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Aren't analog signals exactly what we'd want to be looking for? I.e. we don't want to find civilization's who have our latest technology finally reach us from far away, they'd be ridiculously far ahead of us when we finally recieved those newer signals it'd be unrealistic to interface with...

I did this about a year ago for a Computer Vision class. The way we did it was to analyze a set of faces (for us the 20+ people in the class) and generate what they called "eigenfaces", which are analagous to eigenvectors when solving Linear systems. These won't look like faces for the most...

I was just at the BestBuy in Bellevue, WA and they had some people doing a survey that was connected to Xbox Live and Media Center PC somehow. The survey was quick (2-3 minutes if you read fast, 5 if you read slow) and you got a $5 gift card out of it. I asked and they said they'd be there...

I was just at the Target in Redmond, WA and noticed a large (~25) stack of folding camping chairs, the ones that colapse inwards to fit in their 3 ft long, 6-10 inch diameter bags, on Clearance. They're great for watching sporting events at fields that don't have bleachers too, and these...

It's an apartment and old, so things like crawl space aren't exactly in existence in it. I'd personally agree with the cable on the ceiling, but the lady friend won't go for that. Are those wireless transmitter/recievers okay for quality? I mean it only has to go like 10-15ft. Also, i have...

Hi, I'm looking for a way to wirelessly transmit my cable signal in my house. My cable outlet is in a bad place for where I want my TV, so I'd like to hook up a transmitter at the outlet to turn the signal wireless, then have a reciever at the digital cable box to receive it and turn it back to...

Hi, I'm looking for a way to wirelessly transmit my cable signal in my house. My cable outlet is in a bad place for where I want my TV, so I'd like to hook up a transmitter at the outlet to turn the signal wireless, then have a reciever at the digital cable box to receive it and turn it back...

You can upload pics to walmart.com and order 4x6 prints for $0.26/print and pick them up for free. It takes a few days usually (which I don't really understand why, it'd seem easy to have them ready the next day), but its pretty cheap, widely available, doesn't require a membership and lets you...

I checked out this monitor last night at bb against the kogi. Now i didn't do any games, but for reading text i actually thought the kogi was better. Here's what i think the vpr's downfall is: The vga cord is long, like 12 ft long. At first the CSR person had it plugged into an extension...

Perhaps you should try e mailing panasonic or sony or someone who makes audio devices for cars and see how they handle it (tell them you're doing a student project ;^). I mean the problem is analagous to an in-dash cd player stopping itself from spinning and turning off when the car is shut...

I think you could add a small item to bring the total before rebates to over $100 (its $99.98 as it stands) and then call up to use a office max 25 off 100 to save an additional $5. Just my $0.02 ... get it $100 - $99.98 = .... oh never mind thanks for the deal

A microcontroller will be responsible for implementing the correct algorithm to match each VGA resolution/freqeuency to the NTSC standard. I'm in school for computer engineering, so i have plenty of access to both parts and facilities for assembling/testing, but most of the parts can be gotten...

Perhaps yes, perhaps no. TV Out on older cards requires the screen to be set at the same resolution as the picture out to the TV (namely 640x480 or 800x600), whereas I'd rather have nice graphics on my monitor and have them display as best they can on the tv. Also I have a laptop with no TV...

I'm looking for some formulas/methods (very explicit) to convert resolutions to smaller sizes. Specifically I want to know the formula(s) scan converters use to get from 1280x1024 at 85Hz (and lower) down to the NTSC format. I.e if i had a screen frame in a buffer from a 1280x1024 85Hz signal...

That was a fairly good, albeit long, description of a out-of-order superscalar processor. However, I think the question to stay on topic should be asked: Did Sunner want to know the optimal length for pipelining in the strictest sense (i.e. direct extensions of the orignal MIPS 5 stage...