Arjuna

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by Arjuna 15y ago
"I can't decide between The Prestige, Inception, and maybe Dark Knight." I'm surprised that Memento didn't make your Christopher Nolan short-list. Perhaps you didn't care for it, you haven't seen it, or you simply forgot to add it. If y
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"You just cited a source for parent's assertion, although I'm not sure you realize." I disagree with this, because the funds available under the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) loan program are not related to the Trouble
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by Arjuna 15y ago
"Tesla was bailed out with government loans." Respectfully, can you please cite a source for this assertion? Emphasis in italics is mine: "The loans are part of the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program, which provides incenti
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Europeans Work To Live And Americans Live To Work [pdf](people.hmdc.harvard.edu)
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by Arjuna 15y ago
"[...] what's an 'Operational Detachment Alpha'?" It is a military element of the United States Army Special Forces [1]. [1] Section on ODA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Forces_%28United_State...
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by Arjuna 15y ago
If you are interested in physics and have not seen Dr. Feynman's 7-part lecture series entitled The Character of Physical Law , you really owe it to yourself to watch them in their entirety [1]. The site's interface has some neat features,
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by Arjuna 15y ago
I mentioned this yesterday [1], but I am repeating it here, because I believe that it is a critical piece of the conversation. The consequences of failing to maintain the battery are clearly stated by Tesla Motors in the owner's manual. I
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by Arjuna 15y ago
"However the battery management system of the Roadster won't allow the car to reach that low level of charge." I realize that you are quoting the article, but the owner's manual is simply not in agreement with this sentence. From the Roadst
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by Arjuna 15y ago
"I've always wondered what the legal specifics of using the included loops and samples in Logic, Reason etc are [...]" I cannot speak for all music composition hardware and software, but from my experience, the primary constraints on the
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by Arjuna 15y ago
"But those sources you list describe several types of check valves, all of which have moving parts." Most all check valves use moving parts; the Tesla Valve is novel because it does not. I added the sources for those that might want to sa
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by Arjuna 15y ago
"[...] my guess is that it's at the analogous level of a waveguide." In the field of fluid dynamics, it is referred to as a check valve. [1][2] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_valve [2] http://www.spiraxsarco.com/resources/ste
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This is a super netlabel for the trance listener: http://www.ektoplazm.com All of their music is released under a Creative Commons license for non-commercial purposes. They offer a wide variety of trance genres, including Goa, Progressive
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by Arjuna 15y ago
Try this link [1]. It appears to be slightly different from the one in the original submission. This link allows donations in various currencies, although some are only available via credit card, while others require the use of PayPal. The
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by Arjuna 15y ago
It is a patent issue [1]. Check out draw_common.cpp [2] - the patent work-around is contained in the RB_T_Shadow method: // patent-free work around if ( !external ) { // "preload" the stencil buffer with the number of volumes
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"Would like to know more about the differences." Avionics software development is primarily concerned with software that is designed and developed to operate in an embedded system [1]. There is also a focus on real-time performance [2] wi
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"Given that he's speaking of whole numbers, the number zero comes to mind, which satisfies this. So his whole proof is shot." Both Wikipedia [1] and Wolfram [2] indicate that there are varying interpretations regarding which integers are
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by Arjuna 15y ago
This is an interesting paper on the topic: Determination of the CNGS Global Geodesy [1]. It discusses how the distance traveled by the neutrino beam was calculated. It covers GPS measurements, tidal effect considerations, the Sagnac effec
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Microsoft's Army Of Lawyers Was No Match For A Kid From Kent State(clevescene.com)
9 points by Arjuna 15y ago|4 comments
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Programming Pitfall Harry [pdf](pcmuseum.ca)
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Engineering The 10,000 Year Clock(spectrum.ieee.org)
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John Glenn's Heuer Stopwatch(onthedash.com)
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by Arjuna 15y ago
"The Chinese vehicles in the article were robotic. The electronics did the docking, not a pilot." The Kosmos 186 and Kosmos 188 docking, achieved by the USSR in 1967, was unmanned and completely automated.
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The World's First Belt-Driven Watch(twistedsifter.com)
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Check out "Graphics Programming Black Book" [1] by Michael Abrash [2]. If you have not read his work, you are in for a treat. He has a wonderful writing style that is both engaging and illuminating. There are a number of chapters [3] in t
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by Arjuna 15y ago
This is largely due to John Carmack and his philosophy regarding OSS [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_carmack#Free_software
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Regarding the circuit board, I find it intellectually satisfying to see that he placed the date that he made the clock onto it (8/8/1970). How many times have you opened something up and asked, "I wonder when this was made?"
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The author references "I... A... S... India, Alpha, Sierra", and I immediately recognized those as words from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet [1]. I have found it to be a wonderful tool when I need to spell out loud. Now that I have the alphab
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"Wasn't he defying that philosophy, she asked, by making computers and other products that people coveted?" Buddhism expresses a distinction between a thing in and of itself and an individual's interpretation of a thing . "Computers an
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Thank you for sharing your experiences. I am also a car enthusiast. Have you driven an Ariel Atom [1]? Granted, it is less practical than the Tesla Roadster; however, the cost is considerably less, and you could easily afford a secondary ca
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Computer Animations Of Physical Processes(physics-animations.com)
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