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by catch23 14y ago
Does the 4-AA batteries actually last a full year? I'm not sure how those batteries can maintain a steady wifi connection and survive for a full year. The lowest power wifi chips I know still draw 40mA in RX mode.
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by catch23 14y ago
probably not. it uses an arduino mega according to the video, so you'd need serial access to reprogram the arduino.
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by catch23 14y ago
Flutter is something similar to the gesture pendant used on the Aware Home project at Georgia Tech [1]. The gesture pendant was engineered for those that lacked vision & mobility. One could use the gesture pendant to open blinds, turn
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by catch23 14y ago
Here's a possible solution -- since they still have the paper ticket mechanism, we should only have clipper handle the bulk purchases (8-ride or monthly pass). Currently, when you buy one of these bulk-ride tickets, you have to specify the
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by catch23 14y ago
It's even more annoying when you buy an 8-ride pass, but forget to scan off on one of the rides -- your 8-ride pass becomes invalid requiring you to call their customer support line to have it fixed. I've ridden trains from all over the wo
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by catch23 14y ago
This is why I still buy the paper tickets -- it's less of a risk than dealing with forgetting to scan when I get off. If I'm only going 2 zones, I'd get charged $5, but if I forget to scan off, I would get charged $12. If I pay by paper,
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by catch23 14y ago
ipad owner here -- you can use the 4 finger swipe for quickly switching apps. It's Apple's equivalent of a back button. It's also intuitive since you can see both apps as you are "dragging" the app back. You can also swipe up to get the
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by catch23 14y ago
I use the 4 finger up-swipe for switching apps on the ipad, not sure if that exists on the iphone. My phone is an android and I've found it consistently faster to just go home than using the damned back button.
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by catch23 14y ago
Sadly golang isn't typically used in common-speak, so stackoverflow/google groups postings rarely turn up in search results when you search for "golang + keyword". I've had to use a combination of "go" and "struct" (and other go keywords)
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by catch23 14y ago
The RPi already has add-on boards and a relatively large community compared to new competitors coming to the scene. In a way, it's like comparing the msp430 to the arduino. The msp430 is arguably better than most of the AVR chips, but the
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by catch23 14y ago
If you buy on element14, I believe you can get it in a few days. Supposedly these guys can ship immediately: http://www.mcmelectronics.com/content/en-US/raspberry-pi I bought one last week and it arrived no slower than amazon.com so I th
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Modify a site you don't own(deanmao.com)
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by catch23 14y ago
If it's a personal blog, maybe submitters should just use a coral cache link or something. hard for us commenters to contribute anything useful if we can't see it!
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by catch23 14y ago
Do you have a mirror anywhere? in the past people would just put a github gist or something.
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by catch23 14y ago
Unfortunately, I'm not an IP lawyer. This is why lawyers exist -- they know the historical reasons for why one should file a design patent piecemeal. My guess is there must have been a prior case where one patented an entire device and the
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by catch23 14y ago
Hm, I don't believe the copycats actually succeeded here. I bet if they didn't copy, innovation could have happened sooner. Copying just lets the company stay alive for longer since consumers can't differentiate easily, and said company c
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by catch23 14y ago
The reason I bring up the Chanel bags is because Chanel also applies for patents as well. I'm not trying to bring up some crazy straw-man argument. There are actually such things called "design" patents that differ from your examples of "
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by catch23 14y ago
Here's a small article to get you going: http://www.finnegan.com/resources/articles/articlesdetail.as... Here's a brief excerpt: "Design patent secures for their owner a fourteen-year right to exclude others from making, using, selling or
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by catch23 14y ago
If they were so "obvious", why hadn't someone created something similar to iPhone's interface? I owned the Nokia 770 -- a great internet tablet for it's time. I even hack soldered a wifi extension dongle to it so I could get better signal
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by catch23 14y ago
Hm, I wouldn't be so sure... most "normal" people out there who don't read HN every day can't really tell the difference between an ipad and a galaxy tablet. My mom, for example, refers to both tablets as an ipad. She uses an ipad to rea
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by catch23 14y ago
I believe so, according to wikipedia, no other multi-touch phones existed before the iphone.
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by catch23 14y ago
> Because, as I said, the market wasn't ready for large capacitive touch screens. Hm, I don't think the reason competitors had their own operating system and stylus-based touch screens had anything to do with the market being ready for
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by catch23 14y ago
I don't believe I'm making the karmic argument here, hopefully you're not interpreting it as such. I was simply arguing that Samsung copies at a deeper level which borders the line of cloning a product. If it were up to the market to deci
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by catch23 14y ago
There are great examples of innovative products that are the result of not copying another -- see the windows & palm phones. I don't believe that innovation comes from cloning -- it only helps that business stay alive for a longer peri
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by catch23 14y ago
It's similar, but not exact. You can actually plug the galaxy into apple addon products (the connector will fit), but you'll probably fry your galaxy. Maybe someone has already done this and complained to Apple. However, even if the copy
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by catch23 14y ago
I think it's bad if the average consumer cannot tell the difference between an Apple product and a Samsung product. Right now Samsung is trying hard to look like a cheaper apple product -- they have the same "white" apple stores with an eq
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by catch23 14y ago
Sadly, the case is far from over. Both companies will say they will appeal until they win so it may last as long as SCO vs IBM. From Apple's statement, I believe they went after Samsung because of their blatant copying. There have been o
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by catch23 14y ago
No, it's not a blow to innovation. The only reason Apple went after Samsung and not HTC or other Android handset manufacturers is because Samsung has gone into detail copying every small feature from Apple. If you look into Samsung's prio
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by catch23 14y ago
I don't think case is about anything technical. If you look deep into Samsung's history, you'll see they make a business out of copying other company's successful products by mimicking the product's form factor or appearance. For example,
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by catch23 14y ago
I think it's Intel, although Qualcomm chips are being used in their CDMA variants of the iPhone. Apple uses Infineon baseband chips, however the company (Infineon) was bought out by Intel, hence it is Intel who supplies the offending chips

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