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  1. Lets welcome them .. on New Open Source FPS Blood Frontier Shows Promise · · Score: -1

    by posting the news on Slashdot and /.ing their site down to the Bloody knees

  2. Hyperion acquision makes Oracle complete Microsoft on Oracle to Buy Hyperion for $3.3 Billion · · Score: -1

    The perons who usually keep their eye on Business Intelligence world would definately know that Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2000 Analysis Services (MSOLAP) is the most widely used BI tool around there, in fact Cognos is the grand father of all of these tools, but when we speak about the number of Installations in the market MSOLAP is the king.

    This acquision bring MS and Oracle head to head. Recently Oracle has not been very successfull with its OLAP tools, although people usually keep Oracle DB at back and use MSOLAP at the front.

    Tweaking Hyperion make it use Oracle dependent and/or update it as fast at MS does would be good decision for them. But again this is really a long term planning and lots of stuff has to be done.

  3. Full Atricle before they fix link and slashdotted on Underground Water on Mars? · · Score: -1


    The Mars Express spacecraft, from the European Space Agency (ESA), has indicated to scientists that the dry atmosphere and surface on the planet Mars does not necessarily mean Mars is dry underneath the surface. In fact, a huge storehouse of water and carbon dioxide could be found in underground reservoirs.

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    The exploratory mission of the Mars Express--whose name refers to the quickness of its design and manufacture and to the short relative distance it traveled between the Earth and Mars due to careful timing of the mission--originally consisted of the Mars Express Orbiter and the Beagle 2. On June 2, 2003, the spacecraft was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan powered by a Soyuz-Fregata rocket. Unfortunately, after entering Mars orbit in December 2003 and deploying from the orbiting Mars Express Orbiter the Beagle 2 was lost on December 25, 2003, when it failed to communicate to the already-orbiting NASA Mars Odyssey. The ESA Mars Express team declared the Beagle 2 officially lost on February 6, 2004.

    The Mars Express Orbiter continued its important science mission without Beagle 2. One of its first indications that Mars might possess underground water came in November 2005 when the MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding) experiment found the presence of underground water ice. MARSIS has the ability to remotely sense and record subsurface reflections; that is, it can analyze the composition of the ground beneath the surface of Mars (down to about five kilometers [three miles]), specifically with regards to the presence of frozen water.

    Then, in 2007, ASPERA (Analyzer of Space Plasmas and Energetic Atoms), another instrument onboard the Mars Express Orbiter, found that the rate of water loss on Mars is much lower than believed. Dr. Stanislav Barabash of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (Kiruna, Sweden) headed a team whose research from the Mars Express Orbiter found the entire planet only loses about 20 grams of oxygen and carbon dioxide each second--a rate that was only about 1% of what was previously believed to be lost. If Barabash's discovery proves to be correct, then only a relatively miniscule amount of water and carbon dioxide would have disappeared over the past three to four billion years.

    Barabash's team does not know what happened to this water. They surmise that it might have been removed through one or more currently unproven processes (such as dramatic asteroid and comet impacts, solar winds, or magnetic storms). Or, they also think that a possible scenario is that the water may still be on Mars, only stored underground. In fact, Barabash reported to New Scientist that: "We are talking about huge amounts of water. To store it somewhere requires a really big, huge reservoir."

    Barabash and his colleagues report their findings on January 26, 2007, in Science magazine.

    Scientists know that when Mars was a much younger planet it contained large amounts of liquid. However, scientists do not know where all of that liquid went. Mars Express and other spacecraft sent to explore Mars may soon find out. Future manned missions to Mars may find plenty of water to support humans and to provide hydrogen and oxygen for rocket fuel. Whether that occurs or not will only be found out sometime in the future--as more information is carefully and deliberately retrieved from Mars.

    Information about the Mars Express mission is found at ESA's site: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/index.htm l.

    Information about the Mars Express mission can also be found at NASA's site: http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/express/.

    The Home Web page of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics is located at: http://www.irf.se/.

  4. Re:He is obviously not a native English speaker... on Interview with Developer of BackupHDDVD · · Score: -1

    muslim + x64 = muslix64 Just another observation

  5. Lawyers on Decryption Keys For HD-DVD Found, Confirmed · · Score: -1

    They will lawers ... and lots of lawyers :)

  6. How much more on First Impressions of Halo 3 · · Score: -1

    How much more milk would Microsoft would extract from Halo fanch. ????

  7. In soviet russia ... on Republican Robocall Pretexting Campaign · · Score: -1

    In Soviet Russia, the human callers do his job ....

