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  1. Re:WiMAX is for long-range communication on Wired and Wireless At the Same High Speed · · Score: 1

    Upon even further inspection, I notice that you work for a networking lab, and probably already knew all that. *sigh*

  2. Re:WiMAX is for long-range communication on Wired and Wireless At the Same High Speed · · Score: 1

    On further inspection, it probably wouldn't be wise to mix a 6MHz channel to a center frequency of 100KHz. Let's say you mix it to 10MHz instead =)

  3. Re:WiMAX is for long-range communication on Wired and Wireless At the Same High Speed · · Score: 1

    The data capacity of a wireless system actually isn't dependent on the transmission frequency (the 100GHz frequency you specced for the first technology). It's dependent on the signal to noise ratio (which can depend on where in the frequency domain you're operating), and the available bandwidth (range of frequency on which you're transmitting data). A signal with 6MHz of bandwidth (TV channel sized) can carry the same data if it's mixed to 100KHz as at 100GHz (given the same SNR).

  4. Re:Uh, you got a vaction... on Computer Jobs -- How to Resign Professionally? · · Score: 1

    Why exactly should you not let a leaving sysadmin on your system?

  5. Re:Where is my workstation! on IBM Full-System Simulator Team Speaks Out · · Score: 1

    Then why are they releasing a cell based blade server next spring?

  6. Re:Except that Vietnam prices are MUCH smaller on Continued Look at Global Open Source · · Score: 1

    Was that even english?

  7. Re:Awesome on Continued Look at Global Open Source · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mostly US? Last I checked a LARGE portion of OSS developers were from Europe.

  8. Re:Push polling on LA City Votes For Municipal Fiber Network · · Score: 1

    Excepting that slander is a civil offense, not criminal.

  9. Re:Commercial use?!?! on Commercial Use of Shuttle Landing Facilities Planned · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1) That's what air traffic control is for 2) Even if it's not open to the public, how would that stop terrorists from flying into it? Go back to hiding in your hole, idiot.

  10. Re:CRAP on Cheap to Audiophile with Simple Hacks · · Score: 1

    Let me guess, you're not an electrical engineer and have no experience with any kind of electronics engineering? There's nuances to handling electrical signals, parasitic capacitances and inductances, frequency response, and all these little changes can make a big difference, even the structure of the cabling can (up to a point). There's a reason a lot of cables are shielded and have a choke at the end (to supress EM emmissions)

  11. Re:Opening the door for game pirates? on PlayStation 3 HDD to Ship With Linux · · Score: 1

    No, linux isn't the reason the xbox is so hackable, it because they used off the shelf commodity hardware and didn't properly secure their design.

  12. Ha on Linux and OpenOffice save Microsoft Presentation · · Score: -1, Redundant

    hahahahhaahahahahahahahahaha *gasp* hahahahahahahahahahahah *collapse*

  13. Not always an issue on Ex-Microsoft CTO Checks In On Patent Reform · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just when corporations try, and succeede in patenting things like clicking a mouse inside a window, patents are meant to protect creative intellectual property, not to divvy the basic workings of the world up to corporations.

  14. Re:FINALLY on 3D Raytracing Chip Shown at CeBIT · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm actually on a reconfigurable computing project, which focuses on this, the simple fact is that right now we don't have good methods for generating HDL for a given task, as well as lacking the necessary tools to properly swap tasks into/out of an fpga while maintaining a reasonable communication speed to them. It's being worked on, but it will take time to develop the tools, and even longer before software makers start using them.

  15. Re:Showing IDs on John Gilmore's Search for the Mandatory ID Law · · Score: 1

    Even if a terrorist has a valid ID, so long as they're not on a watch list, they can get on the plane, they're not real worried about being IDed after they hijack the plane, since, in all probability, they'll be expecting to die when they crash the plane. Idiot.

  16. Re:And thats just 2-dimensional on Nano-Scale Memory Fits A Terabit On A Square Inch · · Score: 1

    Good luck removing heat from a 3D structure easily. That's the principle reason we don't have processing cubes instead of chips in our computers.

  17. Re:25 DVDs? on Nano-Scale Memory Fits A Terabit On A Square Inch · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, a terabit = 125 Gigabytes, which is 31.25 DVDs

  18. Re:2048 x 1080 - not much better than HDTV on UK to Build Network of 150 Digital Cinemas · · Score: 1

    Given that 2048x1080 is the resolution of the signal and not the sampling rate, probably not.

  19. The real question on UK to Build Network of 150 Digital Cinemas · · Score: 1

    Is when will it be in my LIVING ROOM *drools at high res goodness*

  20. Re:pcHDTV 3000 is a Great option! on Preparing for the Broadcast Flag? · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, there's no HDTV card for the PC that will handle HD signals over cable here in the US. I've seen them for other systems, such as Australia's, but nothing for the US. You could certainly get an Direct TV system to record off of or just stick with a normal capture card, the hauppage pvr series is good, as it has an onboard mpeg 2 encoder.

  21. Evil on Filesystem Problems with the Treo 650s · · Score: -1, Troll

    Not use fat because it's evil?

  22. Funny on Microsoft, Apple Sued Over Software Update Patent · · Score: 1

    Now remember, submarine patents are only funny when used against big corporations!

  23. FP on 'Satan' Missile Now Launches Satellites · · Score: -1, Redundant

    First Post! Why would they deliberately call a missile Satan?

  24. Re:They just want free development on Microsoft Planning on Opening Up More Source · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Still criticize them? Strange, since I've never posted anything criticizing them before (check my comments if you don't believe), perhaps you meant that the internet community in general still criticizes them? No, that still wouldn't make sense since I only posted my own opinion rather than a blanket statement attempting to speak for everyong. Nope, I'm sorry, but I have to call shennanigans on your post. CI

  25. They just want free development on Microsoft Planning on Opening Up More Source · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Open source developers will root out all their bugs for them, they pay nothing, and whenever something goes wrong, guess who's going to get blamed (hint, it's not the microsoft developers)