italophil

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by italophil 12y ago
The story gets so much better by the fact that most of the pieces have a maritime or nautical theme.
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by italophil 12y ago
Interesting. I always believed the name came from the 3M CEO at that time, William McKnight, who was of Scottish origin. There were other Scottish inspired product names as well. Today the 3M country club is still called Tartan Park.
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by italophil 12y ago
This seems rather made up. In the last years there was also a rise in vampire and zombie literature, but that doesn't mean that a zombie apocalypse is becoming more likely.
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by italophil 12y ago
I always wonder how much fuel this rocket needs for landing and if this reduces the maximum payload compared to the disposable Falcon 9. Find they ever release that information?
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How a Spacecraft Like Orion Survives the Harsh Radiation of Orbit(motherboard.vice.com)
12 points by italophil 12y ago|3 comments
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Julian Assange spearheads funding drive for life-size statue of himself(independent.co.uk)
3 points by italophil 12y ago|0 comments
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by italophil 12y ago
This is really interesting. Perhaps this would allow for vim on ChromeOS without messing with the linux images (crouton) or the like.
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by italophil 12y ago
The space and aerospace programs of the sixties produced some really impressive technologies and facilities. Too bad government spending on technology research went down, just imagine what could be possible.
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by italophil 12y ago
Not only eastern cultures have the concept. In German there is the phrase 'a steady water drop hollows a stone' and it actually traces back to the Roman author Ovid 'gutta cavat lapidem'. Perseverance is just so much
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by italophil 12y ago
Both IBM and Sony sold their PC business. Dell showed us how well stand alone PC business with low margins fares on the stock market. I wonder why HP toke a different approach, no buyer, no immediate need for cash or something else?
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by italophil 12y ago
Chimes by Hudson Mohawke
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by italophil 12y ago
What is you $18/month plan? I am still looking for a reasonable one in the US.
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Netflix Wants The Internet's Benefits Without Its Costs(forbes.com)
2 points by italophil 13y ago|2 comments
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by italophil 13y ago
It's one thing getting spied on by the US government, but one would hope they'd use something more sophisticated than Hotmail to move the information around.
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by italophil 13y ago
I expect Apple to run in the same issue that Blackberry had with BBM if they don't open it up to more platforms soon.
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by italophil 13y ago
Anybody know what SIM size it uses? I have a hard time finding that info.
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by italophil 13y ago
The auxiliary power unit on the 787 has a battery near the tail of the plane.
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by italophil 13y ago
Ha, who knew. Geocities lives on in Japan.
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by italophil 13y ago
I used an East German version of the KIM (LC80) for lab experiments. In 1999! Tying in code was slow and debugging even slower, but the hardware I/O was easy, no fuzzing around with RS232. Ahhh, good times.
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by italophil 14y ago
The article is a lot of fear mongering. It ignores the fact that before the EURO the Southern European countries had high inflation rates and hence didn't need bail outs. These high inflation rates devalued savings in the local currencies
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by italophil 14y ago
Perhaps science changed in the last decade, but when I worked on my PhD words like "confirmed" and "definitely" were frowned upon.
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by italophil 14y ago
Unfortunately not working: Error establishing a database connection.
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by italophil 15y ago
You blaming it on outside forces (money, burocracy and taxes) just validates one of the points in the article. I am German, working some years for FIAT, and did my PhD in Italy, but left right after graduation for the US. The article perfec
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by italophil 15y ago
Self-service check outs did not catch on [ http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/09/26/superm... ]. I don't see how using your own phone would make it any better for the avg. consumer.