  8. In soviet russia on Sys-Admins Reading the Bosses Mail? · · Score: -1

    In soviet russia, the bosses read the admins mails :)

  9. Free as in .. on The GIF Format is Finally Patent-Free · · Score: -1

    gif images are free as in beer ;)

  10. Made in China ... on China Claims Successful Fusion Power Test · · Score: -1

    +1 for another product which could say 'Made in China' in near future

  11. hezbulallah on Hezbollah Hacked Israeli Military Radio · · Score: -1

    I bet every action taken by Hezb-ul-Allah is (possibly) backed by Iran.

  12. Weapons of Mass Destruction on Endgame- Google Maps RTS (beta) · · Score: -1

    What if one country get the Weapons of Mass Destruction :)

  13. Re:But... on 1001 Islamic Inventions · · Score: -1

    Hmmm ...


    Marrige in Muslime is two Steps.
    Step 1 - Nikkah (Husband and Wife bound to agreement )
    Step 2 - Rukhsati (Husband & Wife start living togather)


    Now, Hazrat Ayseha, got in to [Step 1] (Agreemet/Nikkah) of Prohphe Muhamamd (Peace Be Upon Him) and not directly to [Step 2].

    In islam the rule of a girl becoming an adult girl and a boy becoming an adult boy is quite diffrent. According to the rules she was of the legal age to get in to the Agreement (Step 1 / Nikkah), that why Hazrat Ayesha's Father, and the First Adult Human to accept Islam as religion had allowed her to have the Agreement / Nikkah with Prophet Muhammad (Peace be Upon Him)

    HTH

  14. Re:But... on 1001 Islamic Inventions · · Score: 0

    Nopes,
    Prophet Muhammad PBUH was born in 572 AD. So that gives you exactly the idea how much he lived. He died on 632 AD. Islam is really 1500 Year old.

    Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad

  15. SWT is a go on SWT, Swing, or AWT - Which Is Right For You? · · Score: -1

    Looking at the perfomance, and the acceptance by the opensource community (Azerus etc) it seems SWT is a winner. And, as far as my experience is concerned, the definate winner is also SWT. The speed, and the advantages of Native UI are definately non - ignorable.

  16. Total Nonsense on Apple to 'Switch' to Windows? · · Score: -1

    Please do not waste your time by reading this crap.

  17. Re:Gimp is good enough on GIMP Not Enough for Linux Users? · · Score: -1

    Looks like your comments have been mentioned on The Register :

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/06/photoshop_ on_linux/

    Cheerz

  18. Re:IBM really needs to prove themselves on IBM's Radical Cell Processor · · Score: 0, Informative

    This had nothing to do with the Apple-Intel Deal or Apple dropping IBM/PowePC. Infact, actually Apple is one step back as none of the Apple-Intel systems are 64-bit Enabled

  19. The OS on The Scoop on the Xbox 360's Embedded OS? · · Score: -1
    I am not sure about it, but following is the complete internal thinking of mine or you can say the possiblites ...
    • Cuz Xbox 360 is PowerPC based, it might be able to run PowerPC Linux or somethig similir, the XBox 360 Linux project is already started.
    • Read the above statement the other way aroud
    • Read the First statement with Xbox 360 = PS3
    • Read the 3rd Statement the other way around
  20. What ? on AJAX Buzzword Reinvigorates Javascript · · Score: -1

    Perhaps AJAX will finally deliver what Java promised.

    Are you in your senses ?. Are you what did you posted ?. MAD or something ?.

  21. Late News ??? on iPod Dangerous When Wet · · Score: -1

    Why do you have to go to www.slashdot.org when you can read this news on other sites much more earlier such as www.digg.com

  22. Re:Which one is better? on Borland Releases JBuilder to Eclipse · · Score: -1

    You need to try out the Visual Editor in Eclipse. I have been using it and found it very productive and effective in all the aspects. Althoug you may not find it as good as the JBuilder one, but it definately serves me.

  23. Great ... on Connery In Russia With Love Title · · Score: -1

    Wow, Sean Connery in a game :) Sound awesome to me. Watching his movies and then playing as him is really going to be pretty entertaining, including the Ladies factor ;)

  24. Good One on Auto Code Commenting Software, Free Chairs · · Score: 0

    One of the best one that you would ever read on 1st April. Really a nice one.

    The Comments are really awesome :)

  25. April Fool on Britannica Takes Over the Wikimedia Foundation · · Score: -1

    Making Fool out of Fools on April Fool