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by 51Cards 12y ago
On the menu screen the date was Tuesday, June 2nd. June 2 was a Wednesday in 1999. Seems computers were having date issues even before Y2K had arrived. :) I find it interesting how so many devices in the video used analog inputs (namely d
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by 51Cards 12y ago
Actually I experimented with something like this. I tried blocking parts of the view but it didn't work. Honestly not sure why though. The hood did move a little with inertial responses and perhaps my brain perceived that as an inte
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by 51Cards 12y ago
Hopefully I'm not too late to weigh in on this one but I've experienced this personally for years. I am a person that experiences motion sickness from most 3D environments if on a sufficiently large screen. The effect became notic
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by 51Cards 12y ago
As a Canadian I just finally learned the real difference between a true Robertson and a "Square Drive". No wonder I keep stripping so many bits! Fascinating! See: Step 6: Square Drive
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by 51Cards 12y ago
I disagree. Life and business are always about ROI and that is a personal gauge. The developer is stating the reasons they feel the ROI has tipped not in their favour anymore. I think it's perfectly valid if disappointing from the c
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by 51Cards 12y ago
Bigger aircraft can cause another congestion issues however. Spacing between take-offs has to be increased due to turbulence effects and gate spacing becomes an issue if you can't get two of them side by side.
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by 51Cards 12y ago
Boeing saw this coming years ago. When the A380 was in progress they announced the 787 Dreamliner design saying they felt the industry was moving towards smaller more efficient planes on more personalized routes. The fact that orders for
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by 51Cards 12y ago
I saw this on the planned launch schedule a few days ago. The date mentioned there is 22 July 2015. I was surprised they were getting clearance to try so soon since they haven't quite nailed sea landings yet. I guess it could be argu
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by 51Cards 12y ago
Tested against three servers, one patched and two not. Small test but it correctly identified which was which.
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by 51Cards 12y ago
@elonmusk - "Looks like Falcon landed fine, but excess lateral velocity caused it to tip over post landing"
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by 51Cards 12y ago
Article aside for a moment, I find it fascinating that with this release so many people are discussing smart watches and their interfaces as something completely new with no established precedents. I've had my Pebble for almost 2 year
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Elon Musk: Tesla Model S will go farther on a charge(money.cnn.com)
7 points by 51Cards 12y ago|2 comments
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Robert Downey Jr. presents young fan with 3D-printed Iron Man arm(cnet.com)
1 points by 51Cards 12y ago|0 comments
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by 51Cards 12y ago
While I've been sad to see a lot of Google projects come to and end I think this one is justifiable. I don't know of any active projects still hosted there.
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by 51Cards 12y ago
True but not uncommon to just use one device for the marketing. Also went looking for the platform icons myself as I would have tried this out on Android.
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by 51Cards 12y ago
"Apple’s design team, software, and global distribution would actually LEVEL Tesla up." "Software"... lately? No. Sorry. Don't agree on design either. Thing is I'm not sure Elon wants to let go of Tesla. Te
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by 51Cards 12y ago
I was one who never left Firefox just because I found Chrome (while faster) to be too minimalist for my desires. I clung to Firefox's ability to be customized and to this day my layout is still reminiscent of browsers I started on in
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by 51Cards 12y ago
Agreed... sounds like a manifesto. Immediately undermined me taking their initiative seriously.
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by 51Cards 12y ago
Fascinating. My ZTE Open has been sitting on a shelf collecting dust... wonderful opportunity for reuse.
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by 51Cards 12y ago
I think it's an ergonomics thing. We have spent a lot of years building a world and tools modeled around the bipedal creatures that created them them. One of these would have a hard time going through a revolving or spring loaded door
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by 51Cards 12y ago
As do I. Edit: realizing this was a very short out of context comment. I use Firefox exclusively on Desktop and >50% on Mobile. Seeing the browser market start to fragment again is quite concerning.
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by 51Cards 12y ago
"The Uncanny Valley is a term that originated from the computer animation industry. In 1992, while finishing A Bug’s Life, Pixar had to build a digital valley for..." Ummm.... Wikipedia: "The term was coined by the robotics
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by 51Cards 12y ago
"For example, this concept is made to have only room for the injured person, which is a terrible thing. In many cases, the person will need qualified medical people to take care of him during the trip to the hospital, this makes it imp
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by 51Cards 12y ago
I found this on a NASA site about the purse: "Finally, in a 13 July 2005 e-mail, Neil Armstrong says that the flown Apollo 12 purse " looks just the way I remember it - but it looks cleaner than the one on Apollo 11." Sneaky
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by 51Cards 12y ago
I'm not sure I go with the temperature theory though it does explain the sun/lap loving behavior of cats in general. I have an adult Maine Coon and he is a walking fur factory. I have never seen so much hair on one cat. His acti
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by 51Cards 12y ago
"full RUD (rapid unscheduled disassembly)" Love the term. Edit: apparently comes from KSP.
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by 51Cards 12y ago
On top of what you've said I don't think enough people get the scale of this task. This is decelerating, balancing, and maneuvering a 14 story tall object, from supersonic speed at the edge of space, onto a tiny barge in the ocea
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SpaceX Has Pinpointed the Problem That Caused the Falcon9 to Crash Land(businessinsider.com)
189 points by 51Cards 12y ago|103 comments
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by 51Cards 12y ago
Adding this as a separate reply addressing some of the other comments here. Here is what I see to be the big use case for someone like me. Adapting your phone on a daily basis. I have days where battery life is everything, so I put in mor
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by 51Cards 12y ago
There has to be a boatload of prior-art around this.

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