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by _djo_ 12y ago
Yes, you're right, I shouldn't have simplified it that much. Upvoted you because your comment deserves more attention. The steering uses amplitude and phase shifting to create beams through constructive or destructive interference
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by _djo_ 12y ago
Sorry about that. I've replaced the image with another from Wiki Commons.
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by _djo_ 12y ago
No space. Take a look at this image, it's the standard AN/APG-63 on an F-15C fighter aircraft: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:APG-63_radar_of_F-15_... Note how the radar's processing units and di
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by _djo_ 12y ago
Indeed. That strikes me as an example of the NSA doing its job, as opposed to the warrantless mass surveillance it has also been caught doing.
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by _djo_ 12y ago
I wonder if this isn't also an attempt to force Apple to give China access to the iOS and OS X source code. Similar tactics were used in the past to force Microsoft to give the Chinese government access to Windows source code through t
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by _djo_ 12y ago
> Miners ages are mostly determined by supply and demand. > What monetary value they produce doesn't come into play. It's not like the mine owners share their huge profits with the miners. Of course productivity matters, a
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by _djo_ 12y ago
No, they don't. As with most manual labour work, mine workers produce a relatively small amount of absolute monetary value per person compared to software developers and other skilled occupations. Wages are determined by those producti
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by _djo_ 12y ago
I brought up the software developer salary to show what the wage levels in South Africa are. Compare it to what a new college grad earns at their first programming job in the US to get an idea of the disparity. In general, South African wag
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by _djo_ 12y ago
The use of UAVs for commercial use, including this application, is at present illegal in South Africa. So it's not at all certain that the client is a South African mining company. You're oversimplifying the events at Marikana, wh
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by _djo_ 12y ago
Where does it say that? PostgreSQL is third from the left in the list of supported DBs on the front page.
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by _djo_ 12y ago
Off the top of my head, clang, launchd, libdispatch, Bonjour (Rendezvous) and the ARM64 backend for LLVM.
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by _djo_ 12y ago
Not quite the same thing. iOS's CarPlay integration is just a mechanism for mirroring your iOS device in-car and using the car media controls. The Open Automotive Alliance is about trying to get Android into the embedded car systems ma
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by _djo_ 12y ago
It's not easy to see just from looking at the displays. They may also have incorporated some sort of software-based delay, requiring the user to press down for a certain amount of time before a click is registered. I doubt that SpaceX
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by _djo_ 12y ago
It's a horrible solution for a smartphone touchscreen and the Storm had no other redeeming features. The needs in a cockpit are rather different, obviously.
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by _djo_ 12y ago
An approach used in some experimental aircraft touchscreens is to combine resistive and capacitative approaches, almost like the old BlackBerry Storm. You need to press down with a certain level of force to get the screen to register the cl
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by _djo_ 12y ago
The drones under discussion are not a consumer technology, how can you expect them to be as widespread as consumer items like automobiles or cellphones, unless you're looking at toy RC 'drones' like the Parrot AR Drone? The p
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by _djo_ 12y ago
Drones are already widespread, which I discussed in a previous comment.[0] Like all technology, Pandora's Box has been opened and there's really nothing that can be done to stop people from developing ever more sophisticated drone
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by _djo_ 12y ago
It's underscored by one of the quotes used to end the piece off: Less impressed, Sharkey said the U.S. still has time to rethink its drone future. “Don’t go to the next step. Don’t make them fully autonomous. That will pro
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by _djo_ 12y ago
This is too US-centric, especially as it implies that drone proliferation will slow down if the US stops its own development. This is nonsense. Fact is, the US was a late adopter to more modern drones, or UAVs, having fallen behind countrie
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by _djo_ 13y ago
You don't have to imagine every soldier having that, there are already armed forces doing that now. The technologies have improved enough and the costs come down so low that it's affordable for even a mid-level country's arme
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by _djo_ 13y ago
This is an important and oft-ignored point: South Korean car manufacturers like Kia invested a huge amount of money to both improve quality and to put design at the forefront of new vehicle developments, all in order to beat more establishe
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by _djo_ 13y ago
Music from Amazon and iTunes is DRM-free these days.
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by _djo_ 13y ago
In any case, the author and maintainer of that plugin is also a JetBrains employee.
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by _djo_ 13y ago
True.
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by _djo_ 13y ago
From the brief amount of information available so far, CarPlay doesn't seem to preclude the in-car system from supporting other mobile phone OS's. For instance it seems possible to equip a vehicle with, let's say, the Open Au
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by _djo_ 13y ago
This isn't a factor. Apple has no offices in South Africa - all retail sales, support, etc are handled through a distributor, Core Group - but local devs can still sell paid apps through the App Store. Google, despite actually having a
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by _djo_ 13y ago
I tested it in iTerm 2 Build 1.0.0.20131228, where it works. It must be a recent addition.
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by _djo_ 13y ago
Which version of iTerm are you using?
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by _djo_ 13y ago
Works in iTerm too.
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by _djo_ 13y ago
Again, the NSA-as-primary-factor angle only applies if you believe that the Super Hornet was far and away the front-runner to win the F-X2 contract. Yet that's hardly certain, especially as the Brazilian defence industry and military h

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