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This site is about recreating gaming hardware from the past in modern programmable devices. They currently have Pacman, Space Invaders and Galaxian implemented in FPGAs." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://c64upgra.de/c-one/ 2. http://www.fpgaarcade.com/ Palm PDA Roundup http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/2224259 [0]Melvin writes "[1]Hardware Extreme has a [2]roundup featuring some of the top [3]PalmOS based PDAs in the market (and a few coming out in the 2nd and 3rd Quarter). Being a geek's gadget, :) I would recommend you guys to check out this roundup if you are planning to get a new Palm PDA." Links 0. http://www.hwextreme.com 1. http://www.hwextreme.com/ 2. http://www.hwextreme.com/reviews/misc/showcase10 3. http://www.palmsource.com/ NEAT Comet Crossing: Internet Telescopes http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/207210 An anonymous reader writes "During a large solar coronal mass ejection, this week's [0]NEAT Comet crossing, gave some spectacular film footage. While no comet with such a small nucleus has ever survived that kind of close solar approach (one-fourth of Mercury's orbit) without fragmenting, this one did-- and is now [1]outward bound on its 370 century roundtrip. These new comet discoveries have filled the log files of the now [2]70 big robotic telescope projects, most of which are being connected to the internet. The largest ($3 M) research-class one [3]for public use--the Hawaiian [4]Faulkes Project--will [5]see first light in 45 days." Links 0. http://www.astrobio.net/news/article381.html 1. http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2003_02_12/ 2. http://alpha.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~hessman/MONET/links.html 3. http://www.faulkes-telescope.com/images/Physics_world_D_Faulkes_article.jpg 4. http://www.faulkes-telescope.com/ 5. http://www.faulkes-telescope.com/How_it_will_work.htm HDTV via GNU Radio http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/1958243 NortonDC writes "[0]High Definition TV has been successfully captured in its native data stream from an over the air broadcast by a software defined radio that is Free and open source from the [1]GNU Software Defined Radio project." Links 0. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/images/hdtv-samples.html 1. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/gnuradio.html The Taste of Pain http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/193242 An anonymous reader writes "The more the human genome is unraveled and previously non-genetic based attributes are now associated with a specific genetic function, such as [0] physical and emotional pain and [1]taste, it seems, to me, that our personalities appear to be much less influenced by out environment and more by our genes." A [2]related article links your [3]sense of taste to your risk for cancer, heart disease, etc. Links 0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993423 1. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993396 2. http://www.psycport.com/stories/comtex_2003_02_14_up_0000-3435-.dsthealthcare_01.xml.html 3. http://www.nature.com/nsu/010222/010222-13.html Reason on IP Protection and Creativity http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/1837229 rnturn writes "A long but interesting [0]article over at [1]Reasononline discusses a paper written by a pair of economists and published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (!) and the reactions to it of several other economists. A snippet from the article: 'Moreover, U.S. court decisions in the 1980s that strengthened patent protection for software led to less innovation. "Far from unleashing a flurry of new innovative activity," Maskin and Bessen write, "these stronger property rights ushered in a period of stagnant, if not declining, R&D among those industries and firms that patented most."' Not exactly news to most readers but it appears that their paper is making waves in economic circles." Links 0. http://www.reason.com/0303/fe.dc.creation.shtml 1. http://www.reason.com/ Apple is Going Out of Business ... Again http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/152252 gsfprez writes "Its been a while ... and strangely, the world almost seemed empty without the constant drumbeat of how Apple is on the verge of going out of business. If you're a fan like i am, then you're in luck, because this [0]Canadian tech journalist didn't get the memo that Apple's been going out of business longer than most tech journalists have been in business. And besides, someone needs to [1]let Robert Thomson know: when writing a story on how Apple is about to die, [2]you [3]have [4]to [5] call [6] them "beleaguered". Come on, that's [7]Tech Journalism 101, people. In any case, he brings up no new points to bolster his argument: he confuses his personal inability to use third-party software that works fine for most of us with legitimate bad third-party support, and uses this to draw his illogical conclusion. Illogical because it's the same reasons/unrealized conclusions that were the staple of tech journalism from 1985-1999." Links 0. http://www.canada.com/technology/story.html?id=C4573230-4B60-4F1D-9901-D1B26D4D2C6C 1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. http://www.businessweek.com/1997/05/b351227.htm 3. http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_679.html 4. http://www.fool.com/community/views/2001/view010503.htm 5. http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_762.html 6. http://www.itworld.com/Comp/4011/CWSTO58604/ 7. http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/1998.shtml Build Your Own Weather Balloon http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/1711242 [0]Leeji writes "Here is an interesting read about one geek's [1]project to build and launch a weather balloon. The flight recorder is a small $200 [2]Soekris Engineering computer running [3]Bering Linux. It also uses a Garmin GPS, HAM packet radio, an automated Aiptek Pencam Trio digital camera, army surplus batteries, and lots of [4]geek duct tape." Links 0. http://slashdot AT leeholmes DOT com 1. http://shark.dls.net/~jmeehan/balloon/ 2. http://www.soekris.com/ 3. http://leaf.sourceforge.net/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=904&page_id=21 4. http://www.perl.org/ "Clone Wars" Cartoon Shorts on Cartoon Network http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/1456232 [0]snilloc writes "[1]Starwars.com announces that [2]Cartoon Network will carry [3]"Star Wars: Clone Wars" cartoon shorts in order to bridge the gap between Episodes 2 and 3. I guess this means we won't be seeing the Clone Wars in Ep3, as many of us had hoped. On the bright side, we get our SW fix in twenty 2-3 minute shorts. We can only hope against hope that they won't suck." Links 0. mailto:jlcollins@@@hotmail...com 1. http://www.starwars.com/ 2. http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/ 3. http://www.starwars.com/eu/news/2003/02/news20030220.html >From DRM to Rights Management Services http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/1441237 [0]miladus writes "[1]Microsoft has formed an academic [2]Think Tank on Trustworthy Computing. The Academic Board is to advise Microsoft on 'security, privacy and reliability enhancements in[...] products and technologies so that Microsoft can obtain critical feedback on product and policy issues related to its Trustworthy Computing.' An [3]interview with two members of the board is an interesting read, especially concerning the global implications of privacy. Of note, is the absence of DRM discussion. But DRM shows up as 'Rights Management Services' in the promised [4]Widows Rights Management Services to be released later this year. it will deliver a 'platform-based approach to persistent policy rights for Web content and sensitive corporate documents of all types'" Links 0. http://www.miladus.org/mt 1. http://www.microsoft.com/ 2. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/Feb03/02-20TWCAABPR.asp 3. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2003/Feb03/02-20TWCBoardasp 4. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/Feb03/02-21RMSForWindowsServerPR.asp ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe - If you do not wish to subscribe to Slashdot, go to: http://www.osdn.com/newsletters/unsubscribe.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright (c)1999-2002 Open Source Development Network. All rights reserved.
