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Preparing to Rescue Hubble

Comment in Images (3 diggs, 0 replies) - on 09/02/2008
What? The Shuttle fleet has been upgraded several times in the past few decades to include more modern technology as it becomes available. In fact Atlantis was the first orbiter to fly with a "glass cockpit" on STS-101 in 2000. The new cockpit uses displa … (see comment)
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Drip by drip, Starbucks lost what made it shine

Comment in News (6 diggs, 0 replies) - on 07/07/2008
While a Starbucks on every corner has ruined some mom'n'pop coffee shops it has also opened a market where one didn't exist fifteen years ago. It's a lot easier to open up a coffee shop as a Starbucks alternative since people now have a point of reference … (see comment)
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How the Hubble Telecope Assembles Raw Image Data

Comment in News (8 diggs, 0 replies) - on 07/06/2008
To get an idea of how Hubble images might look to the human eye (sans processing) look here: http://heritage.stsci.edu/2000/25/ngc7078supp.html To answer your question specifically about the Eagle Nebula, the picture is referred to as "enhanced color" be … (see comment)
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Gallery: A new food crisis in Ethiopia

Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 06/15/2008
How exactly do you propose they leave? The people starving don't have any money or food (hence the starvation). Ethiopia's neighboring countries don't want or need a bunch of starving immigrants. So even if the average Ethiopian could pack up and move whe … (see comment)
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9 Unexpected Benefits of Trains

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 06/08/2008
Amtrak's ineptitude revolves around their scheduling and lack of attention to local rail transport. Amtrak, Metrolink, and Caltrain are all in the same business to do the same thing (move me from station A to station B). Amtrak doesn't seem to bother look … (see comment)
1952

9 Unexpected Benefits of Trains

Comment in News (4 diggs, 2 replies) - on 06/07/2008
A huge problem with passenger trains in the US is the absolute ineptitude of Amtrak. For one Amtrak doesn't take into consideration any forms of transit that they don't run, i.e. their bus and rail lines. If you want to go from LA to SF they'll cart you f … (see comment)
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Jon Stewart: You Probably Don't Understand the Iraq War

Comment in News (6 diggs, 0 replies) - on 05/23/2008
You need to do a little more reading. Prior to the war Saddam had been petitioning the UN to lift some of the sanctions against Iraq, specifically those related to oil sales. In November of 2000 Iraq began selling oil in euros rather than dollars. By 2003 … (see comment)
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Schools, businesses must adapt to 'thumb generation'

Comment in News (3 diggs, 0 replies) - on 05/20/2008
Gen-α (see comment)
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Why doesn't Microsoft out-innovate Apple?

Comment in News (5 diggs, 0 replies) - on 04/28/2008
XBox Live is a progression from the MSN Internet Gaming Zone which itself was purchased from another company in 1996 and then rebranded. Most if not all of the XBL features were first introduced in the IGZ. (see comment)
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Blockbuster's plan for 'convergence' won't pay off

Comment in News (4 diggs, 1 reply) - on 04/15/2008
I don't know what Blockbuster you've ever been in but all the ones around here have a horrible selection. I got a Netflix account because no local rental places had a decent selection of foreign or indie films. They certainly have no anime rentals and ver … (see comment)
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The Internet? Bah! (looking back to 1995)

Comment in News (14 diggs, 0 replies) - on 03/23/2008
While we can look back on these predictions and laugh back in 1995 the internet didn't seem all that impressive to outside observers. Back in 1995 web traffic finally pulled ahead of FTP traffic in terms of bytes transmitted and online services like AOL a … (see comment)
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Assessing the fallout from CBS' 'Jericho' maneuver

Comment in News (7 diggs, 1 reply) - on 03/15/2008
It's a shame that Jericho has been killed by the Neilsen bullet. It's absurd to keep measuring the success of TV shows by ratings/share when those numbers don't count website hits, iTunes downloads, timeshifted recordings, or even P2P downloads now that a … (see comment)
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NBC officially removed from the iTunes Store

Comment in News (7 diggs, 0 replies) - on 12/03/2007
I tried to put up with NBC's website for watching the Office this season. I won't be going back. The player itself is a piece of shit. It's "fullscreen" mode is nowhere close to fullscreen and when the video switches to a commercial takes you out of fulls … (see comment)
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The REAL Reason The Linux Community Didn't Come Up With The iPhone

Comment in News (4 diggs, 1 reply) - on 11/21/2007
OSX is based in part on BSD Unix. Hmm Unix I wonder where that was...oh yeah that's right it was developed at AT&T's Bell labs. Even Unix wasn't that original as it was a reduced feature derivative of MULTICS. There's a lot of recycling that happens in th … (see comment)
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The 6th Man on the Moon says - 'We've had visitors' and Presidents know it

Comment in News (19 diggs, 1 reply) - on 10/14/2007
He's batshit crazy, it makes no sense to be open minded about the situation. As Carl Sagan said "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof." Without said proof, or even the hint of scientific evidence Mitchell's claims are just rantings of a crazy … (see comment)
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Cell Phone Software: The Billion-Dollar Sand Trap

Comment in News (3 diggs, 0 replies) - on 05/04/2007
"to load software, you can use bluetooth. you only need the cable if your PC/Mac hasn't got bluetooth/a bluetooth dongle." Only if your carrier or phone manufacturer didn't go ahead and cripple Bluetooth on your phone for you. Of ones that aren't cripp … (see comment)
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Schools should use OpenOffice.org

Comment in News (19 diggs, 0 replies) - on 04/08/2007
> School is to get kids ready for the real world. No, schools prepare children to work in factories. Hence the bells, being quiet, and getting into straight lines. Teaching a sixth grader Office 2007 isn't going to prepare them for the real world, by t … (see comment)
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Apple Care vs. Dell Support: Dead Hard Drives

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 12/30/2006
@ betterth All Apple products have a 1-year warranty. You only have 90 days of phone support unless you get the extended AppleCare. There's a difference between over the phone technical support and a hardware warranty. (see comment)
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In Full: Apple's Black Friday Deals Detailed

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 11/24/2006
Black Friday is the official/unofficial beginning of the holiday shopping season in the US. So named because it is typically the first day of the year that retailers see profits above their costs i.e. operate in the "black". It's the one day of the season … (see comment)
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The Top 10 Arguments Against DRM

Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 11/19/2006
A good portion of these ten reasons are duplicates so it's really more like five reasons against DRM. You would also be hard pressed to back some of them up. For instance suggesting DRM adds cost to music and backing that claims up using an example of iTu … (see comment)
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