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  1. Re:90 minutes to get ready? on A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her To Work by 7 AM (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably he's eating his breakfast while having a shower and bathrooming the dogs ...

  2. Re:I took the bus once on A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her To Work by 7 AM (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Happens everywhere. I once found a students course notes on top of the roof of a bus shelter (my apartment looked directly down onto the bus stop. Would never have been seen from the ground). I contacted the college in question and was told to drop them off at the reception. Checking the bus timetable, it would seem that this would only be a 30 minute journey from my apartment. What actually happened, was that the bus only went half-way then turned round. Had to wait another hour for another bus. This tooks another hour to finally get there. It's another 20 minute walk to the reception. Altogether, it took me four hours to get there. And this was in a small city the size of San Franscisco.

  3. Re:Woo hoo! on Scientists Finally Unlock the Recipe For Magic Mushrooms (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Migraines and cluster headaches come from either tightening of blood vessels, high blood pressure due to being overweight (extra fat narrows blood vessels), or toxins in the blood stream. Sometimes eating out at somewhere different (friends house/party, cultural restaurant never been before). Could be different food proteins or biogenome. So it would seem relaxing blood vessels and allowing them to expand would reduce the pain.

  4. Re:I don't like voice interfaces. on Amazon Will Pay Developers With the Most Engaging Alexa Skills (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    But they are great for data mining, building up voice print databases to help solve crimes, and maybe they'll actually come out with a word processor that reliably takes voice commands.

  5. Re:Ridiculous, that we keep feeding the trolls on GoDaddy Expels Neo-Nazi Site Over Article On Charlottesville Victim (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If they are unemployed, it's usually because they had been undercut by cheaper labor from South America, jobs have been offshored or that affirmative action policies block them from government and other public sector jobs. That in itself drives the racism.

    There are those people in the USA and UK who think globalism and austerity measures are a good idea because it keeps prices down, or rather the overhead of wage demands down.

  6. Yes, there's a picture. It's 1U in height (1.752 inches, 44.5 millimeters). The SSD drive is like a thick white school ruler. Then these can be jammed in together 42 vertically and possibly the same horizontally.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  7. Re:The West is screwed on Amateur Drone Lands On British Air Carrier, Wired Reviews Anti-Drone Technology (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It was DARPA who was funding research into making miniature flying systems back in the 2000's - on the order of the size of a small bird. Some of the defence analysts asked if "were they looking for backpacks for sparrows?". But miniature helicopters and then drones became possible.

  8. Embedded for automotive and other industries is moving towards real-time 3D graphics like Tom-Tom GPS route planners, instrumentation and other types of sensor fusion.

  9. Re:You what else lowers ownership on Uber and Lyft May Cause Lower Car Ownership In Big Cities, Says Report (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember being in London, when I missed the bus going to the nearest tube station (which I didn't know where it was). Instead, I just walked along the sidewalk and walked behind the bus until it reached the tube station.

  10. Companies working on embedded systems for aircraft, cars and other road vehicles really care a lot about performance, especially when there are so many different CPU and GPU's on the market, all priced by the core, clock speed and pixel draw rate. If they can maintain interactivity while being able to use a cheaper CPU/GPU combo, they will.

  11. Re:Count the bumper stickers on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The Stonewall Project
    www.stonewallsf.org
    They seemed to have their own TV slot on the local channels.

  12. Re:So innovation on the internet nowadays... on Facebook Launches Watch Tab For Video Shows, Uses TV's 75-Year-Old Marketing Pitch (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    The progressives want to use television for more than information or entertainment. They want to use it to shape public opinion and guide society in the right direction. So they will have TV programming followed by a debate where those with those with the right ideas are supported and those with the wrong ones are corrected.

    If you read any discussion about TV these days, you'll see everyone over 30 say they are tuning out and turning off because music is more about women shaking their asses and singing about sex than anything else, there are too many darned adverts on TV, movies are all killing and violence.

  13. Re:Count the bumper stickers on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the Bay Area itself. Every pressure group emanates from San Francisco and the surrounding area (Stonewall, The Sierra Club, ACLU) covering everything from alternative lifestyles (twin spirited) to the homeless (food banks), pissed off voters (San Francisco League of Pissed Off Voters), low income and minority communities. Possibly because there is so much competitition for local resources like land, housing and food.

    http://www.bapd.org/

  14. Re:I'm okay with it on In Less Than Five Years, 45 Billion Cameras Will Be Watching Us (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There are 2.5 billion smartphones in use. If each of those had two CCD sensors, that's 5 billion.
    https://www.statista.com/stati...

