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  1. Re:Bluetooth headset for PC? on Bluetooth Headset Roundup · · Score: 1
    I have it working on my laptop, with the intent of using Dragon to dictate documentation during a long commute. Thats another 10 billable consulting hours per week!

    Pretty complete support info is over at Skype forumes http://forum.skype.com/viewtopic.php?t=10822 and http://forum.skype.com/viewtopic.php?t=14646

    I dont know how current the info is, but in a nutshell you need to use the Toshiba stack software instead of Windows default stack to make it work correctly. Lucky for me, Dell laptops come standard with Toshiba stack pre-installed.

    If you have a Dell and need the Bluetooth card, you can get them through service parts for about half the cost of buying it pre-installed or buying it through their accessories department (makes you wonder about their pricing structure). This applies to the Inspiron 6000 anyway.

    I used a cheap eBay no-name headset. It didnt put out enough volume, either transmit or receive, to work well with Dragon, so I donated it to a client. It works great with his phone, but leaves me shopping for a new headset. Based on the FA I'll try the JX10 and see how the noise suppression works with voice recognition.

  2. Henny Youngman Lives! on NASA Achieves Breakthrough Black Hole Simulation · · Score: 1

    So /. gets a nice interesting article covering both theoretical physics and supercomputing, and the first 20 comments (and 95% of the rest) are all lame one-liners. AND they all get modded up. What are we, geeks or stand-up comics? Am I showing my age if I remember when the science was discussed on /. and posters got modded for contributing something relevent.

  3. Re:Please make them STOP. on FCC Opens Flood Gates for Junk Faxes · · Score: 2, Informative
    That is absolutely positively wrong, so you have obviously never tried it. Shame on you for spreading misinformation based solely on your pessimism! If you spend a little time calling every unsubscribe number at the bottom of every fax, you will in fact stop getting faxes. I went from 5 a day to none in 6 months after less than a week of calling the unsubscribe number on every fax. I do it for all my clients, and their junk faxes have all stopped. Completely stopped. It works so well I'm almost tempted to think of junk faxers as legitimate.

    I dont know why there is such a difference between faxers and email spammers. Possibly because phone numbers can be traced. Who knows. But they really do honor the unsubscribe lists, consistently and reliably.

  4. Re:Move towards wind or hydro. on New Nuclear Power Plants in the next 5 years · · Score: 1

    Well, thats not exactly true. In NH the Seabrook plant construction costs exceeded budget by 400% if IIRC. 78% of the construction cost was lawyers and dealing with regulatory problems. A two year work stoppage occurred when they were sued by environmental groups concerned about warm water discharge, leading to a 2 mile longer discharge pipe and additional cooling. And thank those whacky Taxachusetts screwballs lead by Michael Dukakis for a three year shutdown while they fought issuing an operating license. The local utility went bankrupt twice if I remember right. Seabrook I now runs fine (and the warm water increased the lobster populations to boot), but Seabrook II was scrapped mid-construction. So now we have one plant for the cost of 8, and you blame "Fat Cats" for your power bill? Thats flambait.

    By the way, Seabrook NH? #1 city in NH to live. Best schools, most valuable real estate, lowest taxes. Cleanest city too, if you dont count unbathed nuclear protestors. The residents generally love their power plant, and they dont get free electric for it. Best lobster shacks on the planet are in Seabrook.

    As to your other points, a containment dome will stop more than you think and easily an airliner. And there are more defenses. Trust me. And they "enemy" didnt study the pentagon defenses and didnt do all that much damage; the single biggest fatal flaw was that in never having been attacked we were collectively hesitent to shoot down a loaded commercial airliner in what at least at first appeared to be a simple hijacking. When we leanred otherwise it was a handful of unarmed passengers that stopped it. I have to think even the most incompetent government we could fathom gets it now. Besides, a N-plant makes a rotten target compared to an LPG tanker in boston harbor.

    As to wind farms, it would be a hoot to propose one in NH. The only place it could get enough wind would be the White Mountaina National Forest. The environmentalists would suffer complete breakdowns from the dilemma!

  5. Re:Missing from Exhibitor List on Matchbox-sized Laser Projector · · Score: 1

    Not everyone rents full booths. When you have one product and a strategic partner (which they say they have) you piggyback in their booth. We have plenty of products in our booth by companies not on the roster. They have development kits; I'm buying one instead of second-guessing why they can't possibly exist!