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by porsupah 11y ago
Indeed, it does sound like that's the case. Thanks for the clarification.
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by porsupah 11y ago
Not exclusively, by the sound of it - the press release notes "Many devices that support Wi-Fi HaLow are expected to operate in 2.4 and 5 GHz as well as 900 MHz".
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by porsupah 11y ago
One app I noticed recently might be of interest - "SpyMeSat". Give it a location, and it'll show you a list of forthcoming imaging opportunities from several satellites. Tap on any of them, and you get to see further informat
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by porsupah 11y ago
Relatedly, people might find Tan Huey Peng's "Fun with Chinese Characters" series of books enjoyable. Each entry offers an archaic writing, and its current form, outlining the origins of each, as well as the stroke ordering.
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by porsupah 11y ago
No. Premium processing only affects the speed of processing - the lottery odds remain unchanged.
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by porsupah 11y ago
Relatedly, AT&T will be rolling out gigabit service in San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland in 2016: http://www.mercurynews.com/san-francisco/ci_29214143/at-t-bi... The caveat, of course, being that not everyo
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by porsupah 11y ago
I may just be being very slow today, but the methodology is rather unclear to me. eg "imprinted the signal onto a water membrane and then computer enhanced the resulting image" I'll admit, I'm.. not entirely persuaded by
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More Apple Car Thoughts: Money, Design UI, Distribution(mondaynote.com)
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by porsupah 11y ago
How would one, practically, go about modeling the impact of L3 impact in a SoC design, assuming you were intending to produce sonething like the A9X? (I speak as one who loved sim_g4 as a modeling tool for verifying compiler efficiency, or
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by porsupah 11y ago
And quite bloated! A friend was with them in 1997, and left, simply out of having to spend more than half their time - literally - in meetings. The money was absolutely not a problem, nor the projects - they simply couldn't spend their
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by porsupah 11y ago
Alas! I used Eudora well into the OS X days, by which time it was abundantly clear there would be no further development thereon. I still rather miss it - I loved the way I could open a new window, and have it be completely ready absolutely
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by porsupah 11y ago
I've been involved in a fair variety of projects, but amongst my favorites would have to be: - an experimental video codec based around contours, with some fairly tremendous potential. It works, but there's still a few years more
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by porsupah 11y ago
Could you expand on that? I'd be quite concerned to find my photos being licensed for commercial use without my consent.
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by porsupah 11y ago
For me, they're: (1) the owner of Flickr, an acquisition they've tried to futz around with, but haven't actually managed to damage too much yet. (True, the site design's become much more heavyweight, but that's a ge
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by porsupah 11y ago
Incidental to the article, I know, but there's a wrinkle in Crazy Taxi's soundtrack story: for whatever reasons, whilst the console ports feature a new soundtrack, the iOS and Android versions retain the original.
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Honda Using Experimental New Asimo for Disaster Response Research(spectrum.ieee.org)
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Huawei's new phone battery can charge to 48% in 5 minutes(theguardian.com)
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by porsupah 11y ago
Construction is apparently expected to begin in early 2016. https://www.sfmta.com/news/project-updates/construction-cont... The project's home page: https://www.sfmta.com/projects-planning&#x2
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by porsupah 11y ago
Indeed, they're all helical scan systems. With V2000, though, it worked somewhat like audio cassettes, with only half the width of the tape used per side, being flipped over to use the other half. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by porsupah 11y ago
Are you perhaps thinking of V2000? Betamax works like VHS in that regard - only one orientation.
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by porsupah 11y ago
There's one additional wrinkle that the story, in fact, gets wrong: > Federal officials allow only one application for each foreign worker. That isn't the case. An individual may have multiple H-1B petitions filed, provided the
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by porsupah 11y ago
Indeed so. http://www.computerhistory.org/groups/storagesig/media/docs/... 'The drive, a 7,200RPM Deskstar 75GB drive, was released on 15 March last year [2000]. At the time, the press release annou
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by porsupah 11y ago
Electrek offers up their own analysis of the fact soup: http://electrek.co/2015/10/26/teslas-biggest-competition-for...
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by porsupah 11y ago
Is it actually that bad? SF rents are certainly not low, but if you check Craigslist/PadMapper, it would seem difficult to pay $4k, let alone that being the median.
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by porsupah 11y ago
> has been in the process of laying off most of its staff in an effort to run more efficiently Is that meant to sound quite as much of a death knell as it does to me? I hope not. I've made a few comics purchases through Gumroad (Ski
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by porsupah 11y ago
Somewhere around 336 levels, it would seem, with this generation. https://medium.com/@rknla/exploring-apple-s-3d-touch-f5980ef...
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by porsupah 11y ago
Fascinating! Seeking out more information on E-Thrust led me to this article, which talks both about it, and where Airbus are now with electric aircraft: http://eandt.theiet.org/magazine/2014/10/rise-of-electr
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by porsupah 11y ago
Not quite - the license fee only applies if you watch live programming. If you're an iPlayer catch-up sort instead, or only watch iTunes/Blu-Ray/Netflix, no fee is payable - although it's hardly a bad idea to support a
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by porsupah 11y ago
The Irish Times has a non-paywalled version: http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/global-tax-deal-t...
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by porsupah 11y ago
Very much so, although I'd perhaps argue Twitter's worse in that regard, with endless "best photos about X" bots happily swiping photos (often scraped from Reddit, sometimes even other such bots), inserting advertising i

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