j-g-faustus

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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
The problem seems to be restricted to Windows - apparently it looks normal on Ubuntu and Mac. (Here: Mac 10.6, works fine on Chrome, Firefox and Safari.) So I guess it's a platform issue.
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
NPEs [1] are not the problem as such, they are simply the ones most clearly illustrating the implications of the current patent system. PEs are encumbered by a number of other restrictions - their "cold war" type standoff against competitor
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
Number of Teslas registered in Norway: 15 in 2010, 48 in 2011, so they sold 33 Teslas in 2011. Source: Statistics Norway[1], the official state agency for everything statistics. Compared to say ~300,000 registered Toyotas (2011), I guess it
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
I think the older standard was 10A circuits for most of the house, 16A for kitchen and washing room and a dedicated 20A for the electric stove. I thought 10A was the most common still, but I may be wrong there. The standard for newer houses
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
I'm in Scandinavia, and our standard household circuit is 10A@230V for 2.3kW. But when you need a lot of power, you would install a 400V three-phase circuit (230 V between one phase and ground, 400V between two phases), something like this:
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
It's the only explanation I can find for the fact that patents like this are approved :) (My alternative hypothesis revolves around evil conspiracies to extend property rights into the realm of generic ideas, with the aim to create a modern
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
I believe patents work by making the description impenetrable enough to make the examiner's eyes glaze over. So they approve the patent in self-defense, and don't notice that it's just a list of trivialities.
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
It still doesn't sound very impressive if you translate it to plain English: A computer-implemented method for providing recurring delivery of products, the method comprising performing instructions under the control of a compute
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Inefficient markets: Understanding Apple(institutionalinvestor.com)
1 points by j-g-faustus 14y ago|0 comments
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
Actually, it seems quite adequate judging from these graphs on Apple's EPS (earnings per share) growth: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-apples-days-... Apple has had a few quarters where year-over-year growth was around 1
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
True enough. IBM and Microsoft currently trades at a P/E (price-to-earnings ratio) around 15, Google at 23, and Apple was at 11 when the market closed. So at least according to the "a company is worth X years of future earnings" model, Appl
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
Consider a simple model where the "fair value" of a company is the sum of their next 10 years of profit: If a company made $1m last year and is expected to stay flat for the next decade, it's worth $10 million. If a company made $1m last ye
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
You used to have to show ID and provide an address when you bought a TV, then it would go into a "these households have a TV" database, and you would receive a yearly bill. The extension is that it no longer applies only to TVs, but to PCs
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
There was a time when many people looked forward to a faster CPU, because it meant you could open Word documents more quickly. That time is long gone. As a developer, laptops have been fast enough for my purposes since around 2000. Coding H
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
Why would grandma want to buy a powerful $1000 tablet when a $200 tablet can do everything she wants to do perfectly fine? The main issue is that the vast majority simply don't need all that much computing power, it was the lack of alternat
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Lessons of UK smog disaster could avert calamity in China(globaltimes.cn)
1 points by j-g-faustus 14y ago|0 comments
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
Will you shoot video with the cameras? Or stills? Partially related: http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/30317/how-can-i-fin... That question is about time lapse with a single camera, but it includes some camera suggestions, includin
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
Interesting, thanks for the link.
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
Not sure what you mean with "bare sensors", a sensor won't do you much good without shutter, lens, and a way to control the aperture? To go cheap, I'd replace the DSLRs with webcams. It sacrifices resolution (obviously), but reduces bandwid
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
Space heating, water heating, refrigeration and air conditioning add up to 75% of the energy used by households in USA: http://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=us_energy_... Although I was slightly surprised that "lighting and o
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
They can claim that they take the environment seriously. Of course, if they are successful in reducing overall energy consumption, they will increase the cost of energy to cover their costs and maintain their profit margin.
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
This actually reminds me of the Plato/Artistotele difference. Plato held that there was an ideal, perfect version of everything in a sort of Idea Heaven, and the goal of the philosopher was to get ever closer to understanding that ideal. Ar
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
That's not what I'm reading. (I assume that you too read Norwegian, so we're not discussing artifacts of Google Translate?) From an article on the opposition to the law[1] (my translation): The Department of Health hasn't tried to hide
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
The "regional security departments" the article refers to are high-security psychiatric wards. The problem was that if the court declares Breivik insane, Norway couldn't (legally) put him in a high-security criminal prison, and there was no
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
> to the extent that it affects productivity I believe that's the key. In a similar fashion, we (society) don't want kids to interfere with productivity, so we stuff them in kindergartens and schools so they are out of our way until the
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Missing an hour of sleep shaves points off your IQ(businessinsider.com)
6 points by j-g-faustus 14y ago|0 comments
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by j-g-faustus 14y ago
Is "limits scale" a bug or a feature? I expect that a lot of the success of the capitalist model stems from the fact that most actors in this model are not too big to fail. (See "internet": To make a resistent system, minimize the impact of
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by j-g-faustus 15y ago
As I said, it's a few years ago. Today you can get 5 GHz with Sandy Bridge on air (although it might entail testing a few dozen CPUs to find one that can reach that high). But the OP was referring to speeds up to 10 GHz, those still need so
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by j-g-faustus 15y ago
Here's an article describing what it takes to reach those speeds: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/5-ghz-project,731.html The article is a few years old, and the clock limits have changed, but the principles of reaching them are the sa
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Why Microsoft killed Courier(dailytech.com)
26 points by j-g-faustus 15y ago|6 comments

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