Maybe they are thinking X-ray photoelectron spectroscope?

There are only a few choices, and one seems more obvious than the others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X...

People get to talk tough now, including Cheney's latest comments, but when a similar incident happened early in the Bush/Cheney administration, we did nothing of the sort. A Navy EP-3E made an emergency landing on Hainan island, and the crew was detained for approximately 10 days. During that time the Chinese had sole access to the plane and the avionics.

The US issued a Letter of Two Sorries, in which the US government stated "We are very sorry the entering of China's airspace and the landing did not have verbal clearance..."

Diplomatically, probably the right way to resolve the crisis, but lets not act like all other presidents would have sent in Seal Team Six.

>Frankly, humans themselves are a *lot* more likely to make Earth uninhabitable and a lot faster than a million years.

Which, if you think about it, suggests that maybe we shouldn't head off into space until we figure out how keep ourselves from making planets uninhabitable.

What are these "backups" of which you speak?

Obviously the outer layer would have to be made out of popcorn kernels.

>but I'm no expert here so I could well be wrong.

Welcome to Slashdot! You'll fit right it!

Well, now that Microsoft has done somebody will try to copy them by driving around Rome in a car that takes pictures of everything around it. Oh wait, http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&g=colosseo,+roma&ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=41.891293,12.49059&panoid=haogKvGCLWGZlNYPmGLLPA&cbp=11,130.48,,0,-7.13&ll=41.891294,12.490585&spn=0.002588,0.009645&t=h&z=17

>which meant they had to go in with dumb bombs

The HMS Sheffield was sunk (basically) by an Exocet fired from a distance 20 - 30 miles. Not a dumb bomb.

Who got it from the Grays after they crash landed in Tunguska.

Maybe, if we commit the resources of a great nation, it can the goal in ten years time to have the address bar be *in* the tab. Or maybe on the side or on the bottom. But that is probably just wishful thinking. For now I'm content with knowing I can tell my grandchildren where I was when I heard we would be able to put tabs on top.

My guess is that the single processor G5 had a similar price point to the iMac, which has similar specs, plus a built in LCD. MacMall lists the 1.8 Ghz power mac at $1495 and for the same price they offer a 2 Ghz iMac. My feeling is that they want to keep the lines between the iMac and the Power Mac pretty clear to eliminate customer confusion. Plus, dual processor Power Macs have been available for about 4 years and there have been several times that they've only been available in dual processor configurations. I wouldn't read much into it and I think its too early to start thinking about clearing inventory of Power PC chips. Remember that the high end chips are rumored to be transititioned in late 06.