously.