Politically Intotech

Dear Alex,I watch CNN on a daily basis. As you may...

2009-01-17T07:22:34.141-05:00

Dear Alex,

I watch CNN on a daily basis. As you may know, two days ago a passenger jet crashed into the Hudson river and no one on board was killed. It is a neat story.

However, approximately 30 of the last 48 hours of news coverage on CNN and CNNHeadlineNews have been dedicated to this "miraculous" event.

Please use your powers of thoughtful discourse and common sense

Check out the article in today's NY TImes magazine...

2008-10-05T12:59:49.813-04:00

Check out the article in today's NY TImes magazine called CAPITALISM TO THE RESCUE.

The real struggle in Star Trek, as in the real wo...

2008-10-05T12:46:16.247-04:00

The real struggle in Star Trek, as in the real world of ethics and morality, is the struggle between individual values and societal mores like "non-interference" or "relativism". In a specific situation, at one point does tolerance give way to justifiable interference? That line keeps shifting.

That's probably the technical reason for the diffe...

2008-06-17T09:54:05.625-04:00

That's probably the technical reason for the difference in performance and power usage. I'd be interested to see how the Wii uses those transistors versus the PS3 or 360

The real problem with game consoles is the heat di...

2008-06-16T22:53:43.526-04:00

The real problem with game consoles is the heat dissipated. I read in the IEEE spectrum that uprocessors dissipate over 90% of the power the consume in heat. One of the solutions is faster/more CMOS chips. CMOS chips use mosfets instead of BJTs which only consume power when switching, but are always slower to switch than BJTs.

also look at this picowatt processor (its for sensors)<