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Possible Extra-Galactic Planet Detected 83

Posted by Soulskill from the needle-in-a-needle-stack dept.
Nancy Atkinson writes "Using a technique called pixel-lensing, a group of astronomers in Italy may have detected a planet orbiting another star. But this planet is unique among the 300-plus exoplanets discovered so far, as it and its parent star are in another galaxy. The Andromeda Galaxy, to be exact. Technically, the star in M31 was found to have a companion about 6 times the mass of Jupiter, so it could be either a brown dwarf or a planet. But either way, this is a remarkable feat, to find an object of that size in another galaxy."
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Comedy Central Confirms 26 New Futurama Episodes 259

Posted by Soulskill from the good-news-everyone dept.
e9th was one of several readers to write with an update to the Futurama rumors we discussed earlier this week: "TVWeek reports that 20th Century Fox Television and Comedy Central have officially confirmed a deal for 26 new episodes of Futurama, due to the strong ratings of its reruns and feature-length specials. Matt Groening is quoted as saying, 'We're thrilled Futurama is coming back. We now have only 25,766 episodes to make before we catch up with Bender and Fry in the year 3000.' According to the press release, the episodes will begin to come out in mid-2010."

Comment Garbage Collection...No Thank You (Score 1) 961

by Jcarr45 (#23190232) Attached to: Are C and C++ Losing Ground?
[quote]"Languages without automated garbage collection are getting out of fashion"[/quote]
We have had so much trouble with GC taking our application down that we implemented our on measures to handle this. We run a real-time application that would come to a stand-still while GC was in process. All because some suit decided we needed to add some Buzz words to our Marketing, e.g. Java

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