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by jrabone 14y ago
No, the article is just sensationalist. Many form of serious content creation can never have enough cores, bandwidth or RAM or GPU, and certainly never enough screen real-estate. Sure, each individual niche might be a one-percenter, but the
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by jrabone 14y ago
I don't think you necessarily need Li-ion for that - in my experience lead acid works well enough in the domestic case, is a lot cheaper and probably safer (although hydrogen venting is perhaps an issue). I built a little mixed DC (lighting
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by jrabone 14y ago
No, I expect they'd need to be specially designed for it, with a number of compromises (gas venting/replenishment) along the way. Battery technologies tend to have a limiting internal resistance that determines the maximum discharge rate, a
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by jrabone 14y ago
What? 10 years until battery technology has advanced to the point of parity? Gasoline has an energy density of 132 MJ/US gal, or say 1500 MJ on a full small tank. Modern engines hit 30% thermal efficiency, but then there are drive train los
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by jrabone 14y ago
And in fact, here is another illustration of just how hard it is to replace conventional energy storage systems with electricity. High pressure steam stores an enormous amount of energy. EMALs effectively uses 4 flywheels as rotational ener
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by jrabone 14y ago
Encryption that isn't completely useless. Recovery records. Huge file support. Better compression in specialised cases (x86 binary code, multimedia). A nicer GUI - 7zip is a clunky, fugly thing and WinZip... urgh. Garish as Las Vegas. A rea
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by jrabone 14y ago
You can dial it blind on a bricked phone?
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by jrabone 14y ago
No, I've confirmed that a random sample of HTC & Huawei phones around my office are also vulnerable. Nothing specific to TouchWiz. The thing that MIGHT be specific to Samsung is the actual remote wipe code, but relying on that is simply
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by jrabone 14y ago
I run my own mail server from colocation. I have so far refused to provide webmail because I can't find an implementation that isn't a constant stream of security holes, in exactly the way that Courier / Exim aren't. Any recommendations? I
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by jrabone 14y ago
The only JB device I have to hand is a Nexus 7, which of course just prompts to add the number as a contact...
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by jrabone 14y ago
I wrote a trivial webpage (using the show IMEI USSD * #06#), served from my desktop with Lighttpd. It certainly can be executed via a simple web page using a frameset on both Chrome & Browser, and there's no prompt. Works on a Huawei
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by jrabone 14y ago
Also works on my colleague's HTC & Huawei phones - it's not just TouchWiz.
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Works on a stock Galaxy S2 with Samsung ICS, and a random stock HTC (colleague's phone). Triggers IMEI display via dialer from both Chrome and Browser :(
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by jrabone 14y ago
Yes, this is how it works. I tested a Galaxy S2 and HTC with Chrome and the stock Browser - both spawn the dialler and pass the code which triggers automatically on the terminating '#'.
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by jrabone 14y ago
<!DOCTYPE html> Seconded. This works beautifully as proof-of-concept against my S2 and a colleagues random HTC phone. <html> <frameset> <frame src="tel:*%2306%23" /> </frameset> </html&#6
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by jrabone 14y ago
1. In the UK, via the "milk round" of good universities, personal referrals, industrial sponsorship... Also, some universities won't take undergraduates straight from school, which forces a "year out" in industry which plays into recruitmen
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by jrabone 14y ago
Not just browser vendors - to do this effectively a lot of companies need to "get" RESTful APIs in a way that they just don't at the moment. For example, think about fat clients that are actually talking HTTP, maybe through an ISP transpare
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by jrabone 14y ago
Total newbies, agreed. I'm thinking a progression that goes high school [aptitude] -> college / work exp. [skills] -> employments [experience] - ie. I'm hoping that many developers at least go to college, or built things by themselv
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by jrabone 14y ago
An experienced web developer, no. A skilled-but-never-built-anything-but-a-toy developer? I'm not so sure. Best practice is rarely sexy. Agile development methodologies over-emphasise YAGNI and do-the-simplest-thing (to the point that I w
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But if you do, be aware that occasionally they get reset to the defaults, just for shits'n'giggles. As happened to my partner this morning. Facebook simply cannot be trusted with anything of consequence - it's up to you to decide what that
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by jrabone 14y ago
You and anyone else can cross-check the data at http://routes.tomtom.com/
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by jrabone 14y ago
One can always use http://routes.tomtom.com/ as a source for comparison. It would also be good if certain journalists and bloggers did this before shooting their mouths off about data quality, but that wouldn't make a compelling headline.
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by jrabone 14y ago
All TomTom devices can send data back - the Live and Work (fleet management) devices have a SIM, the older devices use the docking cradle to the PC. And yes, there is a privacy policy. See http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/safeguarding-your-data
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by jrabone 14y ago
Take a look at J2EE 6 - you might find it's Spring which is the heavyweight these days. Although as of 3.1 at least the need to write your programs in XML is going away...
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by jrabone 14y ago
Great article, and your point about tunables is spot on; in the guts of several curses implementations there's an evil little select() call which is trying to work out if you meant "cursor down 1 line" or the four seperate characters ESC, [
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by jrabone 14y ago
Without the torque-speed curves for these motors, you just can't tell. The actual graphs are at http://www.go-ev.com/images/003_09_01_WarP_9A_Graph.jpg and http://www.go-ev.com/images/003_09_02_WarP_9_SpreadSheet.jpg My guess is that t
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by jrabone 14y ago
In Edinburgh at least, if you are "chosen" (hahaha) for a body scan and refuse, then you can't fly, simple as that.
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TomTom have a geocoding API [disclosure: I work for them] http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/licensing/press-room/press-relea...
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by jrabone 14y ago
No.2 diesel oil consumption for a single 3.5MW genset is ~ 200 g/kW.h. Spot price for no.2 diesel oil is ~ $3 / US gallon ($3.50 for low sulphur). Density is ~ 920 kg/m^3, US gallon is 0.00378541 m^3, so running at rated capacity a single g
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Most likely not performance as in rendering performance, but as in power saving; wasn't this also NVIDIA's reason for not releasing specs to Linux developers? I actually have some sympathy with a hardware company in this position; if all yo

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