I have no problems at all with the page peel - I think it's among the least intrusive options for advertising.  It allows the advertiser a large piece of real...

The added problem, of course, is that most laptops do not have an external volume control which works until the OS has booted up.  My Toshiba does, and I love...

Too true.

Particularly on laptops, this can be very irritating.  It's the same as cell phones - if you're surreptitiously switching on your phone in a quiet environment and trying not...

Well, I started teaching myself programming after VB.NET was out, so I went straight to that and never really learned vb6.  So I can't comment too much on the relative...

As a final note, I thought it would be useful to revisit what Mike Brown, the discoverer of Xena, had to say about the decision.  Note that the new...

...and a physicist would contend that electrons don't actually exist everywhere in their orbit, they only exist "on average" (with a probablity of 0.95) everywhere in that orbit.

But sub-atomic...

No, if Pluto were to encounter Neptune, there would be a big bang, a huge amount of dust and particulate matter spewed out, and the whole thing would re-assemble itself...

"Further, "they were not part of the contracting disk of gas and dust" is not a fact currently.... its conjecture... maybe best guess conjecture but not proven."

...ah, but you...

And also, YES, THIS _IS_ IMPORTANT!

It is vital to agree on definitions of anything in a scientific field.  Imagine how confusing it would be in medicine to lump veins, arteries...

In response to several other posts, there seems to be a misconception that the reclassification was based on size.  In this case, size has nothing to do with it.  The...

"I just can't wait to try and explain to my 7 year old that last year we had 9 planets and now we have 8. "

Would you prefer to explain...

Absolutely.

There is your work, and there is your life, and although there may be a lot of overlap between the two, remember that they are not the same.

Is it just me or does the new acronym look disturbingly like SOCOM?

Funny, I didn't realise SQL ran on PlayStation...

Let's see...

Three operational database servers, one dedicated mail and intranet server, one domain controller, one application server/ backup domain, one virtual test server and a partridge in a pear tree...

And then there...

Well, based on the latest rankings from TIOBE (http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm), I think it's a VERY debatable claim which Microsoft is making.  In the August rankings, we can see that not...