Robadob

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by Robadob 12y ago
Yeah, my first though was that this is basically a chromebook.
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by Robadob 12y ago
The CryEngine version sold on steam is £7/$10 per month (slightly less if you buy a longer subscription), and apparently has no additional royalties if you commercialise your project. That seems very reasonable from the outside for any
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Apple faces $533m iTunes patent payout(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by Robadob 12y ago|0 comments
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by Robadob 12y ago
When I rotate screen to landscape on my Android using Chrome 40.0.2214.89, it says North is about pi/2 anti-clockwise from where it says North is when my screen is portrait. Presumably It's not accounting for screen rotation.
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YouTube Launches Multi-Angle Video Experiment(techcrunch.com)
4 points by Robadob 12y ago|1 comments
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by Robadob 12y ago
That's true, I suppose I was too optimistic in my analysis, there will definitely be some unmeasurable factors pushing in each direction.
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by Robadob 12y ago
It was someone else who made that initial claim of 2%, however if you read the full summary of my second link, they admit to only accounting for factors they were able to measure. So additional factors they didn't account for, may have
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by Robadob 12y ago
This article[1] links to various sources which cite different values. Of those, this report[2] (research funded by US Department of Labour) states in it's summary (page 35); "Specifically, variables have been developed to repres
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by Robadob 12y ago
If you search for dolby headphone on youtube, there seems to be alot of mixes of a presumably similar (commercial) technique being used to encode the audio from some music that was recorded in 5.1 ( https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by Robadob 12y ago
Early evidence suggested that one of the data dumps was carried out from a hotel in Thailand, so cutting off NK's internet wouldn't help protect from that much.
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by Robadob 12y ago
Grabbing cookies can be done easily as an offline attack though, assuming they don't clear cookies on every shutdown (which I'd bet 99% of users don't). You simply copy their cookies file/s from chrome and temporarily re
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by Robadob 12y ago
The way the stick men are drawn in contrast to today is really interesting.
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UK Announces the “Google Tax”(blogs.wsj.com)
2 points by Robadob 12y ago|1 comments
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by Robadob 12y ago
* * / / / isn't a special character and * isn't special when inside a character class
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by Robadob 12y ago
My main problem with this is telling the difference between O and 0, the clue O's look more like 0 so I have to copy paste them. (Although I don't think I've had any numbers required for solutions yet).
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Why Apple Failed to Make Sapphire iPhones(technologyreview.com)
12 points by Robadob 12y ago|0 comments
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by Robadob 12y ago
I'm already getting dragged in atleast one of these directions and I'm less than 2 months into my PhD. As mine is partially CASE studentship sponsored (industry partner provides additional funding). I have the company requesting m
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The Mythical Man Month(ryochiba.com)
1 points by Robadob 12y ago|0 comments
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by Robadob 12y ago
Given it's ability to integrate with visual studio, it will be worth watching to see whether someone's able to use it to fix the CUDA integration highlighting/intellisense faults which appeared somewhere after visual studio 2
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by Robadob 12y ago
Without the system automatically assigning buyers, I'd expect it's very possible oversight would allow for the final gift to not have anyone in on the conspiracy having already bought a gift. Being on GitHub it shouldn't be t
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by Robadob 12y ago
Without signing up for it to test, it's unclear whether each email thread is assigned a different 'host' so that in the end every person handles the actual purchase/ordering of 1 other persons gift (much like secret sant
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by Robadob 12y ago
The only time I've come across a game of that variation was in an episode of The Office US and that was enough to convince me it was a bad idea.
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by Robadob 12y ago
They haven't rehosted the many images though, still linked to the server which has fell over.
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by Robadob 12y ago
In the UK one of the banks (Barclays) has setup a mobile app PingIt for this same concept. Someone sent me money with it, had to sign up to receive it. Due to what I imagine is UK banking laws, a large amount of id/proof of address was
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by Robadob 12y ago
If I was every paying people money regularly, I always just found sending the money via bacs through online banking to be easiest.
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by Robadob 12y ago
From the article; "It’s not surprising that these companies don’t want to talk openly about net neutrality. They have little to gain by alienating business partners such as Verizon, AT&T (T), and Comcast. Groups like the Telecommun
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by Robadob 12y ago
This is the article being refereed to for anyone interested; http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/opinion/dowd-dont-harsh-ou...
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by Robadob 12y ago
Whats the likely hood of receiving fake products if ordering from this site? I've had it happen myself with Amazon 3rd party sellers, however this site being in china makes me even more wary.
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by Robadob 12y ago
Sugarscape is another interesting cellular automata model. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarscape
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PC cooling specialist Zalman goes bankrupt due to fraud(geek.com)
5 points by Robadob 12y ago|1 comments

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