Slashdot videos: Now with more Slashdot!

Sound like you could use one of these http://www.dinigroup.com/index.php?product=DNBFC_S12_PCIe

Intel. Between 28% and 31% typically. http://www.intc.com/intelAR2008/financial/statements/note23/index.html

Anyone who ever read a 10-K knows this is false. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1259259&cid=28234819

On a chip, adding 2^256-1 and 1 may not equal 2^256 when:

1. Your destination register is 256 bits.
2. Your destination register is in a different clock domain.
3. Your timing constraints are wrong.
4. Your power grid cannot support switching 256 registers.

Functional simulations will only catch #1.

List of FPGA prototyping boards. Xilinx software is free for certain FPGAs. http://www.fpga-faq.com/FPGA_Boards.shtml For books, the only one I know of with an emphasis on synthesis results that includes both VHDL and Verilog is "HDL Chip Design" by Douglas J. Smith. I highly recommend Verilog over VHDL even though I learned VHDL first. Also Xilinx has obscene amounts of documentation on their websitehttp://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/. Some of their whitepapers and app notes cover general logic design techniques.

Traffic laws vary by state. 2x2 riding is allowed in Texas but was NOT in Massachusetts until April 15th of 2009 http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/85-11b.htm. I'm curious which states allow bikes to ignore traffic control devices because the above two most certainly do not.

The business section of any bookstore is filled with writers who have perfected this business plan.

I believe this has been suggested using existing salt mines.

I have much more faith in NIF than ITER.

Statistics allows you to extrapolate results from a small sample set if, and only if, the the entire sample set follows a known statistical model.

I wish housing values weren't guaranteed either. Unfortunately the federal government has recently passed some extremely large spending programs designed specifically to do just that.

Intel had to license ARM technology from ARM, Ltd. This was not a viable long-term business strategy.

They sold it because it competed with their aspiration to have x86 enter the smartphone market. I don't think profitability had anything to do with it.

http://www.usdoj.gov/jmd/afp/07federalforfeiture/index.htm

This is true. However in this use case the energy radiates mostly cylindrically so to deprive other users of the signal the power receiver would have to be in directly between the transmitter and the signal receiver. Boats deal with this all the time when large freighters block everything(radio, radar, GPS). Most electromagnetic radiation is lost as heat anyway.