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by jmackinn 18y ago
The LeTouneau stuff is very interesting. Your concerns over the ride quality for the wheel are addressed in the press release for the product from Michelin (I linked to it in another comment). The wheel will actually contain an active elec
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by jmackinn 18y ago
Here is the Michelin page for the Active Wheel: http://www.michelin.co.uk/michelinuk/AfficheServlet?Rubrique... But for much more detail check out the press release (pdf): http://servicesv2.webmichelin.com/frontnews/servlet/GetEleme...
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Bittorrent declares war on VoIP, gamers(theregister.co.uk)
17 points by jmackinn 18y ago|9 comments
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by jmackinn 18y ago
I think this hits on a big stumbling block for the product. There are a huge number of companies that don't allow the data to be removed from their workstations or servers. If the product could be implemented as an extension for Excel, sim
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OsCommerce: A Lesson in Unmaintainable Code?(blog.james-carr.org)
6 points by jmackinn 18y ago|2 comments
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by jmackinn 18y ago
by trying to create products to compete with the iPhone, blackberry has essentially conceded that their brand is inferior to the iPhone.. Wait, What? How is competing at all the same as conceding? The opposite is true in fact, not compe
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Why Do Web Applications Stink So Badly?(changelog.complete.org)
5 points by jmackinn 18y ago|0 comments
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by jmackinn 18y ago
Just because justin.tv may not have been at fault doesn't mean that they won't share in the blame.
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by jmackinn 18y ago
I don't think this blogger actually read the post by Google. The neosmart article emphasizes This is a departure from the process outlined in OpenID 1.0. This is because Google is following the OpenID 2.0 protocol which does contain the
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by jmackinn 18y ago
You might want to check out dotProject. I've played around with it a bit and there is a lot of functionality. It doesn't have the simplest or most intuitive UI, but it's free. http://www.dotproject.net/
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by jmackinn 18y ago
I'm not sure where you're getting your numbers that the iPhone will take over Windows mobile within another quarter. From what I've found, Apple currently has a 2.8% market share in terms of OS use on smartphones and Windows Mobile is up a
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by jmackinn 18y ago
What makes you think that Google would have any interest in buying twitter? You don't just get to choose who will buy you.
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by jmackinn 18y ago
This article reminded me of a Wired article I read years ago. After a quick look I found this: The New Diamond Age - http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.html Some lines in the Smithsonian article are almost word for word rig
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by jmackinn 18y ago
The Cluny did attract smart people and was fast growing and profitable. This, however, was in large part due to donations and endowments making it a charity and not a business and much of the wealth obtained by the Cluny was a direct resul
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by jmackinn 18y ago
That's a pretty weak connection. You're comparing a 11th century religious organization with a capitalist corporation founded 1000 years later. This is not to say the Cluny wasn't dynamic , but why is it necessary to try and compare it w
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by jmackinn 18y ago
You could try the Internet Archive ( http://www.archive.org ), but I don't think they take snapshots of websites as frequently as you're looking for.
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by jmackinn 18y ago
I'm really not sure, I have no idea where you are getting a 60x energy boost from.
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by jmackinn 18y ago
You're using a link that claims the resource limit to be 1000 years (the first one). And did you really state that taking uranium out of granite is economical? The granite you want to mine is worth more than the uranium in it, not to mentio
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by jmackinn 18y ago
It's good to know that there are other people who are great promoters of nuclear power (I am a huge fan), but you're not reading your sources very well (the last article you linked to put the cost of uranium as nuclear fuel at 0.5c/kWh at a
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by jmackinn 18y ago
Current extraction from sea water runs over 4 times the current spot price for Uranium. It is currently an UNECONOMICAL way to get Uranium. Please reread the original article I linked to regarding the 1000 year supply. It actually deals w
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by jmackinn 18y ago
Julian Simon was a professor business administration, not a mining engineer. Those articles refer to scare tactics presented in terms of resource scarcity by environmental fanatics. He says nothing about the definition of a mineral reserv
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by jmackinn 18y ago
On the contrary the article you provided did not once mention the words 'economically recoverable'. What you are looking for is the reserves of Uranium in the world. Reserves, in mining means the amount of ore that can be economically r
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by jmackinn 18y ago
Here are the energy densities in MJ/kg: Deuterium-Tritium fusion - 337,000,000 MJ/kg Nuclear fission (of U-235) - 88,250,000 MJ/kg Natural uranium (99.3% U238, 0.7% U235) in fast breeder reactor - 24,000,000 MJ/kg Enriched uranium (3.5% U2
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by jmackinn 18y ago
I believe the same argument was used for why we should just stick with oil. The energy density and potential output is far higher (theoretically) with fusion than with fission. You may also want to check your figures on the half a billion
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by jmackinn 18y ago
You are in fact correct already. One of the research goals of ITER is to experiment with different materials being subjected to the neutron flux in order to determine the radioactive byproducts and their theoretic half-lives. They are als
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by jmackinn 18y ago
Picking the right one is the hard part.
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by jmackinn 18y ago
This is both a good piece of advice and a bad piece of advice. The fact that someone can copy your idea is really not of great concern if you execute well. This is very true. But a business is not all [in] the execution . Execution i
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by jmackinn 18y ago
I really don't see how these bags are different than any normal laptop bag except there is some airport/security reference in the name, the price is inflated and they are made with cheap plastic zippers. I've traveled all over the world wi
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by jmackinn 18y ago
I'm sorry, but what exactly do you mean by not entrepreneurs in the sense of the word as used on hn ?
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Born to Run - the evolution of the human body(discovermagazine.com)
14 points by jmackinn 18y ago|10 comments

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