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by angusgr 15y ago
Ah, of course - the JZ4770 is the big sibling of the SoC used in the Ben Nanonote series of "fully open source" mini-netbooks, and the Dingoo A320 gaming handhelds, and the like.
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by angusgr 15y ago
I thought I'd seen this all before with the $100 tablets last year, but then I noticed something that sent my jaw to the floor: http://en.ingenic.cn/product.aspx?ID=78 That's the manufacturer for the JZ4770 SoC (system-on-a-chip) used in
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by angusgr 15y ago
If you're going to go that amount of cost/effort then it's probably just as easy to create an Australian Merchant account and then find a gateway that supports it. I don't know how the two compare cost-wise, though. The thing about PayPal t
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by angusgr 15y ago
If you're not in the US then the number of competing solutions (that don't require a merchant account) shrinks dramatically. I'm in Australia, and I don't know of one (have checked out WePay, Stripe, Samurai all mentioned in the comments he
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by angusgr 15y ago
Thanks for taking the time to reply Brett. It's a really cool technology, can't wait to see where it goes.
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by angusgr 15y ago
Wow. Many thoughts arose: - Is this more, less, or equivalently legal (copyright-wise) to just posting the youtube videos on youtube in the first place? It seems like the act of compositing them in this way would be significant, but maybe n
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by angusgr 15y ago
Bunnie Huang's great blog has a post with some nice informative anecdotes about Lithum Ion thermal runaway. http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=220
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by angusgr 15y ago
You haven't said where you are based, but for starters look for either PLA or ABS on this list: http://reprap.org/wiki/Printing_Material_Suppliers (The Reprap wiki also has pages explaining the pros & cons of each.) I don't know what
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by angusgr 15y ago
I'm confused by this Q&A - I can't think of a hobbyist 3d printer design that doesn't move the build platform: In the Printrbot it appears the print head moves in X & Z, and the build platform moves in Y. Same as the RepRap Mendel.
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by angusgr 15y ago
Heh, OK I'd missed that development. Thanks for filling me in :)
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by angusgr 15y ago
The comments on the post seem to suggest that Interface Builder w/ XcodeCapp is the way of the future. As a non-OS X user this makes me sad as well, but I'm guessing there are lots of legit reasons for 280 North to decide not to focus on it
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by angusgr 15y ago
Well I did also say that I was whining like an indulgent nerd about an OS I got given for free . Which pretty much sums up the characterisation you've given here, as well. ;) I do see your point, I really do. My concern, and the part that
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by angusgr 15y ago
I think this ease is somewhat offset by the extent to which Ubuntu are pushing it. When I updated to 11.04 I tried Unity for about 3 hours, got annoyed by certain things hurting my work style (the all-workspaces Alt-Tab mentioned above bein
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A Disturbing Dialog About Ubuntu and Unity(linux-magazine.com)
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by angusgr 15y ago
I know it's at a different scale, but I'd be interested to know what Australian HNers think of the New Enterprise Incentive Scheme: http://www.deewr.gov.au/Employment/JSA/EmploymentServices/Pa... (In short: program runs via Centrelink to
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by angusgr 15y ago
Something about the quality is so much more inviting and warm From the vid: "I did give this footage a slight grade with the 3-way colour wheel in Final Cut." I'd say it's the change in colour balance that gives it the feeling you're desc
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by angusgr 15y ago
Which 8-bit micros? avr-gcc, PIC microchip C, HC11 gcc, SDCC (for HC11, 8051, Z80, etc.) all have 16-bit ints. Also, the C standard "Sizes of Integer Types" section sets out minimum ranges each type must allow, and I think int has always be
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by angusgr 15y ago
Ultraportables of that kind aren't really new either, though. I use a 2006-era ThinkPad X60 laptop every day. It's five years old, 76mm (25%) thicker but 90g (10%) lighter than the X1 you mention. Although I admit the X1 has a significant
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by angusgr 15y ago
label for the MacBook Air knockoffs they wanted to entice other companies to make I guess that's why I'm wondering why this laptop is HN front page news. Which is not to say that I think it shouldn't be , it's just that I'm not sure why
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by angusgr 15y ago
Is there any way in which this is not effectively a "MacBook Air with Windows preinstalled"? Any realistic difference from Air+BootCamp? Features seem the same, style seems nearly identical just Asus branded... I'm honestly not trolling, be
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by angusgr 15y ago
To jump on a bandwagon, I also have scoliosis - 'marked' in my case (can't remember my Cobb Angle.) As an aside, I'd be interested to know if anyone has ever done research on lifelong computer use (started when I was 6) and the rate of scol
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by angusgr 15y ago
Anyone want to open a pool on the day a 'mobile OS' becomes the outright most popular Wikipedia browser?
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by angusgr 15y ago
Looking back it seems like iPhone & Linux were almost neck and neck for most of 2010, but iPhone pulled ahead in December 2010 and has stayed slightly more popular since. As a keen desktop Linux user, this saddens me. But I'm also not p
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by angusgr 15y ago
I'll accept that introducing humans to any ecosystem is going to change it in one way or another. I think there's a pretty big [citation needed] over "ruin it". If they are aiming for a similar impact level to, say, a national park then tha
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by angusgr 15y ago
They seem to be fairly concerned with developing their collective while preserving the island's ecological state (say exactly that in the Kickstarter video.) Why else would they have put the easement on it at all? http://rabbitisland.tumbl
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by angusgr 15y ago
There are quite a lot of microcontroller RTOSes[1] for the AVR platform, which means you can run them on the Arduino (although you'll need to use avr-gcc not the Arduino IDE for these.) http://www.femtoos.org/ http://www.barello.net/avrx
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by angusgr 15y ago
Was broken on first load for me, Ubuntu 11.04 Chrome 13.0.782.220. However when I reloaded the page it fixed itself. In fact as the page reloads I can see the text layout first breaking and then immediately fixing itself...
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by angusgr 15y ago
If everyone in tech took the attitude of "let's not bother now, <next big advance> is coming soon" then noone would ever build anything. Yes, Raspberry Pi is cool and you will probably be able to do this with it some day. In fact, t
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by angusgr 15y ago
It's an interesting comment on internet culture when a blog post about a 300-page book has a "TL;DR" section. :)
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by angusgr 15y ago
It's a good story. According to the Apple stories I've read, Wozniak had little to no involvement with the creation of Macintosh. He was in a plane crash in 1981. When he came back to the company in 1983 he was mostly involved with the (inc

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