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  1. Re:huh? on Microreactors Change Propane into Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    If there's more profit to be made by delivering more electricity, they will sure run more wires ... or their competitors will.

  2. Re:huh? on Microreactors Change Propane into Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    Adding electric cars won't happen purely overnight. It will happen gradually, and the grid will expand to handle the demand.

  3. Re:No surprise on Zero-Day IE Exploit In the Wild · · Score: 1

    The only reason that there are so many zero day exploits is that they're duped so many times.

  4. Re:Why would we expect anything else? on Hotel Minibar Key Opens Diebold Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    That's how we do it in the lowly State of Rhode Island. :-)

  5. Re:I miss my graphing calculator on Flash Drives On a Calculator · · Score: 1

    The HP-49g+ has a secure digital card slot. It's part of the calculator as manufactured (no ugly soldering jobs or hacks, and SD cards are fairly inexpensive, very small, and relatively high-capacity).

    I really enjoyed my TI-89 until I got one of those. Less expensive, more functionality, and RPN make it a better deal, in my opinion. (Yes it supports the non-RPN notation, too.)

  6. Re:Women! on Wireless HDMI Prototype Announced · · Score: 4, Informative

    JPEG and JPEG2000 are very different lossy image compression algorithms. JPEG uses discrete cosine transforms, whereas JPEG2000 uses wavelet transforms, which are much better at representing non-periodic data, like you'd see in motion video.

  7. Re:Still squabbling I guess on Debian Kicks Jörg Schilling · · Score: 1

    IANAL, but ... By releasing the old version of the software under the GPL, Shilling has granted the right for others to use it any way they want as long as they abide by the GPL. He can re-license it, but people can still use it under the GPL, unless he releases *new* software under only a single license---the older software is still GPLd.

  8. Re:Pricey on Network Card for Gamers - Uses Linux to Reduce Lag · · Score: 1

    I bet that the old Intel e100's that I got off eBay have lower latencies than that card. Seems a bit too complex to actually improve performance.

  9. Re:Got that yesterday... on Voice Phishing Hits PayPal · · Score: 1

    805 is a standard US area code, in parts of California. If it's a personal landline, then the incoming call is likely free. If it's a cell phone, then you're probably using their minutes. However, unless you live near wherever that number is, you're probably being charged, too.

  10. Re:They aren't fighting them. on Linux Hackers Reclaim the WRT54G · · Score: 1

    A few days ago they were selling the WRT54GLs on NewEgg for $60 with a $10 rebate. I paid $6 for shipping, so that comes out to $56 after rebate. Not a bad deal, considering what they do. I think the price has gone up to $63 before the rebate, but it's still a good deal. Replacing my old Pentium firewall with one of these is going to save me a good deal in power, and it certainly is more quiet.

  11. Re:small jet-powered glider? on Project OpenSky Takes Off · · Score: 1

    Yes, but then you'd have a much larger (and heavier) engine than you need, which is a significant issue to examine in an ultralight aircraft.

  12. Re:Uhh.. on High performance FFT on GPUs · · Score: 1

    There are some important difference between Fourier series and Fourier transforms. A Fourier series can only be used for a periodic signal (one that repeats itself over and over). A Fourier transform can be used on any finite-energy signal (if you integrate over the whole signal from -infinity to infinity in time, the value is not infinite). Also, a Fourier series only analyzes the frequencies that are integer multiples of a natural frequency. Fourier transforms analyze all frequencies.

  13. Re:Misleading Headline on Sun to Release Java Source Code · · Score: 1

    Do you mean the BSD license?

    "Neither the name of the University of California, Berkeley nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission."

  14. Re:Stupidity on Apple Patch Released, But Is It Enough? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Right. On a CISC machine, an opcode could require anything from (as an example) 1-18 bytes to encode. On a RISC machine, everything would be a certain length, say 4 bytes. Now if the specified instruction (noop for example) only requires one byte, then the rest of the opcode would be insignificant.

  15. Re:An exciting year... on Core 2 Extreme 40% faster than Pentium EE 965? · · Score: 1

    Swap your 8086 and 8088... The 8086 was the 16-bit version that came out first, and the 8088 was the 8-bit external bus version. The 6 corresponds to 16 and the 8 corresponds to 8.

  16. Re:or, the results of... on Want to Experience Zero G? Stay in Bed · · Score: 1

    If you also use the Filterset.G updater, almost all ads will be blocked by a ruleset that someone else maintains.

  17. Re:What I find interesting on SCO Denied Again In Court · · Score: 1
    They do however enjoy the highest short ratio on Wall Street. If they get hit with a short squeeze, it will take something like *weeks* of trading just to cover the shorts... at which point if IBM decides that buying out SCO might offer the greatest insult-to-injury potential (who says corporations don't feel spite?) they might offer a shiny new nickel to cover them all and make SCOX go away forever.

    Wouldn't a short cover scenario drive the price of the stock up and make it less attractive for IBM to buy? People that hold short positions borrow the stock so that they can sell it, and then have to buy it back later to return the stock. In a short cover scenario, people decide to cut their losses (if the stock price goes up) so they buy stock to replace the stock they borrowed.

  18. Re:duh... on OSx86 Cracked Again · · Score: 1

    The Pentium M was designed after the Pentium 4, using mostly the Pentium III architecture (though *highly* modified) to start. One of the things they added on was SSE2. Intel saw the way the Pentium 4 was going power-wise, and decided to abandon it on their mobile chip.

  19. Glass half full? on Glass Shapes Can Make Us Drink Too Much · · Score: 4, Funny

    Some people say the glass is half full, others say the glass is half empty, but engineers say that the glass has a factor of safety of 2.

  20. Re:Only $200/mo on Are Americans Addicted to Technology? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Where I am (Northeastern US) 1.5-5 Mbps is typical, though I have seen some higher priced residential services going to around 10 Mbps. Typically, there are no download limits or excess usage fees, but they reserve the right to reduce your bandwidth for "abuse." I haven't run into that problem yet---I don't use peer-to-peer applications, but I do download software for my Linux machines frequently. I think the "abuse" line is a tool for them to prevent people from saturating their connections 24/7 using peer-to-peer traffic or on hosts that have become zombies.

    Different ISPs have different policies regarding inbound traffic---one ISP near me allows all the ports I've tried inbound, whereas another blocks ports like 80 and 23.

  21. Re:desktop, anyone? on First Intel Yonah Laptop Announced · · Score: 1

    And then Merom begat Conroe, and Conroe begat ...

    Is it just me or is this seeming like one of those long Bible passages in Genesis about lineage?

  22. Re:This doesn't mean they want to "control" Python on Guido Goes Google · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hasn't Perl already done 80-90% of that for years?

  23. Re:XBox CPU? on Are three cores better than two? · · Score: 2, Informative

    He meant hypercube. He wasn't referring to the physical structure of the chip. The cores are frequently arranged (logically) in a hypercube structure, and interconnects are placed where the edges are in the resulting graph. It works quite well, actually. However, these are VERY expensive systems.

  24. Re:Of course, the real question is... on Barcode Scam Redux - Target's $4.99 iPod · · Score: 1

    Yes. Look at CPAN.

    http://search.cpan.org/search?query=barcode&mode=a ll

    CPAN has almost everything :-)

  25. Re:It means on Red Hat Wants Xen In Linux Kernel · · Score: 1
    Wait... I thought this has been in these CPUs since the 80286! Ever used the virtual-8086 mode?

    ... /me ducks