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by wycx 13y ago
Also check the Linux Devices subreddit. http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_devices/ Not hugely active, but most boards from the last year or so will be there.
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by wycx 13y ago
The internet makes rent-seeking massively scalable.
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by wycx 13y ago
It is only a deal worth considering because the rest of us taxpayers get to pick up the bill for a portion of the loss via the bullshit tax scheme known as negative gearing, where you can claim losses on you investment property as a deducti
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by wycx 13y ago
If all drugs were legal, would people still take meth? I suspect meth is abundant now because of logistical reasons i.e. it can be manufactured in the country it is sold, using precursors that can also be obtained there (legally or otherwis
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by wycx 13y ago
Sure. I have a scanner that is now useless because Canon never released a 64-bit driver. (The useful lifetime of a scanner is longer than the life of an individual PC or the time a manufacturer will support it.) Lots of scientific and indu
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by wycx 14y ago
Also: Udoo http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/435742530/udoo-android-l... Freescale i.MX6 Cortex A9 and Atmel SAM3X8E ARM Cortex M3 on the same board!
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by wycx 14y ago
I found R to be the solution for me. I faced the exact same problem when I wanted to quickly plot lots and lots of X-ray spectra. It was slow and tedious to do in Excel because it involved repetitive plotting of similar data. I put my data
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by wycx 14y ago
That image refers to Office 365 University, which is a subscription product. The article is not refering to Office 365 subscriptions, other than: "Depending on your needs, you might find a single outright copy of Office Home & Student 2
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by wycx 14y ago
What about some other strange decisions AMD has made? -Abandoning Geode in 2009 -Selling Xilleon to Broadcom in 2008 -Selling Imageon/handheld division to Qualcomm in 2008 Imagine if they kept developing those products...
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by wycx 14y ago
I some understanding of the nature of money provides some perspective on this question. All money is created via debt, and debt has interest owing on it, money to represent that interest was not created when the debt was issued, so there is
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by wycx 14y ago
The Australian National University was having problems with the supply of student accommodation, so they built a couple of wings with over 100 shipping container-based modular units: http://accom.anu.edu.au/UAS/43.html It seems to be work
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Apple's profits fetish could spell its DOOM(theregister.co.uk)
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by wycx 14y ago
Easy there, tiger. I just upgraded a Dell Latitude E6500 with 4Gb of RAM and an Athlon 5050e desktop also with 4 Gb from XP to Windows 8 Pro. Anecdotally, both boot faster and run Office 2010 faster than when they were running XP. This majo
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by wycx 14y ago
Someone has to make products that suck to show everyone what not to do before we get good (i.e. refined) products. Resistive touchscreen phones and tablets sucked, but lead to capacitive touch screen devices which we probably all agree are
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by wycx 14y ago
Please refrain from using the pharmaceutical industry as an ideal model for innovation, competition and new treatments fostered by patent protection. There is a significant problem with the emergence of multiple-drug resistant infections. E
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by wycx 14y ago
Good idea. You could also add a bit to the script explicitly looking for zero byte files and alert yourself to their formation.
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by wycx 14y ago
I can see what the author is trying to get at, but I can't help but think the example is not so good. If you use Excel and want to take it a bit further I would suggest that RExcel is probably a better choice. The R environment has abundant
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by wycx 15y ago
The only advantage CNC has right now is accuracy (thousandths vs tenths of an inch). It is more than that. You can make things out of metals that you can heat treat later to become much stronger/harder. The products made by of those process
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by wycx 15y ago
Grossman's book is at least 10 years old. Selection processes may have been optimised over the intervening time to increase the 2-5%. After all, sociopaths can stay in combat zones much longer and will not suffer PTSD.
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by wycx 15y ago
It is going to be tough for grad students, post docs and non-tenured scientists to join the boycott if Elsevier publishes the top journals in their field. Getting a job is hard enough, and impact factor matters for getting a job. What I wou