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  1. Link to Intel's brochure about CMOS radio on Analog & Digital Chips On The Same Silicon · · Score: 1

    ftp://download.intel.com/labs/eml/download/EML_rad io.pdf

  2. P4 Quad Data Rate doesn't mean 4 transfers/clock on AMD Delays Hammer · · Score: 1

    It uses separate write and read paths, each of them being DDR. This can improve performance, if the CPU can schedule write and read transactions at the same time. I would expect that there is no 2x difference between QDR and DDR busses.

  3. How to find out whether it was captured on Is This Moon Three? · · Score: 1

    After the parameters of its orbit are known with good precision, one can calculate the object's position in any time in the past and see if it "goes away" at some time in the past.

    Of course, capture is only possible in 3-body system (or more). Eart alone can only "capture" an object by its surface or the atmosphere. Assistance of Moon, Sun or other planets is required, so they must be included in calculations.

  4. Low-cost alternatives on Serious Home Observatories · · Score: 2, Informative

    You don't need $150,000 investment to enjoy the night skies. Begin with naked-eye or binoculars (10x50 allow seeing many deep-sky objects). Next step is a simple telescope - 8" Dobsonian reflector costs under $400. Even computerized "go-to" telescopes are mostly under $2000, except high-end models.

    Light pollution is a big problem in cities. You may have to drive quite a bit to see the Milky Way.
    Join your local amateur astronomy group (even if you don't have an instrument), these guys are generally very helpful and usually have access to some dark and safe observing sites.

    A topic that many /.ers like - hacking cheap CCD webcams to get long exposure times. This allows to take really great astro pictures even within light-polluted cities. Good place to start is QCUIAG Yahoo group.

  5. Nice way to avoid taxes! on Microsoft in Peru, Living Room · · Score: 1

    I sell software product Foo for $100 per license. Maybe 1,000 licenses per year. Then I say: " I grant 10,000 licenses to charity" and give the charity organization 1 physical CD and an agreement to sign. Suddenly, I have donated $1,000,000 to charity, way more than my revenue for the whole year. Eat this, IRS!!! (DOJ, in M$ case)

  6. There WAS a "Matrix" movie shot in Sidney! on Matrix Reloaded Filming Wants to Shut Sydney Down · · Score: 1

    Computer Boy:
    http://www.ifilm.com/ifilm/product/film_info /0,369 9,115368,00.html

  7. A/D converters can be built from simple parts on MPAA to Senate: Plug the Analog Hole! · · Score: 1

    I did this for living some time ago, when nice integrated ADC chips were not available. This is really not that hard.
    So, what's next? Plug the "comparator and counter hole"? Declare op-amps "circumvention devices"? Outlaw electronics coursebooks? Regulate EEs the same way as pharmacists?
    This is really a slippery slope, and they are already going down fast.

  8. Re:Easter Europe on Linux "is not piracy" Says Microsoft Lawyer · · Score: 1

    There was no IP in Soviet Uion. All fruits of any albor became property of the state. For example, an inventor received a fixed sum of money when he filed a patent, and gave up all his rights. Then everyone could use the invention immediately.
    I hope this helps to explain (not justify) the widespread illegal copying. And low salaries, of course.
    Ironically, many Soviet inventions were used by Western companies without any compensation (i.e. pirated), because there was very little IP rights enforcement attempted by the Soviet state abroad.

  9. /. effect on SETI@HOME will move this closer on SETI@Home Close to Half-Billionth Result · · Score: 1

    This article made me to install the client at last. I am sure there are many people like me who were just lazy to do this earlier.
    For once, a positive /. effect.

  10. Re:Honda Civic Hybrid on Hybrid Powertrains and Hydrogen Fuel Cells · · Score: 1

    In Ontario, Canada, there will be a provintial tax refund of 1000 dollars (Canadian) on the Hybrid Civic. At least, this is what they say in the advertisement.

  11. Re:Do they really need to be that fast? on Establishing the Maximum Speed of a CD-ROM Drive · · Score: 1

    It is indeed wasteful, noisy and otherwise stupid to rotate the CD at 52x when listening to MP3's, which requires 0.1x speed.

    The Windows utility that can control the speed of most (but not all) CD drives is called DriveSpeed. It is now a part of the Nero toolkit.

    On Linux, I use a small program called cdspeed (search for it on Freshmeat).

  12. To continue girl theme: on Unix Isn't Dead · · Score: 1

    Some of the girls you mentioned are yours for money.
    Some agree to sleep with you for free.

  13. Modulation types are also restricted on Amateur Radio Packet Over 802.11 Cards · · Score: 2, Informative

    FCC and authorities in other countries are also very restrictive about the types of modulation that can be used by amateurs.
    For example, see this link

    http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/get-cfr. cg i?TITLE=47&PART=97&SECTION=309&TYPE=TEXT

    They seem to prohibit any encryption as well.

