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  1. Re:If it didn't pass QA on AMD's 'Newcastle' Budget Athlon64 Chips Analyzed · · Score: 1

    Yes !

    And for the rest of the system:

    509Mb of ram, using the bad ram patch so the bad bits aren't used.

    And a 79Gb harddisk with bad blocks on it, those will be marked as bad blocks when the disk is formatted.

    And a flat lcd panel with bad pixels.

    And of course a microsoft operating system !!!!

  2. Re:How far does it scale up? on 350 KM Diameter Radio Telescope Array · · Score: 1

    The frequency is 10MHz to 240MHz.

    Here is a link to a detailed pdf aboutlofar

  3. Prosopagnosia = face blindness on Why We See Faces - Everywhere · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think the brain has some sort of "coprocessor" to indentify faces.

    However, there are people who can't indentify who it is if they meet a known person. This condition is called prosapagnosia.

    www.prosopagnosia.com

  4. The internet is broken right now !! on Blackout Worse For Internet Than Previously Thought? · · Score: 1

    At the moment i can't reach all sites. Also i can't chat and my msn messager doesn't work.

    I live in the north of the Netherlands. On the teletext i read there are problems with internet and telephone in places in the middle and south of the Netherlands.

  5. Re:Misinterpreted on UIUC Creates World's Fastest Transistor Again · · Score: 1

    No, this will not work for a communications system at 500Ghz. The 500Ghz is the transition frequency, at that frequency the amplification is 1. However, at 250Ghz the amplification would be 2, and a receiver or transmitter at that frequency might be possible.

  6. Re:Zealots did more than "turn off". They killed! on Can WINE Compromise Unix? · · Score: 1

    Some technical oriented people are in fact slightly autistic. Such autistics don't handle social situations very well, and don't understand illogical situations.

    Some can however excell in technical or scientific work.

    This sort of autism is called Asperger Syndrome. Bill Gates is said to be an asperger.

  7. Re:Ouch. For Extra Geek Points on LG CD-ROMs Destroyed by Mandrake 9.2 · · Score: 1

    PET = Personal Electronic Transactor, if i remember correctly

  8. Re:BlueRay on Dual Layer DVD+R Developed · · Score: 1

    No, you won't! When the price of BlueRay begins coming down, UltraVioletRay will be on the horizon, and then you will wait for that!

  9. Speaker magnetic field on World's Strongest Magnetic Field Is Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    Speaker magnets are made of ferrite, and the maximum field of ferrite is about 0.1 tesla (or 1000 Gauss). However, inside the speaker, at the voice coil, the field could be 1 tesla (or 10000 Gauss) because the metal plates on the magnet concentrate the field.

  10. Murder in the wood. on Twist on DNA Privacy · · Score: 2, Informative

    In february, an 79 years old lady was raped and murdered in the wood near the place of Emmen in the Netherlands. 90 men were selected by the police for DNA test. It didn't match. Then 1200 people in the neighbourhood of the house of the old lady were intervieuwed and 120 men were selected (made suspicious by their neighbours?) for another round of dna tests. One week ago a match was found and a 29 year old men was arrested who confessed the rape and murder.
    I had been running in the wood and my name was noted by the police at the place of the murder. So i was asked to take a dna test and i took it.
    Now i have a nice letter from the police thanking me for the cooperation. It also says my dna sample and profile will be destroyed.

  11. I did this years ago for the C64 on Using a Generic Tape Recorder as an Atari Cassette Drive? · · Score: 1

    In 1985 i built an interface for my C64 to connect it to a normal cassette recorder. It worked quite well.
    I dont know if the atari has similar signals on its cassette port. If the atari has one bit to switch the cassette motor on/off, and one output bit for record, and one input bit for play, my schematic should work for atari.
    I could scan the schematic and email it or put is on a website.

  12. Diving mask. on Island Tribes Develop Superior Underwater Vision · · Score: 3, Informative

    Cool the human body can do this. However, using a diving mask gives the best sight.

    I am short-sighted, so i put a pair of glasses without the legs in the diving mask.

  13. Bounce spam on Microsoft Steps Up Anti-Spam Efforts · · Score: 1

    On my hotmail account, the spam filter can delete spam immediately, or save it to the "junkmail" folder.
    Why isn't it possible to bounce the junkmail that is identified by the spam filter? Then the spam sending program will think the email address doesn't exist and the addres might be taken from the address list of the spammer, stopping further spam.

  14. Biochip on Sequence-Detecting Nanoscale Sensor · · Score: 1

    How about a chip with thousands of those sensors? It could detect all known hereditary illnesses.

    However, would you want to know?

