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  1. Re:Thought this was already possible? on You Can Now Run Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 3 (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    It's been supported by Win10 IoT for a while. The article is not specific on what is different in this release.

    -R C

  2. Re:Already out of date.. on The First Detailed Look at How Elon Musk's Space Internet Could Work (newscientist.com) · · Score: 2
    Why do you assume 15ms is a single hop? One way speed of light delay to 550 kilometers is ~2 ms. Satellite will likely not be directly overhead which will add to that, but a 15 ms single-bounce latency seems possible.

    SpaceX has actual data, as the two test satellites have been in roughly that orbit. Worst-case latency will be higher.

    For reference, one way speed of light delay to geostationary is at least 120 ms.

  3. Already out of date.. on The First Detailed Look at How Elon Musk's Space Internet Could Work (newscientist.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    SpaceX's revised FCC filing calls for about 1.6k of the initial 4.4k constellation to be at 550km orbit. Brings the minimum latency down to 15ms, instead of 25-35ms.
    https://www.theverge.com/2018/...
    https://forum.nasaspaceflight....

  4. In addition to a fee per ride.

  5. Re:Should be expired on CBS Sues Man For Copyright Over Screenshots of 59-year-old TV Show (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If the book is good, why would they wait 20 years to publish it, and forego profits from the next 20 books? It takes time and money to generate interest in an author; one hit wonders are fairly rare.

    -R C

  6. Re:I wonder in their research. on Cats and Dogs Contribute Significantly To Climate Change, Says UCLA Study (patch.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen a horse eat an entire McDonald's combo meal. She did had trouble with the soda and spilled most of it.

    (She was also the one who loved twislers, and if she found them would eat them wrapper and all.)

    -Bob

  7. Only works once: There's a 12 month donation deferral after receiving a blood donation, to limit risk of disease transmission.

    -Bob

  8. Re:Wasn't the "new information" the Trump/Russian. on US and EU Reject Expanding Laptop Ban To Flights From Europe (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

  9. Re:Am I lost??? on China Is Now the World's Largest Solar Power Producer (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    So is nuclear fission... just on vastly different time scales.

    -Bob

  10. Re:So, if you turn the phone off, on Samsung May Permanently Disable Galaxy Note 7 Phones In The US As Soon As Next Week (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Do not try to charge a lipo above *4.2* volts.

  11. Re:How can this be competitive? on SpaceX Files FCC Application For Internet Access Network With 4,425 Satellites (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    They haven't launched or attempted to launch ANY recovered boosters yet. The CRS-7 and Amos-6 boosters were new built.

    There have been full length static fires of the recovered cores, however.

    -R C

  12. Re:TMobile.... on Verizon To Hike Prices On Plans But Offer More Data (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been eyeing the LG V10... open removable back, so I can get an extended battery, SD card. The T-Mobile version has a Cyanogenmod port, but I don't see one for Verizon. Some of the other LGs have slide out batteries; removable so you can have multiple, but limited volume so you can't upgrade the capacity much.

    -R C

  13. Dr Who moved to Amazon for now, in the US at least. 1-8 are included with Prime, season 9 costs more money.

    -R C

  14. Odd choice of name... on Two Radically Different Approaches to Private Access to Space (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to be confused with the state of the art WorldView series of commercial imagery satellites...

  15. Re:Dava Sobel on John Harrison: Inventor and Longitude Hero · · Score: 1

    Previous post was right. It was an A&E and Granada production. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01...

    -R C

  16. Re:'Skilled gadget owners' on WSJ: We Need the Right To Repair Our Gadgets · · Score: 1

    It's called Chip On Board and it is slightly cheaper and better performing than using a packaged IC.

    https://learn.sparkfun.com/tut...

    Sometimes you can replace them with packaged equivalents during repair.

    -R C

  17. Re:Once Again, We're Beta Testing for MS on Windows 10 Start Menu Wins IDSA Design Award · · Score: 1

    It's probably to do with smaller notebooks and their lack of a numpad... I had one user that failed to log in a number of times and it turned out that they had last changed their password on a notebook where numlock was turned on at login and some of the alpha keys got remapped.

    -R C

  18. Re:Surrender to SpaceX, France on Airbus Attacked By French Lawmaker For Talking To SpaceX · · Score: 2

    There's always the War of 1812 and the Burning of Washington..

    -R C

  19. Re:Well, to be fair... on "Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer" Pulled From Amazon · · Score: 1

    Cross between EE and CS. Someone who has been trained to understand both hardware and software. Fairly common in embedded design.

  20. Re:Burglary... on Nuclear Missile Command Drops Grades From Tests To Discourage Cheating · · Score: 1

    Some information on rebuilding a PWP. It's also the same the drive as used on the Famicon system in Japan.

    http://www.cromwell-intl.com/t...

    There's a more active Famicon hacking scene around... you might look into a famicon drive and fdsloader.

    http://www.tototek.com/phpBB2/...

    -R C

  21. Wouldn't use a soundblaster... on Ode To Sound Blaster: Are Discrete Audio Cards Still Worth the Investment? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...but discrete soundcards, especially external ones, are still alive and well if you record. The noise floor of internal sound cards hasn't gotten that much better (a PC is very noisy RF environment), and if you need mic preamps, quarter inch jacks, optical in, etc, they generally don't fit on a PCI card or laptop.

    But for general gaming or home theater use? Nope. Send the audio out over the HDMI out, or SPDIF for DVI/VGA rigs, and let the amp sort it out.

    -R C

  22. Re:Why can't you plug into you TV anymore. on Cable Boxes Are the 2nd Biggest Energy Users In Many Homes · · Score: 1

    At least two more

    Hauppauge WinTV DCR-2650
    Infinitv line (I own one of the PCIe quad tuners; works well in my Mythtv box, but depends on the CCI bits set by your cable company.)

    -R C

  23. Some further info... on Cold War Spoils: Amateur Builds Telescope With 70-Inch Lens · · Score: 4, Informative

    Cloudy nights thread and a another news article.

    It was silvered with a spray-on solution using a weed sprayer; much too large for the regular vacuum deposition chambers.

    -R C

  24. Re:PVR on XBMC 12.0 'Frodo' Released: PVR-Support, HD Audio and More · · Score: 1

    It's a crapshoot depending on the CCI settings of your cable provider, but yes, they do. I have the quad tuner from Ceton, and from Verizon FIOS I get locals, expanded basic, and some of the premium channels with my mythtv backend. I recently rebuilt the box; it's currently running on Ubuntu raring, with an AMD A10 and 5x3TB in a ZFS array.

    There's a small database that might be helpful:
    http://www.ronfrazier.net/mythtv/cci/index.php
    http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/CableCARD

    You'll also need a listings provider; I use Schedules Direct, which just works but does charge.

    -R C
    (Under linux, you'll only receive channels with no flags or the Copy Freely flag. In the absence of CCI flags, the Ceton tuner will also respect the old school analog (macrovision?) flags that are ignored by clear qam tuners.)

  25. Re:Who judges the judges? on Can a Court Order You To Delete a Facebook Account? · · Score: 1

    obquote: "I *AM* the law!"