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by smithian 14y ago
Google 'hp tc1100'
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by smithian 14y ago
For almost all smartphones, almost all of the time, 3g data will be on. Your objection above was that location tracking would require MAC to person mapping and the cooperation of innumerable hotspot operators. This is not the case.
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by smithian 14y ago
The hotspot also passes data back to the handset, which can identify it individually. If the hotspot location is previously known that gives you coordinates. In dense areas like New York, you're within range of multiple AP's on a fairly co
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by smithian 14y ago
100F with high humidity will result in a number of preventable deaths due to heat exhaustion, heat stroke, dehydration, etc. So yes, it is the most critical thing, along with power to hospitals and emergency services.
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by smithian 14y ago
As an iPad 1, iPad 2, original Droid, Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus, and Kindle Fire owner, I have no idea what you are talking about. Our iOS devices have hiccups just as much as any of our Android devices do, and sometimes more.
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by smithian 14y ago
Certainly journalists will be a huge adopter of this technology as well.
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by smithian 14y ago
I have used my android phone for turn-by-turn navigation, finding transit, restaurants and other POI, translating foreign-language signs, etc. making me a pretty independent world traveler in Tokyo, Hamburg, London, Milan, and Paris. I hav
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by smithian 14y ago
We use Filecatalyst to transfer large files internally and to/from customers. +1 works as advertised. What open protocols were you thinking of?
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by smithian 14y ago
But won't you get more real-life real-estate out of the 1080p display? I thought that for normal apps and the web etc. the retina display was pixel-doubled for an effective real-estate equivalent to 1440x900? I get that it's better for ph
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by smithian 14y ago
This is not actually the interface that is used on the Dragon. This is a docking mechanism, which allows autonomous connections between two spacecraft. The Dragon uses the Common Berthing Mechanism (CBM) which requires assistance from a m
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by smithian 14y ago
The tank holds liquid oxygen, which is the oxidizer for the engine. Since oxygen is a gas at the ambient Florida temperature, it boils off all the time. A it boils off, the gas is released into the atmosphere, and the tank is replenished.
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by smithian 14y ago
In '69 all those huge monitors, telemetry displays, and cool panels were high tech. They built a room that screams "I am the future!". Today, all that stuff is commodity hardware that could just as easily be put to the task of playing some
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by smithian 14y ago
ISS bound launches have to launch while the ISS is passing overhead so that the orbit of the spacecraft is at the same inclination as ISS. The reason for this is that inclination changes are expensive fuel-wise once you're in orbit.
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by smithian 14y ago
wasteful spending is an affliction that spans the entire spectrum of human enterprise, both governmental and corporate.
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by smithian 14y ago
If you then sold the router on the second-hand market and gave the money to the library to spend on materials that they actually needed, your plan could do some real good.
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by smithian 14y ago
Yes, but that volume would not have been used for station maintenance missions. If you look at the manifests for the shuttle, they hardly ever used all that volume even for station construction.
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by smithian 15y ago
Iss is in the wrong orbit for that.
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by smithian 15y ago
It's more that the right leans false.
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by smithian 15y ago
Nice one, that I wasn't familiar with. Another great site for sailing theory is Arvel Gentry's page. His Origins of Lift piece was the first reference that made the process clear to me. http://www.arvelgentry.com/origins_of_lift.htm
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by smithian 15y ago
That was the worst hook for an article that turned out to be fairly insightful I've seen in a while. The death of Steve Jobs, or the last flight of the Space shuttle, are significant mostly symbolically, they have little to do with any dec
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by smithian 15y ago
You're thinking of Appollo-Soyuz, which happened in the 70's. the first space docking was in the Gemini program, Gemini 8, which docked to an american Agena upperstage.
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by smithian 15y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by smithian 15y ago
It would be very interesting to load android on a bunch of iPhones and test the reactions of people shopping for phones... take one group and tell them that this was the new iOS 6 and tell the others what you had done exactly and rate the
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by smithian 15y ago
You worked at a company with a dysfunctional IT department. In non-dysfunctional IT departments, security updates application patches are installed automatically without user intervention.
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by smithian 15y ago
In point of fact, I run no regular antivirus on my windows machine and have had no viruses ever. I verify this with a boot scan. It's not about macs vs PC's it's about user savvy and market penetration.
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by smithian 15y ago
I was responding to this: > It's plug and play, the drivers are downloaded automagically. and this: >Like you said, printing is not a problem in OS X. This is obviously and clearly not true, but you seemed to need evidence which I p
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by smithian 15y ago
I hear what you are saying, but I think you're mixing units. Since the study is accounting for things that are not accounted for in GDP, It doesn't seem to make much sense to compare the dollar figure reached in terms of GDP. If GDP deval
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by smithian 15y ago
Printing is no picnic either, as any cursory browse through discussions.apple.com, support.apple.com, or any of the many mac-centered tech forums will attest. Here's a few examples, by no means exhaustive: https://discussions.apple.com/th
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by smithian 15y ago
Well, I certainly looks to me that that is what he was saying, and given the opportunity he did not back away from that position, he doubled down on it in his response. So, downvote away I guess. But the whole thrust of this argument seems
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by smithian 15y ago
>If these really worked and made sense, we would have more worker owned cooperatives as opposed to corporations. I haven't heard much about them because they are in the slim minority..and there's probably a reason for this. Wow. Circul

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