Not exactly news, but looks like a comprehensive article (just skimmed it, didn't read).

I remember reading about this years ago. The expansion of the early universe was due to strong gravity repelling instead of attracting, IIRC. Maybe someone can correct me if they know.

To use an analogy: space is the surface a balloon, and light is a snail on the surface of that balloon. Even if nothing can go faster than the snail on that balloon you can still blow up the balloon so it exapnds faster than the snail can go.

so... not a fart?

They're way to smart for that

I think between the lines he meant that they already banned rectangular bananas.

That inanimate carbon rod was worker of the week, you insensitive clod!

OK this is the plan... wait... I thought they left this galaxy

...ooooh short answer yes with an if, long answer no with a but...

So they're making a browser that can run native code, and an OS that can't?

And since when is air guitar NOT cool? :P

I totally agree, but I also think that without Waters there is also no Pink Floyd. Sure he got stale and depressive by The Wall (the Long moan), but the stuff before that is awesome. And regarding The Final Cut: It's a great Waters album, just not a great Pink Floyd album. As for the post-Waters era, A momentary lapse of reason is good, but I don't think its a typical Floyd album, this one you could probably split into single tracks, except for the new machines. Division Bell is a great piece of Pink Floyd music, and a great album listened to as a whole and if you chop it up it doesn't do it justice.

Zero on KDE, just a konsole plasmoid. 20+ (or maybe 50+) on windows and I rarely need them, mostly folders of pics from my camera or phone, or some standalone apps I needed once and forgot about. I tried to keep it clean on windows and for a while it worked, but as soon as I put one thing on the desktop one week later there are dozens. I think one KDE desktop setting doesn't allow icons on the desktop and I quite like it actually. But with windows every time I install something it wants to put an icon on the desktop and eventually I just put other stuff there too.

I read somewhere (maybe slashdot story or an ars technica article, can't remember) that multi platform games are dificult to develop because of the underlying hardware differences, specifically the CPU(s) and they have to take the number and types of CPUs installed in the system into account. For example, the PS3 has 1 GP core an several vector cores while PCs have 1, 2 or 4 GP cores, and the threading systems have to be completely different. And XBox has a different CPU as well (3 PPC cores, but I may have made it up). The PS3 also has far less RAM than an average PC, and this also has to be taken into account while deevloping games.