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Comment Looks like our existing space suits (Score 3, Insightful) 61

by un.sined on Friday June 13, 2008 @02:15PM (#23782305) Attached to: NASA Awards Contract For Spacesuit of the Future

Seriously, why spend all the money to design a new space suit, when all they can come up with is what we already have. Same bubble shaped head. Same giant backpack.

NASA managed to waste several million dollars, and paid someone to give us what we already had. Oh, but I guess the artists drawings give it a pretty blue color...

BitTorrent Legit Service Launches 158

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 26, 2007 @11:39AM from the long-awaited dept.

The launch of the BitTorrent Entertainment Network came out today; there's the AP write-up, which is decent enough but the interview with Bram about it is more interesting. Tangentially, the the education of lawmakers on video DRM is an interesting countweight to all this.

Submission + - How IT makes you productive

Submitted by BeerBuddy on Monday February 26, 2007 @11:38AM

BeerBuddy writes: In a path breaking study reported in Computerworld, researchers at Boston University and MIT analyzed how IT makes people more productive. They gathered more than 125,000 email messages, 5 years of project data, and survey responses to see what factors predicted revenue generation and completed projects. Read the originals here and here. Among the surprises, IT didn't necessarily make projects faster but it did dramatically increase productivity by facilitating multitasking. They also found that IT-supported social networks predicted productivity better than experience. Now you can tell your boss the project's late but your productivity is up, and beers with the buddies really matter!

Journal Journal: Unpopular opinions

Journal by un.sined on Tuesday January 31, 2006 @02:07AM

Why is it that just because someone has an unpopular opinion, they're automatically deemed to be a troll?

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