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811.
by ableal 14y ago
Dennard scaling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Dennard It's about the shrinking of MOSFETS that happened over the 35 years since he wrote about it. My electronics textbooks mentioned the scaling, but did not make this named attri
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by ableal 14y ago
Nice, if not brand new, collection of answers to probable questions: http://www.macworld.com/article/1165460/mountain_lion_what_y... Includes answer to my doubt, it seems you can upgrade Snow Leopard 10.6.8 to Mountain Lion 10.8.
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by ableal 14y ago
> So the phone company can compress and send a lot more data Actually, the limits date back to analog phone lines with circuit switching of a century ago. Back then there was a wire going through switches from one phone to another. The
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by ableal 14y ago
"Dimensions and units: We designed a way to write such expressions as "2 meters per second" and "15.7 kg" and have them fit smoothly into the rest of the type system and mathematical syntax—still a good idea that has yet to reach fruition
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by ableal 14y ago
Right on all counts. Fiction on 6 inch e-ink works well - think paperbacks. Technical PDFs need more, and even at the same screen size, really work better on the iPad than on the old Kindle DX. I also much prefer the 4:3 ratio - the narrow
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by ableal 14y ago
> When everyone isn't getting rich, everyone gets to fight with each other I like proverbs, they often distil penetrating wisdom. Over here, there's this saying: "Casa onde não há pão, todos ralham, ninguém tem razão" - literally transl
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How Marissa Mayer can still save Yahoo(cringely.com)
2 points by ableal 14y ago|0 comments
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The Right Honourable Mr. Burke(theamericanscholar.org)
2 points by ableal 14y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 14y ago
Good reading there, but the part about the difficulties notes that it holds nuke-scale energies and states "Therefore for safety and astrodynamic reasons, launch loops are intended to be installed over an ocean near the equator, well away
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by ableal 14y ago
Discretely tucked away near the end of page 4 (emphasis mine): "Unlike iOS and previous versions of Android, Jelly Bean’s speech recognition system doesn’t have to relay snapshots of the user’s recorded speech input to a remote server for p
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by ableal 14y ago
> many residential users have provider-provided hardware Yep. Even if I bothered to find a replacement for my combination cable modem/router, I don't know if the ISP / cable company would "talk" to the new hardware. Probably not contrac
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Google I/O Redux(pcmag.com)
1 points by ableal 14y ago|0 comments
823.
by ableal 14y ago
"[...] we should be devoting some thought to a suicidal Artificial Intelligence. Nobody does this, [...]" Somebody did, at least in passing. I remember an SF story where AIs were only useable for about six months - they'd go catatonic aft
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Command-Tab on your iPad(the.taoofmac.com)
2 points by ableal 14y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 14y ago
They may also be trying to evade spam filters. Anyway, I find the title of section 3.2 rather fetching: "If attacking everyone is not profitable slope must be greater than unity" Take that, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_of_t
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Prison Ship Martyrs Monument(themorningnews.org)
1 points by ableal 14y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 14y ago
> a very difficult time understanding that the filesystem is a hierarchy. You are obviously right. But people have been using hierarchies for millennia, e.g. the military ones. Illiterate peasants had no trouble with legion, cohort, cen
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Nothing Can Be Fixed Anymore(pcmag.com)
2 points by ableal 14y ago|1 comments
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by ableal 14y ago
It was 20 days when I was a kid. Inflation, I suppose.
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by ableal 14y ago
> actually think they might get to live forever And they aren't horrified at the prospect of that being possible? Not much thinking going on there, I suppose.
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by ableal 14y ago
The book title A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! has stuck to my memory. It's a 1972 SF (alternate history branch) novel by Harry Harrison, featuring a vacuum/maglev system. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_tunnel , inclu
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by ableal 14y ago
Thanks for the link. I like the introduction referring to the original talk: "Some essential hand waving could not be reproduced."
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Big Data is now TOO BIG - and we're drowning in toxic information(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by ableal 14y ago|0 comments
834.
by ableal 14y ago
On that vein, this may help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_of_the_Culture_se... (Iain Banks started with Nervous Energy and went downhill from there.)
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by ableal 14y ago
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dummy : "Origin of DUMMY 1dumb + 4-y First Known Use: 1598" (GP is right, the phrase is clunky and distracts the reader.)
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Google+ versus Facebook: It’s the apps, stupid(cringely.com)
2 points by ableal 14y ago|0 comments
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Egan's Twitter Book is a Fail Whale(pcmag.com)
2 points by ableal 14y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 14y ago
Thanks for the link. Off-topic: the charts at http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/ should make the day of sociologists. In countries that fit in a single timezone, one can find interesting activity patterns - e.g. I see a lun
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by ableal 14y ago
[1982] To rub it in. I suppose modern microprocessors have mostly caught up, and whatever is left out comes off in the speed scaling wash (as in "RAM is new disk")
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For Facebook Execs, More Money Means More Problems(pcmag.com)
7 points by ableal 14y ago|3 comments

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