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  1. Asynchronous Circuit Design on A Look at Photonic Clocking · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Few years ago, I read the book "Asynchronous Circuit Design" by Chris J. Myers, in which it is explained the basics for designing digital asych logic by using special techniques and gaining advantages in power consumption and systems speed and, to stay on topic, no clock to be propagated through the silicin at all.

    The real questions are:
    - why these tecniques never gained importance (the first studies are from S.Unger in 1969)?
    - what about the EDA industry?

  2. Re:well.. on What's On Your Tech Bench? · · Score: 1

    Believe me or not, moka is not an emulation of espresso caffè machine nor it was derived from the espresso machine (that came later than the moka coffee machines). It is only a different way of doing it, as it is using the "stovetop" called "caffettiera napoletana" from its town of origin Napoli (Naples).
    I also ask you to note also that the milling of coffee for the moka machines and for espresso machines is really different (the latter is more sharp).

    But this is only the opinion of an everyday consumer of both moka and espresso. ;-)

    Ciao.

    p.s. look at http://www.caffe.it/caffe.cfm?id=7 (in italian) to find two guides for making a good moka coffee and a good espresso.

  3. Re:well.. on What's On Your Tech Bench? · · Score: 1

    My 1 cent contribution:

    Espresso is both the italian for "very quickly" and the past participle of "to express" (but it also is a type of train and a special delivery letter).

    I prefer to attribute the origin of the name espresso to the "quick" way it is prepared in opposition to the usual italian way of preparing the coffee (at home) by using a special coffe maker tool called "moka" that produces coffe lighter than the espresso.

  4. Re:Science on RNA May 'Run' Genetic Coding · · Score: 1

    Indeed this is how science works: through incremental and (sometimes) casual findings.

    I hope this new capability of comprehension of how living matter works, could open the path to further discoveries with big impacts on the treatment of genetic diseases.

  5. Re:Er. on House-Sitting Robot Hits Store Shelves in Japan · · Score: 1
    Most alarm companies have stopped pushing things like motion detectors that had a high false positive occurance.
    I had installed dual mode infrared/doppler detectors that signals an intrusion only when both the detectors give a positive.
  6. Re:Who started the cookies bad usage? on Death of Cookies, Spyware Greatly Exaggerated? · · Score: 1

    Never heard of tracking cookies?

  7. Re:Who started the cookies bad usage? on Death of Cookies, Spyware Greatly Exaggerated? · · Score: 1
    Please explain to me how a cookie can be abused.

    Their usage can.
  8. A New Look at Linux vs. Windows TCO on A New Look at Linux vs. Windows TCO · · Score: 1

    TCO is useless: too many factor influence the costs of using one or another solution/implementation.

    This article seems not so interesting and somehow trolling...

  9. Who started the cookies bad usage? on Death of Cookies, Spyware Greatly Exaggerated? · · Score: 1

    There was a time I deleted every few days all the cookies on my system.
    Now firefox does a nice job.

    And anyway, who complains on the "cookies deleting users", should at first complain with the people who abused of them.