This made me nostalgic for my Ensoniq Soundscape playing the amazing MIDI soundtrack to LucasArts' Tie Fighter on my first PC, a 75MHz Pentium w/ ~16MB DRAM.

I think this has a lot in common with the saying "The USA spent millions developing a pen that could write in zero G for space missions; the Russions just used a pencil."

What you need is a set of 4 75-Ohm unbalanced to 100-Ohm balance transformers (aka baluns). But as you have found those are pricey. You could instead try a set of these:

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062054

Use them in pairs at each end of the coax. Connect the F connector end to the coax and the screw terminals to the appropriate pins of an RJ45 jack.

The author is confusing "free-thinking" with democratic values. In my experience, creativity usually flows from primarily 1 person. Either that person is alone (like an artist in their studio) or a dictatorial over-lord calling the shots (eg. a stage or movie director, or a music conductor or producer). So, "free-thinking" should not really imply an open, democratic environment. If you think of it this way, these "free-thinking" artists are not all that unlike Apple after all.

Slashdot was scooped by Digg on this 1.5yrs ago: http://digg.com/movies/Making_of_the_Computer_Graphics_for_Star_Wars_Episode_IV

At many advanced institutes of higher learning, especially at the graduate level, is it not uncommon for there to be NO BOOK. The professor's weekly scrawlings on the blackboard are all you get.

They run a credit check to get your credit score. The higher the credit score, the more marketers will be willing to pay the grocer to get their hands on records of your buying habits.

Here's a thought.... Rather than converting the light to RF and beaming that down to the surface, why not just reflect the light down to the surface and put your solar panels there? That way, you can take advantage of advances in solar panel efficiency without the cost of launching a new satellite?