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961.
by iwwr 16y ago
Would we see a day where wireless devices have software-defined antennas? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_defined_antenna The idea is to modulate the directionality of the transmitter/receiver antenna with no bulky or moving parts.
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by iwwr 16y ago
That's an interesting thought. The Matrix saga may represent a failure of the command & control economic model. False freedom fails, but the machine(machines?) has(have?) a lot of power to just try again.
963.
by iwwr 16y ago
3 years development (2 if we discount the abandoned Quake engine work) is standard for a large project with lots of content. Although, around 1996 there was little experience in what a big project entailed.
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by iwwr 16y ago
Like the Second Coming of the Messiah, the arrival of DNF (The Second Shipping (or third, if we count the apocryphal side-scrolling Duke)) will be a basis for a future religion.
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by iwwr 16y ago
How about submerged reactors? They'd use ocean currents to cool passively.
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by iwwr 16y ago
What are taxes and regulations like? It may not be possible to run companies cheaply, part for the rent.
967.
by iwwr 16y ago
Up close, the making of sausages is not pretty.
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by iwwr 16y ago
Well, sometimes cache becomes stale . Core dump and flush need no explanation :)
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Randy Pitchford of Gearbox talks about Duke Nukem Forever(bit-tech.net)
1 points by iwwr 16y ago|0 comments
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AMD says DirectX is hobbling PC graphics(bit-tech.net)
71 points by iwwr 16y ago|25 comments
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by iwwr 16y ago
The amount of effort put into inconveniencing the user is really incredible.
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by iwwr 16y ago
This is quite relevant all on its own, even if slightly off-topic: [the WTO Uruguay agreement is] called a "free trade agreement". It's in fact a highly protectionist agreement. The US is strongly opposed to free trade, just as business
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by iwwr 16y ago
The next Elite is stuck in development hell, delayed indefinitely. However, I would think the next Elite should come in the form of a MMO.
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by iwwr 16y ago
The idea that they have the power to spy and don't use it, when they could and without consequences is a little hard to fathom. Besides, there is very little legally nowadays that is really off-limits in that area. And whatever may not be (
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by iwwr 16y ago
There's one thing to be offering these services but another thing to ban competition in the same areas. Even worse, the monopoly is justified in the name of 'natural monopoly', yet there is still the need to legislate this monopoly (as if n
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by iwwr 16y ago
So far, the best layman source on these events.
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by iwwr 16y ago
Is this a good illustration of the phenomenon? http://i.imgur.com/cDgjD.jpg The glass is the antenna and the shape (here a circle) radius at a given point is the signal strength at that point. The glass is exploiting some anisotropies(?)
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by iwwr 16y ago
It's still legitimate to request the full payment of damages, if they occur. Barring, of course, the absurdity of the whole situation. That is, a single individual or organization can cause damages much higher than they can later repay.
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by iwwr 16y ago
It could also mean that technical competence is not a management bottleneck at Google.
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by iwwr 16y ago
Nokia must have a huge sympathy capital, with all these people genuinely invested (at least emotionally) in their success. What do you suppose is the reason for this?
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by iwwr 16y ago
Scientific politics has been tried before, usually as justification for an oppressive government. Politics is perhaps one of the least-fit field to accept science and engineering. The participants have no interest in truth or reason, but ra
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GPS over-reliance could spell 'disaster'(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by iwwr 16y ago|0 comments
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by iwwr 16y ago
It's sad that pittances like these ($25K) influence (direct?) decisions that then divert hundreds of millions or billions.
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by iwwr 16y ago
Fallen Earth MMO is based on real topographic maps of the Grand Canyon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Earth
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by iwwr 16y ago
Remember, valuations come in unicorn dollars.
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by iwwr 16y ago
Stack Overflow on their namesake: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/214741/what-is-a-stack-ov...
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by iwwr 16y ago
Try configuring your browser to ask for your permission every time a cookie needs to be stored. Some websites have 4-5 cookies and clicking "accept" (or "deny") several times over for a site is just unusable.
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by iwwr 16y ago
You may not necessarily want to use the cards in crossfire, in which case you get impressive performance in a one-slot package.
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by iwwr 16y ago
If future societies treat so-called game addiction like they treated alcohol, cigarettes or drugs, they would have learned nothing from the past. Not only would there be a backlash against it and further disregard for the law, but if it bec
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AMD blasts Apple's Thunderbolt technology(crn.com)
4 points by iwwr 16y ago|2 comments

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