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  1. Heathkit on Best Electronics Kits For Adults? · · Score: 0

    I learned electronics as an adult. Beginning electronics books found in the library is an excellent place to start. Check many library branches and suburban nearby districts. Often you can get a library card for the suburban district libraries with a central city card at no charge. Some other suggestions: >Get a cheap digital voltmeter for about $20. Invaluable. >Download several of the sound-card oscilloscope programs floating around on the web. Many of them have poor q

  2. Re: on Electronic Transaction Reporting Slipped Into Senate Bill · · Score: 0

    That Obama is the anti-christ, so I'm sure there are a few books out there.
  3. ??? WTF? on Electronic Transaction Reporting Slipped Into Senate Bill · · Score: 0

    The key is to buy books with titles like "Mashed Potatoes: The true story of how Obama/McCain/Lincoln/whoever is destroying America." That way the receipt shows "Mashed Potatoes" but you can still buy what you want. In fact, if this bill passes, I move that all books be renamed to "Mashed Potatoes" and given subtitles.
  4. One word: on Staying Current In a Small Office Environment? · · Score: 0

    I'm suddenly very sad that I didn't start reading slashdot until 2005...
  5. Re: on UK Games Industry Over the Hill? · · Score: 0

    It's been true for a *long* time and it's not just gaming it's across the industry.Basically employers only want the perfect employee - someone who knows their systems intimately has decades of experience.. and will work for about £15k.Years ago the IT press were bleating on about their 'skills shortage'. At the time I was looking for work myself and knew over a dozen skilled programmers in the same boat. It wasn't that we didn't have skills - it was that we didn't have the *exact* skills that the employers wanted (even down to exact compiler versions and wanting insane number of years of experience of new applications.. I'm sure there's a job out there now that insists on '10 years JDK 2.1.1a' and the manager is *****ing about how there's this skills shortage as nobody qualifies...).
  6. Re:The real question is... on Probable Water Ice Sighted On Mars · · Score: 0, Redundant

    SailorsFighting in the dance hall.Oh man!Look at those cavemen go.It's the freakiest show.Take a look at the lawmanBeating up the wrong guy.Oh man!Wonder if he'll ever knowHe's in the best selling show.Is there ice on Mars?
  7. Re: on Studio Head Answers Your Questions About the Movie Business · · Score: 0

    At least five of the pitches will feature the phrase "Think Star Trek meets Lord of the Rings with a Monty Python twist!"

  8. Re: on IcedTea's OpenJDK Passes Java Test Compatibility Kit · · Score: 0

    But this itch obviously is not powerful enough to cause the community to scratch. So is it really a matter of immaturity or wrongness? Or is someone going to claim that the issue is that Java just isn't in use enough?

  9. Re: on Register, Others Call Plagiarism in "Limbo of the Lost" Game · · Score: 0

    I'm incorporated myself, but that doesn't mean I'm pro-corporation. It does make me a bit of a hypocrite, but when in Rome you really do have to do as the Romans. That doesn't mean I can't lobby against the idea. Anyhow, it seems to me that a corporation on

  10. Re:Not Firefox? on The Tiger Effect and Internet DDoS · · Score: 0

    Haven't most users updated to Leopard by now?

  11. Re: on How To Clean Up Incorrect Geolocation Information? · · Score: 0

    There are two widely used geolocation services which should be your starting point:MaxMinds and IP2Location .I would contact them and get them to update their records, especially MaxMind, as they are probably the most widely used geolocation service on the Internet.
  12. Re: on Studio Head Answers Your Questions About the Movie Business · · Score: 0

    He's going to get about a million pitches in the next 24 hrs., and 99.999% of them crappy space operas with one-dimensional stock characters, stories about IT managers who save the day and get the pretty girl, and a variety of Star Trek sequels. At least five of the pitches will feature the phrase "Think Star Trek meets Lord of the Rings with a Monty Python twist!"

  13. Re:Not a thief on Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief · · Score: 0

    Am I the only one that is completely confused?

