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  1. Re:I had an interview with Google a few weeks ago on Want To Work At Google? · · Score: 1

    Unlimited memory? Store the answer in memory at the address specified by the 10000 byte address. Maybe you add an offset so your program has space to run. Setting up the table might take a while, but it should be easy once you have solved the pesky unlimited memory problem.

  2. Re:I had an interview with Google a few weeks ago on Want To Work At Google? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Google has a hiring committee. I'm not sure of the exact size but it is on the order of 6-18 people. If any one of the hiring committee rejects you then they do not offer you a job. They are more interested in stopping false negatives than they are in stopping false positives. I think false negatives are potentially as damaging as false positives. At least you can fire the false positive. The false negative may go to work for a competitor, with a bad memory of Google, and not go back onto the job market again for years.

  3. Re:This is just an update from year ago... on Next-Gen Processor Unveiled · · Score: 1

    I am pretty sure one difference is that this time they have a physical chip.

  4. Re:Hm... on Next-Gen Processor Unveiled · · Score: 1

    I only have a passing familiarity with TRIPS but I think that one of the goals was to get rid of the huge costs for pipeline flushes.

    Doug Burger is one of the main PI's on this project (which is around seven years old at this point). I'm sure you can find more information there if you are interested.

  5. Re:Here's an Easy Idea on Police Objecting to Tickets From Red-Light Cameras · · Score: 1

    A reasonable suggestion on slashdot?

    Nah.. couldn't be...

    Where am I?

  6. Re:dupe? on Wireless Power Now A Reality · · Score: 4, Informative

    Radio waves are alternating magnetic fields. The faster the field is alternated the more power it has and the further it travels. Go study how an AM transmitter and receiver works. Most AM antennas are simple inductive coils that pick up a modulations in a magnetic field. Building an AM transmitter is one of the simplest projects you can do (and was a project in my first circuits class). All you do is make a periodic signal and bound the amplitude by some input (like from a microphone). Then you run it through a coil of wire to create the alternate magnetic field. The magnetic field then hits the coil in the antenna of the receiver and induces a current. The current passes over a resistor and you measure the voltage level. You run that voltage level through a band pass filter and then through an amplifier and then to a speaker and voila! you get to hear whatever the microphone on the other end is picking up.

  7. Re:dupe? on Wireless Power Now A Reality · · Score: 1

    What do you think induction is based on if not radio waves?

  8. Re:Do like they do with everything else... on How Microsoft Can Make Zune a Success · · Score: 1

    NT was the result of Microsoft and IBM splitting up from working on OS/2. NT is Microsoft's version os OS/2. Still, they did not do it all on their own. I believe much of NT came from OS/2.

    Windows 95, 98, and ME did come from DOS.

  9. Re:Do like they do with everything else... on How Microsoft Can Make Zune a Success · · Score: 1

    Who can you name that developed anything in computing from scratch without borrowing any ideas from anyone.

    Charles Babbage? Nope. He used mathematics developed by people before him.

    Every single thing in the modern world was created by someone standing on the shoulders of giants.

  10. Re:Easy Solution... on Remember Your Wii Friend Code the 1-800 Way · · Score: 1

    I was never very clear on what the whole friend thing was anyway. Sure, I had friends but I don't really know why. Is it really as simple a definition as someone you spend time with?

  11. Re:This could majorly backfire on John McCain's MySpace Page "Pranked" · · Score: 1

    That is why we have a jury of peers. They are supposed to be the common sense safety valve.

  12. Re:Cool? on Can Large Corporations Buy "Cool?" · · Score: 1

    The name "YouTube" obviously indicates that it is an easily clogged tube in a series of tubes and not a truck you can just dump things on.

  13. Cool? on Can Large Corporations Buy "Cool?" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is YouTube cool? I thought it was just a convenient place to post and watch videos.

    The NBC/News Corp. site will be a convenient place to watch NBC and FOX television shows. Who cares if it is "cool"?

  14. Re:Rare diamond? on A Million-Dollar Laptop Created · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nearly anything is possible if you have enough money. Although you will need to find your own supplier. I know nothing of such things.

  15. Re:Rare diamond? on A Million-Dollar Laptop Created · · Score: 1

    I probably also have a lackey to follow me around and type things into my laptop for me...

    Surprisingly, the $1M price tag includes a lackey who will follow you around for one year and type things in for you.

  16. Re:But it will it run Vista? on A Million-Dollar Laptop Created · · Score: 1

    Completely custom OS. The million paid for the development.

    Applications that run on the custom OS cost around million too and need a nine to twelve month lead time.

  17. Re:Moo on Third Stargate TV Series Named · · Score: 1

    I disagree about it needing to be in the future. They just have to split with our timeline. The world governments already know about the stargate. Now they just have to make it public knowledge. Then they can start creating multiple Earth colonies. The show can start being about building and defending Earth's colonization efforts and the political struggles that occur between colonies.

  18. Re:Moo on Third Stargate TV Series Named · · Score: 1

    I hope not.

    I'd rather see the Stargate program become public knowledge on Earth and have the show turn into Earth's transition into a space faring society.

  19. Commence with the "new overload" jokes on Single Gene Gives Mice Three-Color Vision · · Score: 1

    And now it is the time on slashdot when we dance.

  20. Re:'Twas always this way on The Sci-Fi Movie Stigma · · Score: 1

    "I, Robot" was barely like the book. It was less about the human condition than it was about "OMG! Look at the dangers of technology!"

  21. Re:Was good on Maker of Anti-Clinton Video Outed, Loses Job · · Score: 1

    The fascists just want you to think it has lost all meaning so that you cannot call them what they are.

    Read some history. The word fascist has a very clear meaning even if most of the people who use it do not know what it means.

  22. Re:Control on Microsoft Joins OpenAjax Alliance · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, Microsoft releases a new version of Visual Studio with JScript support and a library that makes AJAX programming dead simple.

    Microsoft has zero interest in killing AJAX, JScript, or the web.

  23. Re:That's nothing, think of DRM on Most Digital Content Not Stable · · Score: 1

    I think part of the problem is the Europeans made deals with the native Americans and then broke those deals repeatedly. At least this is the lesson I learned in my United States public grade school.

  24. Re:Setting up for disaster on GM Mosquito Could Fight Malaria · · Score: 1

    Or malaria adapts into a stronger form that can survive in the new hardier mosquitos. Maybe the mosquitos have a wider range of living conditions and malaria becomes a problem in new places.

  25. Re:Environmental considerations on The Air Car Nears Completion · · Score: 1

    No. The air tanks heat up when you compress the gas and cool down when you decompress the gas. No net change in global temperature (aside from entropy).

    Although the filling stations might be warmer than the rest of the city.