nobody31

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by nobody31 15y ago
A lot of which are already shot on things like the Canon 5d - but yes it's good news
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by nobody31 15y ago
Except that Lucent have no real reason to put firmware in a fiber switch to read your email as it goes down the tubes. A company that makes all it's money from targetted ads - might
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by nobody31 15y ago
It's also part of crazy Hollywood acounting. The more you can charge against the film the better, that's why flops like Titanic and Empire strikes back still haven't made a profit You don't want the film company to actually own anything bec
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by nobody31 15y ago
so we are shooting a $500M movie, $star$ is costing us $250M of that and the advertising budget is another $300M Can we see if we can get a deal on the camera rental?
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by nobody31 15y ago
We will end up with a whole bunch of pyramid schemes advertised on lamp posts that use this as a way of separating idiots from their money
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by nobody31 15y ago
Where does it say on harvard.edu that they wont kill students and harvest their organs? Edit: Oh sorry forgot that people in the land of the free don't have a human rights act preventing Google reading their email (not sure about harvesting
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by nobody31 15y ago
It does however tend to color your judgement about how professional and reliable this service is. If they risked their future on the stability of the Somalia domain registry - just so they could have a quirky domain name. Calling yourself s
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by nobody31 15y ago
dupe - http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/11/two-decades-...
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by nobody31 15y ago
It fails when a certain proportion of the filament has evaporated. The evaporation rate is pretty constant, assuming either a getter or large enough bulb that the evaporated tungsten doesn't change the environment. So you would expect some
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by nobody31 15y ago
So on one side you run a T-test to see if the correlation is significant. On the other side you have the ability to phrase it as a question in the same language as Aristotle.
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by nobody31 15y ago
Yes it was different in the middle ages, it has changed now. Only 10% of UK government ministers went to Eton and only 70% to Oxford and Cambridge so the power of the old-boys network is disappearing.
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by nobody31 15y ago
Presumably the greatest minds in computer science sat down and decided that silverlight was the optimum technology Or perhaps they were suspended over a tank of piranha by an evil laughing Bill Gates somewhere in the basement of http://cs
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by nobody31 15y ago
Yep - you know it's the "end of days" when you look back on Microsoft as the hey-day of freedom in computers! See the shiny aluminium laptop - don't worry about not being allowed to own the stuff on it - look shiny. We have a funny logo som
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by nobody31 15y ago
competitiveness only matters when you have competitors. So if you are an engineering company and you work like this you will be destroyed by countries with more meritocratic hiring systems. If you don't have any competitors because you work
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by nobody31 15y ago
Successful go to elite college, successful only hire from elite college, therefore to be successful you go to elite college. Of course this system eventually breaksdown. But for Eton school it's worked since 1440, for Oxford since 1096, Ca
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by nobody31 15y ago
>Half a mil to learn about Poetry Writing. Sorry, but that's just silly. Half a mil so that when you apply for a job at $MEGA-CORP or in government the hirer says "Oh you went to %SCHOOL%, same as me" welcome to our management fast-trac
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by nobody31 15y ago
ICBM's use inertial and (in the case of Trident) star mappers. The reason they don't use GPS is that you would (hopefully) only start throwing ICBMs around if you are in "nucular combat toe to toe with the Rooskies" - and the way you know
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by nobody31 15y ago
Depends on the desired outcome. For self destruct systems you probably want all three to agree before going bang - while for an emergency escape system you probably want any one of three to be sufficent to deplay.
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by nobody31 15y ago
Money back if not entirely satisfied!
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by nobody31 15y ago
But you don't need all that stuff any more - you have garbage collection !
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by nobody31 15y ago
Nice that the prospect of some competition is stirring things up! The Beagleboard was nice but at $150 - unless you REALLY needed the small size you could buy an old laptop for less and get a screen/keyboard/disk/network/PSU
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by nobody31 15y ago
Same reason you can't be a mechanical engineer without having taken a shop class. You can sit in front a CAD and FEM package all day - but if you don't appreciate how the things will actually be built you aren't going to be a really good e
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by nobody31 15y ago
Mr Stallman recently said that although he regretted Mr Job's death, he wasn't sorry that the creator of the walled garden of locked down consumer computing devices was no more. This caused some discussion along the lines of Mr Stallman : 1
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by nobody31 15y ago
If ONLY cs undergrads knew everything in code. I'm still trying to teach some of them that a memory copy isn't instant.
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by nobody31 15y ago
I fed a game of Dwarf Fortress into Perl and my computer became self aware
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by nobody31 15y ago
Generally buying national map data is expensive in europe. The naming of streets is also quite complex, if the street has been there for 1000years then it's likely that various of layers of government aren't quite in synch with what they ar
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by nobody31 15y ago
Microsoft don't ship a C compiler Adding C99 features to their C++ compiler would be nice be probably not cost effective for them
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by nobody31 15y ago
I meant Best (member of the set of) long articles! Calibre can pull from news sites and format to epub then donwload to your ebook readr IITC
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by nobody31 15y ago
The best long (56page) wired article is the famous Neal Stephenson piece on fibre optic cables http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html
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by nobody31 15y ago
Hospitals tend to notice clusters of people dying of radiation poisoning - at least in places with hospitals. In places without hospitals - I'm sure the contents of a lot of these machines end up being dumped in the 3rd world, to be 'recycl

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