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by algoshift 15y ago
Have you ever tried to run an FEA tool (say, Solidworks Flow Simulation) or a rendering tool (say, Modo) on a virtual machine? Bad idea. Yes. VM's have their place. No. They don't solve the underlying problem for all application cases. A
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Forget pirating Windows
14 points by algoshift 15y ago|7 comments
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by algoshift 15y ago
"startup" as a term of trade might be accepted within certain circles. Beyond that I think it sounds really dumb to anyone who's been in business for more than a few seconds. One of my favorite WTF? phrases is "start a startup", particular
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by algoshift 15y ago
Asimo is a marketing toy. It wouldn't be able to navigate through a child's playroom, much less an environment full of hazards. The walking technology they are using is exactly one hundred percent wrong for anything "real world". Looks gre
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by algoshift 15y ago
I am simply saying, in a very simple way, that opinion on certain topics is only valid when it comes from the right perspective. This has nothing to do with personal principles or morality. It's business (and reality) 101. BTW, I say this
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by algoshift 15y ago
Start a company. Hire some people. Run it for, say, ten years. Come back and review what you just said. Mark Twain: Someone holding a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
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by algoshift 15y ago
There are multiple sources of processing delay in a TV image processor. The two main sources are the scaling and de-interlacing blocks. Scaling is pretty benign. A cheap scaler will introduce somewhere in the order of four lines of delay
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by algoshift 15y ago
Right. One of the rules is "be nice". OK. This article is flawed and many of the comments are just as flawed. Having been involved in the design and manufacturing of LCD displays (down to writing all FPGA image processing code, scaling,
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by algoshift 15y ago
How many websites does a typical Internet user visit in a year? If you discover ten new websites per day that would be less than 4,000 sites. Let's make that 40K sites per year. It is absolutely trivial to have the client computer handle
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by algoshift 15y ago
Your analogy is incomplete. Imagine that you spent $250K having a programmer write code for you only to see him take the code with him to a competitor and actually use it. Opportunity acquisition isn't free. If a company invests hundreds
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by algoshift 15y ago
I've had the experience of having company contact data stolen via a Linkedin account. I hired a salesman for one of my businesses. He had limited sales experience but I was willing to train. His Linkedin account had maybe on or two dozen
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by algoshift 15y ago
I've been studying this peripherally for the past year or two. Nothing too scientific but, yes, methodical little experiments here and there. I might put-up a website to see if my thoughts help others. I think I would say that my first fi
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by algoshift 15y ago
> strong justification for policies to keep people from getting overweight to begin with Thinking that legislation is the solution to everything is part of so many problem in the US. You can't stop fat gain with laws any more than stop
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by algoshift 15y ago
How about FORTH then?
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Shoot 3D Movies and Photos with your iPhone(mini3dcam.com)
1 points by algoshift 15y ago|0 comments
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by algoshift 15y ago
Well, it seems that this one went over a few heads. I won't spoil it by describing what happens in the movie. Watch it. It's a good one. The quote from the film, in the context of having watched it, describes, with great brevity that act
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by algoshift 15y ago
"Greetings, Professor Falken." "Hello, Joshua." "Strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
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by algoshift 15y ago
> A fraction of an industrial machine makes zero napkins. Well, that assumes that this is the only individual in India that could be interested in the market segment. There are plenty of people in India for whom USD $500K is not a lot
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by algoshift 15y ago
Wait a minute... According to the article and his website the machine costs $2,500 each, can produce 2 napkins per minute and requires 746W of power. Each machine employs a crew of four people. A full scale industrial machine is claimed to
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by algoshift 15y ago
> FPGAs have been the next big thing for at least 15 years It's a tough equation. They are certainly not aimed at or geared towards a commodity co-processor slot next to the CPU in a consumer PC. What I am arguing or proposing is that
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by algoshift 15y ago
FPGA's is where parallel processing is alive and well. I've done a lot of real-time image processing work on FPGA's. The performance gains one can create are monumental. One of my favorite examples (one that parallels yours) is the implem
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by algoshift 15y ago
It's disturbing to see that this is an all-too-common pattern with the large internet companies. Stories abound of companies like Google, eBay, PayPal, Facebook and Amazon closing down accounts with what I would characterize as "violence".
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by algoshift 15y ago
The problem is widespread. Lots of businesses have horrible sites. It's what I call the "cousin web-developer syndrome". What's worst is that if you bring it up, more often than not, you get a response like: "We don't get much business fr
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by algoshift 15y ago
Every visit: 1- Bring the system drive you cloned last year after doing a clean install 2- Swap system drives 3- Data is on separate drive, no issues there 4- Install updates/upgrades as needed 5- Create new system drive image 6- Clone to t
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by algoshift 15y ago
If you install Chrome on your parent's computer and make it the default browser you are making a serious mistake: All of their logins and passwords are now available in plain text with a few button clicks. If they ever ask someone else for
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by algoshift 15y ago
These easy definitions always bother me. "The only purpose of corporations is to maximize shareholder profit." Really? The only purpose? Shareholder profit or value is a side effect of producing products or services that people want. T
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by algoshift 15y ago
These are just tools. Each has its place. Example: I wrote a GA-based solver in Objective-C. It worked but it was painfully slow. I re-coded in nice-clean C. The plain C version was incredibly fast and efficient in every way. Best of al
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by algoshift 15y ago
Here's a video: http://www.horizonhobby.com/ProdInfo/Files/EFLU4780.wmv
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by algoshift 15y ago
OK, build a sphere around the $200 VTOL plane I linked to above and you have that too.
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by algoshift 15y ago
Also nothing new. You can buy one right now for about $200. Here's one example: http://www.horizonhobby.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=EFL...

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