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by watmough 15y ago
I don't really believe that either. Improved missiles are now able to shoot down the U2, and maybe get close to the SR-71. That makes these planes a liability now, when over developed territories such as the former USSR. Both were formerly
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by watmough 15y ago
"When I told him I was running linux I was offered a $40K/yr job on the spot - just for getting linux installed on a computer and understanding the basics (quote "we can teach you anything else you need to know, you got the spark")." Yeah,
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by watmough 15y ago
Right, but put together a 'recycling company'. What's the cheapest way when you don't have access to skilled labor? Probably to just melt it all down and skim off the 1% or 2% of gold...
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by watmough 15y ago
Microsoft puts out some interesting videos, but I've always had the impression that Apple was more about just 'hacking something up', hence the Steve Jobs quote, "we could do a phone with this", on playing with an early mockup of how an iPa
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by watmough 15y ago
An HP ZR24w is less than $400. If you're looking at a screen for extended periods, then it's worth spending some cash. This particular monitor is also 1920x1200, which is a pretty good resolution, WUXGA I think, like the big Dell Precision
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by watmough 15y ago
This is one user that will be deleting this off of his phone. Darn-it!
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by watmough 15y ago
I believe the phone phones home to Apple to verify its unlock status, and this is only known for the store unlocked ones. Hence the 'Successfully unlocked' message when you restore an unlocked phone.
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by watmough 15y ago
Why yes, yes it was. Mine still works, and is currently playing BBC Radio 4 in the other room. I think I will go get it unlocked. This is great news from AT&T, but kind of exasperating, since I splashed out $702 for an unlocked iPhone 4
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by watmough 15y ago
In small quantities. 25% of calorie intake as fructose, like many Americans, and the liver floods your system with fat.
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by watmough 15y ago
A lot of people learned to trust their BS detector. Mine had already been primed with XML "XSLT can map anything to anything!", and Enterprise Java was just more of the same. It's funny that Javascript and WebGL are cleaning up in the brows
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by watmough 15y ago
Ahhh, if I remember right, the whole thing is basically a wing, and will fly at some slight positive angle of attack. As far as the model goes, it is probably constructed to be extremely light. It certainly appeared to have quite sprightly
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by watmough 15y ago
Upvote. Also candied fruit.
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by watmough 15y ago
I think you heard a couple of things wrong. For starters, there are pathways for breaking down fat, storing it, and burning it in the body. Secondly, refined sugars incorporating fructose are all about equivalently bad. Thirdly, when you go
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by watmough 15y ago
If you have enough power, almost anything will fly. $100 (US foam kit, order electronics etc., straight from HobbyKing in Hong Kong) or so and few evenings work and you can make something like this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPATzx-
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by watmough 15y ago
I hope Sophie Wilson is reading this, as that microcontroller probably isn't far off the BBC Micros that were originally used to prototype the ARM instruction set. I bet nobody then imagined anyone would emulate un*x on a chip being emulate
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by watmough 15y ago
Sorry, only a 68020 based Sun 3/50. 4 Megs RAM and a b/w console.
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by watmough 15y ago
Sorry, my Mitsumi 1x went in the dumpster many years ago.
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by watmough 15y ago
Here's a KickStarter idea: 1. Make a micro-dock for the iPhone that includes a functional tiny keyboard. 2. For super cool points, make it look like a Compaq 5250 (Pentium class) laptop, with scaled proportions. The screen on those was 800x
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by watmough 15y ago
Excellent. The first few pages look great. Really nice layout and decent typography. I barely know what a PSD is, so I cheaped out with the $2.99 edition, way less than an egg sandwich from Starbucks. Hopefully this will help give me some i
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by watmough 15y ago
One layout that works well is small / tiny offices around an external wall, with conference rooms, bathrooms, corridors etc in the middle. My current job is at quite old building (70's) with a floor laid out like this, and it's just fantast
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What are you planning as a retirement career?
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by watmough 15y ago
Wow, I wonder how many mysterious performance problems can be traced to things like this?
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by watmough 15y ago
"It only takes a tiny percentage to turn down said machine. If 10 billion people plug-in, but 1 million abstain and continue to evolve past the 10 billion, the majority stagnates. Those 1 million will eventually gain a competitive advantage
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by watmough 15y ago
Louis Wu's tasp in Ringworld also comes to mind.
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by watmough 15y ago
A quad-core A5 might have the horsepower to function as both a Mac and an iPad. Think iPad, but with some ports and an SSD in the 'base', and battery and screen and smarts in the touchscreen part. I wonder how much compromise would be invol
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by watmough 15y ago
The stability will get there eventually. Xcode 3 got a lot better over the years.
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by watmough 15y ago
It's all relative. The first few ARM chips ran at 4MHz and gave a 12MHz 80286 a severe run for its money. We're now at 100's of times faster...
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by watmough 15y ago
The cynical might suspect that the idea of providing state-subsidized kindergarten to the very young, in order to promote happier children and less-stressed parents, might be something that wouldn't make it into the WSJ.
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by watmough 15y ago
Yeah, same here. And the constant supervision of todays kids, the stifling not being able to get away from adults, the always being transported to something. It scares the crap out of me to be honest.
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by watmough 15y ago
That is just awesome. It's like one of the better sketches off Little Britain.

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