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  1. Re:Time for another IAU meeting on Two Planets Found Sharing One Orbit · · Score: 1

    Almost the other way around?... If objects stay in ~one orbit (also) due to gravitational interaction between them, all except the dominating one don't count as planets.

  2. Re:Time for another IAU meeting on Two Planets Found Sharing One Orbit · · Score: 1

    No reason to bring in stability, really. The orbit of Pluto - in an orbital resonance with Neptune, totally dominated by it (kinda similar deal with Lagrange points) - is quite stable...

  3. Re:Time for another IAU meeting on Two Planets Found Sharing One Orbit · · Score: 1

    Most importantly, the definition in question is only about the planets of Solar System. Somehow a lot of people manage to ignore it... (as well as how it is not set in stone; BTW, Ceres and Vesta were also "planets" for quite a time, and now hardly anybody remembers that... heck, Sun was, too)

    Also, those two extrasolar planets might very well be in a very strong gravitational interaction...

  4. Re:Why not leave shuttle up there? on Shuttle Discovery Docks With Space Station · · Score: 1

    It would be useless pretty much instantly... most of its mass and drag-creating structure is determined byt airplane-like reentry.

  5. Re:What do you mean by "know better?" on The Dirty Little Secrets of Search · · Score: 1

    They store (and display) how a site looks now - one more bit of data on the quest to Google AI ;p (and you know, having an honest-to-FSM AI, to judge websites, even makes sense for Google...)

  6. Re:Its not strange, it just isnt American on Italian Police Seize Blog Over 'Kill Berlusconi' Satire · · Score: 1

    Oh, but you forget that perceived lies about a BJ are so, so much more horrible than lies pushing a war to avenge daddy...

  7. Re:What do you mean by "know better?" on The Dirty Little Secrets of Search · · Score: 1

    Eyeballs can be used on both sides; the SEO one certainly can easily find lots of very inexpensive ones.

  8. Re:all this has been said before on Microsoft Shows Off Radical New UI, Could Be Used In Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Maybe quite the contrary. Not only early word processors (at least early DTP or CAD/CAM systems were certainly similar) can be seen a bit like that (even if "fixed") - most importantly, don't forget how in the early days (8-bit home computers, DOS, also Amiga apps to large extent) it was quite typical for an application to "take over"

    Closer to home - also so called "feature phones"? Most / all of the UI always tended to disappear after loading some j2me app.

  9. Re:Why not leave shuttle up there? on Shuttle Discovery Docks With Space Station · · Score: 1

    Well, the new ("digital") Soyuz apparently requires only "one and a half" crew members for operation - one full time, one with fairly limited role and relatively basic training. I imagine the latter could be done on the ISS... especially considering the background & experience of ~half of Shuttle crew.

    (I'm not saying leaving the Shuttle like that isn't stupid; just throwing in a small factoid)

  10. Re:Why not leave shuttle up there? on Shuttle Discovery Docks With Space Station · · Score: 1

    In two three person Soyuz OTOH...

  11. Re:Why not leave shuttle up there? on Shuttle Discovery Docks With Space Station · · Score: 1

    The Shuttle is mostly an airframe, by mass / volume (mass which needs to be reboosted and surface which creates drag).

    I'll repeat that - the Shuttle is mostly an airframe.

  12. Re:all this has been said before on Microsoft Shows Off Radical New UI, Could Be Used In Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    "new idea"?...

  13. Re:all this has been said before on Microsoft Shows Off Radical New UI, Could Be Used In Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Maps are a special case - they are basically fixed (yes, they do change; nowhere often enough for that to matter in interaction), each and every one instance essentially the same; mapping to our movements, to environment. I can see how building general UI as ZUI will make hunting positions in menus and option dialogs look good.

  14. Re:Non story - news at 11 on Microsoft Shows Off Radical New UI, Could Be Used In Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    If something similar could be made "aware" of your total online history

    Google Web History (and in the fullest extent, with a plugin / extension logging more or less every URL) - good after all? (not now of course - but the mentioned future rudimentary AI will need data...)

  15. Re:Non story - news at 11 on Microsoft Shows Off Radical New UI, Could Be Used In Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    There are bubbles... and they do stuff... in the cloud?!

    In the fog (call it what it is)

  16. Re:whoosh: the dissection of a joke. on Microsoft Shows Off Radical New UI, Could Be Used In Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Sarcasm?

  17. Re:Autocratic Admin? on Ask Slashdot: Is the Recycle Bin a Good GUI Metaphor? · · Score: 1

    Even better when basically the same actions give vastly different results, depending on some non-obvious factors (regarding recycle bin - it's really fun when people realize it doesn't work on something as basic as pendrives)

  18. Re:Autocratic Admin? on Ask Slashdot: Is the Recycle Bin a Good GUI Metaphor? · · Score: 1

    Very apt, considering the effort would very quickly be not worth the gain... (like in somebody jumping on top of real trash)

  19. Re:Autocratic Admin? on Ask Slashdot: Is the Recycle Bin a Good GUI Metaphor? · · Score: 1

    Not only "non-monopoly" operating systems don't exactly seamlessly offer such experience - most importantly, if you look at users, they tend to struggle with as-basic=as-it-gets file management. That might be the reason why nobody is in a hurry to build FS around some wild new paradigms, to somehow convey them via main UI.

  20. Re:Autocratic Admin? on Ask Slashdot: Is the Recycle Bin a Good GUI Metaphor? · · Score: 1

    It gets really fun when one of them accidentally hits Num Lock...

  21. Re:Autocratic Admin? on Ask Slashdot: Is the Recycle Bin a Good GUI Metaphor? · · Score: 1

    Ego of heads of any department is measured largely by the level of spending they can push, when obtaining toys for their department.

  22. Re:Nokia who? on After MS-Nokia Pact, Many Nokia Workers Walk Out In Protest · · Score: 1

    Who needs a phone that is three or more years out of date?

    "Most of 5+ billion mobile subscribers"? At least that would be my guess. In characteristics that matter to those people, one can see the phones in question as "ahead"...

  23. Re:Nokia who? on After MS-Nokia Pact, Many Nokia Workers Walk Out In Protest · · Score: 1

    Partnership or... takeover? (plus those MS stocks of Elop)

  24. Re:Royalty Free on MPEG Continues With Royalty-free MPEG Video Codec Plans · · Score: 1

    Upcoming end of April would be costly... (and I'm not sure if it will somehow dignify or totally destroy my birthday, which are close enough to 29IV to be possibly observed on that day, out of convenience)

  25. Re:There is no "low end" in the future on After MS-Nokia Pact, Many Nokia Workers Walk Out In Protest · · Score: 1

    ...while ignoring even more the "price" part, for such Motorola handset...

    And it's actually even worse, in the case of Motorola - you might not see it, but they pretty much retreated out of most markets in 2010, concentrating on the US one (with "premium" people willing to pay "premium" prices / be tied to contracts - while most of the world owns their phones and is on prepaid); in Europe it's only UK, France, Germany, Spain to some extent I believe; some places in Latin America and China (where their handsets come from anyway). Just to approach financial viability. With announcements that low-end and middle-priced handsets won't be getting OS updates.