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Submission + - Astronomers determine the length of day of an exoplanet

Submitted by The Bad Astronomer
The Bad Astronomer writes: Astronomers have just announced that the exoplanet Beta Pic b — a 10-Jupiter-mass world 60 light years away -— rotates in about 8 hours. Using a high-resolution spectrometer and exploiting the Doppler shift of light seen as the planet spins, they measured its rotation velocity as 28,000 mph. Making reasonable assumptions about the planet's size, that gives the length of its day. This is the first time such a measurement has been achieved for an exoplanet.
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Submission + - Transformers Special Edition Chevy Camaro Unveiled

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roelbj
roelbj writes: "Automotive stories are few and far between on Slashdot, but today's news from Chevrolet might just make a few readers' mouths water at the chance to own their own Bumblebee. "Today at Comic-Con, General Motors officially announced the 2010 Chevy Camaro Transformers Special Edition. The $995 appearance package can be applied to LT (V6) and SS-trim Camaros in Rally Yellow with or without the optional RS package." High-res photos included."

Comment N=N+1 (Score 1) 575

by roelbj (#28616309) Attached to: Is IE Usage Share Collapsing?

I am the webmaster of the webpage for the band Billy Pilgrim, http://www.billypilgrim.net/

June6-July6:

      IE: 51%
      FFx: 30%
      Saf: 10%
      Chr: 04%
      Moz: 03%

Average visitor is probably well educated & in mid-30s as this band was popular in colleges in the late 90s but is no longer active.

Windows PowerShell in Action 442

Posted by samzenpus from the read-all-about-it dept.
jlcopeland writes "For two decades I've hated the command prompt in DOS and Windows. Inconsistencies abound and everything is a special case. The fallback on a Microsoft box has been running a Unix shell under Cygwin or installing Microsoft's own Services for Unix (or its predecessor, Softway's Interix), or by scripting in Perl, but those only get you so far. Having co-written nine years worth of trade rag columns using mostly Perl as the implementation language for the samples, and thinking of every problem that comes across my desk as an excuse to write a little bit of scripting code, I've got some well-formed views about scripting languages and what works and what doesn't. That means I've been eagerly watching the development of PowerShell since it was called Monad. It's got the advantage of being a unified command-line interface and scripting language for Windows, even if it does have a dorky name." Read the rest of Jeffrey's review.

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