  14. Blacklist of blacklist sites? on Are SPAM Blacklists Unreasonable? · · Score: 1

    >Seriously - letting people know about this is the best way to get what you want. If your site is not a relay, any blacklist maintainer is doing their users a disservice by listing you.

    >As a mail admin, I'd want to know.

    Let's create a blacklist of blacklist sites and not allow blacklists from the blacklisted blacklist sites!

  15. What about PDA/cell phone clients? on Borking Outlook Express · · Score: 1

    Can they understand HTML?
    These people pay outrageous prices for the service, only to get spammed and to receive messages that their phone can not display.

  16. Offtopic, but I must correct you on Intel's Answer to AMD's Hammer - Yamhill · · Score: 2

    >there's the Willamette (a major river, incidentally one of only a handful in the world that run south to north)

    Literally thousands of rivers, big and small, run south to north in Siberia. In Arctic Canada, probably, too.

    Loks like your definition of the world is USA.

  17. An idea for HDD MP3 players - patented already? on iPod Dissection and Review · · Score: 1

    Instead of a large RAM buffer, they could've used a special HDD. The drive should have 2 modes: regular high-speed access and low-power slow mode for MP3 playback. The slow mode can be 1/100 of the normal speed (20kbytes/s instead of 2Mbytes/s).
    I understand that the head can not float above the disc surface at 54 RPM, so this must be a special design, something like ZIP drive.

  18. If not the @Home collapse, I'd be working today on Who Works During the Holidays? · · Score: 1

    Close to the product tapeout, ASIC designers work basically around the clock, with some irregular breaks for sleep. During non-business hours I usually do this from home, VPNing using my @Home connection. However, after my cable provider have moved to their own network recently, the connection became unusably unstable. So this year I have an excuse to relax a little bit and spend more time with the family.

    Our schedule, however, takes Chinese New Year into account, because all the Far Eastern fabs shut down for 2 weeks for it.

  19. Cultural-Centric SF? SF-Centric Culture! on Exploring The World Of Russian Science Fiction Online · · Score: 1

    SF is a very important part of both US and Russian culture.

    I moved from Russia to Canada two years ago. Reading books and watching TV helped me a lot to understand the culture, and the most important things were Douglas Adams, JRRT, Star Trek etc.
    But especially, The Simpsons! Kinda SF, too...

  20. Ivan Yefremov is the worst SF author I ever read on Exploring The World Of Russian Science Fiction Online · · Score: 1

    He was actually writing the same communist propaganda stuff as many other "officially approved" writers, just disguised as SF.
    One example is The Hour of The Bull, about perfect beautiful people from the 30th century Earth (where communism flourishes) going to a planet populated by ugly capitalism-worshipping people who left the Earth in 22th century fleeing from the World War IV. Since the book was written in late 60-s when Soviet-Chinese relationships were sour, he made those villians to be of Chinese descent. Of course, there were suffering working masses, President's daughter falling in love with the Captain, revolution, etc. Pretty crappy stuff.

  21. A joke about which language to learn on Exploring The World Of Russian Science Fiction Online · · Score: 1

    Translated from Russian:
    An optimist studies English
    A pessimist studies Chinese
    A realist studies Kalashnikov gun

  22. Rogers in Ottawa, ON on AT&T Caps Bandwidth On Former @Home Users · · Score: 1

    Used to be up to 3mbit/s down, always 400kbit/s up, fairly steady connection. Last few days, after they switched something in the network, it rarely reaches 1.5Mbit/s down (upload is still ok, though). Worst of all, I see a lot of packets dropped now. I am using both SSH and IPSEC to connect to my office, and both became terrible.

    Traceroute shows that they have switched some parts of the network to 66.xxx.xxx.xxx IP addresses, but some hops are still going through 24.xxx.xxx.xxx.

  23. Medvedka is also a river, tributary of Moskva on Russia Declassifies "Stealth" Warship · · Score: 1

    Many Russian missile systems are called after rivers. For example, S-125 (SA-3) anti-aircraft missile was also known as Neva. Others used names like Tunguska, Dvina, Desna, etc.

  24. But not Microsoft-less on Constructing a Windows-Less Office · · Score: 1

    The Office is still there in your office.

  25. It's a spec game on Shhh! Constructing A Truly Quiet Gaming PC · · Score: 1

    Max operating frequency is directly linked to the max temperature. If you specify die temperature at 70C instead of 125C(pretty much standard value), suddenly your chip can run 10-15% faster!

    I can't imagine marketing guys missing such opportunity. In my company designers are still holding out, but we are small. For Intel/AMD the differerence in revenue because of the 10% speed difference is billions.