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by gregsq 13y ago
Great comment. As a programmer who's had to go through a lot of the learning processes you describe, and I can't agree strongly enough with your informative cautions on the challenges in PCB design, some here might be interested i
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by gregsq 13y ago
Interesting. It has to be remembered that the UK and in fact all the allies, with the partial exception of the Soviet Union, were applying their war efforts to avert precisely this aggregation of nations during the Second World War. That wa
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by gregsq 13y ago
Not impressed with him in the slightest, and he'd be criticised severely if in an American context and the mechanisms shown in this link were noticed. Lurking on Whirlpool isn't a skill required for championing sensible communicat
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Metadata on Australians? No Worries(powerhouse.theglobalmail.org)
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by gregsq 13y ago
The numbers were large enough in the most recent English elections to arrive at the same kind of 'centrist' outcome as in the most recent Australian general election. In England, turnout increases generally when important contenti
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by gregsq 13y ago
That they are populist I would tend to agree. Having voted in both the UK and Australia, I've concluded that compulsory voting in Australia leads to a type of popularity contest, and that the so called informal vote is viewed as either
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by gregsq 13y ago
Yeah. Simple single sentence from me which doesn't do your comment justice. The connection between consciousness as an idea expressed by this declaration, and general extant environment is an interesting philosophical pursuit. I didn&#
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by gregsq 13y ago
Wrong word. Consciousness, not conscience.
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by gregsq 13y ago
Not recognised as you say, except by the signatories of this on July 7th 2012. http://fcmconference.org/img/CambridgeDeclarationOnConscious...
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by gregsq 13y ago
Thanks for that reminder. It brought to mind a scenario from immediately after the 2001 attacks, when the worlds gaze ( I presume ) focused on the US and its response to the aftermath. One of those events I saw on the BBC in the UK was a To
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by gregsq 13y ago
Here's a hint. http://mediasmiths.com/portfolio/bbc-digital-media-initiativ...
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by gregsq 13y ago
There's no point but to utilise any reserves laying idle. There's essentially negative interest rates on a lot of these accounts. I don't have an Australian bank account, but someone I know who does discovered that her account pays no inter
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by gregsq 13y ago
Definitely good. Have one myself. Just one issue seems to occur quite often, and that's that the space bar can either or both loud and sticky. And if your on the short keyboard welcome back to the number pad.
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by gregsq 13y ago
I've read this a couple of times and it seems to me to ignore the way royalties worked with broadcast in the past. Artists, if that's the word, were paid per performance when broadcast. They still are and the various rights societies collec
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by gregsq 14y ago
With I would add the proviso that a good guitar can help you avoid bad habits. Possibilities present themselves with good playable instruments that may not occur to you otherwise. That doesn't necessarily mean paying a lot of money. I have
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by gregsq 14y ago
Very true I think. When the banks started to fold in the UK I split my cash into units of up to £35000 each into different banks. The guarantee was per institution, not individual. It certainly made more sense to me to fit within the guaran
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by gregsq 14y ago
Reminds me of Branson converting back to a private company for similar reasons. http://esecourses.com/cfincase.pdf
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by gregsq 14y ago
I know. I went to Barnes and Noble in Baltimore and was directed to a bottom corner of a small section near the magazines. 'We don't have much' was the answer when I enquired. One book on arduinos and no others on hardware or engineering at
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by gregsq 14y ago
Thanks for that. I only had a cursory look at starting a company with an ABN when in Australia. It was a few years ago, but I was initially shocked at the difference. In the UK it's £20 to register a private limited company, £15 for the ann
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by gregsq 14y ago
I was answering the first part of the grandparent. It's easy to start a self employed business, but I'm referring to limited liability companies in the UK and incorporated companies in Australia. Pretty obvious really, that's why the UK is
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by gregsq 14y ago
Starting a business in Australia is ridiculously expensive. In the UK it's £20 ( last time I looked ). In Australia it was $900 or so when I looked. Lots of regulations on this and that. My pet theory is that it started out militaristically
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by gregsq 14y ago
A lot of tech stuff is pretty cheap. Hardware which is sourced from Taiwan and other nearby tech supply countries are reasonably priced when landed by the smaller, sometimes Asian run firms. The big retailers have a cartel like influence yo
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by gregsq 14y ago
If you are arguing that geographical distance leads to inefficient supply lines, this seems dubious. Australia, third from the top, has the lowest population density of most countries listed, having a land area almost as great as the USA, b
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by gregsq 14y ago
Driving on lengthy highways in Australia is interesting, at least in the state of Victoria, where enforcement of the speed limit is very strict. The limits of 100kmh and 110kmh are enforced within a mandated speedometer error limit that's v
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by gregsq 14y ago
That's partly it. TI is letting the OMAP5 out into the embedded market, where it has a lot more strength, through SOM partners like Phytec. This could look to some as a possible future subversion tactic.
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by gregsq 14y ago
I tend to agree with this. Samsung made a big event of declaring their support for developers of Exynos devices, but have stayed quiet and slow in showing that they meant it. The Mali GPU is one area where access is still locked down to a b
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by gregsq 14y ago
The new gen ones are getting there. Triton eInk colour is capable of animation, though it's all dithered. Epson make some good fast chips to drive these displays. It's great that there's good progress being made with these. They're much bet
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by gregsq 14y ago
No chance of success I'd say, at least here in the UK. The physical location of the corporate entity would be the companies registered address, that place where, statutorily, communications are mandated. If he was driving to that companies
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by gregsq 14y ago
I'm a long time C programmer, and in the embedded space, which is a burgeoning development area, C is indispensable. No libraries or external linkages, just raw close to the metal power. News of C's demise are premature.
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by gregsq 14y ago
The closest I've seen, though I haven't really looked hard and it's not a full analysis, is Battery Doctor by Kingsoft, which shows current draw for apps, both active and inactive, and system. It's only good for hints, and if there's someth

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