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Mars

4-Billion-Pixel Panorama View From Curiosity Rover 101

A reader points out that there is a great new panorama made from shots from the Curiosity Rover. "Sweep your gaze around Gale Crater on Mars, where NASA's Curiosity rover is currently exploring, with this 4-billion-pixel panorama stitched together from 295 images. ...The entire image stretches 90,000 by 45,000 pixels and uses pictures taken by the rover's two MastCams. The best way to enjoy it is to go into fullscreen mode and slowly soak up the scenery — from the distant high edges of the crater to the enormous and looming Mount Sharp, the rover's eventual destination."

Comment US Government Announces National Day of Civic Hack (Score 5, Informative) 248

Interesting timing ; not quite the same.
One is Defensive Planning; One is about New ways to use things.
US Government Announces National Day of Civic Hacking
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/23/1823208/us-government-announces-national-day-of-civic-hacking

Comment Re:A truly ridiculous idea. (Score 1) 166

Maybe we can re-use some parts from the Ark.
The Ark, a Cybertronian spacecraft, crash lands on the dark side of Earth's Moon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers:_Dark_of_the_Moon
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4LNd6xGAnII/TgqIiaIn4xI/AAAAAAAAByk/M1Rc35s_BsQ/s1600/transformers-dark-of-the-moon-original.jpg
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft blasts IBM in open letter

carlmenezes writes: Arstechnica has an article on Microsoft's open letter to IBM that adds fresh ammunition to the battle of words between those who support Microsoft's Open XML and OpenOffice.org's OpenDocument file formats. Microsoft has strong words for IBM, which it accuses of deliberately trying to sabotage Microsoft's attempt to get Open XML certified as a standard by the ECMA. In the letter, general managers Tom Robertson and Jean Paol write: "When ODF was under consideration, Microsoft made no effort to slow down the process because we recognized customers' interest in the standardization of document formats." In contrast, the authors charge that IBM "led a global campaign" urging that governments and other organizations demand that International Standards Organization (ISO) reject Open XML outright.
Could MS actually be getting a taste of their own medicine?

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