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by bewo001 9y ago
In the olden days, the neighbor kid would bring the splatter movie VHS he 'lend' from his uncle. In the eighties there was a huge discussion (at least in Germany) on how to prevent children from viewing inappropriate video cassett
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by bewo001 9y ago
A few big companies have done expensive basic research without direct market value: AT&T, IBM, Xerox, Google to some degree. All of them were (quasi-) monopolists when they did that.
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by bewo001 9y ago
The self driving car relies on computers, GPS, sensors (eg LIDAR) and algorithms. Computers were developed for the military, LIDAR was developed for government-funded atmospheric research projects. GPS wouldn't exist without military f
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by bewo001 10y ago
interestingly, your 200 ms are close to the 150 ms telephony standards regard as the maximum one way delay for good speech quality. Seems to be in our physiology..
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by bewo001 10y ago
Some years ago we have been told by more than one vendor, that we would need twice the number of boxes to support the SIP over TCP to achieve the same performance as SIP over UDP. And given the limited IP competence of telco vendors, SIP ov
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by bewo001 10y ago
The similarities are there, and they start getting nervous. They are not only threatened by open source running on x86 hardware, but also by open source running on commodity switches. x86 Hardware achieves impressive speeds but consumes to
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by bewo001 10y ago
It sends a message to other civil servants.
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by bewo001 10y ago
This web-based emulator ( http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/jtyone.html ) is pretty decent. It even simulates the display wobbles if you put it into 'fast' mode.
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by bewo001 10y ago
Static electricity was also a problem. Touching the ZX81 after walking over a carpet in winter resulted often in a crash.
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by bewo001 10y ago
An ordinary whiteboard and a good smartphone's camera for digitzing?
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by bewo001 10y ago
How will people feed their families if there is no longer paid work? This is the question UBI tries to answer. Would it be better if the government required people to shovel sand from one heap to the other before giving them handouts?
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by bewo001 10y ago
Some historical background might be helpful: to configure network devices, the IETF specified SNMP in the 1990s. Cisco only did a read-only implementation of it, as their configuration concept did not align with SNMP very well (a change of
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by bewo001 10y ago
A real-world example: we were in negotiations about a big project with a vendor. We - a team of guys about the same age - had a lot of issues with the technical solution the vendor proposed. The next day they brought in a very attractive bl
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by bewo001 10y ago
Hm, when we evaluated Cassandra not long ago, a simple full disk error managed to get it into an unusable state, and even external experts couldn't recover it. I know it is used extensively by many companies, but this was not exactly e
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by bewo001 10y ago
When I visited Japan, I noticed that public trash bins are extremely rare. I read later, that they were removed after that poison gas terrorist attack in the 1990s. The problem in European countries is the lack of integration. The USA have
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by bewo001 10y ago
Yeah, let's move to a corrupt homophobic country. http://www.transparency.org/cpi2015 rank 58 on the corruption index (behind greece and ghana), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Romania
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by bewo001 11y ago
Grew up in Germany during the Cold War. Sonic booms from military jets were not rare. In the low level flight training areas the population really suffered.
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by bewo001 11y ago
Planey McPlaneface?
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by bewo001 11y ago
Maybe F1axs knows that at this particular spot the string will never be empty? There are two philosophies in libraries; one is to check for every possible error in the lib function, the other is to state the pre-conditions in the documentat
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by bewo001 11y ago
I've seen a documentation where it was stated that some species indeed thrive, but others don't have viable offsprings when breeding there. The birds you see there are all immigrants from less contaminated areas.
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by bewo001 11y ago
This technique was already used in the 1930s by people living close to the powerful AM transmitters in Berlin and Hamburg to run electric lights. It was outlawed, though.
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by bewo001 11y ago
After Gulf War I, Saddam had to resort to brutal military actions to keep the various tribes from seceding. Afghanistan has been ruled by 'feudal lords' for a long time. Neither Iraqi nor Afghan soldiers were eager to die for thei
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by bewo001 11y ago
No, as old Macchiavelli put it: if a country is hard to conquer, it will be easy to hold; if a country is easy to conquer, it is hard to hold. The reason is that a united, highly organized country fights hard, but it won't fall apart i
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by bewo001 11y ago
"Once mankind has established a foothold on our nearest celestial body, the next task will be figuring out what exactly to do there" -- Shouldn't this be done before spending all the money?
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by bewo001 11y ago
What? Newspapers actually doing innovative things instead of suing Google or pressing politicians into passing ridiculous bills to preserve their old business model?
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by bewo001 12y ago
Oil paint is in general not really good for long term storage. It expands as it oxidizes. Some pigments slow down or speed up this process. The thicker the layers, the faster they will crack. Combined with a lot of untested pigments and tec
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by bewo001 12y ago
from the 31C3 conference presentation summary: "This makes the security of Estonia's Internet voting system of interest to technologists and citizens the world over. Over the past year, I helped lead the first rigorous, independen
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by bewo001 12y ago
see also talky.io, palava.tv and many others
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by bewo001 12y ago
Given that many soaring birds have fantastic eyes to find prey or carrion, they might be able to see it.
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by bewo001 12y ago
ATM went right from being the 'technology of the future' to 'Legacy'. However, many DSL installations still use ATM between the DSL modem/home router and the DSL access multiplexer. Many ATM experts moved on to MPLS

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