Astronomers have announced the discovery of the lightest planet ever detected outside our Solar System

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8008683.stm

 This articl links the E-ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope) project to be completed in 2016 which would be capable of actually visibly seeing a planet instead of just watching the behavior of the planet circling a star. Too bad they didn't get funding for the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope which would have been able to have seen details down to earth sized planets outside our solar system. When you think that a country can spend 700 billion dollars for the economy, 1.6 billion Euros doesn't sound so much anymore.

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When I first bought my very first Pentium computer it was a Pentium 60 with a whopping 8 MB of RAM. I was doing development, so I wanted to fill my brand new Packard Bell with 16 MB of RAM, so I went out and bought 2 4MB sticks. Each one was “cheap” at $195+tax.

Two weeks ago, I decided to upgrade my 2GB (667s) to 4GB (800s) desktop to breathe a little life into it and it cost me around $50 out of pocket with a $20 mail in rebate.

Today, I needed to pick up a new micro SD card and 2GB set me back $9.99+tax (including both mini and regular adapters).

Makes me think that nowadays I can pick up a laptop for as much as I paid for RAM way back when… so I guess 5 years from now, when I am buying a 1 TB solid state HD for $100, I will not complain.