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It's cool that they're putting programming languages where kids might get exposure to them. Of course, most of the reason people were acquainted with BASIC was that it was the only thing that came with a home computer. Typing might be
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I would hope that as more telecoms try to get their piece of the google/fb pie, more companies relying on the internet will come to see the benefits of supporting network neutrality. And for anyone wondering how things fit together, check o
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check on http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/index and xxx.lanl.gov .
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Samsung had an 8Gb PRAM at ISSCC12, but I haven't heard if it's gone into production. Most of the memory manufactures are aiming for cellphones where I guess they believe they have chance of going against flash even with lower density. The
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The thing I learned about learning math is that you have to do a lot of problems. That's it. That's the trick. Also, It's helpful to read a lot of different explanations/developments of a concept until I find one that makes sense.
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Check out a circuit called a 'negative impedance converter'. Gunn and tunnel diodes also exhibit negative differential resistances at some operating points.
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I've always used emacs and the SDK as well. It seems to work ok, though I've never been one for IDEs. Eclipse felt too heavyweight on the netbook I use to code. (I still find it amusing that emacs is the light-weight solution).
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I would guess they would have to use the accelerometers and gyros on the phone to get a plane curve, along which they would then have the gradient and could match against a stored database.
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Indoor navigation is a huge problem for the blind and visually impaired as well. Currently, I'm working in research on an RFID based location sensing system. It works, but requires infrastructure to be installed, so any system using just