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Comment Commodore 64 (Score 1) 523

by entt on Monday September 19, 2022 @03:02AM (#62893969) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Computer?

My brother and I had a Commodore 64 with a magnetic tape drive. Our main use case was games, of course. A few times, my brother used BASIC to make some drawings on the screen. He is a software developer now. I prefferred playing FRP games of Dragonlance series and basketball games. Adjusting the tape drive for different tapes' speeds was a serious issue.

Comment all DNAs to database (Score 1) 316

by entt on Friday March 11, 2011 @07:59AM (#35451594) Attached to: DNA samples should be on record for...

I love statistics and from such an enormous database, very interesting scientific data could be fetched. Besides, everybody can break the law. When it is done. police should be able to detect that. Or it may be an accident, and you can be unconscious or dead. If you are worried about intellegence services, they do not need DNA, they can always get you.

Comment Common practice (Score 2, Interesting) 317

by entt on Monday February 02, 2009 @09:23AM (#26693119) Attached to: Local Police Want To Jam Wireless Signals

This is common practice in Turkey. In Istanbul near the prisons, it is hard to speak via mobile phones. They can not stop mobiles, so they jam the signal.

Journal Journal: Fuel cells for home use

Journal by entt on Thursday May 03, 2007 @09:55AM

A Turkish company Vestel (www.vestel.com.tr) announced natural-gas using fuel cells for home-use. It is planned to be commerical Q4 2007. In 2008, Vestel announces, the fuel-cells will be using water as hydrogen source. This is possibly going to be the first water-using fuel-cell for home-use. The main element for producing fuel-cells is boron (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boron) and %63 of natural resources is found in Turkey. Vestel says they developed a new and cheaper way to process boron.

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