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by felixfurtak 10y ago
In a digital world, the analog voltmeter is a nice touch
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by felixfurtak 10y ago
It only has fiber to compete with, and light only travels at 2/3 speed in fiber compared to free space.
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by felixfurtak 10y ago
Looks like the DOE is a form of Bragg Grating similar to a FBG ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_Bragg_grating ) but in a planar form. Still trying to get my head around how it works...
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by felixfurtak 11y ago
presumably just a microcode update
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by felixfurtak 11y ago
Now try to write it again in 140 characters ;)
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by felixfurtak 11y ago
I was hoping for a little more on Systemd
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by felixfurtak 11y ago
so... only phone data collection then. what about everything else?
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by felixfurtak 12y ago
Is it possible to patent something that is already in the public domain?
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by felixfurtak 13y ago
Most video encoding is mp4-type now (rather than the mp2-type used by dvds). Mp4 is typically a lot more processor intensive.
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by felixfurtak 13y ago
I would highly recommend watching the BBC documentary "The Men Who Made Us Fat". This reaches broadly the same conclusions. Fat is fairly innocuous, but the real danger food is Sugar, and artificial sweeteners tend to make things
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by felixfurtak 13y ago
Strange nomenclature. I would have thought it should be called Quad-HD since it is precisely 4 x 1920x1080 screens.
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by felixfurtak 13y ago
probably referring to mass shootings.
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by felixfurtak 13y ago
So is this basically RAM paging similar to when CPUs transitioned from 16- to 32-bit?
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by felixfurtak 13y ago
It depends on the power budget of the fiber link. A 3db splitter would tap 50% of the power, but if this was planned for in advance it would be easily integrated in the long haul network.
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by felixfurtak 13y ago
If my memory serves me AltaVista had good newsgroup support too. It was even possible to manually uudecode binary files from the search results.
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by felixfurtak 14y ago
I wonder if this is limited to LAN side or WAN. WAN would be very worrying indeed.
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by felixfurtak 14y ago
There really is very little in terms of hardware in a Leap Motion. It's basically two webcam grade cameras, 3 infra-red LEDs and a plastic IR filter. This is just the same thing.
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by felixfurtak 14y ago
It loaded fairly instantly for me, but it's just another website. Unless I'm missing something.
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by felixfurtak 14y ago
Here are some images of an early version. Basically it's two webcam-grade cameras and 3 IR LEDs. http://monleap.fr/537-kit-developpement-leap-motion-photos/ That's pretty much it. It makes me wonder why people are getting so excited about
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by felixfurtak 14y ago
how would it detect a 'touch' ?
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by felixfurtak 14y ago
This guy has some big doubts about Oculus http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/17mutc/the_leap_deve...
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by felixfurtak 14y ago
Yes, as far as I understand it, it is an IR LED light source with a camera sensor and some simple optics. I don't know if it has stereo vision or not. Although even if it did, since it is such a small unit, the spatial difference between th
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by felixfurtak 14y ago
would be nice to see a hardware teardown to get an idea how it works
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by felixfurtak 14y ago
It's essentially used by Google to see which search result you clicked on from the original query. Twitter does similar thing with t.co. It never used to happen on a non-logged in Google account, but now it does. It's been like that for at
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by felixfurtak 14y ago
How is this different to HOTOL ?
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by felixfurtak 14y ago
How large would a 12m line long .csv file be? Not sure how many bytes per entry, but it would be of the order of gigabytes.
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by felixfurtak 14y ago
'...send faxes' - how quaint!
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by felixfurtak 15y ago
A good question. What is the answer?
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by felixfurtak 15y ago
it would be interesting to add resale value to this calculation.
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by felixfurtak 15y ago
This reminds me of when laptop screens went glossy. Firstly everyone thought that they liked it. Then they realized that these screens were actually less ergonomic to use due to the increased mirror reflection. Now it is often necessary to

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