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Comment Re:So you know they're there (Score 1) 192

...and you've purchased a copy of Windows in your life? You know its far from a fail-proof OS. How about some other software, like Adobe's CS? or MS Office? Then again, why keep the conversation to just software? Got an iPhone? or an Xbox? Shit man, any car you buy has a "manipulative" twist here and there... In all cases, you just have to know where to find them. Finding the right product is not about finding the perfect one, its about finding the one that pisses you off the least. If a verbal alert is your breaking point, I guess thats just too bad.

Comment Meet in the middle? (Score 1) 731

Why don't they just find a middle ground... create a mobile version of flash, that tailors to all of the shit that Jobs has to complain about? Adobe gets to release a new product (probably going to charge an arm and a leg for it) while Apple makes everyone happy with "Mobile Flash" and continues to boast about something new they are able to do after its been around on other platforms/devices for years? Other than the continuous bitching by both companies, I see nothing that could stop this road from being traveled.
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Submission + - Origin of Antimatter Cloud Discovered

Active Seti writes: "Scientists have proposed a wide range of explanations for the origin of antimatter, which is exceedingly rare in the cosmos. For years, many theories centered around radioactive elements produced in supernovae. Now four years of observations from the European Space Agency's Integral satellite may have cleared up one of the most vexing mysteries in our Milky Way: the origin of a giant cloud of antimatter surrounding the galactic center. Integral found that the cloud extends farther on the western side of the galactic center than it does on the eastern side. This imbalance matches the distribution of a population of binary star systems that contain black holes or neutron stars, strongly suggesting that these binaries are churning out at least half of the antimatter, and perhaps all of it. The antimatter is probably produced in a region near the neutron stars and black holes, where powerful magnetic fields launch jets of particles that rip through space at near-light speed. "We expected something unexpected, but we did not expect this," says Gerry Skinner, co-investigator for Integral's Spectrometer which made the discovery."

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