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   by sounds 11y ago

   I think the key bit with this news is that they're doubling down on "the employees snuck this by us. We had no idea. Absolutely no clue whatsoever. Pinkie swear." They may even be able to "find" an employee who has
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   by sounds 11y ago

   Working through the Ogre issues on OS X is like a rite of passage, I thought? I tried multiple times to contribute OS X fixes to the Ogre code base. They're not hard things -- 1. Use SDL not OIS. 2. The symlinking is broken. 3. Link th
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   by sounds 11y ago

   Serious question, anyone know the ballpark figures of thrust-to-weight based on 1000 ft/min ascent rate for fully loaded and ground level? I'm trying to calculate maximum theoretical fuel capacity, essentially 1:1 thrust-to-weight
4. 664.▲
   by sounds 11y ago

   Or, more likely, they can't get involved for legal reasons. If they took steps to block the easy stuff, an arms race would ensue, and the content providers would never be satisfied with the performance being provided for free by Go
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   by sounds 11y ago

   Different isotopes of hydrogen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion#Process
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   by sounds 11y ago

   Any time I see an article claiming Microsoft's app store and XBox will wipe out Valve, I remind myself that it's not Microsoft's direct counters to Valve, it's Microsoft's sheer size that will create the openings Va
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   by sounds 11y ago

   A buyback seems like a statement that the best use of google's cash-on-hand is to increase the value of the stock directly; that there is no other investment that would give a better ROI. Google execs think GOOG will be ahead vs the va
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   by sounds 11y ago

   I think the submission here on HN has overdone it on the title. It doesn't compute "flops" like a traditional computer. The relevant text from the article: "The prototype achieves a processing speed equivalent to 320 Gfl
9. 669.▲
   by sounds 11y ago

   It eventually gets reduced to the name of the company that capitalizes on the solution most successfully. "Oh, they're using Panasonic batteries." "He drives a Tesla." "Google it." I still think emc2fusion
10. 670.▲
    by sounds 11y ago

    The article is critically lacking in insight because it implies that open sourcing patents gave Chinese manufacturers an advantage. That's not how patents work. A patent includes the description of how the invention works right in the
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    by sounds 11y ago

    Only if you answer their "survey question"... I hope they quickly fall in their rankings on large search engines... Here's the article's text: ---- Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur, has lashed out at Apple‘s ambit
12. 672.▲
    by sounds 11y ago

    I personally don't use any iThings. y4mi, do you have concrete examples of what Microsoft has done that has significantly improved end users' ability to run Free Software?
13. 673.▲
    by sounds 11y ago

    Re: how Yahoo is still in business... Yahoo made a number of strategic investments which are very profitable. You could say they are an investment firm with a small tech-sector arm.
14. 674.▲
    by sounds 11y ago

    False equivalence fallacy. You can wish Microsoft would die, and still use an iPhone. In fact, much of Apple's success can be attributed to Microsoft fumbling the mobile revolution. In other words, people who use Apple may be doing so
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    by sounds 11y ago

    This! All the above are requirements, yes (CPU, Screen, RAM, Storage, Battery, Camera). I'd add one more requirement: manufacturers should be required to supply as a part of an extended warranty the latest release of Android. No more o
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    by sounds 11y ago

    As long as you mean "write protect" in quotes, because the write protection is handled by circuitry outside the flash chip itself which then means that to be sure your flash is _actually_ protected you have to verify that addition
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    by sounds 11y ago

    This is a great point! And the ME (Management Engine [1]) rears its ugly head. Even Google Chromebooks with a "write protect screw" do not actually wire the write protect screw to the hardware "disable writes" signal on
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    by sounds 11y ago

    They definitely do not use Intel Wireless chips. In reply to sibling poster about dip switches, it looks like there are little wires running inside the case from the four separate connections to the two DPDT switches, i.e., if you want to f
19. 679.▲
    by sounds 11y ago

    Thanks for specific answers. I think we've both "proven our point."
20. 680.▲
    by sounds 11y ago

    I'm a Free Software evangelist. Microsoft has been my enemy for a long time. Please be specific: what has Microsoft ever done that has significantly improved end users' ability to run Free Software?
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    by sounds 11y ago

    Suffice it to say that every auto maker who has to pass Euro emission tests is doing this to one degree or another, and has been for years. Mechanics know it, as do the regulators who resist attempts to reform the emissions legislation. All
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    by sounds 11y ago

    How will Volkswagen's cheating, or Eben Moglen for that matter, make it more difficult to tinker with your car? The Magnussen-Moss Act aside, auto makers seem to have failed to notice that DMCA-ing their software has not stopped tweake
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    by sounds 11y ago

    A motor under the platform that swivels the user, chair, and floor inside the cage would do it. But I agree with the other commenters that the video does not seem to demonstrate a yaw capability.
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    by sounds 11y ago

    Brotli at compression level 1 is as fast as zstd.
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    by sounds 11y ago

    Here are some obvious signals that I think can be pulled from the data set: • gender • age (since they just straight up ask for it) • rough geo data (if the survey records IP geo information, so assume they are doing that) • economic status
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    by sounds 11y ago

    Just one: the effect this might have on patent law prior art...
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    by sounds 11y ago

    Thanks for chiming in! Will you please relay our wishes to the powers that be -- that the GPU driver stay blob-free? And thanks for contributing the drivers to Mesa!
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    by sounds 11y ago

    It should be obvious they are working on it! But only time will tell if it's good enough.
29. 689.▲
    by sounds 11y ago

    It shouldn't take too long for me to whip up a homebrew formula for this. Do you want one?
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    by sounds 11y ago

    It uses radare2 behind the scenes, so I think you can do it but it might not be as pretty as you expect.