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  1. Re:Is it still a Gameboy? on Raspberry Pi Gameboy · · Score: 1

    Considering he had real Gameboy already and probably real cartridges, I refuse to believe that downloading ROM dumps digitally identical to the same cartridges are piracy - regardless of what Nintendo's lawyers believe.

  2. Re:I know this is /. but RTFA on Google Offers a Million Bucks For a Better Inverter · · Score: 1

    Yep - it's called spec work:
    http://www.nospec.com/

  3. Re:EDITOR: Read this on Google Offers a Million Bucks For a Better Inverter · · Score: 1

    Freudian slip as they were thinking about using these moored to their off-shore datacenter islands.

  4. Re:Why? on Google Offers a Million Bucks For a Better Inverter · · Score: 1

    They say the same thing about web servers, too. One big one is better than lots of cheaper, smaller ones. And yet that's not how Google runs its data centers...

  5. Re:I've heard this one... on Google Offers a Million Bucks For a Better Inverter · · Score: 1

    they have not limited what the inverter is contained in

    I think that would be included in the overall size.

  6. Re:I've heard this one... on Google Offers a Million Bucks For a Better Inverter · · Score: 1

    So why didn't they add a charging circuit for the battery, still meet the specs, and have it actually be useful? I have one on my computer.

  7. Re:If you are using paper anyway on Researchers Print Electronic Memory On Paper · · Score: 1

    If you're working with a printed circuit (think a computer on a magazine page or a greeting card), it's useful if the silver dots can be read by the printed circuit without an additional machine or any (relatively) large equipment at all.

  8. Re:Density on Researchers Print Electronic Memory On Paper · · Score: 1

    And if dpi directly translated to individual sprayed dots, that would be useful. Inkjet printers spray microdroplets that aren't strictly locked to the pixel grid. And CMYK are not all perfectly aligned with one another.

    Still, that inkjet printed page can't read itself. A circuit printed on the page could.

  9. Re:110 or 240v on Google Offers a Million Bucks For a Better Inverter · · Score: 1

    Those are distribution lines. And only the drop to the customer carries 240V. That's converted down from about 2-4KV at the pole transformer off the distribution line.

    Transmission lines are what connect distribution areas to generating plants and carry tens of thousands of volts.

  10. Re:110 or 240v on Google Offers a Million Bucks For a Better Inverter · · Score: 1

    I think their use of the term islanded may refer to more than just the technical specifications. I bet Google wants this tech for off-shore floating data centers.

  11. Re:Saturday Processing on Netflix Reduces Physical-Disc Processing, Keeps Prices the Same · · Score: 1

    And all this is happening while the USPS is still trying to end Saturday delivery. If that ever happened, Netflix wouldn't receive any more discs to process.

  12. Re:You're still getting what you were promised on Netflix Reduces Physical-Disc Processing, Keeps Prices the Same · · Score: 1

    Do you think that you are being throttled because of your usage or that your particular distribution center is overloaded? I know where I'm at, I mail it one day, they receive it the next, and the next movie goes out for the following day.

    It might actually be a problem on the mail delivery side, but it could be your particular distribution center. I just wanted to say it's not the universal experience. But I rarely go through more than 1 disc a week because of my viewing habits.

  13. Re:Oh noes, they yanked your chain on Netflix Reduces Physical-Disc Processing, Keeps Prices the Same · · Score: 1

    Most people no longer have a local video store. My alternative is buying every movie I want to watch once.

  14. Re: Time will tell on Netflix Reduces Physical-Disc Processing, Keeps Prices the Same · · Score: 1

    How about keeping it on the queue, but listed at the bottom under "Saved Titles" - just like the movies that haven't come out on DVD yet.

  15. Re:Solution! on Mt. Fuji Volcano In 'Critical State' After Quakes · · Score: 1

    It might last for a while, but conservation is still not sustainable.

    An oddly strict definition of conservation....not using it at all would fit under the definition of conservation. Or saving it all for a global emergency to survive a volcanic winter when solar and hydro give out. That's what I was getting at. There's no reason we shouldn't know where it is and be ready to mine it just in case.

    I said nothing against going to nuclear as a primary fuel source. It's perfectly feasible except for one small problem - no one will do it or approve it. With that standing as a major roadblock to this day, we still need to conserve what we're using.

  16. Re:ESPN on Comcast Customer Service Rep Just Won't Take No For an Answer · · Score: 1

    I think it's great as long as they can keep the SNR in-margin. The problem is that at certain times of the year, my cable service is just plain unreliable - especially for VoIP - even when uncongested.

    I don't subscribe to TV, because they really overcram. I wish they were just using better QAM, but they're also overcompressing the channels on top of that.

  17. Re: Um... on Mt. Fuji Volcano In 'Critical State' After Quakes · · Score: 1

    As long as you put a 6 on one of those four sides, I don't see a problem.

  18. Re:Solution! on Mt. Fuji Volcano In 'Critical State' After Quakes · · Score: 1

    While efficiency is a laudable goal (to which most engineers already aspire), eking by with extreme conservation is highly anti-productive

    No...this means we'll have enough coal leftover if and when Yellowstone finally blows.

    There's no doubt that nuclear fuel is useful, but that's completely off-topic to the point you started out making.

  19. Re:ESPN on Comcast Customer Service Rep Just Won't Take No For an Answer · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it will. Is QAM-256 in that wide of usage? That might explain why my cable Internet has been so flaky at times. There's a good bit of line noise where I'm at. I'll admit to not looking at my modem to see what modulation it's using.

  20. Re:Same business model, different business on Comcast Customer Service Rep Just Won't Take No For an Answer · · Score: 1

    Car dealers are the worst. I once left a message asking for a quote on a repair. They never called me back....until they tried to sell me a car 6 months later.

  21. Re:Same business model, different business on Comcast Customer Service Rep Just Won't Take No For an Answer · · Score: 1

    If they know the bounds of IPv6 addressing, they'll be somewhat likely to know that IPv5 used the same addressing as IPv4.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...

  22. Re:105 megabits per second on Comcast Customer Service Rep Just Won't Take No For an Answer · · Score: 1

    Yes - it wasn't that long ago that VHS-quality video streaming was an edge case.

  23. Re:ESPN on Comcast Customer Service Rep Just Won't Take No For an Answer · · Score: 1

    I think it's worth restating. You will never get a better picture from cable than OTA. Cable uses the existing broadcast stream that already has compression artifacts - the best it can do is preserve that as-is, but that's not realistic.

  24. Re:ESPN on Comcast Customer Service Rep Just Won't Take No For an Answer · · Score: 1

    Cable usually has a very good SNR, but VSB is not used by cable - at least not without a cable box. The link they posted clearly says everyone's using QAM. And QAM-64 is going to put them at around 26Mbps.

  25. Re:ESPN on Comcast Customer Service Rep Just Won't Take No For an Answer · · Score: 1

    When I moved into my current apartment, I discovered that Charter forgot to install a TV filter. I compared two TV's side by side - one OTA and one cable. And the difference was like VHS vs. DVD. Even from 10 feet away you could easily see blurry macroblocking on the cable source, and virtually no artifacts on OTA. On top of that, the contrast was missing, so the signal probably went through some analog equipment before being re-compressed.

    OTA is compressed too, but you typically get one "main" virtual channel per real channel. PBS is one exception to that, but with NBC I get probably 15Mbps of picture quality on the main channel, and 1Mbps on the weather subchannel.