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Solar System’s ‘look-alike’ found

Paul Rincon
Science reporter, BBC News, Belfast

Almost 300 planets have now been found outside our Solar System

Astronomers have discovered a planetary system orbiting a distant star which looks much like our own.

They found two planets that were close matches for Jupiter and Saturn orbiting a star about half the size of our Sun.

Martin Dominik, from St Andrews University in the UK, said the finding suggested systems like our own could be much more common than we thought.

And he told a major meeting that astronomers were on the brink of finding many more of them.

The St Andrews researcher said this planetary system, and others like it, could host terrestrial planets like Earth. It was just a matter of time before such worlds were detected, he explained.

Vista Source Code Reveals - II

Vista Source Code Reveal - I

/*
TOP SECRET Microsoft(c) Project:Longhorn(TM) SP1
Estimated release date:2008
*/
#include “win95.h”
#include “win98.h”
#include “leopard.h”

char chew_up_some_ram[10000000];

void main () {
while (!CRASHED) {

if (first_time_install) {
make_10_gigabyte_swapfile();
do_nothing_loop();
search_and_destroy(FIREFOX | OPENOFFICEORG | ANYTHING_GOOGLE);
hang_system();
}

if (still_not_crashed) {
basically_run_windows_xp();
do_nothing_loop();
}
}

if (!DX10GPU()) {
set_graphics(aero, very_slow);
set_mouse(reaction, sometimes);
}

// printf(”Welcome to Windows 2000″);
// printf(”Welcome to Windows XP”);
printf(”Welcome to Windows Vista”);

while (something) {
sleep(10);
get_user_input();
sleep(10);
act_on_user_input();
sleep(10);
flicker_led_promisingly(hard_disk);
}

while(user_status(DESPERATE_HURRY)) set_cursor(rotating_blue_bagel);

create_general_protection_fault();
}

Via here

Na’at : Sami Yusuf

Project Lead Reviewing ;-)

 Dear Manager (HR),
Bob Smith, my assistant programmer, can always be found

Hard at work in his cubicle. Bob works independently, without

Wasting company time talking to colleagues. Bob never

Thinks twice about assisting fellow employees, and he always

Finishes given assignments on time. Often Bob takes extended

Measures to complete his work, sometimes skipping

 coffee

Breaks. Bob is a dedicated individual who has absolutely no

Vanity in spite of his high accomplishments and profound

Knowledge in his field. I firmly believe that Bob can be

Classed as a high-s employee, the type which cannot be

Dispensed with. Consequently, I duly recommend that Bob be

Promoted to executive management, and a proposal will be

Sent away as soon as possible.


Signed - Project Leader

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.


A MEMO WAS SOON SENT FOLLOWING THE LETTER:

Dear Manager (HR),

That stupid idiot was reading over my shoulder when I wrote the report

Sent to you earlier today. Kindly read only the odd lines (1, 3, 5,

7, 9,11, 13)

For my true assessment of him.


Signed - Project Leader

Origin: April Fool’s Day

The origin of April Fool’s Day remains clouded in obscurity. Basically no one knows exactly where, when, or why the celebration began. What we do know is that references to ‘All Fool’s Day’ (what April Fool’s Day was first called) began to appear in Europe during the late Middle Ages. All Fool’s Day was a folk celebration and elite participation in it was minimal (which is why it’s so difficult to trace the exact origin of the day, because the people celebrating it back then weren’t the kind of people who kept records of what they did). But what is clear is that the tradition of a day devoted to foolery has ancient roots. As we look back in time we find many ancient predecessors of April Fool’s Day.