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by jtnews 4y ago
Maybe a better headline would be Texas had to pay this company to stop mining bitcoins during an energy crisis? I didn't see any mention of how they provided power back into the grid? Do they own their own power generation plant that
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by jtnews 6y ago
I was always got a kick of out of the swimming sections simply being teleporters. Step on top of the water a get teleported to a room filled with water and then swim to the top of the room to get teleported back to the area around the pool
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by jtnews 8y ago
This article is missing one of ChromeOS's main advantages. Ease of management (provisioning, updating, installing software, group policy like configuration, etc). If MS doesn't address that then this will flop as bad as RT and S
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by jtnews 8y ago
"Instead it’s rote learning some particular IDE without real understanding." The reason for this is that very few of the people doing the teaching of computing concepts in high school understand themselves and all they can do is f
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by jtnews 9y ago
At $189 for the computer they can afford to have a computer that is managed and always works and a bbc micro or raspberry pi for the student to hack on and tear up.
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by jtnews 9y ago
The demo showed 10S faster than Pro, so I guess that's one advantage? Did they mention the speed increase coming to Pro at anytime?
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by jtnews 9y ago
I believe blocking it is an option. Can't do developer mode if you're enrolled and they can force enrollment on a device so if you try to wipe it and access developer mode it refuses and forces you back to enrollment.
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by jtnews 9y ago
I hear some schools used to send students home with backpacks full of hundreds of dollars worth of textbooks even though they knew every book wasn't going to come back. It's called acceptable loss and is a cost of doing business
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by jtnews 10y ago
You should give season 2 another shot. I almost gave up on it too, but it did deliver a good story even if it took a couple episodes to get warmed up.
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by jtnews 10y ago
The 11 is solid, but a little thick and chunky. The 13 is one of the nicest laptops I've used. I mean its no MacBook, but for $429 you get 12 hours of battery and a 1920x1080 screen.
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by jtnews 10y ago
I remember reading an article back when wifi was new about a company using some of the same wireless technology for wall penetrating radar for military/law enforcement applications. I don't remember if one was borrowing from the
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by jtnews 10y ago
It sucks for Google Fiber ( and anyone wanting the service), but it's been a win for consumers in Google fiber markets. In places where Google has only announced they're going to go the existing providers have already started off
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by jtnews 10y ago
AYP is out. The goals looked good on paper, made good sound bites for the news, but weren't realistic. NCLB is out too. The new thing is the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
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by jtnews 10y ago
Here's another one that's a brand you may have heard of and it also does multiple voltages too. Only $15. Can even get it as a kit if you don't have a Poe switch. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d&#x2F
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by jtnews 10y ago
I'm glad to hear someone else is interested in a Poe powered board. I thought about making a pihat that did Poe extraction but you'd still have to use a short cat5 jumper for data.
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by jtnews 10y ago
I used software where every page looked like those designs. Apparently the developers would get a request for feature 'X' and would just add a button for it. There was one screen with a button added for one very particular proce