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Most Detailed Image Of Earth Yet

Posted by Hemos on from the lookin'-purty dept.

TomDM writes "BBC News has a story on how scientists created the most accurate and detailed image of our planet yet, composing the image from satellite data, and adjusting it for the correct colours. "

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  1. Mmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Cheese

  2. outstanding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fabulous job with the goatse.cx troll. Absouletely outstanding.

    Jason

  3. Re:Scientists where... by JoeRobe · · Score: 0, Troll

    I am surprised you can use a computer, yet you do not know how to spell surprised. Bitch.

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    The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
  4. Re:bakayo by lhdentra · · Score: 0, Troll

    Troll!

    Real men drink asahi, which has no cheese in it at all. Unless you put it there.

    BORKBORKBORK.

  5. Netcraft Confirms : "*S" Is Dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *S community when last month IDC confirmed that *S accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *S has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *S is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last [sysadminmag.com] in th recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict *S's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *S faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *S because *S is dying. Things are looking very bad for *S. As many of us are already aware, *S continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *S market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that *S has steadily declined in market share. *S is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *S is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *S continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *S is dead.

    *S is dying

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