Comment Not a big deal. (Score 1) 424
Less competition on the PC means more PC games by other publishers and indie game developers.
Cosmic Antimatter Excess Confirmed 113
sciencehabit writes "In 2008, the Italian satellite PAMELA picked up an unusual signal: a spike in antimatter particles whizzing through space. The discovery, controversial at the time, hinted that physicists might be coming close to detecting dark matter, an enigmatic substance thought to account for 85% of the matter in the universe. Now, new data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope confirm the spike (abstract)."
Comment Chicks love Mint, hate Ubuntu (Score 1) 685
I recently installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my girlfriend's 3 year old laptop. It was incredibly slow! Even after reverting to the regular Gnome3 shell, it still felt very sluggish. She was obviously disappointed and wanted to switch back to Win7. I was able to convince to try Linux Mint 11. First impressions: much faster than Ubuntu, the interface felt familiar to her, the start menu is intuitive. One drawback however: her laptop's battery life is noticeably shorter on Mint than Ubuntu, and much short that on Win7. That was almost a deal breaker.
Anyway, Mint is very nice, I would definitely recommend it over Ubuntu since it is faster, the interface is more intuitive and feels familiar to a windows user.
But Funtoo > Gentoo > Arch > * ;)
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