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by willyt 15y ago
Thanks for that. From wikipedia, surface atmospheric pressure is less than 1% of that on Earth so you're probably right. A wind pressure from 500 kph wind at the surface of Mars would be roughly equivalent to wind pressure from a 50kph (For
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by willyt 15y ago
Why is the heat shield jettisoned 7km above the surface exposing the rover to the atmosphere while its travelling at over 500kph? Does anyone have any insight into the design decisions in this landing sequence?
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by willyt 15y ago
In Britain they won't. Our bank notes are officially withdrawn a few years after they are replaced with a new design at which point they can only be exchanged for new ones at banks. Even then I think there is a cut off point of ten years or
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by willyt 15y ago
Here's an idea, Wikipedia could redirect to "Sorry this site is not accessible due to an enforcement action under the Stop Online Piracy Act. (This is a test)" That would start a debate in the mainstream pretty quickly...
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Avaaz save the Internet [from SOPA] petition(avaaz.org)
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by willyt 15y ago
But you can already buy apple computers and run Windows, Linux, OS X or a combination of all three. I dual boot osx and windows on my laptop.
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by willyt 15y ago
Global knives are good, I've got some, but apparently they reduced the proportion of molybdenum in thier alloy a few years ago making the cutting edge more brittle and therefore requiring more frequent and intensive sharpening.
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by willyt 15y ago
Yes, that's what I guessed from watching the video. I understood that you need at least 3 layers forged together to make a high quality knife; two relatively soft and ductile stainless alloys sandwiching a fairly brittle but hard stainles
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by willyt 15y ago
These are nice knives, but is this not also a really slick piece of lifestyle marketing? Also, these knives are quite expensive. I'm not so sure if they are really up there with the handmade japanese knives[1], seems like theres a bit more
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by willyt 15y ago
I don't know about the timeframes you quoted but the apple security advisories do credit the researchers. See some of the entries here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002
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by willyt 15y ago
I think this kind of acknowledgement of consequences behaviour has been documented in other higher mammals too. I read a really interesting article in the New Scientist years ago about study that showed there was cultural knowledge in a par
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by willyt 15y ago
While it's quite interesting that someone has made a 3d printer this big. You can't literally print a house with one of these. Just think about a typical wall build up, it will be something like this: dry lining, vapour control layer, insul
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by willyt 15y ago
Yep. And if you look at all the internal politics that has been exposed by Nokia converting to Win Phone. All that politics will be duplicated at Samsung, Motorola, HTC etc. There will design, software and UI departments that are doing this
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by willyt 15y ago
I've known a few people, close friends parents and a family member die of cancer. You can struggle on through chemo and radiation therapy for 4-5 years or you can go in 6 months. I'm not sure I can say which one is best. The ops are by no m
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by willyt 15y ago
If you look at the cut open V2 rocket in the Imperial War museum in London you can see about 1/3 of the innards is the control system; gyro's, inertial guidance etc. Today you can buy that on a chips from digi-key, farnell, sparkfun or wher
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by willyt 15y ago
> Switching to Intel is the massive risk, since they don't use ARM cores at all, so the O/S would require a rewrite I think the idea behind the Intel rumour is that Intel would 'just' be a fab in this scenario. They would license the AR
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by willyt 15y ago
Why aren't there more standard contracts for the situations described in the article? E.g Construction contracts are generally standard documents with very well documented procedures in the UK even with large (say £50M+) contract sums. But
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by willyt 15y ago
Because it's not unreasonable to expect the coder to supply you with something which will not fail arbitrarily in 10 years for a reason which is 100% predictable. A parallel example: If an Architect designs you a building which develops a l
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by willyt 15y ago
Re point 1: see http://www.tumultco.com/hype/ for html+js+canvas equivalent (nearly).
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by willyt 15y ago
In the UK most construction contracts are standardised. The most common construction contract is the Joint Contracts Tribunal Standard Building Contract. Also see New Engineering Contract. Architects use the RIBA Standard Form of Appointmen
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by willyt 15y ago
In the UK I know it's not ok to e.g make a photocopy of a standard construction contract and, I'm guessing, any other type of contract where copyright is claimed by the author. In a contractual dispute, if it can be shown that you do not ge
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by willyt 15y ago
There's no # on mac British keyboards! You have to hit option-4 (did I get that right, don't have a keyboard in front if me) to e.g. comment ruby code...
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by willyt 15y ago
I think you are right and make many valid points. But I think there is a parenting problem that goes deeper than this. My friends 4 year old has learnt to call people a 'motherfucking bitch' from his classmates at preschool in Hackney a
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by willyt 15y ago
Schools are definately part of the problem. I went to secondary school (high school) in an 'inner city comprehensive' in Chalk Farm, Camden in the early nineties. I wanted to study structural engineering at university. At the time it wasn't
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by willyt 15y ago
I suppose I meant 'quite recently' in that I would never have imagined that something like Bloody Sunday could happen in a modern 1st world democracy, until we studied it in Modern History at school. To put it in context, the next most rece
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by willyt 15y ago
Also, more than likely you would lose your job and professional standing if you got busted for looting. This is a pretty big disincentive for you. But for the looters it's kudos.
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by willyt 15y ago
Yep, and we've been there before, quite recently actually. See Bloody Sunday on wikipedia. Paratroopers killed 13 people at peaceful demo when they mistakenly thought they had come under fire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(19
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by willyt 15y ago
Aren't they encrypted somehow? What was the thing in Saudi Arabia (might have been different middle east country) where the gov't banned blackberry because they couldn't snoop?
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by willyt 15y ago
Originally it was a protest about the guy that got shot by the police. But, there's a lot of kids with nothing to lose and in the last couple of hours they've realised it's a free for all. I'm not justifying anything here just trying to mak
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by willyt 15y ago
Apparently the rioters are organising using blackberry messenger. Seems like the police are about 2 hours behind what's happening.

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