NamTaf

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by NamTaf 10y ago
You could be right. My completely uneducated guesses would be, in order of likelihood: - an open patent rather than trade secret means that many manufactuers can make it with the comparitively lower barrier to entry of a patent licence rath
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by NamTaf 10y ago
I, too, can't see from the CSIRO article how costs will crash. It looks like they just discovered a wet spinning process and patented it. Maybe the OP's article theorises why this may be the case, but I can't load it. Is it j
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by NamTaf 10y ago
They are about as far from patent troll as you can get. They're basically a modern-day, government-funded Bell labs in that their mandate is to carry out fundamental scientific research. Their research spans a mind-bogglingly large num
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by NamTaf 10y ago
The best way I've heard it discussed is that too many people focus on the wrong word in HR. It's not Human Resources, it's Human Resources . Understanding that seems to be the critical step in getting HR and understandin
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Australia's the same - 'best before' aka 'it won't go very bad very quickly but it may be stale and unpleasant', and 'use by' aka 'this is milk and you know milk goes bad rapidly after a set time
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Certain beers do; particularly the lambics. They'll have a 'best after' date, or a 'best before' with 20 years in the future.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
To speak for the quality of internet here, my DSL syncs at about 5800/600 kbps on a good day (rain will drop that and enough of it will throw sync loss issues in to the mix also). I live 5km from the CBD of Brisbane, a city with a grea
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by NamTaf 10y ago
And they wonder why DCHubs were so prolific through the UQ colleges...
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by NamTaf 10y ago
>> As a side note, a friend from several years ago attended University of Queensland, and at that time they implemented a program to provide only extremely limited volume of bandwidth to students which made geographically distributed
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Counterpoint: a few years ago, having been stuck in abnormally high traffic on the way to the airport, I was running right on the cusp of the arbitrary check-in deadline for my flight. I began the automated checkin service, which was compar
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by NamTaf 10y ago
My point is that airspeed is a vector measured relative to something . In this case, it's set to a specific situation (25C/101.3kPa/0% humidity) and then measured relative to the stagnation pressure at that point because the
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by NamTaf 10y ago
I remember reading this news (and perhaps even this exact article - it certainly feels familiar) back when it was released and being so excited as a 15 year old gaming nerd. It really was a time when stuff was changing so rapidly - and thos
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by NamTaf 10y ago
My point was that we don't weigh ourself in 'newtons' despite that being what we are actually measuring. We make some reference conversion to a much more intuitive unit, kilograms. We rely on the fact that it's a pretty
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Why? Do you take issue to the fact that scales show you a measurement in kg rather than N despite it varying as you move around the world (and potentially with changes in temperature, depending on the type of scales)? Velocity/mass is
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Sure it can, but mechanical drives are just comparitively glacially slow agianst SSDs and 'general OS snappiness' is one of the major real-world examples of where you feel it.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
To be far I'm the same as the grandparent post, but I tend to stick to the legacy settings menus which still have everything and only encounter the new ones occasionally (ie: updates). I've learned enough of the new one to navigat
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by NamTaf 10y ago
When I grew up (in Australia) in the early-to-mid 90s I was allowed to roam quite a bit. The rough rule of thumb was that I would need to be home by sunset or have already called mum from a friend's house letting her know where I was a
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by NamTaf 10y ago
To be fair, in a recent brief visit to Switzerland I stayed with some friends in a small village near Zug and saw examples of this sort of attitude throughout more aspects of life than just child-raising. For example, many farmers were leav
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by NamTaf 10y ago
That doesn't really help, though, because now you ask eg: a Cyrillic speaker to use Latin characters in place of their own characters that are different but simply look the same. That's like us expecting Germans to use B instead o
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Agreed. I wasn't trying to make the point about "Japanese companies" (and I've edited my other post replying to patio to split the two comments I was making so that they're clearer) but rather about the process aspe
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by NamTaf 10y ago
For the public record, by quoting you I wasn't implying that you agreed with my #2 either. I just felt I gained a lot out of both points, that they both resonated with my experiences, and that they both articulated the lessons I'd
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Undoubtably that's a problem, I agree. Competent management helps minimise that, though. And I would not agree that the majority is existance justification. Then again, I'll disclaim that by saying I work in a Mech Eng. role, wher
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Oh, absolutely. Where something can be scripted, script it. Why? Because scripting is a process development . You write something, validate it and then remove the human error element. For things that you can't script, you write abstra
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by NamTaf 10y ago
I have a user and a local admin account at work on our Windows SOE. I have made my PC's cmd.exe show green on black in large font, but intentionally did not change the local admin. When I run a command prompt in admin it's visible
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Two points: 1) Patio11 touches on a very good lesson, in passing, in an article about Japanese business[1]: While raw programming ability might not be highly valued at many Japanese companies, and engineers are often not in positions of au
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by NamTaf 10y ago
I absolutely love that they're trying to reach a broader public engagement of their historical academic work through innovative events such as the pub nights. I mean it's pretty easy for this when your research is into brewing hab
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by NamTaf 10y ago
It blows my mind that approximately half the total costs of a game are marketing, especially for a series as big as GTA which presumably markets itself pretty well.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Yes I did, sorry. Thanks! Edited to fix that. I was of the understanding that some vertibrates were protostomes, but it appears I'm mistaken! Maybe this wasn't a common ancestor then, though it still begs the question how it went
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by NamTaf 10y ago
As I said, I would've liked to reword the original to say something along the lines of "Notwithstanding the valid criticisms about their cheating of emissions requirements..." and also clarified that the above experience I ha
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by NamTaf 10y ago
What I find fascinating about this is that humans and many other branches of the tree are Deuterostomes[1], which means that when the cells first divide the first 'hole' goes on to form the anus [2], rather than the mouth. This is

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