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  1. Re:Where's the cheap board with gigabit ethernet? on New Single Board Computer Lets You Swap Out the CPU and Memory · · Score: 1

    The i.MX6 has Gigabit ethernet -however the bus it's connected to can not fully handle it. So this might be close to what you want?

  2. There is a use on New Single Board Computer Lets You Swap Out the CPU and Memory · · Score: 1

    If the i.MX6 had, as microcontrollers do reconfigurable output pins it would be useful to have different io options. since the cpu board has the hard part done: connecting the memory and dealing with bga - it becomes a lot easier to create your own io board. So to me it makes sense. It's not about upgrading CPU/memory - but upgrading (or sidegrading?) the io options.

  3. Re:How do you make a lego character female? on Lego To Produce Three Box Sets Featuring Female Scientists · · Score: 1

    You're wrong about the technics sets. The 16 long bars with holes were the first to always run out. Of course technics are bad for sculpting.

  4. Re:Lock-in? on Microsoft Cheaper To Use Than Open Source Software, UK CIO Says · · Score: 1

    I'm happy to stand corrected. This issue was the reason that I couldn't in good conscious recommend openoffice for years.

  5. Re:Lock-in? on Microsoft Cheaper To Use Than Open Source Software, UK CIO Says · · Score: 1

    Have you ever opened a bug for openoffice? Don't know about libreoffice, but for openoffice it sure didn't help.
    I'd be surprised if rotating and cropping images in a Writer document finally worked, however.

    (I didn't open it. It already existed when I came across that YEARS AGO)

  6. Re:Wow. What a jerk. on Richard Stallman Answers Your Questions · · Score: 2

    UNIX however was not free software. It wasn't even Open Source as defined by the OSI. After reading the interview I guess one could call it documented software.

  7. Re:Rip off? on Kids Can Swipe a Screen But Can't Use LEGOs · · Score: 1

    that's the machine tolerances according to the wikipedia article. The blocks tolerances are not the same as machine tolerances.

  8. Re:possibility...some... on Linux May Succeed Windows XP As OS of Choice For ATMs · · Score: 2

    Or maybe they could even not do facelifts?

    Of course I'm glad the CRT ATMs with burned in interfaces are gone. But apart from that? I don't like the Welcome screen and Ads. I want the thing to be fast.and easy to use. I don't want a lot of functionality. I want to enter the sequence of keys I press to get money without having to follow the rules on the screen that I have seen hundreds of times before.
    I want to be able to read the screen at all times of day independent of where the sun is.

    As with all embedded systems if the question wether something is an improvement can not be answered without a doubt you'd better leave it as is or find a simpler solution. Like a physical button. Or an instructional poster.

  9. Re:Just Sad on Feds Now Oppose Aereo, Rejecting Cloud Apocalypse Argument · · Score: 2

    You might want to look into vdr instead. It's not as flashy but it was very stable years ago. In my opinion it's as a DVR should be.

  10. This is what I have come to dislike about fairness on Is Google Making the Digital Divide Worse? · · Score: 1

    It increasingly seems to me that the demand for fairness is a race to the bottom and results in a loose-loose situation. Because if not everyone gets the good stuff noone should get it - because of the so called fairness.

    This happens so often as to make me angry - and I'm far from privileged.

  11. Re:what about the other 38% on 62% of 16 To 24-Year-Olds Prefer Printed Books Over eBooks · · Score: 1

    >Calling paper books real as opposed to ebooks (which are... what? Imaginary?)

    Virtual is what I thought was the agreed upon opposite to real in this context. So what should I pair "virtual" with if not "real"?

  12. Re:Make a decent list on Free Software Foundation Announces 2013 Holiday Giving Guide · · Score: 2

    Intel webcam from the early 2ks? What a blast from the past. Does it have a composite video output per chance? If it does it works perfectly well with a cheap bt8xx tv card.

  13. Re:Input lag! on Why You Shouldn't Buy a UHD 4K TV This Year · · Score: 1

    But the results of the research has to go somewhere! We can't have students write their thesises and do their accompanying work without putting it on the market, can we?
    Apparently it's even unthinkable to let their undergraduate tinkering go to waste. Or maybe there is an actual reason for the mood lights built into the coffee maker at my local gas station.

  14. Re:Why such low specs on Jolla's First Phone Goes On Sale · · Score: 1

    I'm using an ipod touch with a vga adapter modded to accept a usb charger plus an audio cable connected to a monitor to watch itunes-U lectures. As a result I need to be careful to not loose any connections when interacting - such as changing the volume.
    Every cable beyond a thin and light charging cable is a pain. So Apple had the right idea with making the new connector for i-devices. However I doubt it accepts long cable lengths.
    I agree that we are getting close to our handhelds merging with the portables and even the desktops. But there are still a lot of problems to be solved that only present themselves when interacting with the actual implementation.

