The really funny thing is an AVR like the one they are using probably is equal to a substantial portion of the world's digital computing power in 1958.

A bit of searching leads me to strongly believe they are using cherry as an OEM, they make good keyboards, don't get me wrong, but a Cherry mechanical switched keyboard should be $60-70.

DasKeyboard's original no screened letter keyboards was a cheap mitsui (IIRC) keyboard in black without screenprinting on the letters. For which they marked up the price 700%.

So it is not really that surprising, but I do wonder which cheap OEM keyboard this one is.

#1 Alphanumeric should be fine to protect against attacks. Besides aren't most attacks on WoW accounts through compromised software, and phishing? Certainly that is the impression given.

#1 The game was 2.5d, 3d chars against 2d backdrops. They used screen shots, and just duplicated a rough kind of 3d moving system (i.e. near/far, and exclusions) Much Much easier then duplication of art.

Yes they do need step 3 as it is where all the fun happens

3. Use existing microcontrollers to control a rapidly spinning mirror. Use a simple revolution counter to determine that state of the orange juice can, with some work you should be able to match outputs for a wide range of juice can spin speeds. Remember that friction will change as parts wear, so make the friction correction be self adapting. Build a dark enclosure. Develop intake stages for HDTV signal acquisition and decompression. Sadly you will probably not be able to use HDMI due to DRM concerns, but component should be fine.

#8 posted by garys , April 3, 2008 10:10 AM

Very stupid by the banks. They could easily talk to the owners and get them agree to not make any mortgage payments for say 10 years while leaving the mortgage in place. No foreclosure costs, no dispossessed homeowners, and gee, less evil in the world. And the banks get to retain at least the hope of collecting on the debt one day.

And then the homeowner tells everybody they know how Countrywide Mortgage (or whomever) will pretty much just give them a 10 year free note on their house if they just don't pay...

Resulting in everyone not paying Countrywide.

The foreclosure is strictly punitive, but then again there is no reason if you aren't paying for the house you should get the house.

Of course Barry mentions a that NY apparently has stretched its laws to require controlling parties to look after a house.

Oh and as for the idea that the city/county can take these homes and turn them into low income housing, etc. Those dreams are rather far fetched. In most areas where this sort of abandonment is occurring homes are not overpriced, and the homes that are abandoned are the ones that have been stripped, or otherwise damaged.

"harmless circuit board" ?

Like someone is going to go "Oh golly gee there is this random circuit board plugged in, that isn't mine, but that must be harmless..."

Good god, in today's paranoid culture you'd be lucky if someone didn't call the bomb squad.