@Dizznizzle: I remember visiting the building almost 10 years ago, and either the people there were tired of us tourists asking or they were broken for sure, but the answer was that the apertures didn't work anymore. And they were all in different degrees of openess... so I guess there was some truth to it.
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@paral3ellum: Most FPGAs (the bigger ones) have SERDES interfaces that run at multiple gigabit/sec. SERDES are Serializer-De-Serializers which allow the FPGA to talk to the outside world. Its common to make 10Gigabit/s MAC layers in FPGAs. Once you converted the serial data to a parallel bit-stream, an FPGA could…
@Name of Numbers: They are pretty awesome.. they even have 4 dual-link DVI connectors on the back, as a single connector would only give something like 5hz refresh rate.
@Dr. What?: @Theologica: @bobbyjaeger0: Must concede to you guys that indeed, they do spark the creative mind quite a bit and certainly goes rounds and rounds at what passes for lab-class these days. Explosions are cool and are a way of getting people interested in science big way.
@DfizzleShizzle: I love Mythbusters, but come on, they try to pass their "research" as scientific, with "control" experiments and so on, but it couldn't be further from the thruth..
@Timmy: If you go out really far from any city and during a new moon, thats more or less what you'll see. Colors might be a bit flatter, but in terms of "density" of stars... thats almost the real deal. Amazing!!
@DittoBox: Chrome is based on WebKit as well....
@ircmaster: sorry man... so many fanatics here that its impossible to know ;-)
@imunalia: Me as well.. that's really annoying!!!
@willyu: The monitor in the picture is an apple Cinema Display.. and they do have a single cable. For some time, they would be powered off the video card. Nowadays they usually have a splitter in the cable
@ircmaster: as long as there are no exposed metallic contacts, you're fine. The iphone 3G (s), blackberrys and pretty much any modern phone have their antenna on the back.
@zomgzombies: The "gap" on the right is not a real gap. Is just cosmetic. So the bottom and all the way to the right side and up is the antenna. The other "half" is also an antenna. Touching the weak-spot connects both halves...
@4JustinB: even better... thanks for the tip!
An awesome read on Tesla, Marconi and the radio patents debacle. But also on the whole patent system and a very interesting criticism on how judges are asked to rule on techincal issues which are way beyond their knowledge field. Highly recommended!!
@HardwareWars: plus changing the password means breaking every single phone out there with a data plan. And not all can take over-the-air updates....
@dingus: sounds like a nasty hack indeed... A nice one, but nasty anyhow ;-)...
@dingus: Yes.. but anything else plugged into the line wouldn't like it... plus the (admittedly low) impedance of the line could cause quite some flukes.... At least back home (where my power meter also measures cos(fi) and I'm billed accordingly) I guess this would wreak havoc.
@timobrien1: except diodes have a voltage drop of 0.7 to 1.3 volts, so when using a bridge rectifier your voltage drop can be quite high. Higher indeed than the 1.5 volts of the battery.
@scaledatacom: Cisco also owns the iphone trademark... :)