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by alricb 12y ago
This article seems to posit that being "anti-mind" is a bad thing. I don't know that it is the case.
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by alricb 12y ago
TL;DR: TCP/IP shipped. (Edit: first. Some OSI stuff did ship, as another poster pointed out, but much later and by then it didn't matter.) And here's how it shipped: (tcp_input.c) /* * TCP input routine, follows
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by alricb 12y ago
Famous last words: A case in point is the lack of space of the Intemet addressing system that emerged in I994 due to an explosive growth of Internet. This may now be solved by replacing IP version 4 (Ipv4) by IPv6, which implementation is
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by alricb 12y ago
Side note: "Tsar Peter I (also known as “the Great,” although the appropriateness of that moniker is one of the most debated questions of Russian history)" I don't think very many people dispute Peter's moniker, except f
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by alricb 12y ago
If you look at science and technology/engineering as a unified field, you can see that not everything conforms to the "American" model: the military is arguably just as important to American science/technology as it was
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by alricb 12y ago
If the details shown on this page [1] are right, these things are built in a silly way: the batt insulation between the steel studs is almost useless, and could even lead to condensation problems [2]. [1] http://cargocollective.c
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by alricb 12y ago
Rome's "Authority and command"? We're talking about the late 15th century here. The Western Schism had only ended in 1417. Conciliarism had been strong throughout the 15th century. All the powerful monarchs of Europe wer
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by alricb 12y ago
" Lockheed Martin began developing the software for it in 2002" I see your problem right there.
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by alricb 12y ago
Mainly, in some cases, printed books still have an edge in usability over e-books. Some of it is just due to current technical limitations: e-books often have bad enough typography that the reading experience is noticeably worse than with a
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by alricb 12y ago
Here's way too much information on it, by Ian McCullough from Forgotten Weapons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3zQb3KZpNM
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by alricb 12y ago
> It has ducked fundamental reform, which would probably involve breaking up Coal India, privatising local distribution companies and installing new regulators with teeth. The Economist thinks privatization is the answer? Is this thing
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by alricb 12y ago
If you're going to put the umlaut on the ö, you might as well put the acute accent on the é: Poincaré. Otherwise the e would be silent.
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by alricb 12y ago
Note that the reason Greenspun used TCL was because it was used by AOLServer: "AOLserver was the first HTTP server program to combine multithreading, a built-in scripting language, and the pooling of persistent database connections.&qu
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by alricb 12y ago
It better be cheap; it's possible to build an affordable house that is well-insulated enough that the plug loads will be higher than the heating loads. In a very cold climate, you also need to keep your house fairly warm to avoid probl
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by alricb 12y ago
> So picture a subdivision where 80% of the houses are broken down, priced too high, incomplete, or put together haphazardly. Well, in a typical subdivision, this is actually the case. Construction quality for housing in the US and Canad
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by alricb 12y ago
Are interview questions this irrelevant? Because there are relevant questions you could ask a carpenter in an interview, like if they've worked with I-joists, whether they know what a nailing schedule is, whether they're familiar
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by alricb 12y ago
Or used for domestic hot water, which is done in some data centers.
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by alricb 12y ago
Some data: The yield strength of that new material is from about 1 GPa to 1.4 GPa, vs. 830 MPa for Ti6Al4V (Steel and Aluminium vary, depending on the alloy). It has a density of 6.82 g/cm3, vs 4.43 for the titanium alloy, 7.85 for ord
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by alricb 12y ago
As I understand it, at the macro level auto design is mostly stiffness-driven. But since they use stampings everywhere, strength matters since stronger materials can be made thinner without buckling (hence your roughly tubular section is st
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by alricb 12y ago
Question: How do you scroll in the years and ansi pages?
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by alricb 12y ago
Only a #2 Robertson (square)? Have these people ever been to Canada? #1 is much, much more common (since they'll be on the head of most wood screws)
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by alricb 12y ago
Possible contrast & compare: the presentations on OpenBSD's network stack at http://openbsd.com/papers/
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by alricb 12y ago
On the Renault Clio, you can already choose the kind of engine noise you want from a menu.
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by alricb 12y ago
Obligatory anti-Lidell-Hart comment: He was an idiot. There is no such thing as "Blitzkrieg", just dumb luck and huge mistakes on the French's part.
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by alricb 12y ago
Gilead argued that 1) its compound is not a mere "new form" of a substance known in the prior art, and 2) even if it were, it differs significantly since it is less toxic and more active than other similar compounds. But the Paten
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by alricb 12y ago
Here's the decision (pdf): http://freepdfhosting.com/985d1c013c.pdf It relies on section 3(d) of the The Patents Act, 1970 (as amended up to Patents (Amendment) Act, 2005) [1]: > What are not inventions. —The follow
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by alricb 12y ago
Well, they do mention Pohl's evil twin, Frederik Phol (a soup nazi of the vietnamese persuasion)
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by alricb 12y ago
Well, at least until you realize that your image library has a security hole in it, or that your crypto library is so complex that it's not really possible to audit it in its current form.
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by alricb 12y ago
I often work with quite large Word documents, and they can become a real pain once you start using some features, like automated table of contents. In fact, if someone edits the document and messes up the formatting, you'll have to edi
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by alricb 12y ago
Are you sure about that? The FCC seems to think otherwise: > 17. I don’t use my cell jammer in public. Can I use it in my own home, business, or vehicle? > No. Jamming devices may not be used regardless of whether the device is operat

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