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Comment Mars Direct - The Case for Mars (Score 4, Informative) 238

by douthat on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @04:17PM (#39419203) Attached to: Elon Musk: Future Round-Trip To Mars Could Cost Under $500,000

His plan sounds a lot like Robert Zubrin's Mars Direct plan detailed in The Case for Mars

Comment Re:apple (Score 1) 948

by douthat on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @03:09PM (#28186997) Attached to: Harsh Words From Google On Linux Development

Those are just build numbers. Pick the biggest number for the latest version. As of right now, this is the latest version:
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/sub-rel-mac/17420/

Comment Re:apple (Score 1) 948

by douthat on Saturday May 30, 2009 @04:26PM (#28152579) Attached to: Harsh Words From Google On Linux Development

You can download Chromium here: http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/sub-rel-mac/

Comment How about this, then? (Score 1) 226

by douthat on Sunday February 01, 2009 @02:15PM (#26686169) Attached to: Ruby 1.9.1 Released

It's roughly competitive with Python 3

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=yarv&lang2=python3

Comment Re:I don't believe anything I read (Score 1) 595

by douthat on Tuesday December 02, 2008 @03:32PM (#25965135) Attached to: Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share

The article is talking about online market share, i.e. percentage of browsers going to websites, not percentage of new computers purchased in the marketplace.

I work for an e-commerce site that seems to track the average pretty closely. Windows as a whole is at 91.09% of our browsers, of which 74.09% is XP and 23.51% is Vista. Mac is at 7.98%. Last November, that number was 5.87%, which is a 35.9% increase in total Mac browsers in 1 year! In the same period, Linux has gone from 0.41% to 0.62%, an increase of about 51.2%

Colbert New Comic-in-Chief 939

Posted by Zonk on Monday May 01, 2006 @12:31AM from the that's-the-word dept.

scottzak writes "Hail to the Chief! Stephen Colbert addressed the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday (attended by the President, the elite of Washington politics, and the White House Press Corps) and told the truth. Jaws dropped. Eyes popped. The live audience gasped. Scalia laughed his ass off. You want to see a brilliant comic display some real courage? Look no further. Enjoy the reaction shots, and Colbert's audition for Press Secretary job." The BBC covers the act just prior to Mr. Colbert's, where the President and a look-alike took turns making fun of his speaking skills.

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