Comment Re:From Wikipedia... (Score 1) 627
Tinnitus from CRTs? Couldn't that have been caused by the high frequency (15.625/15.734kHz) whine produced by many CRT TVs? In fact, that CRT whine does sound a lot like tinnitus by itself...
Comment Re:TFA says "18 microseconds", not "18 seconds" (Score 1) 127
Sigh. Strange that a million of something is e7, but a millionth of something is e-8. European number system fail.
You were off by one the other way, one microsecond is e-6. And a million of something is e6, not e7, just as a millionth of something is e-6.
Intel Developers Demo USB 3.0 Throughput On Linux 231
Sarah Sharp writes "Intel's Open Source Technology Center is working on USB 3.0 support for Linux. USB 3.0 has wire speeds of 5Gbps and promises to be 10 times faster than USB 2.0. A recent video demo shows speeds that are 3.5 times faster than USB 2.0. The USB 3.0 drivers will be submitted to the mainline kernel when the eXtensible host controller interface (xHCI) specification reaches a 1.0 release."
Comment Re:Language barriers (Score 2, Informative) 588
There is a HUGE difference between "somehow able to communiate in English" and "being able to enjoying an english piece of media"
Yeah, but probably not the way you think... It's much easier to learn enough to understand a language, than it is to communicate in it.
