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> Given that China has had some embarrassing and destructive disasters in the space program, they seem a bit reluctant to go for the live broadcast approach. The launch and landing of Chang'e 3 were both broadcast live on CCTV Eng
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The costs of a typical suburban house in the US can be broken down as: 50% land, 25% materials, 25% labor. By living in the wilderness rather than in a developed area, the 50% cost of land gets cut substantially. By using Chilean workers,
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> Forgive me for my ignorance, but what determines the level of scrutiny that a publicly traded company has to make available, in terms of its sources of revenue? How far do they get broken down, either by law/regulation or by cust
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> And I'd bet that the contracts (i.e. 'licenses') that they've agreed to thus far have a clause that prevents the licensee from seeking a refund should the patents ever be found invalid. The licensees probably get
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> Wait, seriously? That's it? that's the patent MS uses to force cellphone manufacturers to pay them for Android? No, that is not "the" patent. That is one patent. Microsoft has more. They also have patents that
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> I also think I read that more than 50% of the nuclear plants currently being built are in China. That is a big way that they will eventually combat this problem. Yes, China has 40 GWe of nuclear power coming on-line in the next 5 yea
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India's cities are better -- but not that much better. In January 2013, Beijing made headlines for a record-high PM2.5 of 755 mg/m^3. Nobody paid any attention to New Delhi, whose PM2.5 topped out at 565 mg/m^3 the next day
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A standard is currently being developed for DC distribution in datacenters and commercial buildings, at 380 volts. One of the proposals for residential DC is to supply 380 volts and 24 volts. The higher voltage would be for things like spa
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Gemini 6A also aborted after engine ignition. The astronauts climbed out, the engineers found the problem, and they launched successfully three days later. Liquid-fueled engines are inherently restartable. Otherwise, you wouldn't be
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Intel's consumer SSDs use Sandforce controllers. However, Intel seems to have a more thorough QA team than the other companies. They made a lot of changes to the SF-2281 firmware before they accepted it for their drives. And then aft
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Well, Newegg at least makes it possible to distinguish an OCZ from an Intel/Samsung. When an OCZ drive has 3-stars and 30% of them are 1-star reviews, then you know something is wrong, compared to the Intel drive that has 4.5-stars wi
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On Newegg, OCZ SSDs would consistently have a larger number of 1-star reviews than other drives. Whereas Intel and Samsung drives would consistently have a smaller number of 1-star reviews. This was one situation where you actually got wha
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> Certainly, that's why Washington D.C. was built, so that the gentry didn't have to go to sewer-like New York to run the country. (Actually they moved to Philadelphia first.) . They didn't mind the size of New York or Ph
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> Even if the sum total was positive the revenue came from businesses such as Windows and Office which everyone agrees are set to decline. Microsoft was supposed to be in a position to offset the decline from Windows/Office It is
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> Do you have any examples where accumulation of cash corresponded with lack of innovation. No challenge, just curious. Aren't we discussing an article about Microsoft? Certainly the perception is that Microsoft has not innovated
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So then, by this logic, most social sciences aren't sciences. A lot of psychology, for example, rests on experiments run on 19-year old college sophomores in Western countries. Are these actually universal human traits, or do they cha
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> In my experience, the people who can do the D are better at the R. Agreed. But less so, the other way around. Which is why development jobs don't reward the PhD enough to pay for the opportunity cost. It counts as 6 years of i
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The GRE Computer Science exam was pretty heavy on theory and systems. This made sense for 1990, when CS departments were heavier on theory and systems. It has grown less relevant as the field of CS grew to encompass additional areas. Thus
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> i will vehemently argue that a Ph.D. in CS is one of the best ways that a young hacker can spend his/her 20s No need to argue that point, because I'm not arguing against it. Look at the comment that I was replying to: >
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And I read it as exactly that. I was pointing out that the PhD is useful for "research", but not for research "and development."
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For those interested in a career in development, a PhD is rarely helpful. For the PhD candidate, it can even be counterproductive, as any gains in initial salary will be more than offset by the lost salary during the 5-6 years of the PhD.
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$800 million is a fairly good breakup fee for a $6 billion deal.
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> The real question is how in the world any of these companies are going to making $100/user. How much were eyeballs worth back in 1999? I don't quite remember. Was it more or less than $50 per eyeball?
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> Ctrl+PrintScreen or WindowsKey+PrintScreen (if you want to be fancy). You actually don't need the Ctrl key. Just PrintScreen will also do the same thing. WindowsKey + PrintScreen is a nice idea. Problem is, I usually do Alt +
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You can get Aero on Server 2008 R2. You just have to install an accelerated graphics driver.
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> This matters due to font-rendering differences between desktop and server editions, and my use-case is around web design. I'm curious. What are the font-rendering differences? Are you sure it isn't caused by Remote Deskto
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Batteries are very expensive. It costs $10,000 to buy a battery system large enough to carry your whole house. And you're cycling the batteries every day, so you'd be lucky to get 10 years use out of them. Even with the higher
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That's temporary. The United States has huge quantities of gas, and cannot export it. Thus, the price of natural gas remains depressed. Everybody else is using expensive gas, so the price doesn't drop. If enough LNG export term
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You're writing a new web app and a new desktop spreadsheet? Very ambitious. I'll check back in ten years. As for animations, users like animations. Only a small fraction of users know the program well enough to outpace the an
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In a industry with high capex and low margins, access to capital is often the deciding factor in competition. Especially for something, as posited in the original article, that "merely" improves process efficiency by 10%. (Order

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