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Comment Re:Love It (Score 2) 347

Exactly. I switched to a standing desk, and love it. I stay energized throughout the day. YMMV. To break it up, I walk around a lot during phone calls. I had my desk custom built, but that can be pricey. A friend of mine that works at Amazon was provided a different solution when he asked for a standing desk: a door blank on top of four sturdy posts. A wonderfully broad work surface, and stable as heck.

Comment Re:Collateral success vs indication of support nee (Score 1) 494

4.5% of 100,000,000 is 45,000,000. 66% of 10,000,000 is 6,600,000. My PC numbers are obviously low and my mac numbers exaggerated, but you get the point.

Factor up or down as you like, but 66% growth in Macs just isn't the same.

If you read the article and look at the charts, you'll see they state only percentages and no actual raw numbers to evaluate on our own.

Math check please: 4.5% of 100,000,000 is 4,500,000, which is less than 6,600,000. You're right of course that the percentages mean a lot less without actual numbers to back them up, but if you are going to troll, do it creditably.

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Happy Towel Day 122

An anonymous reader writes "While Douglas Adams continues his attempt to set a new record for the longest extended lunch break, geeks all over the universe pay tribute to the beloved author by celebrating the tenth edition of Towel Day. Towel Day is more alive than ever. This year Richard Dawkins, one of Adams' best friends, has tweeted a Towel Day reminder to his numerous followers. The CERN Bulletin has published an article on Towel Day. There has been TV coverage and there will be a radio interview. The Military Republic of the Deltan Imperium, a newly formed micronation, has recognized Towel Day as an official holiday. In Hungary several hundreds of hitchhiker fans want to have a picnic together in a park. And there's a concert, a free downloadable nerdrap album, a free game being released, the list goes on and on."
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An Animal That Lives Without Oxygen 166

Julie188 writes "Scientists have found the first multicellular animals that apparently live entirely without oxygen. The creatures reside deep in one of the harshest environments on earth: the Mediterranean Ocean's L'Atalante basin, which contains salt brine so dense that it doesn't mix with the oxygen-containing waters above."
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Submission + - Battlestar Galactica To Continue

turboflux writes: According to executive producer David Eick, Battlestar Galactica is still an open-ended adventure and it will not be ending after the 4th season as previously reported. Evidently Edward James Olmos jumped the gun on confirming the show would be ending while attending the Saturn Awards this month. Eick goes on to say that the fourth season would actually be 22 episodes (2 more than prior seasons) rather than the reported 13 episode order.

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