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  1. Re:From Wikipedia... on "Wi-Fi Refugees" Shelter in West Virginia Mountains · · Score: 1

    Tinnitus from CRTs? Couldn't that have been caused by the high frequency (15.625/15.734kHz) whine produced by many CRT TVs? In fact, that CRT whine does sound a lot like tinnitus by itself...

  2. Re:TFA says "18 microseconds", not "18 seconds" on Rydberg Molecule Created For the First Time · · Score: 1

    Sigh. Strange that a million of something is e7, but a millionth of something is e-8. European number system fail.

    You were off by one the other way, one microsecond is e-6. And a million of something is e6, not e7, just as a millionth of something is e-6.

  3. Re:Language barriers on Weak US Dollar Means Nintendo Favors Europe For Now · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is a HUGE difference between "somehow able to communiate in English" and "being able to enjoying an english piece of media" Yeah, but probably not the way you think... It's much easier to learn enough to understand a language, than it is to communicate in it.
  4. Re:Easy question on Are Academic Journals Obsolete? · · Score: 4, Informative

    They are done online. At least the example a friend of mine showed me of a poor paper (It had references to obscure papers that did not in fact contain what the paper claimed) he had reviewed was.

  5. Re:Do many people *really* care about HDTV on 50% of HDTV Owners Don't Use HD · · Score: 1

    Yes, and? I'm not entirely sure how you get from grandparents post to yours... Anyway, the problem is not the TV sets (almost all European TV sets supports component, even the crappiest ones, through scart. Unless you meant some specific weird colorspace that might not be supported, but then you would probably have mentioned it, right :)

    The problem is that the European Xbox/European Xbox games/whatever does not support HDTV. The only console I know of that supports HDTV in Europe is the PS2 (but only with a single game that I know of)

  6. Re:Darwin on Creator of Sasser Worm Goes on Trial · · Score: 1

    What? Unfortunately, no one is immune to HIV.

    OK, maybe not immune (without a qualifier), but how about virtually immune?

    People with two copies of the CCR5 delta32 gene (inherited from both parents) are virtually immune to HIV infection. This occurs in about 1% of Caucasian people.

  7. Re:Signed or unsigned on Comair Done In by 16-Bit Counter · · Score: 1

    Signed. Had the developers used unsigned then it might never have overflowed at all (They were going to replace the system in a few months anyway.)

  8. Re:The main cpu is in the cartridge if I remember on Nintendo NES Overclocking Guide · · Score: 1

    The C64 did use a 6510, but it doesn't have any extra opcodes. What it does have over the 6502 is an 8 bit io port (but only 6 bits of it is availible from the outside, they ran out of pins on the 40 pin chip package). This io port is mapped to memory adress $0000 and $0001.

  9. Re:Not plugging in CPU fan on Abused, But Working Hardware Stories? · · Score: 1

    No, I've done the same thing. Forgot to connect the cpu fan on my parents new Athlon XP 2400+, a few minutes later I realised what I had done, but by then the temperature had only risen to 54C. No damage done. Not all MBs has a 'beep on no cpu-fan' feature, and for those that do, it's not always on.

  10. Re:Simulation vs. Real Quantum Computer on Web Quantum Computer Simulator · · Score: 1

    No, a normal computer can do anything that a quantum computer can do. The whole point of quantum computers is that they can solve some problems much faster. So there might be some tasks where a normal computer will have an exponential increase in computing time as the problem size increases, while a quantum computer might do the same in linear time.

  11. A savings of 0.7" is actually quite a bit more... on 1.8" USB Portable Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    ...significant that it sounds on paper

    2.5" drives are actually 2.75" wide, while this drive realy is 1.8" wide. So the difference is 0.95", not 0.7" as claimed in the article. Also, the dimensions they give in mm on page 2 does not mach the size they give in inches.

  12. Re:1.70 Mhz?? on 1.70 Mhz 8-Bit Ataris Get 10 Mbit Ethernet · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, it was clocked at 1.79Mhz (half the NTSC color carrier frequency). The the 6510 in the C64 was clocked at 1Mhz.

  13. Re:Jerk on Armadillo Aero One Step Closer To Space · · Score: 1

    Yeah, he already said that. But he was talking about meter per second cubed. g=m/s^2 jerk=m/s^3 ...according to him, I wouldn't know...

  14. Re:Hammer! on Mandrake 9.0 for AMD 64-bit Technology · · Score: 1

    Informative? What your link is saying is that AMD helped MS making the hammer version of Windows. In your earlier post you claimed that MS helped AMD making the Hammer CPU! Not the same thing at all...

  15. Re:You might have gotten hoaxed. on Program Hides Secret Messages in Executables · · Score: 1

    This is absolutely not impossible. The i86 instruction set has some redundancy (Different opcodes that end up doing the exact same thing.) So you can encode bits by toggling between two different opcodes whenever they're encountered. A86 (http://eji.com/a86/) already uses this technique, and has done so for a long time, to 'sign' the executables, so that it can be determined whether some codes has been compiled with the A86 compiler or not.

  16. Re: Aspect ratio? on HDTV via GNU Radio · · Score: 1

    Overscaning on the Amiga wasn't actually overscanning anything, rather, it was the normal Amiga resolutions that were underscanned.

  17. Re:Size... on Retro-Computing with FPGAs · · Score: 1

    Who are 'They'? The C-ONE was made by a single woman as a hobby project.

  18. Re:More ATI marketing FUD-HYPE Extra Supra EX2+Xtr on The Fastest Video Card You Can Buy · · Score: 1

    This card was not named by ATI. The name was made up by OCSystems. It's still just a overclocked Radeon 9700pro

  19. Re:Intel comes on TOP on 65 CPUs From 100 MHz to 3066 MHz · · Score: 1

    In every benchmark, except Unreal Tournament 2003, you mean?

  20. Unicode bull on The Reality of Online Reputation · · Score: 1

    Argh! Why does Slashdot keep on linking to that bullshit Unicode article? The Unicode charset has over 1 million characters, and has room for more. It doesn't matter if you use 8 or 16 bit Unicode, it still has over one million chars. Lots of other slasdoters have posted this fact, but the Slashdot crew seems to be unable to pick up on this fact!

  21. Water? on Water Computing · · Score: 1

    They should have used ants...

  22. Re:cheapest domain name? on See Ya .su · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Actually, .tk domain names are not free. I registered a .tk domain name some time ago, that pointed to my (never visited by anyone except myself) homepage. The name I selected was totally nonsense, yet a month or two later I received a latter stating that my domain name had been requested by lots of people and I would have to pay too keep the domain name.

    Bait and switch.

  23. Re:DVD / WMA article on Athlon MP Reviewed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Here is the url to the missing newspost:

    http://slashdot.org/articles/01/12/12/1357232.sh tm l

    If you want anybody to see this, please mod it up...