SomethingBig - Slashdot User

Comment Broken Link - Sorry! (Score 1) 95

by SomethingBig on Thursday April 27, 2006 @11:59PM (#15218520) Attached to: What Do You Want on a News Website?

When I sent in the story yesterday the BBC link worked.. here's a good discussion of the article (in comment form, sorry)... Here. I'm not sure why the site is down. Perhaps the BBC took it down, but that seems unlikely. I hope it's back up soon though! Quick breakdown: the BBC wants people to totally rework their website. The winner gets a "high end Apple laptop", the runners up get an "MP3 Player". They will put the winning design live on their homepage for one day, giving the winner a lot of free publicity. I thought that the contest was a great opportunity for people to demonstrate what they really wanted on a news site, and I'm really not sure how I'd go about doing it. The thing is, local & national news, traffic, weather, etc - I want them all. But I want them in a way that's not cluttered. Not over loaded with information. Perhaps some nice AJAX dropdowns would be nice - click the heading and the section unfolds. I'd also like the choice to disable certain sections if I didn't like them - something like Google's homepage is for Google's account holders.

Neutrino Mass Confirmed 318

Posted by Zonk on Saturday April 01, 2006 @11:17PM from the they-do-exist dept.

biohack writes "BBC News reports that results from the MINOS experiment have confirmed that neutrinos have mass. To look for neutrino oscillations, scientists created muon neutrinos in a particle accelerator at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). After passing through a particle detector at Fermilab, a high intensity beam of neutrinos travelled to another particle detector 724km (450 miles) away in a disused mine in Soudan, US. The set up established that fewer particles were being detected at the Soudan site than had been sent from Fermilab, which confirmed that some neutrinos changed their flavor on the way - an effect called neutrino flavor oscillation, which requires them to have mass. 'To put it simply, if they are heavy, it means that there is a lot more mass in the Universe than we thought there was,' said Professor Jenny Thomas from University College London."

The State of Digital Music in 2006 127

Posted by Zonk on Saturday April 01, 2006 @09:35PM from the iknew-that dept.

wh0pper writes "Designtechnica has an excellent article on the state of digital music in 2006. Digital music accounted for only six percent of total music sales in 2005. Yet even that is a massive increase over the year before, a whopping 194 percent, which is fiscally valuable as the sales of CDs continue to decrease (although even with digital sales, the record labels experienced another downturn in 2005). While the young, usually the first to adopt and adapt to new technology, have been downloading and swapping music for quite some time, there's been a ripple effect into the older, warier area of the population, one that will only increase. Thank--or blame--Apple and its iPod, or any of the many other makes selling like hotcakes in the stores.

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