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Outlook 2010 Bug Creates Monster Email Files 126

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @06:22PM from the rodents-of-unusual-size dept.

Julie188 writes with this snippet from Network World "Office 2010 is still in beta and a patch is already out. Microsoft is trying to fix a bug in the email program Outlook 2010 Beta that creates unusually large e-mail files that take up too much space. The Outlook product team has offered a bug fix for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems that fixes the problem going forward, although previous emails will remain super-sized. This could be a problem for email programs that limit message sizes, such as Gmail or BlackBerry."

Colliding Particles Can Make Black Holes After All 269

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday January 24, 2010 @01:56PM from the act-now-while-supplies-last dept.

cremeglace writes with this excerpt from ScienceNOW: "You've heard the controversy. Particle physicists predict the world's new highest-energy atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland, might create tiny black holes, which they say would be a fantastic discovery. Some doomsayers fear those black holes might gobble up the Earth — physicists say that's impossible — and have petitioned the United Nations to stop the $5.5 billion LHC. Curiously, though, nobody had ever shown that the prevailing theory of gravity, Einstein's theory of general relativity, actually predicts that a black hole can be made this way. Now a computer model shows conclusively for the first time that a particle collision really can make a black hole." That said, they estimate the required energy for creating a black hole this way to be roughly "a quintillion times higher than the LHC's maximum"; though if one of the theories requiring compact extra dimensions is true, the energy could be lower.

Comment IBM + Sun = Bad for American Software Industry (Score 2, Insightful) 291

by cleandreams on Sunday April 05, 2009 @11:56PM (#27471755) Attached to: IBM Withdraws $7B Offer For Sun Microsystems, Says NYT

Sun is a terrific innovator. IBM is a great company. What's not to like? IBM outsources everything that isn't nailed down. They are a global company, not an American company, and they cut staff in the USA while growing elsewhere. Outsourcing is something Sun isn't that good at. They try but their heart's not in it. Keep Sun out of IBM and keep a chunk the the software industry in the USA.

Comment ch-ch-changes to patent law (Score 3, Interesting) 210

by cleandreams on Sunday July 15, 2007 @07:42PM (#19871549) Attached to: Patents Don't Pay

I just filed for a patent and the comments here don't reflect the current situation re: software patents. Basically, the Supremes made it a lot harder to get a patent. The intent is to increase the value of good patents, filter out the copycat trash, and reduce litigation overall. A patent is a "teaching". You give up trade secret protection in return for patent protection. It's not code; that's protected by copyright. I think the premise of the NYTimes article is silly. Patents are part of a large IP 'eco-system' and judging the value of patents requires looking at the whole system. From my point of view (small company, great new idea) I think a patent will make my company more valuable in an acquisition. I absolutely have no intent or interest in defending this thing. Leave that to the stable of attorneys in the acquiring company. Thus is is absolutely a good for the small company / entrepreneur to have patent protection in that it motivates me to both innovate and then publish the innovation.

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