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New family of recyclable plastics created by accident(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by spingsprong 12y ago|0 comments
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Dual Carbon batteries(extremetech.com)
3 points by spingsprong 12y ago|0 comments
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by spingsprong 12y ago
I remember trying this out a few years ago, and was amazed that it ran at 0.5fps on my modernish PC, when the original game from 1996 ran fine on a 66MHz PC with 16MB of RAM.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
I wonder if it's because can fly higher than 65,535ft.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Firefox 29 on Linux. Isn't working for me.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Install the "Classic theme restorer" add-on and fiddle about with its settings, and you can pretty easily get your tabs back where they belong.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
There's an add-on called "Classic theme restorer". If you install that and fiddle about with its settings, you can get Firefox 99% of the way to how it was.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
What?
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by spingsprong 12y ago
One of the best things about BASIC in the 80s was the immediate and interesting results. Just a couple of lines and I could get colourful graphics, and interesting sounds. It grabbed my attention very easily as a kid. If I had to jump throu
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Please don't take this the wrong way, but what are you doing with your browser? Up until a few years ago, I used an oldish single core processor and I never had any problems with the performance of a browser. For the past few years I&#
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Doesn't give a download if link if you're on Linux. But if you use a user agent switcher, and pretend you're on windows, you can download the .exe and it seems to work okay through WINE.
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Could be a J-7
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by spingsprong 12y ago
Extremely poor performance for me at the moment. The update rate is so slow as to be virtually unusable.
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A Bit Off-Color(hackerfactor.com)
1 points by spingsprong 12y ago|0 comments
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by spingsprong 13y ago
I what some people here seemed to be missing, is this correlation isn't just lead was removed from the environment and 23 years later crime went down. It's that various areas has differing degrees of lead pollution and started red
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by spingsprong 13y ago
"apt-get install" is hardly cryptic.
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by spingsprong 13y ago
And that matters because?
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by spingsprong 13y ago
"It is, in fact, impossible to reach the speeds of which the MIG-25 is capable using titanium: yet the Soviet designers had managed to build this, the fastest combat aircraft in the world, from ordinary steel. " Right... MiG-25, M
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by spingsprong 13y ago
John steals Simon's fish. Therefore it's okay for Simon to rob Andrew?
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by spingsprong 13y ago
There is a lot more information from North Korean defectors here http://www.nknews.org/category/nk-voices/ask-a-north-korean/
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by spingsprong 13y ago
That photo was taken from one of the navcams. Fortunately, the navcams come in pairs. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/proj/msl/redops/ods/... http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw
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by spingsprong 13y ago
A veteran geologist explains how the medical industry became "rigged"
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by spingsprong 13y ago
Some of those graphs and arguments are terrible, and probably would help the antivaxer arguments than hinder them.
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by spingsprong 13y ago
Hopefully this can be replicated in the last few nations that still have Polio and humanity can finally be free of it.
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by spingsprong 13y ago
You're right, the Atari ST wasn't on the same level, it was $500 cheaper and had a faster processor.
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by spingsprong 13y ago
Thailand was never colonised.
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by spingsprong 13y ago
MMO's have a habit of lasting a long, long time. Second Life is only eleven years old. Everquest is fourteen years old, Ultima Online is about sixteen years old, and Meridian 59 is about nineteen years old, and all of them are still re
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by spingsprong 13y ago
You don't need analogies. A buffer is a place in a computer's memory for storing things, text, numbers, data, whatever. A buffer overflow is when you try to put more into a buffer than there is room for. When this happens, some of
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by spingsprong 13y ago
This could potentially censor minority opinions.
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by spingsprong 13y ago
Some of these analogue computers are pretty amazing things. I can kinda get my head around slow moving ships being tracked by a mechanical computer, but the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka self propelled anti-aircraft artillery vehicle used an elec

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