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by pogo 9y ago
Thanks for the tip! I just installed Artemis on 3 tablets and it's fantastic for my purposes. And looking at the Artemis forums, there are a number of people building Star Trek-like bridge consoles, similar to what I'm doing. Exce
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by pogo 9y ago
This is an incredible and timely resource for me. I'm currently building a spaceship cockpit for my young sons. I'm a former EE, so I've got the blinky LEDs, switches, LCDs, keypads, and other physical UI components covered,
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by pogo 9y ago
No, collisions are a very real risk. In fact, they've already happened. In 2009, an Iridium satellite accidentally collided with a Russian satellite. Space-X is talking about quadrupling the number of existing satellites, so collisions
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by pogo 9y ago
We have a local Lego re-seller ( https://bricksandminifigs.com/ ) which I visit occasionally. One time I spoke to the owner about the business economics. They try to buy complete kits. It is not economical to re-create kits f
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by pogo 9y ago
In general, this is good advice for dealing with price objection in the negotiation of a premium product. It correctly emphasizes long term relationships over a single sale. It also encourages you to stick to your guns on maintaining margin
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by pogo 10y ago
Prime beef is only 2-4% of all graded beef(1). Of this, most is sold to restaurants. So I don't think it was ever the "standard meat for sale", but it is available if you look. Butcher shops and, as others have pointed out, C
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by pogo 10y ago
They are very small, but not microscopic. They are done in yellow ink, which is why they are very hard to see. If they were printed in black ink, I think you'd be able to spot them immediately, despite their small size.
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by pogo 10y ago
Here's a great article with many more examples: http://www.pcworld.com/article/249951/computers/if-it-aint-b... My favorite is the 90 yr old Texas company that uses an IBM 402 from 1948. The computer use
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by pogo 10y ago
A never-used $200 "burner" laptop might be a wise investment in this case.
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by pogo 10y ago
In this case, get a lawyer and don't answer any questions without them. Also, if you do leak a hard copy, print it at a public place and use a B&W printer. Color printers are relatively easily traced.
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by pogo 10y ago
Having started my career making military radars, I've always been amused by tourists that criticize the cost of products that are required the have extreme performance and reliability in industries that are highly regulated to ensure c
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by pogo 10y ago
It's important to note that these improvements only apply to BLE. Classic Bluetooth (EDR) is not changing, at least not significantly. Also, there will continue to be minor spec revisions (5.1, 5.2, etc). The "Bluetooth 5"
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by pogo 13y ago
On a larger scale, this sounds like the premise behind Asimov's Foundation books. In essence, a visionary mathematician predicts a 30,000 year dark age descending on the Galactic Empire. In response, he creates the Foundation, a remo
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by pogo 13y ago
FlightCar is a business that uses another entity's property and services without permission and for profit,but without remuneration. This is not at all comparable to a private individual doing a friend a favor for free. I would imagine
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by pogo 13y ago
The degree of "burden" that FlightCar imposes on SFO is irrelevant to SFO's ability to charge a fee to FlightCar. SFO owns a platform and nobody is entitled to use it without paying, even if such use costs SFO nothing. (Which