    245 million CCTV systems were installed in 2014. If that is a yearly estimate, then you could extrapolate over a decade.
    https://technology.ihs.com/532...

    That's another 2.5 billion.

    If you look at a sales figures of digital SLR cameras vs smartphones, digital cameras are in decline:
    https://www.dpreview.com/news/...
    That puts smartphones at 1.5 billion/year. That could be extrapolated as well.

    Possibly 14 billion, but not trillion.

  15. Re:Self winding on Mass Market Hopes For Battery-free Cell Phone Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You get solar-powered battery chargers that plug into the USB port. If that could be made into a zip-sealed neoprene wallet like the PDA's from the 2000's did, it would be perfect.

  16. Re:Better solution on You Can Trick Self-Driving Cars By Defacing Street Signs (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Roadworks are always putting up crazy signs, traffic cones, and all sorts of obstructions:

    http://www.inspirational-quote...

    https://s-media-cache-ak0.pini...

  17. Re:dumb machines on You Can Trick Self-Driving Cars By Defacing Street Signs (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not just street signs. I've seen double decker buses decorated with advertising in the style of street signs and other vehicles:
    http://l450v.alamy.com/450v/cb...

    http://www.atmediaoutdoor.com/...
    http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/42e4...
    http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_...
    Some countries actually hire artists to decorate roads and buildings with optical illusion style art:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tra...

  18. It is strange ... to look back 25 years in time and see posts that you wrote are still there. It would like be like making a sandcastle on the beach, going back and still seeing it there after all those years.

  19. Written language evolved from drawing pictograms on cave walls to remember hunting strategies, to writing on clay tablets to keep track of money, legal agreements, then finding that writing on paper is far easier and allowed knowledge to be shared in the most compact physical means possible.

    Perhaps a USB stick full of PDF documents is now more compact than a box of books. Then Youtube and other online videos replace the need for the USB stick.

  20. Re: 10 PRINT "FIRST POST" on It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80 (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    I did Atari 800 player missile graphics in 6502 assembler. Wrote clones of the Combat hame cartridge.

      Each line of assembly was hand converted into opcodes; 104, 104, 141, 6,0. 96. Practically remembered all the one line instructions.

    Still used it until around 1988 when I got a desktop PC.

  21. Re:I know right on 'Elon Musk's Hyperloop Is Doomed For the Worst Reason' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    My guess is that he should be doing what Singapore did decades ago. Build a GIS map of all pipes, cables, conduits, sewers, concrete blocks, boulders and anything else underground. Then use that data for his projects, sell it to others and use it get utility companies to coordinate their work so that the same road doesn't get dug up several times.

  22. Re:So that the aliens can ignore my messages too? on Celebrate Voyager's 40th Anniversary By Beaming A Message Into Outer Space (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Solar panels won't work - too far from the Sun. Wind turbines? No Wind. Tidal barrages? No water, gravity or tide. Nuclear power? About the only option, unless someone invents a scramjet that uses magnetic fields to scoop in interstellar gas and compress it.

  23. Re: 10 PRINT "FIRST POST" on It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80 (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what the home brew assembler articles were about. Thinks like hashed lookup tables to convert the text assembler opcode into the actual binary.

  24. Re:10 PRINT "FIRST POST" on It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80 (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    You could program in BASIC, but you could also create little bits of assembly language in BASIC using DATA statements to store the binary values as ASCII text, READ and POKE them into the memory space of a string found with ADR( STR$), then call the binary code with a USR(STR$).

    Other way, were to use boot loaders on disks and tape cassette. Many articles were written on home brew assemblers for 8-bit computers.

  25. Re:broadcast, not beam? on How Apple Is Putting Voices In Users' Heads -- Literally (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Beaming comes from satellite transmissions where a shaped antennae is used to direct the radio waves to a particular region of the Earth's surface.

    There has been some research going on into designing antennae for wi-fi, bluetooth and other wireless communications so that the signal strength can be adjusted in every direction so that the receiver gets the strongest signal.