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  1. Re:Sometimes there are times... on Radiation Detection Wrist Watch · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The static electricity on your monitor can attract radon gas in the atmosphere. The radiation could come from radon, not your monitor, but its concentrates in front of your face. That means air ventilation is also a factor especially when the concrete of your building contains relatively large amount of radon.

  2. Re:Great... on Droning On · · Score: 1

    Sir, we are talking about unmanned air craft here. Now would you stop playing around and install a GPS guidance system on board and put the pizza back into the pizza box flyer together with two cans of beer. I'm in red house three blocks down the road.

  3. Re:Bravo!!!! on Scientific Research Encountering More Restrictions · · Score: 1

    Post graduate education is no fun at all to ordinary US citizens. There are countless of avenues to a more relax living than years of cold hard research on academic materials, which US citizen had chosen NOT to go through the ordeal.

  4. fast forward on Mood-Sensing Computer · · Score: 3, Funny

    The new generation VCD player should have a mood sensor connected to the fast-forward button.

  5. Re:Because its homemade on China Forges Ahead With 'Dragon' CPU · · Score: 1

    A photo of the chip could be found here: http://photo.sohu.com/12/89/Img17048912.jpg

  6. Re:Military Uses on China Forges Ahead With 'Dragon' CPU · · Score: 1

    Not long ago, Pentium III is considered as a military item. Now games manufacturer roll out machines that you can simulate a war scene. If you run out of CPU to control your DIY home-made missile, roll out your credit card, you'll have it delivered over-night.

  7. Re:Obligatory chinese food joke adaptation on China Forges Ahead With 'Dragon' CPU · · Score: 1
    you mean it got toasted in an hour so you have to order another, or
    Damn its one tenth the price of INTEL, I'm gonna be rich....

    But if it's toasted in an hour, you would not order for a second piece. I don't quite get your joke, sorry.

  8. Re:Does anyone know anything about this CPU on China Forges Ahead With 'Dragon' CPU · · Score: 1

    Chinese article on the Dragon chip could be found here: "http://it.sohu.com/83/39/article17053983.shtml".
    I tried the babel fish but it's ugly.
    In short:

    0.18micron CMOS, word size 32bits, floating point number 64bits

    'compatible' with MIPS R5000 SGI O2
    bus clock at 266mHz
    integer / floating pt arithmatics over 200,000,000 operations per second.
    Runs under 0.5W
    with hardware buffer overflow protection
    runs linux, VxWorks.

  9. Re:Feng Shui on China Forges Ahead With 'Dragon' CPU · · Score: 1

    It just happened that some Buddist monk is also interested in studying "Feng Shui", it has nothing to do with Buddhism.

  10. Re:Because its homemade on China Forges Ahead With 'Dragon' CPU · · Score: 1
    leov211 had posted in the /. for the last article on 'Dragon chip'. Quoted here: "According to this article: http://it.sohu.com/83/39/it_article17053983.shtml 266MHz FSB 1.17GHz clock speed 32bit integer 64bit floating point 200MIPS 0.5W power consumption Comparable to a MIPS 5000 based SGI O2. The most interesting feature is the hardware buffer overflow protection. IMHO, it feels like a supercharged StrongARM or MIPS type architecture. "

    The link in it.sohu.com is in chinese, though. The article mentioned that "Linux, VxWorks" were supported.

  11. Re:PDAs are pretty useless... on Do People Really Use Their PDAs? · · Score: 1

    People asked me if I use a PDA. I said I am using the one with color graphics and multi-language, the one which operates without battery.

  12. Re:Google Image Cache on Fanwing Planes? · · Score: 1

    A link to a photo of the fanwing:

    http://www.inter-ex.org/interex16/bild1601e.htm

  13. Re:Wonder if this was a gimmee on Laser Shoots Down Artillery Shell In Flight · · Score: 2, Funny

    You should be skepticle. If the laser weapon can blast off a flying object at a distance, it should burn a lot of energy making repeated firing difficult.

