admford

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by admford 13y ago
I also received this email, and there have been a number of similar emails in the past that seem to be from the same person/group that advocate various conspiracy theories. You can probably find copies of those emails on forums or othe
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by admford 13y ago
Personally, I think that universities in Italy just stuff you full of theory and practical, hands on work is extremely limited. I did Aerospace Engineering in Milan, and it was all books and nothing else (I started supplementing my studies
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by admford 13y ago
Same here, been out of the States for 15 years and family have our own business. We've been paying taxes locally and filing tax returns yearly for the States. There's a minimum which one can make before they have to pay taxes to the US (abo
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by admford 13y ago
A bit of a stupid argument by the blog's author. Marathon, Marathon 2 (1994, 1996) were released originally only for Mac OS, and only later ported to PC. Heck, even Halo was originally supposed to be a Mac only product, before Bungie was bo
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by admford 13y ago
Oil cooling in general is more useful in overclocking situations where one uses a TEC. The main problem with TEC cooling is that you can get under 0 degrees, and that leads to condensation on the logic board (not something one would want).
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by admford 14y ago
Oh this is a classic move by Nvidia. I had a gaming PC with two GeForce 8800 GTX cards in it. I used a softmod to get them to be recognised as Quadro 4600's so I could work better in Solidworks. NVidia makes decent video cards and such, but
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by admford 14y ago
100km per charge is about 62 miles. That's less than what's advertised for the Nissan Leaf. Given the cost, I also wonder how well will it hold up to EU and US crash tests. Also, the brochure says it's top speed is 83km/h (51mph). The Leaf
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by admford 14y ago
> Visit NY for a week or two. I can also agree to this. I was more or less in the same boat (possibly a bit worse at times). I had my idea for a startup and decided to use it as an objective to get me moving forward again. The first ste
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by admford 14y ago
The problem with a pod system is weight and complexity. Generally speaking, you'd need to create at least two pressure vessels (main cabin, and cockpit), which would have to be joined by a hermetically sealed passage. Between the inner pod,
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by admford 14y ago
1. You can probably design a cross structure that would hold cabin cylinders as so: O|O --- O|O But it creates a problem. The surface area of an A380 is about 1009 mˆ2 (45 meters long, 7.14 wide). If we use four 727 (a narrow body airliner)
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by admford 14y ago
Interesting article, but there are some flaws in the author's reasoning. 1. Containerizing passenger space. Not a good idea, it would require a massive re-engineering effort in the structure of the cabin, since a whole tube is a much more r
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by admford 14y ago
Much like Nixon's Madman theory when it came to US foreign policy in the early 70's.
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by admford 14y ago
From the Evernote support pages: What type of encryption does Evernote Use? If you encrypt text within a note, we derive a 64-bit RC2 key from your passphrase and use this to encrypt the text. This is the longest symmetric key length permit
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by admford 14y ago
Ugh, real nice. The country which I live in is in 72nd position. Given the next elections here, I wouldn't be surprised if we dropped even lower. Third from last in ALL the EU nations isn't something a country should stand for.
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by admford 14y ago
Seems that Twitter it's self is trying to fill the hole left by Instagram. http://allthingsd.com/20121208/twitter-aims-to-release-photo...
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by admford 14y ago
It might just be me, but the Apple logo seems to be a sticker put on the ad, and not an icon in the actual picture. The other icons and shapes are a bit skewed on the screen due to orientation & perspective, while the Apple logo isn't.