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  1. Re:Make: Electronics on Interview: Ask Forrest Mims About Rockets, Electronics, and Engineering · · Score: 1

    Don't need to judge by the cover, you can read an excerpt here.

    I recommend the book highly.

  2. Re:Ask him about Darwin on Interview: Ask Forrest Mims About Rockets, Electronics, and Engineering · · Score: 1

    Get Make: Electronics - Learning Through Discovery published by O'Reilly. Books from O'Reilly are DRM-free.

  3. thingm blink(1) on Add USB LED Notifications To Your PC With Just a Bit of Soldering (Video) · · Score: 2

    Thingm has a similar series of products called blink(1). It runs for about $30, but it is not widely available now. They recently finished .

  4. Re:Where is all of this money coming from? on Bitcoin Tops $1,000 For the First Time · · Score: 1

    Adafruit is now accepting bitcoin. I think they're crazy.

  5. Re:Qa'an on Explorer Plans Hunt For Genghis Khan's Long-Lost Tomb · · Score: 1

    You're correct. The apostrophe isn't used in English for a glottal stop, but it is used when other languages are transliterated into English, like "T'Pol".

  6. Re:Contributing Adafruit Software on Interview: Ask Limor Fried About Open-Source Hardware and Adafruit · · Score: 1

    I believe what you're looking for is here: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-Raspberry-Pi-Python-Code

  7. Re:Qa'an on Explorer Plans Hunt For Genghis Khan's Long-Lost Tomb · · Score: 1

    The apostrophe is often used to represent a glottal stop like in the English "don't". Perhaps whatever language the "Qa'an" version comes from uses a glottal stop. Given the large number of languages and the variety of ways of representing those languages in Roman characters you end up with a great number of representations.

  8. Re:Contributing Adafruit Software on Interview: Ask Limor Fried About Open-Source Hardware and Adafruit · · Score: 1

    Most of their code is on github, https://github.com/adafruit . Did you not find it there?

  9. Re:Patents on Reports: Apple To Buy Israeli 3D Sensing Company PrimeSense · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apple and Microsoft are at a patent truce. They co-own the patent holding company RockStar.

  10. Re:Nearest neighbour on Australia Spied On Indonesian President · · Score: 1

    You're both right and wrong.

    Right about Papua, wrong about Tasmania. Tasmania is part of Australia. (Or perhaps this is some Australian joke?)

  11. Re:Editors clearly don't read slashdot themselves on Researchers Tout Electricity Storage Tech That Could Recharge Devices In Minutes · · Score: 1

    If they don't read the slashdot stories, then they don't read the posts either. We're doomed.

  12. Re:I can think of one that Steve Jobs disagreed wi on What Are the Genuinely Useful Ideas In Programming? · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Huh? on Sparkfun's Entire Open Hardware Catalog Made Available On Upverter · · Score: 1

    What you're looking for is here: S.H.O.V.E.L.

    and it is open-source.

  14. Re:Female programmers on Could a Grace Hopper Get Hired In Today's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    This article is anecdotal and about Australia, but still relevant. I think it does indicate that there is some gender bias in the tech industry.

  15. Re:We can't win without eliminating FISA. on Schneier: The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet · · Score: 1

    There is a bit of ambiguity in your statement. From the wikipedia on influenza, we lose about half a million people worldwide due to influenza. In the U.S. it is about 36,000 a year.

    Of course, in either case it is significantly greater than the number of people lost to terrorism.

  16. oh great, Osborne effect on Nvidia CEO: We Are Working On Next Generation Surface · · Score: 1

    The Surface sales were bad enough. Now they're gonna get the Osborne effect too?

  17. Re:Haswell? on Nvidia CEO: We Are Working On Next Generation Surface · · Score: 1

    Most Android apps just use Dalvik bytecode, so they don't need to be ported even if the processor architecture is different. The % of ARM native Android apps is pretty low, I think.

  18. Unfortunately... on Extreme Ultraviolet Chip Manufacturing Process Technology Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    ...Slashdot dupe detection technology is still many years off. It will take major advancements in AI before we'll be able to detect duplicates like this.

  19. Re:Seriously? on Microsoft Is Sitting On Six Million Unsold Surface Tablets · · Score: 3

    FYI. According to this quoteinvestigator article, there is no evidence Einstein ever said that.

  20. Re: Yes. on Why Microsoft Shouldn't Worry About Cannibalizing Their Userbases · · Score: 1

    Angry Steve

  21. Re:Ya, patents really need "use it or lose it" on Boston U. Patent Lawsuits Hit Apple, Amazon, Samsung, and Others · · Score: 1

    Shuji Nakamura also made important breakthroughs in this area.

  22. Re:its not news yet on MagicPlay: the Open Source AirPlay · · Score: 1

    This is slashdot. It is supposed to be a site about up and coming technologies, not just about established technologies.

  23. Re:The "good old days".. on Beware the Internet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The other day I had a flashback of writing a report in elementary school. The teacher would make everyone do a report on the same subject and the industrious students would then go to the library and check out all the books on the subject, leaving the slacker students with nothing.

    Well, you can't check out the internet.

  24. Re:Canada on Trying To Learn a Foreign Language? Avoid Reminders of Home · · Score: 1

    What is your evidence for this claim?

  25. Re:tabs in the Finder window? on Apple Shows Off New iOS 7, Mac OS X At WWDC · · Score: 1

    No, the Finder is the file manager.