Comment Re:It's absolutely ridiculous (Score 1) 266
Good point, but... where I'm sitting at, yours, is a foreign country....
Fossil of Ant-Eating Dinosaur Discovered In China 64
thomst writes "Charles Q. Choi of LiveScience reports that a farmer in southern Henan Province in China has dug up the first known ant-eating dinosaur, a half-meter-long theropod (the dinosaur family to which T. Rex belongs), whose fossilized remains were described as 'fairly intact'. The 83- to 89-million-year-old pygmy dinosaur has been named named Xixianykus zhangi by Xig Xu, De-you Wang, Corwin Sullivan, David Hone, Feng-lu Han, Rong-hao Yan, and Fu-ming Du, whose paper on the critter, A basal parvicursorine (Theropoda: Alvarezsauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of China, was published in the March 29 issue of Zootaxa (the abstract is available in PDF format for free, the full article is paywall-protected.)"
World's Smallest Superconductor Discovered 72
arcticstoat writes "One of the barriers to the development of nanoscale electronics has potentially been eliminated, as scientists have discovered the world's smallest superconductor. Made up of four pairs of molecules, and measuring just 0.87nm, the superconductor could potentially be used as a nanoscale interconnect in electronic devices, but without the heat and power dissipation problems associated with standard metal conductors."
Comment Re:! hyperdrive (Score 2, Funny) 322
Whenever my brother wants to go really fast, he calls it "I'lldrive"
Comment Re:I got the facts ... (Score 1) 524
Quoi?
Comment Re:Not to mention security, bandwidth, etc. (Score 1) 260
Your post does not reflect your sig, padawan.
Comment Re:Solution looking for a problem. (Score 1) 91
Well, seems technically difficult in any case.
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Submission + - Must-Have Extensions for Thunderbird 2.0
Operator writes: While Firefox has been in the spotlight for some time now, Thunderbird has yet to enjoy the same wide adoption or glowing praise despite being an excellent email client. It's no surprise that a popular topic has been Firefox's best (and worst) extensions while Thunderbird add-ons have gone largely unnoticed. In celebration of the recent release of Thunderbird 2.0 here are the best extensions for the program along with some honorable mentions.
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Journal Journal: How to Stop the Dilbertization of IT 412
In the simplest terms: too many IT workplaces have become Dilbert-ized--micromanaged, bureaucratic and stifled creatively. It's become an environment where busy work is praised and morale is low. But how to go about bringing IT's appeal back? Answers come from surprising places.
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