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Comment Re:small impact, android will trump (Score 1) 251

by josteos (#32752134) Attached to: Verizon iPhone Rumored For Early Next Year
Yes.... carrying around a full-size bluetooth keyboard will make an iPhone more palatable. Totally.

Switching language layouts? I've never done it on any device I own. Not a selling point whatsoever. /shrug. Maybe you need it. I don't. /shrug

Back in the Palm dayze, I had one of those unfolding IR keyboards for my Lifedrive. It kinda worked, and wasn't too big, but wasn't a great solution because now yer stuck carrying around 2 devices. A slideout keyboard is *WAY* better for entering contact info or search terms than dragging another piece of hardware around.
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Hints of Life Found On Saturn's Moon Titan 227

Posted by Soulskill from the time-for-cassini-2 dept.
Calopteryx writes "New Scientist reports that in 2005, researchers predicted two potential signatures of life on Titan. Now, thanks to research done with the help of the Cassini spacecraft, both have been seen, although non-biological chemical reactions could also be behind the observations. NASA's writeup has further details: 'One key finding comes from a paper online now in the journal Icarus [abstract] that shows hydrogen molecules flowing down through Titan's atmosphere and disappearing at the surface. Another paper online now in the Journal of Geophysical Research maps hydrocarbons on the Titan surface and finds a lack of acetylene. This lack of acetylene is important because that chemical would likely be the best energy source for a methane-based life on Titan, said Chris McKay, an astrobiologist at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., who proposed a set of conditions necessary for this kind of methane-based life on Titan in 2005. One interpretation of the acetylene data is that the hydrocarbon is being consumed as food. But McKay said the flow of hydrogen is even more critical because all of their proposed mechanisms involved the consumption of hydrogen.'"

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