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  1. I've already moved to Gentoo on Red Hat Linux 9 Reaches End-of-Life · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...and I will never look back.

  2. Re:Sign of ignorance on Microsoft Announces XNA Game Development Platform · · Score: 1
    I can recall the inroads that Microsoft tried to make using WinCE on the Dreamcast, and being excited at the time.

    This is certainly different. .NET is all about making distributed programming easier. As more and more desktop applications will require the integration of efficient web services, then more and more developers will enter the framework of .NET

  3. Why? on Melting Europa · · Score: 1
    Micro-organisms known as extremophiles have been found which, as the name implies, thrive in extreme environments, in particular at temperatures much higher or lower than other organisms can tolerate. In addition, there are deep-ocean and subsurface organisms which do not rely on photosynthesis, and can withstand temperatures of 1100 C and 1200 C, respectively, at depths of 5 km. It has been speculated that life may exist in the subsurface ocean of Jupiter's satellite Europa, for example. If life does turn out to be possible in this and other 'extreme' environments, the standard definition of ecosphere will need to be rewritten.

    (Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics. 2003)

  4. Re:A lot of astronomers don't want to count Pluto on The Sun's 10th Planet... Sedna? · · Score: 1
    A lot of astronomers don't want to count Pluto

    You're right.

    But does it matter if we call Pluto a planet or not?

    Brian Marsden, who for thirty years has been the director of the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams of the International Astronomical Union, insists that it does. By calling Pluto a planet, he says, astronomers perpetuate a distorted and thoroughly outdated image of a solar system that neatly ends in a ninth planet, rather than trailing off beyond Neptune into a far-reaching and richly populated field of objects. "It gives a misleading impression to the public and particularly to schoolchildren," he says. "We ought to be explaining that there are four giant planets, four terrestrial planets, two belts of minor bodies, and scattered interesting material."

    (quoted from http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98feb/pluto.htm)

  5. Re:Aspergers, Bill Gates, suspected to have it. on Building Social Skills in Gifted Youths? · · Score: 1

    Other famous people with aspergers/autistic traits. http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Stonewall/4 502/famousac.html

  6. Re:in the long term.....critical mass theory on Chicken Run · · Score: 1

    Actually, if the theory of the 100th monkey is correct, only 100 chickens need to somehow figure out how to avoid being caught, before the all chicken becomes immune to this method.

    Theory found here:
    http://perdurabo10.tripod.com/themindofjame sdonahu e/id404.html

  7. Re:follow this advice...just a remark on What Kind Of Computer To Bring To College? · · Score: 1

    Addiction is a personality trait, If CS or any other game don't get you, alcohol will, or drugs or sex or something else. Follow this advice, and apply it to whatver distraction you might encounter.