Comment Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger is 35... (Score 4, Informative) 614
Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger is 35 as of this year, not 31....
Comment Re:This could be distributed/home grown GSM's brea (Score 2, Insightful) 107
To be clear, in Europe, the 900MHz band is currently used for straight GSM and EDGE. UMTS/WCDMA (GSM 3G) runs on the 1800/2100 MHz band pair. In the USA, the AWS band pair (used by T-Mobile) is a subset of that. It uses the lower half of the 1800MHz for uplink, and the lower half of the 2100MHz band for downlink (which is why it is referred to as the 1700/2100 MHz band pair). T-Mobile uses the 1900MHz band for GSM, but also supports the 850MHz band for roaming, since AT&T uses that band. AT&T's UMTS bands are 850MHz OR 1900MHz. Most areas use the 1900MHz band, but rural areas use 850MHz.
Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 1260
eldavojohn writes "Some of the juiciest parts of mathematics are the really simple statements that cause one to immediately pause and exclaim 'that can't be right!' But a recent 28 page paper in The Montana Mathematics Enthusiast (PDF) spends a great deal of time fielding questions by researchers who have explored this in depth and this seemingly impossibility is further explored in a brief history by Dev Gualtieri who presents the digit manipulation proof: Let a = 0.999... then we can multiply both sides by ten yielding 10a = 9.999... then subtracting a (which is 0.999...) from both sides we get 10a — a = 9.999... — 0.999... which reduces to 9a = 9 and thus a = 1. Mathematicians as far back as Euler have used various means to prove 0.999... = 1."
Intel Buys McAfee 377
Several readers have noted that
Intel has agreed to buy McAfee, the computer antivirus software maker, for about $7.7 billion in cash. There is also a press release available if you are into that sort of thing.
Submission + - Visual Software Creator now supports Android (lunduke.com)
TroysBucket writes: Illumination Software Creator, a visual development tool, just released a beta with support for building Android applications (already having support for PythonGTK desktop/mobile apps and Flash websites). It runs on Linux, Windows and OS X.
Submission + - Suse Gallery launches (lunduke.com)
TroysBucket writes: Suse Gallery just launched today to the public. It provides a gallery for browsing custom distros build with Suse Studio, which is an easy to use website for building your own custom Linux distro (or "appliance") entirely on their servers. To go along with it, Novell is giving away $10,000 to the most innovative distro built with Suse Studio and published to Suse Gallery.
Comment Re:Handbrake (Score 1) 177
I usually don't use FFmpeg to create MKVs. I usually choose to mux the MKVs myself using mkvmerge. However, I believe Handbrake generates good MKVs as well, though I'm not completely certain on it, since I don't use Handbrake.
Comment Re:Handbrake (Score 0) 177
Fuck MP4 container. MKV all the way!
DivX is a bad choice no matter which way you slice it.
Comment Re:Take off and nuke Marshall, TX from orbit ... (Score 1) 186
Unfortunately, the court is the only body that is able to determine if a Judge is in "good behavior", which is why they effectively have lifetime guaranteed jobs...
Comment Re:No usb Support (Score 1) 427
They are adding USB support because of iTunes. 'nuff said.
Comment Site down... (Score 1) 161
Looks like the site is down.... Wanna bet that Electronic Arts shut it down?
Comment Re:Does it have to be coding? (Score 1) 151
As for our project, Enano CMS, we'd definitely appreciate people willing to write documentation, or even translate the CMS into their own preferred language! Those are actually probably the most important tasks right now.
Though, if it is coding you're looking for, we do have coding tasks that we'd like to get done. If anyone's interested, all they have to do is hop into our IRC channel on Freenode (#enano).
Comment If ya got it... (Score 0, Redundant) 265
If ya got it... flaunt it!
Comment Wait... They want them to dumb things down... (Score 2, Insightful) 511
That would not end well for the scientists.... Their brains would explode from having to dumb everything down for "public consumption."
Comment Re:National Security Act (Score 1) 319
I disagree with having those laws in the USA as well. However, I can understand why they are in place, both in Israel and in the United States.
