jamesfrank

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by jamesfrank 14y ago
A watt is a unit of power , not energy . Power is energy per unit time, so NIF works by storing large amounts of energy in capacitor banks (transferring it from the grid slowly) in preparation for a shot and then releasing all of that ene
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U.S. regains supercomputing top spot(top500.org)
1 points by jamesfrank 14y ago|1 comments
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Flame's crypto attack may have needed $200,000 worth of compute power(arstechnica.com)
1 points by jamesfrank 14y ago|0 comments
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5 Things About Television(tumbledry.org)
2 points by jamesfrank 14y ago|0 comments
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by jamesfrank 14y ago
I disagree with you on the details a bit, but I think viewing this as good at somethings and bad at others is far more constructive than arguing that this should replace a mouse, keyboard etc. However, I would make the good/bad list a b
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by jamesfrank 14y ago
I think your numbers are a bit off. I live in Livermore (25 minutes West of Tracy), and it takes me at least 45 mins to drive to SF (if there's no traffic). It's nice that BART comes as far as it does, but it's a 45 minute ride to SF, and t
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by jamesfrank 15y ago
> From my personal experience... I'm just curious - are you implying that you've personally encountered this sort of thing at government spy agencies or just that much of the government seems to have these characteristics?
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by jamesfrank 15y ago
Is it lacking any major features? I've been using it happily since the GrandCentral days and don't feel like I'm missing much of anything.
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by jamesfrank 15y ago
There may be some truth to that for the type of person who reads HN, but it's certainly not true for the wider public. Most people don't care about having full control of their mobile device, they just want it to work.
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by jamesfrank 15y ago
How would this accelerate copyright/IP reform?
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by jamesfrank 15y ago
As I recall, their issue with the GV app was that it "duplicated features" like the phonebook and dialer. Whether you believe that was their real reason or not, the Sprint integration doesn't duplicate anything - everything can be done usin
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by jamesfrank 15y ago
You should be able to just dial directly from the phone app. I haven't tried this on my phone, but based on the way it works and the way Google describes the integration, you should be able to do it.