  15. Re:what about the other 38% on 62% of 16 To 24-Year-Olds Prefer Printed Books Over eBooks · · Score: 1

    No. This is an inherent limitation of ebooks where the paper books interface is superior.
    With a real book I quickly get to know the book well enough that I can just flip it open at a good estimate of how far in I am by the the thickness of the stack I'm flipping. A scrollbar doesn't convey that kind of information anywhere near as well.
    A book has a mechanical preference to pages that have been looked at for longer. If I simply flip it open at random it will flip open to a page that has been looked at more because of the binding becoming weaker.
    A book has infinite fps. By flipping through the pages with my thumb I can look out for and actually find a diagram I'm looking for.
    No matter how responsive and high fps the reader software gets - It will not have the physical feedback a book provides and that is actually useful to find your way through that book.

  16. what about the other 38% on 62% of 16 To 24-Year-Olds Prefer Printed Books Over eBooks · · Score: 2

    At first glance I was shocked at the acceptance of ebooks this implies. On further thought however (and without reading the article) this could as well mean that 38% don't read at all. Or have a more complex opinion than can be stated as a preference.

    I refuse to believe that 38% of any population actually prefers those slow to flip through ebooks.

  17. Re:still no printer cartridges on Silver Pen Allows For Hand-Written Circuits · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I'd prefer a solution that doesn't have steps 3 and 4 but I guess I could give this another try.
    I tried that a while with a laserjet 1000. but i couldn't find any paper that transfered the toner reliably. now that I have a laserjet that can control the amount of toner used i may give it a try.
    Could you explain to a non-native speaker what thermal resist paper is? It's not that stuff that becomes black when heated, is it?

  18. still no printer cartridges on Silver Pen Allows For Hand-Written Circuits · · Score: 1

    wake me up when i can finally buy a cheap printer that creates circuit boards.

  19. Re:Isn't time just infinite cycles? on Was There Only One Big Bang? · · Score: 1

    pi has a fixed value that you can calculate with increasing precision. that doesn't make pi grow. if you calculate the value of pi by getting closer to the value from above it even seems to shrink

  20. Re:Isn't time just infinite cycles? on Was There Only One Big Bang? · · Score: 1

    The universe is infinite because it expands as we measure it, just like Pi.

    Weird. I never noticed an increase in Pi.

  21. too bad for the crew on Helicopter Crashes While Filming Autonomous Audi · · Score: 2, Interesting

    but still I want to see the existing footage now. The teaser clip is pretty cool. Apparently this is not about getting up Pike's Peak but getting up fast. If there are ethical issues showing the helicopter footage at least show the footage from the cars onboard camera that surely exists.
    This is so much more exciting than the stupid soccer bots with their Robocup.

  22. Re:The only thing i hate worse... on AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do · · Score: 1

    Indeed, your inlaws aren't the only ones that leave those stickers on. In fact I think people might get angry if Laptops stop shipping with those stickers. After all how is it supposed to go fast if it isn't red?

    What's even worse than peoples' attachment to those stickers is their attachment to the foil covering the panel thingies on remotes and all the tiny display screens. I keep peeling those off, telling them that they are a protective measure for production and "look how shiny it is now
    ". Still most panic when I do it to their devices and demand I put half peeled foil back.

    I hate those foils and what they do to people with a passion.

  23. this is not the same at all on No More Need To Reboot Fedora w/ Ksplice · · Score: 1

    if you cared to look at your own link, you'd see that it is about patching files without the need to reboot. On a running system the kernel is entirely in the memory.
    Also the statistics Microsoft is giving aren't impressive at all. From your link:

    The following examples demonstrate possible savings from reboot reduction:

            * Of the 22 updates that shipped for Windows Server 2003 RTM between April 2005 and August 2005, 15 of them required a reboot. Eight of these could have been hotpatched. This would have reduced the number of reboots by 53%.

            * Of the 14 updates that shipped for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) prior to August 2005, ten of them required a reboot. Four of these could have been hotpatched. This would have reduced the number of reboots by 40%.

    It seems to me, after some googling, that while Windows actually does have mechanisms to patch functions of the in-memory kernel and libraries, that what hotpatching means in the context of Windows is pretty much a normal upgrade without a reboot.

  24. Re:Real-life Merlin on Inside the Lab of One of the World's Last Holographers · · Score: 1

    isn't it obvious? get Robert Picardo to pose.

  25. Re:I would have fired her too on Girl Quits On Dry Erase Board a Hoax · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Could someone please come up with sources?
    I looked it up in my school's grammar book and wikipedia. Both explicitly allow the combination of pronouns with contracted auxiliary verbs. But neither forbid the use of contracted auxiliary verbs with real nouns.
    I'm not a native speaker - but it definately doesn't sound clumsy to me. And this obviously is a situation where informal use of a language is quite appropriate.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraction_(grammar)#English