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by uiohnuipb 17y ago
And try and convince a programmer that it's possible that their program's memory can be wrong. They understand in theory but refuse to code for the possibility. Especialy when you get into HPC and there are clusters of 50-60 machines with 4
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by uiohnuipb 17y ago
That's a perculiarly American problem - everybody else factors tax into the sticker price. It's only America that seems to add it at the register. I assume it's to take advantage the famously high level of math education among Americans wh
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by uiohnuipb 17y ago
Exactly - in the real world you only need 99c and 1c coins.
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by uiohnuipb 17y ago
Good job Detroit never thought of this!
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by uiohnuipb 17y ago
It's described in Feynman's biography 20 years ago - only for safes holding the designs of the atom bomb!
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by uiohnuipb 17y ago
I think Arduino aim to give you a uController to do cool stuff with - without you having to worry about the details of boot loaders. Either way it's all great - goes back to the days when kids could monitor and control things from their App
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by uiohnuipb 17y ago
It would be nice - but I tend to be more cynical when it comes to BIG-CORP against the little guy. I think the illegal EULA clauses have been struck down because you can't see them until you have opened the box and agreed to them - which is
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by uiohnuipb 17y ago
Will either be overturned on appeal or they will introduce some clause into the Eula saying you agree not to sell them. IIRC someone (the same guy?) got away with it before with ACad - but in that case the boxes were unopened so had never
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by uiohnuipb 17y ago
Good enough for display on TV news or a newspaper ? Get me a picture of the president, put a girl in a red dress in his eye-line. Get me a picture of evil dictator - add some WMD in the background. At the moment you need an intern to do th
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by uiohnuipb 17y ago
So gentlemen our plan is simple. We study computer graphics for 10years, get PhDs, develop a system that gets headlined at siggraph, become famous and - then we release a binary that the HN readers will download. World domination is in our