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by toemetoch 14y ago
Please read again. Energy demand was lower because it was a holiday, nothing to do with air conditioners.
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by toemetoch 14y ago
>Inevitably, some hot July week will come when a high-pressure system stalls over Europe, stilling turbines just when sunburned Germans reach for their air conditioners The summer in Germany isn't that hot. Middle europe, not califor
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by toemetoch 14y ago
Could it be that the license to process the volume facebook has in mind is near or higher than the price of the company? I don't know the price model for the face API but it's not unreasonable to consider a tipping point.
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by toemetoch 14y ago
Thanks!
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by toemetoch 14y ago
IMO BeOS was to operating systems what Opera is to browsers. Innovative, good ideas, efficient, ... but few people use it. I remember demo-ing BeOS to a friend by opening a ton of videos at the same time. He replied that Windows did that as
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by toemetoch 14y ago
Reading back my post I seem to imply that SDR enthusiasts discovered it, that wasn't my intention. This phenomenon was probably well documented before SDR. When I first saw it, my first thought was "what a strange technique to run a radar,
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by toemetoch 14y ago
SDR (software-defined radio) enthusiasts also found something they can't identify: whistlers. You can see/hear them in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hv--BR0ddE also briefly addressed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuR
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by toemetoch 14y ago
IMO it's to keep the country together. Super-large nations tend to promote separatist movements along its fringes. In the case of Russia and China they're held together with a strict regime. Other countries provide levels of autonomy on a m
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by toemetoch 14y ago
I'd like to add an example from the old days: "Ralf Brown's Interrupt List" [link]. It's a list of interrupts used by various software packages with documented weaknesses (typically register range checks). Whenever I'd write an ISR I'd chec
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by toemetoch 14y ago
Since when is a soldering iron high tech? Since when can't you solder SMD chips due to the small pitch? They're not BGA, so you can solder them, even with that pitch. Dear HN "hackers". Removing and adding RAM from a fool-proof socket that
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by toemetoch 14y ago
The alt field specifies the text to be shown in the container when the resource is missing. If you don't use it you'll get an eyesore in the form of a broken image icon, within a reserved space for the resource. The alt="" instructs the
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by toemetoch 14y ago
Ditched my TV last week and have been cutting back on my internet habit when I'm home for a while now. I suddenly have hours of free time every evening and I'm re-discovering magazines. But you're right, lots of them have been under pressur
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by toemetoch 14y ago
Maybe that was his father's motivation to write the letter in the first place, he might have seen a predictable path in this relationship or how his son deals with things.
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by toemetoch 14y ago
ARM controllers like this Cortex-M3 come in a range with flash capacity going from 8 to 512 KiB and up. TCP/IP stacks in embedded go from ~7KiB for uIP to 256KiB compiled depending on strictness/flexibility of implementation. The controlle
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by toemetoch 14y ago
In case you're looking for info on the WiFi card itself (couldn't find it on the site itself), go here: http://edn.com/electronics-news/4373185/Former-Apple-Google-... " The cards will be on sale to developers by the end of June for $25 e
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by toemetoch 14y ago
They hit the ceiling, I would like to know how this little plot will develop over the next 2 quarters: http://www.google.com/trends/?q=facebook
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by toemetoch 14y ago
... and audio waves can be well into the ultrasonic range and into the UHF regime. Theoretically, at sea level on earth, the mean free path of air molecules allows for 3.4 GHz. But attenuation is proportional to f^2 which results in an u
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by toemetoch 14y ago
Most memorable is the 1200 baud DTMF of my setup dialing to the local packet gateway. They're still around, though. The spinning/stopping of the C64 cassette drive. And the head of a floppy drive seeking sectors, one developed a cunning sen
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by toemetoch 14y ago
I'm a bit puzzled by the second method (with the partition swipe and copy back) . So, linux scatters the files. My partition is almost full and fragments. Now I copy all the files to a second location and wipe the partition. Now I copy them
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by toemetoch 14y ago
overview of different systems: http://elinux.org/Development_Platforms
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Soldering in space(science.nasa.gov)
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by toemetoch 14y ago
Yes. In the early weeks of G+ it was really weird. I had mainly people from flickr in my circles, they were very easy to find because they actively pointed at each other. Posts like "if you're into this kind of photography you should add th
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by toemetoch 14y ago
It's not the device, it's the applications people will crave. Think about these apps for your glasses: - adBlocker to remove ads from your view - first person shooter missions with google maps integration. All you need is an empty cow-pastu
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by toemetoch 14y ago
Odd that you'd state that. My flickr-feed is dwindling because photographers are moving to Google+ for picasa's quality service.
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by toemetoch 14y ago
My thought exactly. Couldn't they settle this with an isotope analysis?
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by toemetoch 14y ago
I've often wondered how big the impact is of the text "comment" or "post comment" we see on the button below or next to a textbox. I think it's part of the problem, acting like a red cloth on a bull. English isn't my mother's tongue and "co
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by toemetoch 14y ago
Next step: close the loop. Option 1: Let the next set of values (colors of the button in the example) themselves be generated after n runs. Option 2: let users modify the css as part of a "customization " feature. I remember they did this
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by toemetoch 14y ago
S galaxy I here, too. Had the same issues you had, but these turned out to be software, not hardware. CyanogenMod is definitely not the best distro for this device, ran into GPS problems due to a config file that needed manual changing. Mic
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by toemetoch 14y ago
Last week a report was released that revealed 1800 cases during a 1-year survey. [pdf] This is just one device, he has good reasons to advertise his expertise. [pdf] http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/Publications/Counterfei...
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by toemetoch 14y ago
This particular chip is prevalent in many systems from weapons, nuclear power plants to public transport. In other words, this backdoor access could be turned into an advanced Stuxnet weapon to attack potentially millions of systems. From

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