Comment Re:it's aftermath! (Score 1) 181
As Del Boy would say: Chateauneuf du Pape!
(with apologies to John Sullivan: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/onlyfools/lingo/euro.shtml)
Comment Re:Uh, DVR? (Score 1) 274
It wouldn't be too difficult to pack a few hard drives or SSDs with a few thousand movies and episodes of TV shows. Ironically, while it would cost tens of thousands of dollars to buy all those DVDs and rip them, it would cost a lot more money to send the media holding the video files to mars. There would be a lengthy time-lag for emails, but that's little different than email is already.
Do not underestimate the bandwidth of a spaceship full of tapes!
Comment Re:Czar? (Score 1) 173
In Imperialist Russia, Czar needs YOU!
Earth-Like Planets In Our Neighborhood 171
goran72 sends in a story out of the Chicago AAAS meeting contending that Earth-like planets with life-sustaining conditions may be spinning around stars in our galactic neighborhood — we just haven't found them yet. "'So I think there is a very good chance that we will find some Earth-like planets within 10, 20 or 30 light years of the Sun,' astrophysicist [Alan Boss]... told his AAAS colleagues meeting here since Thursday. ... The images from those new planets, he added, should identify 'light from their atmosphere and tell us if they have perhaps methane and oxygen. That will be pretty strong proof they are not only habitable but actually are inhabited. I am not talking about a planet with intelligence on it. I simply say if you have a habitable world. ... Sitting there, with the right temperature with water for a billion years, something is going to come out of it. At least we will have microbes,' said Boss."
Comment Re:Patent (Score 1) 213
You keep using that "patent" word. I don't think that it means what you think it means.
It's trademarkly obvious they don't.
EBay Sellers Seek Management Change 386
BlueCup writes to tell us that even though some seem willing to let eBay's Chief Executive Meg Whitman slide on recent problems, many eBay sellers are calling for a change. From the article: "'EBay's core (auction) performance is suffering tremendously,' says Steve Grossberg, a longtime videogame seller on eBay. He says he now lists an item four times on average in order to sell it, up from two listings two years ago. Adds Andy Mowery, an eBay seller of home and garden gear: 'It is time for new leadership at eBay.'"
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