  15. Autism spectrum on PDD, Asperger, and Geek Syndrome? · · Score: 1

    According to my psychologist i am "contact disturbed". However, autistic persons can communicate perfectly with each other. I scored 32 points on the test.

    Autism is a spectrum ranging from very slight autistic to severely autistic.There are different diagnoses: pdd, asperger, high functioning autism. The same person might get a different diagnosis from another psychiatrist, so it could be better to say someone "is on the autistic spectrum".

  16. Re:not bait and switch on USB 1.1 Renumbered To USB 2? · · Score: 1

    Yes! That black and white laser printer REALLY could print in color.

    First print the black part of the page. Exchange the black toner for blue toner. Put the same piece of paper back in the printer and print the blue on the page. Repeat for red and yellow.

  17. B6 on Working with ADHD? · · Score: 1

    I myself noticed a massive difference in my state of mind within two days of taking a zinc/magnesium pill

    You might feel even better if you also take vitamin B6, preferably in the form of p5p. Dosage: maybe 50mg.

    Also see my post about pyroluria

  18. Re:Looking for the origin of ADD and ADHD? The cur on Working with ADHD? · · Score: 1

    This seems an interesting idea to me. Gluceogenesis in the liver is worse if there is B6 deficiency. B6 deficiency can be caused by pyroluria. Here is my post in this story about pyroluria.

  19. pyroluria on Working with ADHD? · · Score: 1

    Some people with ADHD, autism, schizophrenia, depression or other "psychiatric" disorders have a condition called pyroluria.

    Pyroluria is a metabolic problem in wich the body produces excess pyroles. Those bind with vitamin B6 and zinc and are then excreted in the urine. The result is a deficiency of vitamin B6 and zinc, causing mental and other symptoms.

    My psychologist had never heard of it. I fold him i felt better when i used zinc and magnesium and vitamins. My psychologist thougt i had an obsession for vitamins and sent me to a doctor because i had complained about hypoglycemia and feeling irritated in my head.

    The doctor said there was nothing wrong with me. When i asked him about the possibility of pyroluria the doctor told me there was no illness involving zinc, and he didn't seem to know about pyroluria. We looked at a list of symptoms caused by pyroluria i had downloaded from the internet and i didn't have much of the symptoms on that list, so we concluded i didn't have it.

    Three weeks ago i deciced to have my urine checked anyway (at my own cost). And i had it in the urine. Now i use vitamin B6, zinc, manganese and magnesium and it seems the stress and irritation i felt for years is gone.

  20. Bluetooth develop center on The Death of Bluetooth? · · Score: 1

    Bluetooth was developed in Emmen, the Netherlands. The Erricsson factory in Emmen made pagers and cellular phones. However they stopped making pagers and phones because of the bad telecom market. Only the bluetooth development center with 30 persons was left. Some days ago i read in the paper the bluetooth development center will be closed too. Bluetooth will be developed further in Sweden, however maybe this is a sign bluetooth is'nt doing well.

  21. Re:Obviously, you know nothing. on Will Caffeine Cause Health Problems? · · Score: 1

    It stimulates your brakes, that is why it slows you down

  22. firewall on Would You Use SELinux? · · Score: 1

    For maximum security i would use another box as a firewall. I think it would help when the firewall box has another operating system as the workstation. Of course a linux firewall box is better if you run windows. If your workstation runs linux your firewall box should run windows. That will confuse the attacker.

  23. Sleep and addiction. on Will Caffeine Cause Health Problems? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is a snippet about sleep and addiction

    The most important long-term problem is the effect that caffeine has on sleep.The half-life of caffeine in your body is about 6 hours. That means that if you consume a big cup of coffee with 200 mg of caffeine in it at 3:00 PM, by 9:00 PM about 100 mg of that caffeine is still in your system. You may be able to fall asleep, but your body probably will miss out on the benefits of deep sleep. That deficit adds up fast. The next day you feel worse, so you need caffeine as soon as you get out of bed. The cycle continues day after day. This is why 90% of Americans consume caffeine every day. Once you get in the cycle, you have to keep taking the drug. Even worse, if you try to stop taking caffeine, you get very tired and depressed and you get a terrible, splitting headache as blood vessels in the brain dilate. These negative effects force you to run back to caffeine even if you want to stop.

  24. Re:No Caps Lock on Searching for Keyboards Loaded with Features? · · Score: 1

    I think the keyboard can be programmed, and maybe it is possible to program a key to do nothing.

  25. Or mix salts. on Salt From Plants · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How about mixing NaCl, potassium, magnesium and calcium salts to make the same salt without using plants? I think you can make the same salt much cheaper this way.