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by femto 15y ago
I wonder if a distributed algorithms, as used in web based currencies (eg. bitcoin) or incentive based systems (eg. bit torrent), can be adapted to the peer review system? The currency being traded would be academic credit.
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by femto 15y ago
Here's one. Can you get the software to recognise circuit topologies as they are being drawn, and suggest better topologies or components, based on what other circuits have been entered? It strikes me that the difference between Upverter a
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by femto 15y ago
What's the possibility for making the site free, and paying for it by providing an integrated manufacturing or procurement service? (I notice your library already has "buy now" buttons next to components). Various "buy now" buttons could d
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by femto 15y ago
The schematic is a small part of a full design flow. What hooks does it have to be integrated into a full design flow? Without such hooks it will be limited to rudimentary circuits. What support is there for hardware description language
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by femto 15y ago
Talk to as many prospective clients as possible, face-to-face, in the geographical area in which you want to work. Explore their problems and what you might do to solve them. The ideal contract will have you and the client fitting each ot
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by femto 15y ago
The article asks a valid question: "Why aren't the employees of the cartel members baying for blood?" Presumably it is because any compensation from their employer will be more than cancelled by damage to their career, by the same employer
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by femto 15y ago
It does seem crazy. One can play devil's advocate though... In a museum situation there is always tension between preservation and restoration. The aim of a museum isn't to have a (boring) collection of items restored to brand spanking ne
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by femto 15y ago
Perhaps the threat will dissipate over time, despite the electorates limited attention span, since the electorate is continually voting with its eyeballs and brain space? Murdoch (and ilk) are terrified of the Internet, as it dilutes their
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by femto 15y ago
Can anyone comment on the rates of use of bootstrapping and VC, between old and young entrepreneurs? My gut feeling is that older people are more likely to have the savings and connections to bootstrap a company, and so route around any bia
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by femto 15y ago
Nothing could be further from the truth. Australia has been at the forefront of trade liberalisation [1,2], unilaterally cutting tariffs for about 20 years. If anything, our current growth is a product of this liberalisation. Income ineq
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by femto 15y ago
And it's nothing new. In 1964 Donald Horne penned a book "The Lucky Country", which caused many Australians to start referring to Australia as "The Lucky Country". The bit they miss is that the full quote was. "Australia is a lucky countr
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AU+UK Universities Relaxing IP Rules to Encourage Commercialsiation(smh.com.au)
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by femto 15y ago
Only if the two phones are under-sampling the signal. Chances are that there is a low pass filter in front of the phone's ADC, blocking signals above the Nyquist limit from reaching the sampler. Assuming brick wall filters (ie perfect cuto
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by femto 15y ago
What do people make of the patent history? Eight lapsed applications and one withdrawn over a 15 year period. Is that unusual? http://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/ols/auspat/quickSearch.do...
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by femto 15y ago
What I meant by a native implementation is one with no underlying infrastructure. Freenet (protocol) would be running directly on the hardware. Set up a mesh of (media agnostic) point-to-point links and use the Freenet protocol to route tr
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by femto 15y ago
What about an native implementation of Freenet? Currently Freenet is an overlay network, on top of the Internet, but from my limited knowledge of Freenet, it doesn't have to be that way.
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by femto 15y ago
Sequential execution isn't necessarily inherent. C++, Smalltalk, VHDL and others share Simula as a common ancestor. Simula had elements of concurrency and event driven simulation in it. One could envisage an object oriented language, suc
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by femto 15y ago
Sorry for the misinterpretation. If I was an FPGA manufacturer, I'd be trying to buy a company like Green Array and beat the CPU manufacturers to the middle ground. Agree about the current divide, though I think it will weaken and eventua
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by femto 15y ago
GNU radio
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by femto 15y ago
I hesitate to divide the world into "FPGA guys" and "non-FPGA guys". It's a continuum of computing power; CPU<->DSP<->FPGA, and one moves up and down it as the task varies and technology changes. If anything defines an "FPG
1551.
by femto 15y ago
Correction: I've been lax in my terminology with logic gates and cells. Current big FPGAs contain around 2 million "logic cells", which typically represent between 1 and 10 logic gates each, depending on device programming.
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by femto 15y ago
It's the future, representing a convergence between Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and the microprocessor. Gate arrays are vast arrays of logic gates, which can be wired together in almost arbitrary patterns by a sea of "fuses", typ
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by femto 15y ago
Some digital picture frames will accept an RSS feed. Why not make your site able to automatically update such a frame every hour? Are there any companies out there offering RSS based image feeds, intended for such devices? One can imagine
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by femto 15y ago
There are also outliers, about which it interesting to ask "why?" This [1] example of poor kids in a good school was recently reported in Australian media. The Albert Street School [2] in Johannesburg is run by Zimbabwean refugees for Zim
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by femto 15y ago
An interesting point. Is it more interesting to do the work, or to pay for the work? I'd come down on the of doing the work, though I guess if you pay for the work, you can be present for the fun bits and absent for the hard slog (the maj
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by femto 15y ago
One difference is that Stallman is a reasonable man. If you could put together a watertight argument that proprietary software is better than free software, I think Stallman would become a proprietary software advocate. Is Stallman being
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by femto 15y ago
Idea for a startup: a ratings service to track and rate the ethics/values of companies. This company would be to ethics as S&P is to finance. It would probably have more clout though, if it has a way of distributing its product to the