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by fpp 11y ago
In the UK even if you do not watch TV at all (live or recorded) you have to pay the BBC Tax / TV license fee under certain circumstances. Best known one is having a car with a live video feed (e.g. a reverse camera to the dashboard) -f
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by fpp 11y ago
With you on the move IT / High tech out of the UK bit (also already had talks with our accountants & lawyers to relocate our company away from the UK). One part of the "snooper's charter" is that it makes the ISPs &#
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GoPro: Sneak Peek of GoPro Quadcopter Footage(youtube.com)
1 points by fpp 11y ago|0 comments
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by fpp 11y ago
Within the last 3 years a lot of UK government agencies and related organisations have learn the true MS Windows TCO the hard way. It was not only the MS upgrade / new licensing terms & cost increases that hit some of them pretty h
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by fpp 11y ago
For comparison: About 1988/89 we got our first PS/2 workstations [1]. With some upgrades (RAM, 60MB HD, network card) these were about the price of an entry level Mercedes S-Class - in today's money about US$100k each. [1] IB
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by fpp 11y ago
You don't need a minimum wage when you have an UBI worth its name (not just around / below the current minimum wage e.g. like discussed in Switzerland £1,500 a month or more). People will either do the job or you have to pay a rea
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by fpp 11y ago
Central London now has residential prices per sq foot from about £1K-£5k+ ($1.5K-$7.6K+) - roof space is often the most expensive (read penthouse) and suitable roofs sparse (at least in London). How are you planning to find suitable space &
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by fpp 11y ago
Same with a 1 year old LG home cinema system. Sending you amazon / kindle tv promos does not help to cover up such obviously bad business approach, reliability & ethics as a supplier. We will cancel all our Amazon subscriptions inc
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by fpp 11y ago
To me this sounds like the final step to the end of Big Blue's organisational culture and corporate identity. Sold off most of their manufacturing and now becoming one more "service provider" - classic setup: 6 overhead &#x2F
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by fpp 11y ago
Energy companies use billions of liters of the province's surface water for fracking natural gas, and only paid slightly more than a dollar per million liters That's on top of what the bottling companies use (hundreds of million
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by fpp 11y ago
Have a look at the chart - http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=000001.SS+Interactive#{"r... - From Oct 2008 to Oct 2009 the SSE dropped from almost 6,000 to 1,700 (after it rose from 1,800 to 6k the year before). Artifi
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Washington Post starts to use SSL(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by fpp 11y ago|1 comments
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by fpp 12y ago
Best overview of available msg queues I know is http://queues.io/ - always a good starting point to find information.
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by fpp 12y ago
They have done a presentation at the 31C3 a few days ago on this presenting their findings in more details & Q/E ( http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6173_-_en_-_... ). What I understood
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by fpp 12y ago
" Prisons are the symptom, not the disease " - not if you look at it like those that keep the current system alive and thriving. For them, each of those 4,916 facilities is a profit center renting multi-millions every year (or $
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by fpp 12y ago
Many thanks for the explanations Danielle - this sound like some quite substantial improvements over numbers I know from large scale CHP solutions e.g. Turboden (turboden.eu) that are providing about 19% as gross electric efficiency. They h
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by fpp 12y ago
Friedrich Goltz's boiling frog experiment with the slow temperature increase to boiling only worked after he removed the brains of the frogs - all others actually jumped out above 25C+ - when you watch various UK TV shows one can certa
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by fpp 12y ago
It is appalling what currently is happening in the aftermath of the crazy Paris attacks. Some of the biggest offenders of the Freedom of Press are now not battling for the protection of the press, but for being seen by the media as one of t
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by fpp 12y ago
Combined heat and power (CHP) might be indicative for that - nevertheless 90% roundtrip what they say on their website is very impressive. Compressed Air storage has been around for some time and one of the limits is of course the low energ
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by fpp 12y ago
Also read his interview on the topic in Dr Dobb's earlier this year http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/dave-thomas-i... The diagram he shows in the presentation around 5min is from Scaled Agile that is
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by fpp 12y ago
said the Kuwaiti nurse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmfVs3WaE9Y
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by fpp 12y ago
Have all of those IP addresses published as related to the hack been marked as dirty by Spamhaus e.a. before or after the hack - dates shown in the post are 20-Dec etc - after the hack was published.
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by fpp 12y ago
Andrew, this is sad news. Dr. Dobb's was always a beacon in the computer and software publication landscape, one I grew up with and I've cherished till today. I still remember the moments of pride and the feeling of recognition wh
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by fpp 12y ago
Similar (not to that extreme) just happened in Germany during the last 12-24 months. The conservative party massively expanded the copyright of publishers (German legislation: Leistungsschutzrecht - English http://en.wikipedia.or
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by fpp 12y ago
I believe the two (Docker & CoreOS) might have rather similar strategies and / or product roadmaps. What seemingly gets mixed up by quite a few commentators on this topic: Docker is an orchestration, deployment, management, etc sol
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by fpp 12y ago
I guess that's one of the applications the two inventors have in mind (outdoor clothing). Came across their early announcement beginning of this year ( http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_6c1e49d6-8
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by fpp 12y ago
Very impressive. How does this compare to other multi-core processors / architectures e.g. epiphany http://www.adapteva.com/introduction/
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by fpp 12y ago
some more editorial information at: http://www.fastcolabs.com/3038890/rohinnis-lightpaper-is-inc...
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Rohinni: Paper-thin LED lighting(rohinni.com)
180 points by fpp 12y ago|71 comments
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by fpp 12y ago
Try their github repository (MIT lic) https://github.com/driftyco/ionic or goto http://ionicframework.com/

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