Comment Re:Money is tight (Score 1) 314
Don't forget that because of sales tax you get an instant bonus for ordering online. Not really fair to the local stores but that's a different discussion.
Comment Re:it's in the sales tax (Score 1) 314
You know, the whole tax thing makes me feel bad for local stores. Its really not fair, plain and simple. I don't want to pay taxes....err I mean have a company calculate my taxes for me on online purchases but to be fair they really should.
If the internet companies can't compete when people have to pay taxes then its not a viable business model.
Comment Re:Chiropractic treatment worked for me (Score 1) 713
I had similar problems in the past where I "threw" my back out playing soccer. The pain never seems to go away until I went to the chiropractor.
Comment A bit general (Score 1) 65
Without more info its hard to give a good pointer. If you know the basics getting an IEEE account and searching for papers there is really the best approach. If your looking for a good general text I don't think you can go wrong with
CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation, Second Edition (Hardcover)
by R. Jacob Baker (Author)
Best general Analog text book I've read.
Comment Re:If you're getting paid... (Score 1) 231
I was pulling $15 hr 15 years backs as an EE intern. My intern at IBM did help a ton though. In fact I ended up getting 4 different offers at different IBM locations (didn't take any of them though).
Animated Film Set To Kick Off Star Wars TV Show 270
Sasseen writes "George Lucas has announced that the animated Star Wars television show, which we've discussed previously, will be kicking off with a feature-length theatre release. Lucas felt that, 'there were a lot more 'Star Wars' stories left to tell. I was eager to start telling some of them through animation and, at the same time, push the animation forward.' A fully animated film will be released in theaters on August 15 with a TV series of more than 30 episodes planned to follow on Cartoon Network and TNT. Also of note from the article, 'A new character named Ahsoka, Anakin's padawan, will be the first female Jedi to be a character of focus'."
Feed New Scientist: Simple blood test spots early stage lung cancer (pheedo.com)
A telltale protein accurately advertises the presence of lung cancer, even before it has spread within the body, suggests preliminary work
SCO Blames Linux For Bankruptcy Filing 321
Stony Stevenson writes "SCO Group CEO Darl McBride is now claiming that competition from Linux was behind the company's filing of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 'In a court filing in support of SCO's bankruptcy petition, McBride noted that SCO's sales of Unix-based products "have been declining over the past several years." The slump, McBride said, "has been primarily attributable to significant competition from alternative operating systems, including Linux." McBride listed IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems as distributors of Linux or other software that is "aggressively taking market share away from Unix.""
Submission + - Memory, handset makers back faster flash standard (computerworld.com)
Lucas123 writes: "Rivals like Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, Micron Technology Inc., STMicroelectronics, Spansion Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc. are all supporting a Universal Flash Storage specification. The new standardized format should up performance flash cards. "For example, access time for a 4GB 90-minute high-definition movie would be cut from three minutes to a few seconds, according to officials at Boise, Idaho-based Micron Technology.""
