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by bradfa 12y ago
It sounds like the NJ AG is saying, "Someone in NJ may have downloaded and run the code written by Tidbit and said code may have done things which are not allowed in NJ, hence Tidbit must provide said code to the NJ AG." But it do
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by bradfa 12y ago
Yes. I use Reeder (the old one which is no longer available on the App Store) on iOS with local RSS (it fetches ever time I launch it).
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by bradfa 12y ago
The power scavenging circuit looks to not be the same frequency as the communications radio circuit due to antenna size differences. Likely it's harvesting power from 2.4 GHz or similar frequency and then using the higher (24 GHz-ish)
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by bradfa 12y ago
Article says: The antenna had to be small, one-tenth the size of a Wi-Fi antenna, and operate at the incredibly fast rate of 24 billion cycles per second. Sounds like 24 GHz. But all your critiques are still very valid. But if you can bl
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by bradfa 12y ago
this reeks of scare-tactics Yes, but avoiding risk is a valid argument for avoiding anything new. Avoidance of risk is why many people like Debian, so hearing that some users and developers of Debian are not in favor of systemd, even if
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by bradfa 12y ago
How does airing even more dirty laundry in public around this help anyone involved? Both sides need to seek professional (paid!) advice on how to handle this situation and then handle it in PRIVATE . Bitching about something that happened
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by bradfa 12y ago
Go read up on the order that money is paid out to shareholders when the selling/IPO price isn't much greater than the total investment to date. The short version is that usually preferred shareholders (the investors) get paid fir
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by bradfa 12y ago
I'm a Ting customer. The huge advantage for me with Ting over Freedompop and other MVNOs riding on Sprint is that I can roam onto Verizon at no cost for calling and texting, which is key for me in the places I normally go as Verizon h
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by bradfa 12y ago
Is it not game changing just being a $33 smart phone? Heck, I pay more than $33 per month for my smart phone service !
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by bradfa 12y ago
SPI flash is usually NOR flash (not NAND like you'd find in an SD card or SSD). NOR flash is usually SLC and will take 100k writes/erases and is quite simple to access (as compared to MLC NAND which only usually takes 3k erases a
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by bradfa 12y ago
Many SD cards have wear leveling built in, but most of the algorithms and CPUs used for the controllers are quite crap at wear leveling. If you start looking at more industrial targeted SD cards you'll find quite decent wear leveling.
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by bradfa 12y ago
> if they hire me for an 8 hour day, I'd darn well better give them a proper 8 hours' of work. If I was to hire you, I expect I will pay you your rate for the emails you send to me telling me status of your work, for the time y
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by bradfa 12y ago
If they want a "day" rate why not just charge them what you want to make per day? Assume you won't work on anything else that day, how much do you want to make in a day? Does it really matter how many hours you'll be pr
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by bradfa 12y ago
Yes, such as Dragon Innovation: http://www.dragoninnovation.com/services/manufacturing But you can also find a few US or EU based contract manufacturers who have very good partners in Asia such that you start low volum
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by bradfa 12y ago
Copper is quite expensive for long cable runs, but your point about pushing lower voltage DC needing super conductors is true compared to high voltage DC not needing super conductors. You can also use the earth as a return in an AC system.
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by bradfa 12y ago
The oft repeated engineer's mantra of "quality, price, schedule: Pick 2." The contest has picked quality (the engineering requirements are not easy to hit) and schedule (there's a timeline for demoing). I bet it's
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by bradfa 12y ago
Lower frequency (50/60 Hz) AC is the only really useful choice for transmission on low cost long runs (think 100 km and more). To push high voltage DC on long runs generally means special cables and possibly super conductors. Pushing
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by bradfa 12y ago
From a government spying perspective, I'd say there's no benefit. Fastmail servers, at least for US customers are in the NYC area at nyi.net, iirc. I imagine most customers (myself included) are using fastmail instead of Google t
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by bradfa 12y ago
Differentiation, physical NAND chip size, and margins. If the base model is 16 GB, then you have the ability to sell 2 higher spec models which have more capacity and to price them substantially higher netting larger margins (but likely low
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by bradfa 12y ago
Official Apple knowledge base info: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5185
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by bradfa 13y ago
DASH7, the alliance, is a failed enterprise, imho. Their spec and OpenTag firmware both look great from a high level but once you attempt to use them you will find huge holes in the implementation of each. ISO 18000-7, although power hungr
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by bradfa 13y ago
Basically, yes. But how do you authenticate that the thing telling the TV to turn off actually has the authority to tell it to turn off? This is a whole nother level of complexity which consumers will need to navigate after the API for al
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by bradfa 13y ago
MultiTable makes the ModTable with a manual crank for about $650 including a "large" tabletop. We have a bunch of these in my office and they are awesome. You can get discounted rates when buying more than 1 direct (but they als
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by bradfa 13y ago
I think it's more like a set of tubes.
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by bradfa 13y ago
My Nokia C1 (GSM on T-Mobile in USA) goes for about a week between charges and it's about 2 years old on the original battery. It's my only telephone which I on average text or talk on at least once a day. As long as coverage is
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by bradfa 13y ago
I feel that doing an API this way begs for a middle man to make an app that normal people can actually use to do shipping in their business. Why, if I want to ship things to people as my business, would I implement some software myself usin
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by bradfa 13y ago
So what's to come of the white space networking work? At $70 BOM cost, it failed, but at $15 BOM cost it might succeed. Why not put the work into the public domain and let someone else do good with it?
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by bradfa 13y ago
Modern diesels have tons of "technology." When you're running pressures above 40,000 PSI on the common-rail and doing direct injection, there's quite a lot of tech in a modern diesel engine. Older, dirtier, diesels don't need this tech b
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by bradfa 14y ago
More than half those results are public keys. It's not as bad as first impressions would indicate.
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by bradfa 14y ago
$2 million isn't enough to design a reasonable performing GPU that can be sold at low cost. Just the salaries for the engineering staff and prototype builds will cost in excess of that. A more realistic goal would be to get $2 million in a

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