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  1. Re:just put your speakers 60 feet away on Lip Sync Problems with New Digital Displays? · · Score: 1

    For apartment dwellers, 60 feet of hose for each ear and a pair of headphones.

  2. Re:MPEG not JPEG on 31 Lawsuits Filed Over Alleged JPEG Patent · · Score: 1

    MJPEG (motion jpeg) is not MPEG. MJPEG is a concatenation of JPEG frames (or fields). MJPEG does not compare one image to the next and encode the change. MPEG does.

  3. Re:Not to rain on his parade... on Solar-Hydrogen Eco-House · · Score: 1

    Mixed with and combined with are not the same.

  4. Hate your job? on Reasonable Salary for Entry Level Programmers? · · Score: 1

    There are good places to work for, and bad, even within a single company. Choose well and you can be happy to work for someone else. Try to ignore the grumpy Gusses, they can spoil your fun.

  5. Re:The big problem is bumpers on Technology Makes New Cars Too Expensive to Fix · · Score: 1
    Why not have shock absorbers mounted in the front and rear of the frame?

    I believe this was done for a while in the 5 MPH bumper period. Heavy and expensive.

  6. Be careful with methanol on Technology Makes New Cars Too Expensive to Fix · · Score: 1

    Surprisingly, methanol is very corrosive to certain metals, such as magnesium. If you're unlucky enough to have the wrong metals in your fuel system, you're screwed.

  7. Re:The problem is... on Technology Makes New Cars Too Expensive to Fix · · Score: 1

    Public transportation? Reliably, comfortably, and safely? A city bus in Los Angeles is neither reliable nor comfortable (well, there are a few with padded seats, but not many). And while it's fairly safe on the bus, in a ten year period at busstops one person threatened to attack me and another to kill me.

  8. Egads, what do you want? on From the Higgs Boson Particle to Leadbelly · · Score: 1

    16 bit sound has a signal-to-noise ratio as good as 98 dB and a bandwidth that can be better than most people can perceive. The LoC recordings probably could not do better than 45 dB SNR, with a very peculiar frequency response, in monaural. Even with very good noise reduction techniques, I'd be surprised if the resultant SNR can exceed 65 dB without destoying the smaller overtones.

  9. Re:big news on From the Higgs Boson Particle to Leadbelly · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of a sign I saw on a trail in an undeveloped area: "No trespassing. Private property." On both sides of the sign.

  10. Re:Table errors regarding c# on C, Objective-C, C++... D! Future Or failure? · · Score: 1

    Also, the table shows complex numbers being native to C and not (with qualifications) to C++.

  11. Re:Java is fast. on C, Objective-C, C++... D! Future Or failure? · · Score: 1
    Your compiler cannot assume the presence of advanced instruction sets, like MMX or SSE2.

    The compiler doesn't need to. Code in C plus assembler can be and has been written to branch to different routines based upon which enhanced instruction sets are available (for example, mjpeg tools under Linux). It's not easy, but it can be done.

  12. Re:Heh on Money That Grows On Trees · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Look for small organizations without government funding that concentrate their efforts in one state and do things like buying land for preserves and cutting hiking trails.

  13. Re:Aren't we still in an Ice Age? on A New Ice Age? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Best available estimates state that global human population will peak at 8 billion in 2050 and decline thereafter.

  14. Re:Aren't we still in an Ice Age? on A New Ice Age? · · Score: 1
    Consume water? How? Are we rocketing large amounts of water into space? Forming insoluble hydrates? Creating large reservours of hydrogen and oxygen?

    We may be depleting underground reserves of relatively clean water and approaching the limits usable rainfall (doubtful), but consuming water? No way.

  15. Re:Watch it fall! on BayStar Cashes Out of SCO Stock · · Score: 1

    The PDP-8 was a minicomputer with a 12 bit dataword. It was also implemented as an IC, the IM6100 manufactured by Intersil and second-sourced by Harris (circa 1977).

  16. Re:Similar to buying whole CD's of music? on A La Carte Cable TV Channels? · · Score: 1

    There's nothing "free market" about government franchised local monopolies.

  17. Re:Potentially a Good Idea, But Suceptible To Abus on A La Carte Cable TV Channels? · · Score: 1

    Let customers change their channel lineup via the internet. No labor expense at all for the signal provider once the system is in place.

  18. Re:Good luck writing this law on A La Carte Cable TV Channels? · · Score: 1

    I have digital cable from Adelphia (uses a Scientific Atlanta "Explorer 3100" box). They've been changing the channel mix frequently lately and I've seen individual channels become available or unavailable for a few days at a time. They clearly have the ability to turn individual channels on or off for each customer.

  19. Re:Hey Fox, Let me program Sundays for you on Futurama: Can it be True!? · · Score: 2, Funny
    Animated before a live audience?

    They're called puppet shows. Yuck.

  20. That's no moon on Hubble Photo of Sedna Suprises Astronomers · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's a gas station.

  21. Re:Colon Powell releases Hubble photos in UN forum on Hubble Photo of Sedna Suprises Astronomers · · Score: 1
    Many years after WWII, isolated Japanese forces still fought on tiny Pacific islands ... or so I've read.

    There are several standards: The losing government surrenders. The losing government is wiped out of exitence (as in Iraq.) The losing government flees and disperses. There are probably others.

    Rogue guerillas and isolated fractions of a defeated army do not constitute a government still in power, or a war not yet won. We're fighting anarchy and new potential dictators now.

  22. Right versus Law on Projectionists Using Night Vision Goggles in Theaters · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Laws change and are even completely reversed, even the U.S. Constitution. Right and wrong, in a fixed context, are immutable. Can you honestly claim that Prohibition was right when it was enacted, and wrong before its enactment and after its repeal?

    Bad laws are bad. People who support them, vote them into existence, and enforce them are evil.

  23. Re:The No Food Rule is next on Projectionists Using Night Vision Goggles in Theaters · · Score: 1

    Trailers are acceptable to me, and sometimes they're even a plus. But ads for the local used car dealer or the Los Angeles Times are infuriating.

  24. Quality on Projectionists Using Night Vision Goggles in Theaters · · Score: 1

    Good quality illegal copies commonly are made by or with the help of the projectionist. Camcorder copies in a theatre can't be anywhere near as good.

  25. Re:Which is why fines are not the right solution on Microsoft's Long-Playing Business Record · · Score: 1

    Yes, I remember Bhopal. If you read the detailed story, you'll find that the Indian government had a lot of responsibility for the disaster.