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Splashtop Drops Windows 8 Metro Testbed Onto Android
MojoKid writes "Want to try out the Windows 8 Metro interface on your Android tablet? Splashtop apparently has a solution. The company previously released a Windows 8 Metro testbed for the iPad back in April, and now it has one for Android devices, which is available in the Google Play Store. You'll need a PC with the Windows 8 Release Preview installed, but once you have that taken care of, you'll be able to poke around Microsoft's new touch interface on any Android tablet."
Why would you even want to do that?
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Scientists have discovered new types of organism living in one of the most inhospitable soils in the world - raising hopes that something similar could survive on Mars.
The University of Colorado Boulder team carried out a DNA analysis of rocky soils on volcanoes in South America - one of the most Mars-like environments on Earth.
And, remarkably, they've found bacteria, fungi and other rudimentary organisms called archaea, which actually seem to have a new way of converting energy.
"We haven't formally identified or characterized the species," says Ryan Lynch, a CU-Boulder doctoral student involved in the study.
"But these are very different than anything else that has been cultured. Genetically, they're at least five percent different than anything else in the DNA database of 2.5 million sequences."
Conditions on the slopes of the tallest volcanoes in the Atacama region are about as inhospitable as it gets. When snow does fall, it generally sublimates back to the atmosphere very quickly, and the soil is so short of nutrients that nitrogen levels in the scientists' samples were too low to detect.
"Want to try out the Windows 8 Metro interface on your Android tablet?"
Nope. Bye...
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Do not want.
The app usually costs a whopping $49.99, but it’s currently on sale for $24.99, so get it while it’s hot.
or you know, don't.
A couple of days ago, someone pointed out shameful crap in the Google+ death thread about Bing and stuff, which weren't the result of companies saying, "I can do it better", but rather them saying, "I can do it, too."
Ooh, look, Windows 8. Microsoft can do a desktop qua smartphone, too?
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
This application dials home way too much. If you don't have an outgoing firewall on your devices you will fail to realize that it is phoning the mothership every time you connect to your desktop. Enough of the cloud connection for everything!
nice slashvertisment for basically a VNC/RDP client, except its not free in any sense of the word and phones home on every connection
way too much spyware/adware on Android and iOS to even contemplate installing this.
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Metro is an intuitive touch interface, granted I hate it on the desktop I wish Microsoft hadn't melded the two together so tightly...people on Slashdot getting modded up for trolling and saying things insightful ("not interested," "Windows 8 is a piece of shit," etc.) is just sad, do you have nothing better to say? Because of the modding up of troll, the circle jerk of trolls is perpetuated. Sadness.
There, FFFY.
Huh? Or am i misunderstanding?
"Ahh! I see you're in that indeterminate Schrodinger state where - oh, uh
on your Android?
VERY NO.
Metroid?
Too bad no Samus.