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albahk
17y ago
I've had the signup page up for almost a week now and I have 3, so don't feel too bad about your 450.
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albahk
18y ago
+1 for Aussie living in Hong Kong
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albahk
18y ago
I remember a company in Australia called Platypus Technology ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus_Technology ) came up with something similar whereby they loaded up a full-size PCI card with 4-8Gb of RAM and then this would appear as a 4
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albahk
18y ago
Some sort of geography bias setting. I know a lot of people here come from around the world, for example, I am in Hong Kong so anything remotely related to this region or startups in China I would like it to be more prominent for me. This
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albahk
18y ago
Its good to see these kind of improvements make it through to production cars. Personally, I would be more aware of my fuel efficiency while driving if I had instant feedback. I suppose this is the constant guilt factor.
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albahk
18y ago
Something I thought of when I was studying engineering at Uni (I dropped out) was to fit a small device onto the accelerator cable of a car that can apply varying degrees of tension to the pedal. This device would be moderated by the compu
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albahk
18y ago
Digital TV streams have error correction so you are likely to experience either a normal picture or none at all. When I was growing up, even a slightly fuzzy ghosted Analog picture was better than no picture at all.
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albahk
18y ago
I second the vote for "How to Get rich" by Felix Dennis. It's a great read and something a bit different.
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18y ago
The issues with virtual currencies are not technical, rather it is a social issue of trust. You trust that a $100 note will be accepted and exchanged for goods or services according to the note's face value in the general economy. This is
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albahk
19y ago
Industries revolutionised by the internet: 1. Porn 2. Real Estate 3. Jobs Without commenting further on #1, I have to say that I am very unimpressed by 99% of Real Estate and Jobs websites out there. They get so much traffic because a poor