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  1. Re:TAX / VISA / Permits on Teleworking in the UK? · · Score: 1

    >>Whilst it may be technicaly possible to work from anywhere ( if the job allows ) there are numerous TAX / VISA etc reasons why an employer may not want cross border working. How are you different from a "One man subsidiary" company? That said, I feel it is better if you have a "contractor" relation with your foreign "employer" for legal simplicity.

  2. Why not use wastewater lines? on Broadband over Powerlines · · Score: 1

    No fear of high voltages etc., Wastewater lines should be fairly good in conducting RF. The Dutch company in the article uses waterlines.

  3. Re:I hope somebody will publish a picture... on Columbia Coverage · · Score: 1

    "Currently NASA carries the torch for my wish to go into space, myself. (and others like me)" That was a good pun, if you didn't realize!

  4. Quality Problem? on Grade Inflation in Higher Education · · Score: 1

    Appears like U.S. university education has picked up "quality problem" from K-12 school system. Can it go the way of domestic auto industry? One can see why many high tech employers might like imported graduates or take work abroad (See the recent 60 minutes program)

  5. Re:DMca on Lexmark Invokes DMCA in Toner Suit · · Score: 1

    From Personal experience: I got a refilled cartridge for a Lexmark color inkjet and the printer stopped printing well - all color smudged and generally unreadable. Not being aware of this new "technology", I discarded the printer!

  6. Re:Undergraduate Student Project on Turns out, Primes are in P · · Score: 1

    >>>Well, Prof. Manindra Agarwal is an established theoretician and is the "first" author of the paper.. When several authors contribute equally in a research, they are listed alphabetically. Agarwal, Kayal and Saxena seems like that.

  7. Re:Undergraduate Student Project on Turns out, Primes are in P · · Score: 1

    Well, Prof. Manindra Agarwal is an established theoretician and is the "first" author of the paper.. When several authors contribute nearly the same research in a paper, the tradition is to list the names in alphabetical order (last names). These authors - Agarwal, Kayal and Saxena seem to be that.

  8. This is just a scary story! on The Boy and his Breeder Reactor · · Score: 3, Informative

    Relax! With his methods, he would never have been able to create any fission chain reaction. Sure, his technic can be used to build a "dirty bomb" - but a nuke never. The hardest trick in making a nuke is extreme difficulty increasing the purity of Radioactive isotopes. And he would be dead long before the purity reached dangerous level (let alone it is very hard - one needs acre sized plants for diffusion or centrifuge and hundreds of megawatts of power and millions of gallons of water)

  9. How about an IBM System 360/370 emulation using on Building A Computer From Scratch? · · Score: 1

    FPGAs? or ENIAC/EDSAC/an early UNIVAC/Burroughs/CDC/PDP/DEC or Knuth's MIX machine emulated in FPGA? That way you learn all the Good Stuff (Instruction set implementation, architecture, microprogramming, embedded software - and some history too!) without the enormous pain of dealing with soldering, Electro-magnetic compatibility, signal integrity, physical clocking, board layout. Working with modern day small chips,. Ball Grid Array and Surface Mount chip packages are not for do-it-yourselfers! Save yourself a lot of needless pain (& waste of money) with no corresponding learning (unless you want to become a board design expert) and go FPGA emulation route.

  10. How about (IBM/LOTUS) SmartSuite? on Migrating Your Office from Windows to Linux? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have been using it and it is simply great. Absolutely better than StarOffice and a fraction of the MS Office cost.

  11. Re:Problems in the past on Notebook Cooling Strategies · · Score: 1

    That reminds me of a problem we faced with(Analog) Cell Phones: The speaker area would heat up due to closeness to (transmit) Power Amplifiers and "burn" users ear lobes (thermally, a very sensitive organ - did you know that!) The product had to be modified (at great cost) due to consumer complaints.

  12. Installing Linux On A emachine? on Installing Linux On A Wal-Mart OS-less machine · · Score: 1

    emachines is another inexpensive brand; I have heard various reviews; Any experience trying to buy a OS less emachine or loading Linux on it?