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  1. Re:Hey SETI on Rocky Planet Discovered · · Score: 1

    When they have radio telescopes, they already watch our TV emissions from 1990.

  2. asteroid belt? on Twelve New Moons Found for Saturn · · Score: 1

    What's the point of having so many satellites?
    Why don't we say, that Saturn (and Jupiter) have asteroid belt?

  3. Old New Thing on Is the x86 Architecture Less Secure? · · Score: 2, Informative
  4. Check Old New Thing on Microsoft Wants Sit-Down With OSS Advocates · · Score: 1
  5. For the best hackers on Russians Claim Their Hackers the Best In the World · · Score: 1

    We are currently recruiting!
    Salary very good!
    Please submit your resume at www.microsoft.com
    !!!

  6. very long on Opera Signs Nokia Phone Deal · · Score: 1

    It will take long time.
    The most people still use the default WAP GPRS browser. The bookmarks on the phone are associated with him, and there is no way to make Opera the default browser on the phones.
    I can speak for the current Symbian phones, that have him (Sony Ericsson P800/P900, Nokia 6600).

  7. There is no ad-version on Opera Signs Nokia Phone Deal · · Score: 2, Informative

    There are no ads on the mobile version of the browser.
    Only a trial version and it costs 20$ if you want to buy it.

  8. Re:MS wants to alienate the world, apparently on Microsoft Remains Firm On Ending VB6 Support · · Score: 1

    I understand the Microsoft decision not to support VB in his current form in .NET. Visual Basic
    Visual Basic 6 in his current form is not bad for business applications, written from not very skilled developer, but lacks many features needed for modern application development.
    There were many problems to fit the VB6 model to .NET
    I thing the biggest was the threading, because the VB6 environment is single threaded.

    I can understand the Microsoft decision to not support VB6 anymore. When Visual Basic 6 was coming out, Visual Basic 5 was history short after. I think the same happens when Visual Basic 5 was released, but I'm not so sure about that. So Microsoft expected, that everyone would go to Visual Basic .NET and will forget about the old 6.
    Another point is, that Microsoft expected, that after the release of .NET everyone will release .NET version of his applications, and the users will use mostly .NET applications right now, eagerly awaiting Longhorn, where these applications will run in "natural" environment.
    In such situation, abandoning VB6 was not a big concert for Microsoft.

  9. side effects? on Intel Develops Hardware To Enhance TCP/IP Stacks · · Score: 1

    Does this approach have some side effects?
    For example programs, that reuse the buffer right after the send() ?

  10. P = NP ? on A Savant Explains His Abilities · · Score: 1

    Could we prove P = NP with then?
    That would be really interesting and would be a major break in the theoretical computer science.

  11. observed first in 70s experiment? on New Distributed Project Seeks Gravity Waves · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I read in some books, that gravitational waves were observed in the 70s years in one of the first built detectors. The source of the waves was the centre of our galaxy.
    Unfortunately the experiment was not confirmed in a latter one, and it is believed, that something else was observed in this moment.
    Did someone knows something else about this first experiment?

  12. nearly convinced my boss to buy it on Delphi Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    I nearly convinced my boss to buy Delphi few years ago. I worked on Visual Basic 6 application and was eager how inflexible Visual Basic is for my current task.
    I forget which edition we wanted to use, but when he saw the price, he stated, that for less money he can have the whole Visual Studio inclusive SQL Server license. (that was the days before .NET)

    And for Kylix, I installed the first version long time ago. It was fun to read on forums, that people used the personal edition like Access client. He can easily connect to all DBs running under linux and have good gui DB Explorer.

  13. Tachyons on Blazing Speed: The Fastest Stuff In The Universe · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You are right, unless you have particles like tachyons, which have imaginary rest mass. Such particles could travel only faster than light and will never slow down under the light speed.
    Wikipedia has something about that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon

  14. Re:Hubble on eBay on No Money For Hubble Service Mission · · Score: 1

    Do you mean something like this?
    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&it em=5552296812 For some people money for science are money for nothing

  15. slashdoted on Bill Gates in 1983 Teen Beat Magazine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    0 comments and already slashdoted?

  16. Amazing pics on Huygens Probe Lands on Titan · · Score: 1

    The pics are amazing.
    We need another expedition there, maybe even a rover. (I know right now this is technically impossible, but still hope).
    Check the both here:
    http://planetary.org/news/2005/huygens_blog.html

  17. fluid? on Saturn's Moon Iapetus Has A 'Belt' · · Score: 1

    However there can only be tidal effects if the moon is rotating around itself at a different rate as it revolves around its parent body. For Iapetus, just like our moon, the two rates are the same and they always present the same face to their parent. This implies only minimal tidal effects due to the eccentricity of the orbit.

    Right now, that's true, but maybe this was not the fall in the past.
    Note, that this mountain ring seem's to be very old. See on the photo
    http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/moons /images/PIA06166-br500.jpg on how much places the mountain ring is broken. This means he is older than the formations, who broke him. It will be probably not wrong to say, he is at least one milliard years old. Maybe he is relict from times, when the equator was fluid. When the fluid freeze you have your mountain across the equator.

  18. Nut on Saturn's Moon Iapetus Has A 'Belt' · · Score: 1

    So, we have a really really big nut! The question is only what's inside, and what you need to smash him, in order to find what's inside.

  19. Re:I still don't see the point... on Five Years On, Has J2ME's Time Finally Arrived? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well I developed and tested J2ME applications on many different mobile phones. Performance optimizations were needed only for Sony Ericsson T series phones. Everywhere else I found the performance of the applications to be acceptable, in most cases you cannot see response time difference between J2ME application and native application of the mobile device. There are few tricks used, in order to be achieved this. (example: on some devices the JVM is loaded not on the start of the application, but when you go to the J2ME applications phone menu). Sorry when my english is bad, I'm not native english speaker.

  20. Re:Hurt the GPL? on Lawsuit Filed Against Software Copyright · · Score: 1

    We can automatically relicense most of the existing software, when we create a future version of GPL, that does not depend on the copyright law. I think the biggest problem will be the Linux kernel. He is licensed only under version 2 of the GPL.

  21. Re:All browsers?!? on New Vulnerability Affects All Browsers · · Score: 1

    Well it does not affect Lynx :)