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  1. Antarctica - the coldest place on Earth on Exploring Antarctica · · Score: 3, Informative

    Antarctica holds the world's record for coldest temperature: -129F ( recorded in 1983 at the Russian Base Vostok).

    Current temp of Vostok is -64 F / -53 C.

  2. google cache on The 419eater Community Pulls Some Legs · · Score: 5, Informative
  3. Re:Heh on Battle Roomba Tractor · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of a bad film I once saw. Short Circuit had the cuteness that iRobots have... with John Deere traction! Maybe it'll evolve this way?

    it reminds me of a quite good film - The Straight Story ;-)

  4. quite innovative on Battle Roomba Tractor · · Score: 1

    a few weeks ago DARPA shown project aimed at building robot based on Seagway, and now Pentagon and John Deere - a tractor engineer. Don't you think that they are quite innovative sometimes?

  5. Re:Notice how they've given up ... on Europe's New ET Life Search Programme · · Score: 2, Informative

    Now they've lowered their sights, and will settle for just life

    yup.

    They will analyze a light with spectrometer to reveal the presence of gases in atmosphere of palnets.
    Oxygen, ozone, carbon dioxide, methane may suggest that on the planet you can find life.

  6. Re:180,000 frames on Macs Do Star Wars Dirty Work · · Score: 2, Informative

    but remember that 1GB isn't 1000 MB (but 1024MB), nevertheless it isn't 400 TB.

  7. 180,000 frames on Macs Do Star Wars Dirty Work · · Score: 4, Interesting

    just imagine:
    they have 180 000 frames
    1 frame = 70 MB
    use your calc folks ;)

  8. Mayor sit in the bar... on San Fran Mayor Declares Wireless for All · · Score: 1

    Mayor sit in the bar and said. - "And Wireless for All!". And he start to drink his beer.

  9. 100 pounds / 45 kg on Segway's Robotic Mobility Platform · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Capable of carrying 100 pounds (45 kilograms)
    so it is rather for thin people, very thin
  10. "The Prisoner's Dilemma" game online on 'Tit for Tat' Defeated In Prisoner's Dilemma Challenge · · Score: 1

    I did a research on this topic and I found a fun little game. You can play in "The Prisoner's Dilemma" against a computer opponent - , and discover some strategies.

  11. Re:Any relation to Yu Perelman on Russian May Have Solved Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 1

    oh man, I love his books, especially "Zanimatielnaja fizyka" ("Physics can be fun"), this books show that, indeed - mathematics can be fun.

  12. developers, developers, developers, developers,... on Ballmer on Linux · · Score: 1

    developers, developers, developers, developers,

  13. Re:My Fave Google Trick on Google: The Missing Manual · · Score: 1

    "Well, obviously when you search for pages from slashdot that don't include the string 'qqqqqqqq', you'll be excluding certain pages on slashdot. Like this one."

    yes, but tell me how many pages on slashdot contain a string 'qqqqqqqq'. Only a few, I suppose.
    site:slashdot.org -qqqqqqqq - 411,000 sites
    site:slashdot.org - 475,000 sites

    So on slashdot we currently have 64,000 pages with the string 'qqqqqqqq'.
    Am I right?

  14. Re:My Fave Google Trick on Google: The Missing Manual · · Score: 1
    But look how does it change:

    site:slashdot.org - 469,000

    site:slashdot.org -qqqq - 609,000

    site:slashdot.org -qqqqq - 597,000

    site:slashdot.org -qqqqqq - 597,000

    site:slashdot.org -qqqqqqq - 596,000

    site:slashdot.org -qqqqqqqq - 604,000

    site:slashdot.org -qqqqqqqqq - 593,000
    I don't get it :/

  15. Re:Google is doing fine for regular searches... on Latest MyDoom Variant Gives Google Problems · · Score: 1

    "email slashdot.org" seems working now.
    But it's still very slow.

  16. situation in Europe on Too Few American Scientists? Maybe Not · · Score: 1, Informative

    I think worse situation is in Europe.
    According to Gazeta Wyborcza (newspaper from Poland) by the 2010 year Europe will be lack of 700 000 young scientist. Every year in EU 2,8 mln people get master's degree (USA - 2,1 mln, Japan - 1,1 mln), but many of these scientists go to America or Canada. America provides better earnings, research equipment and less bureaucratic problems. To prevent this European Commision run ERA-MORE and The Researcher's Mobility Portal which helps European scientist.

  17. 300 000th article on Wikipedia Hits 300,000 Articles · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is it possible to point - this is 300 000th article on Wikipedia?

  18. Re:Interesting computer Chess? on World Computer Chess Championships Underway · · Score: 1

    But look at Kasparov vs Deep Junior matches (and click on the "Follow the Match in 2D"). Have you noticed a 10th move of Deep Junior in game 5? Isn't this sacrifice intersting, especially when computer plays like that.

  19. 4 channels on How Many TV Channels Will There Be In The Future? · · Score: 1

    What the heck are you talking about slashdotters?
    I live in Poland and I receive four boring channels, and even my tv set is capable of programming only 59 channels, not 500. But in fact, who needs 500 channels?

  20. Re:WHAT... on Hubble Discovers a Hundred New Planets · · Score: 1

    ahh, yes you are right (I hope so ;)
    And to be curious Aleksander Wolszczan is from my country (Poland) and I didn't mention about him.

  21. Re:WHAT... on Hubble Discovers a Hundred New Planets · · Score: 1

    first exoplanet was discovered in 1995 by the European team of Michel Mayor, around 51 Pegasi
    A good link about exoplanets