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by RK 18y ago
You can send a message to any phone yet you don't see SMS spam. I definitely get SMS spam. I think part of the profit model on SMS spam is that they are high-cost, opt-in messages (that you didn't sign up for). The senders are using a r
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by RK 18y ago
The teleportation requires a classical, light speed signal to instruct the information recipients which type of measurement to perform. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation michael_nielsen is really the guy to ask. He "wrot
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by RK 18y ago
In the field I trained for, a PhD's median salary is only about 6% higher than someone with a master's. On the other hand, the spread of salaries for PhD's is much larger, mostly due to the amazingly unfounded assumption that a PhD somehow
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by RK 18y ago
I have a feeling we would have seen the same result if her class would have required OpenOffice and her laptop only had MS Office. Of course it would not have been on the news if that were the case.
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by RK 18y ago
To answer your question, with my current config (Ubuntu Eee 8.04) standard def plays fine. HD from sites like vimeo definitely stutters. Youtube does some sort of resolution detection and always gives a "this video has been removed" error
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by RK 18y ago
Apparently you use legos to build a stand.
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by RK 18y ago
My Eee PC 701 outputs at full 1360 x 768 on my 720p LCD TV. I can't imagine this tablet having less "power" than the Eee PC 701. On the other hand, I would be a little surprised if the final version did have VGA out.
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by RK 18y ago
I actually meant split the on-screen keyboard, with one half at either side of the screen where your thumbs would be.
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by RK 18y ago
They could split the keyboard in a way that would make it thumb-able.
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by RK 18y ago
I just had my mother-in-law pick up some Blundstones for me in Melbourne for about 63 USD, whereas if I want to order them in the US they're at least 145 USD. So I vote for #2 as well :)
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by RK 18y ago
I think there is also an incredible amount of competition for the junior faculty positions as well. One of my friends, who recently started a physics post-doc at Caltech is convinced that he will have to eventually go into the private sect
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Google opens Jaiku source code(arstechnica.com)
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by RK 18y ago
No. Science is the study of the natural world and his argument that CS meets this requirement fails. Think about mathematics. Just because mathematicians are interested in, say, calculus, and calculus can be used to model physical phenome
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by RK 18y ago
I meant a red herring in the sense that alternative medicine is not really an alternative to actual medicine.
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by RK 18y ago
Maybe you should try working on some open source projects and or your own projects while working in a shared space with other programmers, allowing you to bounce ideas off them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coworking
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by RK 18y ago
Looks like it's actually Kar n a Warrior.
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by RK 18y ago
these pharma-companies are paying a big chunk of change to make sure something useful happens when you take those pills. Unfortunately, it's not always clear that those drugs do work. The problem isn't in the scientific process, but how
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by RK 18y ago
Having already, accidentally overwhelmed my netbook's drive while using Dropbox, this does look interesting. My suggestion for Dropbox was the ability to designate some machines/directories as online only. Unfortunately, Zumodrive doesn't
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by RK 18y ago
Or the Lisp, OCaml, or early music clubs...
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by RK 18y ago
The key to a friendship is to be useful to the other person. Always pay more attention to them than you do to yourself. Figure out things they like/need but don't have, and buy gifts for them. So have you actually met any people yet? Thi
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by RK 18y ago
I feel like I'm in a slightly similar situation at the moment. I very recently told the founders of the startup I work at about a business idea I had that relies on our core technology. Our company really needs a new market, and this one l
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by RK 18y ago
When I was an undergrad, organic chemistry was widely considered to be the hardest. They eventually released some grade statistics like the ones you mentioned and it showed that organic chemistry had the highest mean grade and the highest
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by RK 18y ago
As a slight thread hijack, which do you prefer, blackboards or whiteboards? The physicists and mathematicians I know seem to universally prefer blackboards, while everyone else seems to like whiteboards. I like whiteboards for any semi-perm
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by RK 18y ago
Changing values in place? A1 = 0.1*A1 Can be useful if you need to convert values, etc., but don't want to create an entire new row/column
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by RK 18y ago
Decent looking plots. If I'm going to make a scatter plot style plot for anything besides an internal memo (even an internal presentation) I always plot with something else.
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by RK 18y ago
3G cards beginning to be standard for laptops.
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by RK 18y ago
The iPod Shuffle might be a good counter argument.
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by RK 18y ago
I can recommend getting timer-applet if you're running Gnome.
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by RK 18y ago
Well, the grad students come cheap (at least a lot cheaper than a robot), and they often don't have many choices of who to work for. Mostly they are expected to work 24/7 without complaining for very little pay... It's very fun :)
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by RK 18y ago
Advisors --> Grad students?

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