    In a real battle field, you cannot stop your enemy by saying "Wait guys, I am reloading ".

  14. Re:Does the EU have power? on EU Crosshair Still Points at Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Next year they'll raise the price by 10%. A market without competitor means, you have to pay whatever MS is setting.

  15. Re:Muhaha! on EU Crosshair Still Points at Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Those who were crushed to oblivion(...) and those lined up to face the firing squad should learn that "the bigger they are, the stronger their enemy is". Their life is doomed, days numbered. And they themselves are ones to be blamed. What a stupid corporate decision to make by supporting a MS only platform. Did any one of the mentioned company shell out a budget to support an alternate OS such as LINUX, BSD, BeOS or even MAC. When these company demonstrated a successful business model, the devil comes in to "embrace and extend". There is no way that any of these companies could survive, the reason is simple, they themselves were feeding their own enemy.

  16. Re:Uh oh on Are Internet News Sites Ready for Major World News? · · Score: 1

    Try this link next time: http://news.slashdot.org when MAJOR event happens.

  17. Re:Transmission of eye disease on Iris Scanners in Canadian Airports · · Score: 1

    I remember someone posted before, somewhere in the states a few policeman set up a cover-up pawn shop for thieves to cash in their stolen objects. A hidden camera is placed behind a nude picture. When those guys came in, they instinctively looked up and turned their head. Voila, a clear picture was taken at a nice angle.

  18. Re:Okay, I'll bite. on Iris Scanners in Canadian Airports · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Glass with sharp edges can cut throat, but we still use X-ray. Well everyone understands this gadget does not hold water. It could only give those who are boarding the plane a fake sense of security. And so everyone is happy.
    If there is an high-tech invention to due with the 9/11 incident, I wish someone can invention a hate-meter to measure that amount of hatred those guy are bringing onboard.

  19. Transmission of eye disease on Iris Scanners in Canadian Airports · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My friend contracted an eye-disease when he used a telescope, one of those peek-a-minute-for-a-quarter machine. We suspected that his eye-lash came in contact with the bacteria left by the previous patient.

    His red-eye recovered in a week after medication.

  20. 360 on 37 Operating Systems, 1 PC · · Score: 1

    Say where can I put this deck of cards...umm...

    OOps

    IEFBR14

  21. Re:Look on Stopping Palladium? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    With good marketing these Palladium machines will run everywhere. Just think about why people port Linux to XBOX. Because it is subsidized. This will happen to the Palladiums. MS will make a lot of money selling Palladium-exclusive programs, song, video etc. So MS can afford subsidizing. The real pain in the ass is, when you want to buy a nice software for you task but found that program only on the Palladium platform and nowhereelse. By that time, do you think the open-source community will face another big new challenge ? I know of no song-writer, singer refusing the Palladium idea.

  22. Re:Prices on DRM: How To Boil A Frog · · Score: 4, Insightful

    An interesting side of this DRM technology is, the Artists could now sell their records in DRM format from their own servers. That means record companies may now retire. The end-user may now pay through credit-card / paypal, download the song and press the play button. No CDs to press, no record company is needed.

  23. Which Lily Pad should the Frog jump to ?? on Being Wireless: Viral Telecommunications · · Score: 0

    It sounds like an intriguing problem. If a frog is
    in the east side of the pond want to find another
    frog on the west side of the pond. Which lily pad
    should this frog jump to ? And the bigger questions is, how did the frog A know where frog B
    is in the first place ?

    These frogs are all mobile.

    Could someone give me an idea.

  24. Repair Kit on Recommendations for Computer Repair Kits? · · Score: 1

    I would include a DISC repair polish. Occasionally
    the installation CD that comes with the mother
    board was not kept in a health state, and it
    is a pain in the ass to find a replacement CD.

  25. Re:And if someone has two sets of 'special' glasse on Polarized Screens to Hide Sensitive Data · · Score: 1

    There are contact lenses made from polarized material. Special markings on poker could be seen with these contact lens.