  14. Re: on Digital TV Foreshadows Erosion of Net Rights · · Score: 0

    You could be entirely right, but the public will try to get what they want. They (the public) will find or develop protocols that will enable them to do what they feel is their due.(right or wrong according to current copyright laws) The average 'consumer'

  15. Re: on How To Clean Up Incorrect Geolocation Information? · · Score: 0

    Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll feed himself for years. Hackers follow this model when giving support. Even if the asker gave such details, we'd likely show them how to figure out the answer themselves.
  16. Re: on Computer Scientists Scour Your Holiday Photos · · Score: 0

    16% percent of the time it works every time.

  17. Re: on The Impact of Low Salaries At Apple · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Nah, they won't.I live in the area, and let me tell you, people would rather KNOW they are going to have a paycheck, at least in theory because of seniority if nothing else, than NOT because they jumped ship to get a 20K a year raise.Not when you paid nearly a million dollars for your 3 bedroom house.There ARE people within a few miles of my house paying 25 thousand dollars a month in RENT.... My neighborhood is in the 2 to 3K a month range, and if I KNEW I could pay my bills with the economy going to the toilet, there is NO good reason for me to jump ship for a raise.Three years ago, they ALL would have jumped ship. It's a different type of world now, since foreclosures, etc. are looming everywhere. Local trash mags have foreclosure sales listed, as do newspapers.Apple should pony up some of those profits, but a smart board and CFO would realize, they might need a bit of cheese to get them through the thin period we can all see coming.

  18. Doctor Hunter S. Thompson on PhD Research On Software Design Principles? · · Score: -1

    you can honestly gain about the same degree of skill as an average Ph. D. program will impart with about three months of research.

  19. Re: on Wiretapping Law Sparks Rage In Sweden · · Score: -1

    Plenty of Americans believe the government is full of BS. They just also believe that "somebody else" will take care of the issue for them.

  20. What people believe on Wiretapping Law Sparks Rage In Sweden · · Score: -1

    Thats why almost everyone railing against the government seems to come off as or is viewed by the public as a kook or some sort of nutbag.

  21. Re: on Are Academic Journals Obsolete? · · Score: -1

    I misunderstood your seconds/milliseconds thing, yes. But I also agree with your last statement: "What is this information you speak of that magically makes you understand complex issues? If journals did that, we'd all understand what they said, and they w
  22. Re: on IAU Classifies Pluto & Eris As "Plutoids" · · Score: -1

    Personally, I won't be happy with the classification until they make it a standard to refer to them as a binary. It can be "binary plutoids", or "a binary dwarf planet", or whatever exact terminology they want, but their barycenter lies between them, not inside one of them, and that should make them a binary.
  23. Re: on H.R. 4279 Would Establish Federal IP Cops · · Score: -1

    Ignoring your spelling, that has to be one of the stupidest comments I've ever read. Capitalism? That's your explanation of why our elected officials are so damned stupid?! Nothing to do with with a politician's greed, lust for power, or simple pandering to the people who pay the bills? No, no, of course not. It's a market philosophy of supply and demand with competition - yes, that very clearly explains why a law with draconian limits, pushed by representatives with pockets lined from Big Media, is going to be forced on our country. Yes, it's definitely our market system. How insightful! /sarcasm
  24. Re: on Ionospheric Interference With GPS Signals · · Score: -1

    The data encoded in the signal is digital, however, the location information is derived from the timing of the signal, something that changes depending on the medium (i.e. the distance within the atmosphere the signal has to travel and the precise compisition and electrical conditions therein). I thought that ionospheric corrections were something that was part of the WAAS standard, or at least something that tended to be corrected by using WAAS. The wikipedia article lists this as part of "slow" corrections.

  25. Re: on HoloVizio 3D, Holodeck 1.0 to Some, Makes Its Debut · · Score: -1

    Yeah, it looks like it's just head tracking. Johnny Chung Lee already did that with the Wii. (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/) Sure, I bet it looks pretty good compared to fixed-perspective displays, but there's no holo-anything involved at all