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You could get a USB network adapter as your second ethernet port.
Re:Swole.me - The automatic diet planner on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @01:42PM (#3534577)
The recommended meal (4 eggs, 12 oz chicken breast) gives me 1100mg of cholesterol, which is more than 3 times the daily recommended maximum.

Great for Pfitzer (makers of Lipitor), not so great for your heart.

I think Matt Damon has a time machine.
An attempt at a viral marketing campaign for the movie Battleship?
Key difference: Facebook has 750 million active users. Google+ has 10 million users.
This may just be my favourite HN comment of all time.
Re:Massive Indestructible Botnet on Thursday June 30, 2011 @08:10AM (#2713659)
So that's how some videos on youtube have millions of hits before anyone has heard of them...
Agreed. And here is an example where, without comment scores, it is impossible to know how many other people feel the same way.
Re:The Dangerous Mr. Khan on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @11:56AM (#2633646)
It is a lot easier to write an essay critique than it is to sit down and fix the problem by recording your own set of video lectures that teach people what you know.
Actually, you wouldn't even need to have extra quadcopters for charging purposes: you would just need extra batteries.
Yep. You would need a) an iPhone app that you would use to place your order (it would send updated coordinates as you move around, and provide a perimeter within which you would have to stay) b) an army of quadcopters so that a subset of them could be charging while the others were making deliveries c) the quadcopters would have to be equipped with parachutes in case they malfunctioned so they wouldn't kill someone on the way down. d) The quadcopters would have to keep a persistent connection with the central server through wireless networks to keep in sync with your latest position and to send back their coordinates for you to see on your phone. e) there would have to be a mechanism in place to prevent mid-air collisions (buildings you could pre-encode, birds and other quadcopters you couldn`t) for bonus points, you generalize the whole thing and make it like an airbnb where people can exchange arbitrary goods and you just broker the deal and execute the deliveries for a fee that would be dynamically calculated based on distance and weight. DO IT. DO IT NOW.
It would be even cooler if a quadcopter delivered your grilled cheese sandwich within minutes no matter where you were. Why doesn't that exist yet?
Re:Can libraries survive in a digital world? on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @03:45PM (#2443828)
Only as museums containing artifacts from an ancient age when people used to "print" information on physical sheets of wood pulp.
This is pretty amazing. I think that this coupled with multi-touch interactivity could be pretty revolutionary. It turns the iPad into an "iWindow".
Re:Hacker with iPhone takes over Times Square screens on Monday March 14, 2011 @10:21AM (#2322554)
You can already easily do this using TubeMote (tubemote.com) without the need for all the hackery.
Re:How to Make Money in 6 Easy Steps on Monday February 28, 2011 @03:26PM (#2272751)
- "It's all about which side of the money you're on"

- "it's all about practice"

- "it's all about passion"

It's all about overgeneralizing.

Re:I want role models who are happy, not rich on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @07:59PM (#2200135)
The two don't have to be mutually exclusive.
There is a difference between value and price.
Re:Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform" on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @03:17AM (#2196815)
Is it obvious to everyone that he is preparing Nokia for a transition to Windows?
Re:Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @11:56AM (#1979617)
My friend's dad climbed k2. It's like rolling a tetrahedron.
Re:Ask HN: What is the meaning of Apple's front page? on Monday November 15, 2010 @03:59PM (#1907821)
Thank you. More specifically, what I meant was: can anyone speculate on what will be announced?
Re:Gravity simulator [flash] - try "Generate proto disk" on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @01:27PM (#1764880)
The force of gravity is not instantaneous. It "travels" at the speed of light. The Earth is not attracted to where the Sun is "now", it is attracted to where the Sun was approx. 8 minutes ago (the length of time it takes for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth), and vice versa.
Re:Gravity simulator [flash] - try "Generate proto disk" on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @09:45AM (#1763865)
Probably a stupid question, but does this take into account the speed of light?
Excellent point.
I think the proper term is "eating", not "cannibalizing". It would be called "cannibalizing" if the laptops were MacBooks, and if it were unintentional.