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I thought that this would be a good area to place interesting articles related to the solar system... To start this thread, I found a good editorial which encompasses the future plans for a lunar colony and entities with an interest...and a plan. Op-ed | Getting Serious About the Moon Village “A Moon Village,” said ESA director-general Johann-Dietrich Woerner, “shouldn’t just mean some houses, a church and a town hall.” It could be beacon of international and even commercial cooperation. Credit: ESA artist's concept of a lunar outpost http://spacenews.com/op-ed-getting-serious-about-the-moon-village/ This summary pretty much shows the intent for a lunar village is real, is being planned and will begin in the very near future. ----------------------------------------------------- Russia touts plan to land a man on the Moon by 2029 File image. http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Russia_touts_plan_to_land_a_man_on_the_Moon_by_2029_999.html ---------------------------------------------- Japan Plans Unmanned Moon Landing A partial lunar eclipse is seen behind cherry blossoms in Tochigi prefecture, eastern Japan, in April. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2015/11/12/japan-plans-unmanned-moon-landing-in-2019/ as well as this article... http://phys.org/news/2015-04-japan-moon-mission-space-agency.html ------------------------------------- China Wants To Build A Lunar Base On The Far Side Of The Moon photo credit: An illustration of the far side of the moon and Earth in the distance. NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio. China's Yutu rover, pictured, landed on the Moon on 14 December 2013. CNSA/CCTV. http://www.iflscience.com/china-wants-land-moons-far-side-first-time-and-build-lunar-base India has expressed an interest in landing a probe as well.........

Google adds .rsvp domains to Google Registry in time for the holiday season by Paul Hill Google has announced the availability of .rsvp domain names through Google Registry. The company pitched the new secure top-level domains as being ideal for the holiday season, when people and organizations might want to host events where the guests need to confirm their attendance. The search giant has made a new webpage called get.rsvp where you can check to see if your ideal domain name is available. Right now, you must be part of an Early Access Program to get the domain name of your choice, and it comes with an addition fee. As we approach November 15, the fee will decrease and on this date, .rsvp domains will be purchasable by the public through various registrars. Apart from distinguishing to visitors that your website is something to do with events, Google says these domains are secure thanks to HSTS, and memorable due to their descriptive .rsvp domain. On the security-front, as .rsvp is included on the HSTS preload list, all connections to the domain will be forced to use HTTPS without any HSTS registration or configuration required. If you're interested in picking up one of these domains, just tap in the one you’d like on the get.rsvp website, and you’ll be presented with an array of providers that are selling the domain you chose.

Hello java developers, I am primarily a java developer but I've recently done some C# work and one thing that i really liked was how C# makes event driven programming so easy. So, when I came back to Java, it was a feature that i really missed. Of course, event driven programming is not impossible to do in Java, but it requires you to write addListener, removeListener, keep a list of observers etc in each class. You an also make your of Observable interface but it just does not offers the same flexibility as C# events. I've searched for good libraries that offers similar functionality, but most of then were mainly annotation driven or hard to use or too complicated. So decided to write a framework myself. After spending some considerable amount of time researching and trying out different methods, I've finished a java library that tries to mimic C# events while keeping the code very minimal. And I though I might make the library available to anyone interested in this small project or those who have been looking for a good event driven framework. The project is called "JEvents" (yeah,i know, a lame name) and is available here -> http://chanthus.github.io/JEvents/ Hope you find it useful. Feel free to point out any mistakes or give any suggestions.

I'm really annoyed right now. I'm trying for days to figure this out and I've got to the conclusion that I definitely need to post a question or two here. So, I'm trying to make an application in C++ with the win32 api that has just one tray icon and no window, but I still want the message pump working in the background because I want to handle events from my synaptics touchpad. I think I figured out how the synaptics SDK works, but I'm still struggling with this win32. What may the neowin community suggest?