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  1. Student Priced probe on Ask Slashdot: PC-Based Oscilloscopes On a Microbudget? · · Score: 1

    Digilent's Analog Discovery is a good option if you can get the $99 student pricing.

    2 Channels scope, 100 Msps, 2 channel function generator, 16 digital logic channels, 2 external triggers.

    Software comes with a sdk.

  2. Sandbox on The New Reality of Gaming · · Score: 5, Insightful

    'Think of these games as a sandbox where everybody has the same tools, yet everyone achieves different results,' says de Halleux."

    Sounds like a perfect description of Minecraft.

  3. Re:How is this legal? on House Passes TV Commercial Volume Bill · · Score: 1

    They aren't regulating the volume of your television. They are regulating the volume disparity in the broadcast between the commercials and the shows. (It can be passed for the same reason FCC can regulate broadcast TV in the first place.)

  4. Re:Why DC when AC is better for long distances? on Sahara Solar To Power Half the World By 2050 · · Score: 4, Informative

    AC and DC power lines both loose energy to resistance. AC power looses energy in another fashion due to capacitance and inductance called reactive power. By using superconductors (0 ohm resistance) for the power lines, you eliminate all losses for DC, most losses for AC, and introduce new losses for the cooling equipment. Of course, with superconductors the formula isn't as simple as V=IR because then you could get infinite current. (V/0 = I) With superconductors, there is a maximum current density (Amps per m^2 as the area of the cross section of the wire) before the wire starts to produce resistance.

  5. Re:15 of the 30... on Many More Android Apps Leaking User Data · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Being able to know where you are and when isn't personal information?

  6. Re:Which VERSION? on Australian Schools To Teach Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Or it could simply be that "day" is a bad translation of "yowm" in the context used in Genesis.

  7. Re:I'll believe its an extinction level event on Gulf Gusher Worst Case Scenario · · Score: 1

    Its claiming a million gallons a day gushing, but at 4 barrels per second, you don't get to a million in one day. You don't even get to the 500k that BP would be so happy about, you get 345.6k/day.

    barrels != gallons
    1 oil barrel = 42 gallons

    so 345.6k barrels/day = 14.5152k gallons/day


    This doesn't refute anything else you've stated.

  8. What type of equal? on Congress To Hold Hearings On "Potty Parity Act" · · Score: 1

    The bill proposes making sure there are an equal number of toilets in Women's restroom as there are toilets + urinals in Men's restroom. They are advocating spending more money and allocating more floorspace for Women's restrooms in comparison to Men's restrooms. They want to favor Women over Men, or they could just get rid of urinals.

  9. Re:Nice, but who has $1000 to pay on a CPU? on Intel's Core i7-980X Six-Core Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    FUD, pure FUD. The Athlon FX-57 came out at an initial price of $1031 for distributors. While the intel competitor at the time, Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.73 came out at $999. Then the Athlon FX-62 came out at $1031 as well, then a month later the first core 2 duo came out for $999, and AMD hasn't been able to successfully charge a thousand dollars for a desktop processor since. So, saying AMD was never more expensive is flat out wrong.

  10. Re:Papers Please! on US Immigration Bill May Bring a National Biometric ID Card · · Score: 1

    If the vein information is stored on the card, an illegal ID could include correct biometric information.

  11. Re:Religious Neanderthals on The Role of Human Culture In Natural Selection · · Score: 1

    Why do you assume that the invisible bottle is full?

  12. Re:Anyone else think anticircumvention is stupid? on Another ACTA Leak Discloses Individual Country Data · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Anti-circumvention is a necessity because unbreakable DRM is an impossible dream

    So why does that make anti-circumvention a necessity?

  13. Re:Well, 'fair dos' to them on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    what definition of 'enduring' are you using that makes the phrase 'enduring document' fanatical?

  14. Re:People weren't aware of this? on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    Because the US Govt has no authority to do so?

  15. Re:yeah, let's blame the victims! on Electric Bicycles Surging In Popularity · · Score: 1

    If I remember correctly, in that incident the driver cut off the cyclists and slammed on his brakes.

  16. Re:Just Pass a Law on Court Unfriendly To FCC's Internet Slap At Comcast · · Score: 1

    More like the following:

    You have service through ISP A

    Website/peer has service through ISP B

    for traffic to go from ISP A to ISP B it has to be routed through ISP C's network.

    ISP C decides to throttle your connection.

  17. Re:The human eye can dectect 30 on Framerates Matter · · Score: 1

    In what way does gold plating increase the quality of the dashboard controls?

  18. Re:So technically on Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health? · · Score: 1

    The only sushi roll I see consistently that doesn't have seafood on it is the California roll.

    So, imitation/snow crab don't count as seafood?

  19. Re:Darn it on Ocean Circulation Doesn't Work As Expected · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Heat just one room at a time instead of the whole house. That's how you make a major change to help reduce greenhouse gas.

    I tried that, had the heater turned off at all times except a space heater in the bedroom at bedtime. It ended up being more costly and less efficient than heating the whole house and keeping it heated.

    My theory is that the insulation makes it pretty cheap to maintain the temperature, but the space heater has to work constantly to counteract the heat lost to neighboring rooms. The other possibility is that natural gas (whole house) is really cheap around here and electricity (single room) isn't.

  20. Re:In a word... on Obama Proposes High-Speed Rail System For the US · · Score: 1

    Try a 10 minute walk in temperatures greater than 90 degrees farenheit and 90% humidity and tell me you don't get sweaty.

  21. Re:Proof! on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    Found out I'm wrong; the gravitational interaction of antimatter is considered to most likely the same as regular matter, but there has been no experements to proove that yet.

  22. Re:Proof! on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    Anti matter has positive mass.

  23. Re:What? on The Hairy State of Linux Filesystems · · Score: 1

    One article is claiming that the OS is slimming down based on the removal of some previously bundled applications. Another article is claiming that the OS is not slimming down because the kernel is getting more complex. It all boils down to whether you consider bundled applications are considered part of the OS or not.

  24. Re:When I was breaking in on More Than Coding Errors Behind Bad Software · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That should have been:

    int SumNumbers(int x){
    return x * (x + 1) / 2;
    }

  25. Re:When I was breaking in on More Than Coding Errors Behind Bad Software · · Score: 1

    Would you expect a brute force answer using loops, or the much faster single line equation?

    int SumNumbers(int x){
    x * (x + 1) / 2
    }