Comment When I come to office today (Score 1, Funny) 159
I attach the power cable and the network cord to my laptop.
So, will I, now, need to connect a water pipe carrying cold water too?
I wouldn't mind it if I can get my drink of water from it too
Comment You insensitive clod! (Score 2, Funny) 253
I don't have even a single internal airbag!
Submission + - Solar Cycle 24 may have finally begun (nasa.gov)
xyz writes: "NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center reports that the number of sunspots in October for Solar Cycle 24 outnumbered Solar Cycle 23 for the first time, indicating the start of a new solar cycle. Solar activity was observed to be at a 50 year low, with no sunspots for 200 days this year."
Submission + - Deepest ground based image of universe obtained (eso.org)
xyz writes: "European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope has captured the deepest ground based U-band image of the universe. The image contains more than 27 million pixels and is the result of 55 hours of observations with the VIMOS instrument."
Submission + - New class of pulsars discovered (nasa.gov)
xyz writes: "NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a new class of pulsars which emit purely in gamma rays. A pulsar is a rapidly spinning neutron star, and of the nearly 1800 catalogued so far, only a small fraction emit at frequencies higher than radio waves. The gamma-ray-only pulsar, which lies within a supernova remnant known as CTA 1, is silent across parts of the electromagnetic spectrum where pulsars are normally found, indicating a new class of pulsars."
Submission + - Boeing-747 aircraft modified to act as telescope (astronomy.com)
xyz writes: "A joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Center, has developed a highly modified Boeing-747SP aircraft, to carry a 2.5-meter (98.4 inch) infrared telescope. The project SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy) will observe radiation in the wavelengths from 0.3 microns to 1.0 millimeters, spanning the visible, infrared, and sub-millimeter portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The observations will be taken at an altitude of 40,000 to 45,000 feet (12 to 14 km) which is above 99.8 percent of the water vapor in Earth's atmosphere, thus giving it a greater range of observations."
Submission + - Black holes may not grow beyond certain limit (sciencenews.org)
xyz writes: "Do black holes increase in size indefinitely? According to an analysis by astronomers at Yale and European Southern Observatory, the maximum size a black hole may reach is only few tens of billion solar masses. The limit was calculated using an analysis of what may happen to the gas surrounding a black hole which has reached few tens of billion solar masses. It is thought that black holes of such size heat the surrounding gas to a temperature where the radiation pressure begins blowing outer layers into space."
Comment Re:No Mac for me! (Score 1) 446
If I were getting a replacement of the broken hard drive for "free" I'd still be able to understand them keeping the old one. But after paying a bomb for the replacement hard drive I WANT my old hard drive back. No question about it.
In my windows/linux desktop i just go out and purchase a hard drive if my old one is out of warranty and shove it in. I don't have to worry about proprietary shit getting out of warranty!
In my windows/linux desktop i just go out and purchase a hard drive if my old one is out of warranty and shove it in. I don't have to worry about proprietary shit getting out of warranty!
Comment Re:robots and OSS (Score 1) 194
You can always check out the pre prints server.
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