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  1. Augmentation on Light Emitting Silicon Steps It Up · · Score: 2, Informative

    On the receiving end, GaAs is sensitive (A/W) to a much wider range of wavelengths than Si. Silicon is sensitive perhaps up to 1100nm whereas GaAs is sensitive in the 1500nm range. The fiber optic media exhibit minimal loss in the 1500nm range, so GaAs is the appropriate choice for receiving signals.
    I'm working on a GaAs project now, if you want to keep me company -- WRITE!

  2. The contract issue on What Software Do Cable Installers Place on Your PC? · · Score: 0

    The first thing the courts look at is the existence of a contract. There likely was one, if you signed anything. Read what you sign. If the software procedure was not in the contract, the cable company is in trouble.
    What probably happened is you missed the clause that said: "I authorize the installer to fiddle around on my computer for customary technical and/or market monopoly-building purposes."
    Read what you sign.
    Then sue like hell.

  3. THE DANGER OF THIS PLAN on The Free State Project · · Score: 0

    Everything will be fine, but ONLY if they get their own NFL team.

  4. Coach Taco on Slashdot Turns 5 · · Score: 0

    In the /. Bowl, we're all wide receivers.

  5. STEP ONE on Resume Tips For Jobs · · Score: 0

    Interview tips:
    1) Have at least 2 summers internship experience at this company.

    2) Own products made by this company, and bring them to work at your internship.

    3) Use the word "absolutely" with reckless abandon.

    4) Go Platinum, seven times.

  6. even electrical on Lego Addictions · · Score: 0

    Long childhood hours on the carpet with my Legos taught me that Mech. Engineering could be satisfying in models, but probably too frustrating in real life.
    Technic sets, on the other hand, helped me acknowledge that electric power is where it's at, and highly frustrating at all levels.
    Irony: I'm now 3 months from my electrical engineering degree. I love agony that is this glamorous. Praise for the toy that both artist and budding scientist could enjoy in tandem.

  7. Are you serious? on How Would You Start a Radio Station? · · Score: 0

    If it were at all easy, my friend, don't you think it would have been done a lot more by now? If a chum and his Mandrake box could satisfy a small burg's classic rockers, how and why would huge corporate stations remain in any kind of business, anywhere?
    "I, the listener, prefer to be bombarded by harrassing commercial bantor." Um, not.
    I'm not saying I know the facts, but if you assess this philosophically, you already know the answer: no, you can't do it.
    Read the back of a CD, where it says: public broadcast prohibited and such and such.

    Ronald McDonald is evil.

  8. Re:self cleaning...Solar cells! on Self-Cleaning Glass · · Score: 0

    You would have to make sure this new dielectric of altered electrical permitivity wouldn't degrade the radio transmissions from earth. In the GHz range, even 40nm (or whatever it was) thickness will attenuate signals to a weaker power level.
    Of course, nobody shoots radio waves at solar panels, but if the antenna were enclosed in this self-cleaning glass, one would need to make sure signals could pass through. They have no major problem with glass alone.

  9. Re:GM Seeks 24 Patents for AUTOnomy Concept Vehicl on More on GM's New Fuel Cell Cars · · Score: 1, Funny

    And here are those patents, in order of significance:

    1) electrons
    2) clueless executives
    3) the wheel
    4) Egypt
    5) your mom
    6) 9 horsepower
    7) refuel WHERE?
    8) cheese in sandwich
    9) did you see how little those tires were?
    10) CowboyNeal
    11-24) give me a hybrid-electric Ford!

  10. Re:I've got a plan! on Yale Students Capture Asteroid On Film · · Score: 0

    I've got a better idea: please post more often funny man. Thinking of orbits colliding makes my brain twist. Kind of like imaginary power components in electromagnetics. What is really going to matter is whether or not we could survive 10-20 years of bad weather after it hits. Like stone-trolls we would become, with eyes that bulge and skin like pearly flourescent bulb. We would name all our children Gollum. I recommend overdosing on Tavist.

  11. Re:Even Video Games on Will Wright on Game Design · · Score: 0

    yeah it would be nice if I could play the game like real life. You know, like depositing feces in the mailbox, putting your laundry in the fridge, and eating a bicycle.

  12. BIG MOD POINTS on Ask Alton Brown How Food+Heat=Cooking · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey there.
    how do you make Tubby-Custard and Tubby-Toast?

  13. GOOD OLD SNES on Making Strategy Games with...Strategy? · · Score: 1

    For years Koei has been a leader in deep and involved strategy, with lackluster graphics, which turns off most idiot gamers.
    Pacific Theatre of Operations (P.T.O.) is a wonderfully complex game. A campaign on one of the easier modes can take 3 months to finish, playing for hours every day. This is because the game covers 1938 to 1945 in 4-HOUR INCREMENTS! Battleships take years to build, months to repair -- and believe me you WAIT for them. Your budget is stiff, and troops must be fed, supplied and given shore leave. Morale is very important. And a voyage from Hawaii to the nearest island (Midway or Marshall islands) takes weeks in game-time. On any mode above the easiest, it is impossible to win swiftly. You are constantly faced with strategic choices that will make you pause the game and bite your nails for an hour before deciding. I am not exaggerating. All other games created suck.
    bye

  14. u r dum on Inflatable Loudspeakers · · Score: 1

    I worked in speaker design all summer. The boxes are heavy, but the immense weight of the permanent magnets required for driver operation will remain a problem. So as the music plays for a while, the air inside heats up, and your speakers float away like a balllooon? IEEEEEEEE I AM A DORG! RUFF! MEAOW! SQUAK!!