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by easp 15y ago
It is my sincere hope that fear of amazon leads to the decline in DRM on ebooks, much as a fear of Apple lead to the decline of DRM for music. I'm not sure all the ingredients are there though...
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by easp 15y ago
This would be awesome, if there was video. Seriously, I want to see video of the assembly. Somewhere I saw video from the same project of a swarm of the bots doing coordinated movements and it was pretty cool and I've been waiting for vide
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First RasberryPi PCBs ready(raspberrypi.org)
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by easp 15y ago
What's your point, re profitability? Are highway systems and surface roads "profitable?" And the airline industry (as opposed to the aircraft industry) has generated little or no wealth in more than half a century of existence.
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by easp 15y ago
You aren't taking into consideration the vast amounts of concrete and steel that go into a nuclear plant, nor the mining and refining of the uranium, nor, for that matter, it's disposal. Further, I think you are overestimating the impact of
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by easp 15y ago
For one thing, autonomous cars can, theoretically, increase the practical carrying capacity of individual roadways, they can also better utilize the capacity of road networks by routing vehicles to underutilized roads. This would mitigate t
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by easp 15y ago
An autonomous single seater comes to you where you need it. A single seat, non-autonomous rental car doesn't come to you unless there is a driver, or a delivery vehicle with a driver, to bring it to you. The economics aren't going to be th
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by easp 15y ago
"Proper" urban planning is helped tremendously when the city was planned and reached critical mass in the days before the automobile and freeway systems really took hold.
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by easp 15y ago
I think you are right, there will be a tipping point at some stage. For something that is so thoroughly baked into the American way of life, I think 20 years isnt a bad estimate. I'm not totally up on autonomous car tech, but while very pr
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by easp 15y ago
Less insulting to whom, exactly?
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by easp 15y ago
Beaten to the punch by yet another photosharing app, that shipped after Color's, and also has no obvious traction? Bizzaroworld?
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by easp 15y ago
Yup, it was interesting reading some of the discussions about the design of the device. PCB cost was a major consideration. They aren't exposing some of the I/O pins on the SoC because it would require a more expensive PCB to do so.
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by easp 15y ago
They could have achieved higher density, but it would have been more expensive. The density is in service of low costs, so that wouldn't have made much sense.
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by easp 15y ago
You seem to have fixated on the portability. Understandable, but I don't think that is the point. The point is to build a cheap but capable device that kids can hack on. The portability is a byproduct of that focus on cost: the fewer pa
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by easp 15y ago
Why aren't they doing those things? Perhaps because that isn't what they set out to do: We plan to develop, manufacture and distribute an ultra-low-cost computer, for use in teaching computer programming to children. We expect this comput
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by easp 15y ago
That'd be "Skyrim"
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by easp 15y ago
Remember too, NeXT didn't just have a desktop OS, it had an enterprise application framework, which Apple used to build the Apple Online Store. That may or may not have been an important factor at the time, but given the inroads Microsoft
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by easp 15y ago
there don't seem to be a large number of reservists/national guard in the tech community The economically disadvantaged seem to be overrepresented in the military because of a lack of better options. Techies generally have better options
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by easp 15y ago
You can have a custom domain with Wordpress.com hosted blogs, but you have to pay something for it. Maybe $10/year...
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by easp 15y ago
That's all very nice, but it seems to me to be besides the point. On point would be to answer the question (to yourself) of what you are going to do when you are part of the hiring process for open positions at that startup, or when you are
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by easp 15y ago
If your workload runs on one or two Xeon servers, it probably isn't worth considering something like this. If your workload runs on racks of Xeon servers, it might be. Then the question is, which hardware delivers the right balance of CPU,
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by easp 15y ago
The article mentions Hadoop, big data crunching, web serving and web caching. They may or may not be embarrassingly parallel, but that doesn't mean any of them are typically compute bound. Look, today's multichip, multicore servers tend to
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by easp 15y ago
Some factors to consider: * Top private schools generally have smaller undergraduate enrollments than many state schools. * Top private schools have, in the past at least, used aid in interesting ways. For example, they have given aid to s
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by easp 15y ago
I knew people who worked on these sorts of thought-leadership concept videos, and even some working advanced prototypes, at Microsoft back in the mid-2000s. I did work to get a team spun up to actually bring some of it to market. I haven't
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by easp 15y ago
It starts at $10K a year.
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by easp 15y ago
Isn't $10k/yr just the starting price of the enterprise license, don't they have tiered pricing there too?
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by easp 15y ago
Seattle's latitude makes for long summer days, which include a big part of the not-as-rainy season.
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by easp 15y ago
So, crashplan and backblaze don't work for you? The previous poster has a problem with them because he is running on an embedded Linux platform that has chosen to omit support for an useful system call from their kernel.
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by easp 15y ago
Oh the other hand. I can touch type at a pretty good clip on the iPad keyboard in landscape mode something I've never been able to do on a netbook or a 7" tablet. For what it is worth, iOS 5 helps with thumb typing on the iPad.
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by easp 15y ago
But, if you spend much time on YouTube, it is surprising the range of people who have become content producers. To give just one example, my wife is fascinated by all the people doing makeup tutorials. These are people who might have expl

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