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by jbester 13y ago
The original 747-100 /was/ spacious on international flights, the upper deck had a lounge and a piano. This wasn't due to some bygone era where passengers weren't treated like cattle, it was due to the underpowered JT9
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by jbester 13y ago
They have it right, LDR acts differently if it's a register argument or register plus offset vs a immediate. The immediate pseudo-instruction: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.... T
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by jbester 13y ago
Papilio one and papilio pro are both under $100 Vendor - https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11158 OEM - http://papilio.cc/
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by jbester 13y ago
Keep in mind, ITAR and AECA regulations are concerned with export weapons and weapons systems to non-US entities. The munitions list (USML) includes everything from guns to airplanes. The regulations themselves go well beyond physical as
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by jbester 13y ago
Allegedly, Samsung is pursuing tizen as a browser based os for their devices[1]. This seems accelerated after the Motorola mobile acquisition. I'm guessing they are looking at that as a technology to incorporate or a hedge. [1] http://m.
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by jbester 13y ago
Not sure I buy either of the metaphors. Silver has industrial, scientific, and commercial (i.e., jewelry) applications that create demand and use the commodity. Bitcoin, on the other hand, does not. It's just used as a transitional curr
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by jbester 13y ago
Historically, spikes in income inequality have been a harbinger of a recession - the theory is it can indicate misapplication of capital. In that investment income is outpacing growth in the underlying economy (using worker's income as a
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by jbester 13y ago
I'm guessing it's aimed more at the embedded/system programming crowd. Visual Studio is a PITA when you aren't targetting Win32. Right now we use eclipse which has pretty substandard C++ support.
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by jbester 14y ago
Technically, he's charged with espionage and giving aid to the enemy. With the stated motive of "sparking a public debate" regarding current war policy, a more targeted leak would have achieved the stated goal, in line, with, say, the pen
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by jbester 14y ago
In 2011, Wired posted[1] the transcript of conversations between Bradley Manning and Lamo, the man who informed on him. It's an interesting read and gives a window, albeit a small one, into his mental state and underlying motives. I would
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by jbester 14y ago
Light on dark can be really hard to read for anyone with a pronounced astigmatism. The background color bleeds into text dramatically lowering the contrast. On computer displays, black on pure white can cause the same issue to a lesser eff
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by jbester 14y ago
Looking at the code, UDP/Broadcast is used only for negotiation. After negotation, a TCP socket is used for the actual transfer.
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by jbester 14y ago
It's neat. I noticed a couple of subtle bugs. 1) The code assumes both the client and the server have the same endian. This can be issue since a uint32 is used for both the synchronization code (BCP_CODE) and the port. This can easily fi
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by jbester 14y ago
The user supernodes were mostly retired after microsoft bought Skype. See: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-s...
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by jbester 14y ago
Sounds similar to NT (No Text) on usenet...
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by jbester 14y ago
This is already pretty common at the college-level.
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by jbester 14y ago
Agreed with parent. The burdened rate (that is pay, plus benefits, plus company overhead) for a decent sized software company will easily be $200 - $800 /hr depending on location and company size. Lawyers are licensed and specialized - the
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by jbester 14y ago
The proposal is to keep LTS releases - but lose the interim releases. I assume after an LTS release you'd be given an option "upgrade" to the next LTS testing branch which give you updates until it that LTS is released.
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by jbester 14y ago
I should add: the value proposition for mono is a bit bizarre. On the server, typically mono is chosen because mono on linux is much cheaper than azure, or windows hosting (AWS, etc) therefore you trading slightly more development and setu
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by jbester 14y ago
Ximian has a plugin ( http://mono-tools.com/ ) that lets you remote deploy/debug mono applications from Visual studio - it was free after a survey not sure if it still is or if it will be updated to vs 2012. There are other tools sharpdevel
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by jbester 14y ago
.NET Micro framework is actually a different beast in that's it's close to the metal but it's not compiled to a specific architecture. The MF is a bytecode interpreter vs the mainline dotnet framework which is JIT'd or AOT compiled (with
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by jbester 14y ago
You're forgetting washington DC
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by jbester 14y ago
It's been rebranded ecomstation and it's sold through another vendor now.
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by jbester 14y ago
FWIW, One of the links in the article http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/alzheimers-diabetes-brain indicated a correlation between nitrates and Alzheimer's. This has also been published elsewhere http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07
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by jbester 14y ago
Most hotels have the a) long skinny security latches (i.e. http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=16874026 ) - those are specifically used so they can be opened by hotel staff using a special tool ( http://www.nathosp.com/product/sl2/ho
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by jbester 14y ago
If these work like they used to - the connector is used to sync the lock with the key machines at the front desk. It requires a reprogram if the master keys need to change (ie someone is fired), batteries die in the lock, etc. Additionall
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by jbester 14y ago
Macon is a town with a large blue-collar population that lost most of the major industries in the last 15 years. This is part of a multi-pronged approach to get Foreign-owned companies to locate low-skill jobs in the city.
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by jbester 14y ago
In python 1.X it was a function under the string module. This is maintained in 2.x but goes away in 3.x. string.join(['1','2','3'], ' ') == ' '.join(['1','2','3'])
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by jbester 14y ago
Defense and aerospace - even there we are seeing more Linux for non-safety critical software
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by jbester 14y ago
It's one of the MISRA rules - implicit comparisons aren't allowed.

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