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Re:NAND flash has at least another decade of life on Friday September 13, 2013 @10:55AM (#6380845)
See "disc vs disk"
Re:List of Hacker Spaces on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @06:46AM (#6012001)
There is one in Bristol yet its a mess and barely bigger than a 1 car garage. Their page vastly exaggerates their facilities.
Re:The 4 AM Army on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @11:08AM (#5978267)
It wasn't too long ago i worked long hours in removals. It still remains the only job (among quite a few) i've had that day to day I happily felt something was achieved and didn't go home drained. [edit] I've been working as an EE/SE for the last 4 years.
Re:Open plan offices are a nightmare on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @07:26AM (#5133583)
404ing already. Anyone with a mirror/cache?
Re:There is no better battery (2008) on Thursday January 24, 2013 @06:13AM (#5108939)
Which is a bit moot because, going by the trend, it's not until ~ the year 2220 that batteries will equal petrol for energy density by weight.
Re:There is no better battery (2008) on Thursday January 24, 2013 @06:00AM (#5108895)
I realised it was a typo, I was just being facetious.
Re:There is no better battery (2008) on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @12:39PM (#5104116)
Hmm, didn't know there is a Palladium acid battery.
Re:Via introduces APC Paper: A $99 Android PC on Thursday January 17, 2013 @08:38AM (#5072517)
You can auto install updates in Ubuntu.
Re:3 Weeks already, $0 income – what are we doing wrong? on Thursday January 17, 2013 @06:39AM (#5072114)
> getting featured on two facebook page of more that 200k fans each and not get at least 1k download is still interrogating me.

That stat is pretty worthless. You can buy "fans".

Re:More Than Half a Million Raspberry Pis Sold on Thursday January 10, 2013 @05:31AM (#5036297)
samba & minidlna server
Re:Valve And Xi3 Team For ‘Piston’ Steam Box on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @12:43PM (#5027292)
Needs some gloss, monotone finish and its shaped changed into a rectangle with beveled edges.
Re:Valve And Xi3 Team For ‘Piston’ Steam Box on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @06:55AM (#5025841)
Yes, it's all about the upvotes.
Re:Interview: Linus Torvalds – I don't read code any more on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @08:59AM (#4783293)
They've been there since forever in Linux.
Re:Demonoid Is Back, BitTorrent Tracker is Now Online on Monday November 12, 2012 @12:02PM (#4773619)
Didn't you know? HN is serious business.
Do you have spellcheck enabled?
Re:E-Ink Android phone promises a week long battery life on Monday October 22, 2012 @11:18AM (#4683493)
For camping surely an old nokia will do? I keep one, which isn't much bigger than a mars bar, for this purpose and the battery lasts for ages.
Re:Is it OK to hold credit card numbers in cookies, Santander? on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @04:15AM (#4658853)
I graduated 5 years ago with a maxed 2K overdraft. Last year I went to the bank to reduce the limit and the nice lady informed me I hadn't been paying interest the whole time on it, she promised to not to tell.
Re:The Magazine: For geeks like us. By Marco Arment on Thursday October 11, 2012 @11:44AM (#4641280)
The Beatles?
I gave up on these "startup advice" posts a while back if it was their 1st startup. If I could be bothered to read them I'd just read them as anecdotal evidence to their success/failure.
"a better solution than trying to quickly unscrew the case. Find the cable."

A dedicated panel switch.

Re:Hand solderable 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 in TQFP package on Friday April 27, 2012 @03:17AM (#3897983)
Don't even need a hotplate. Any soldering iron will a concave tip, lots of flux & a touch of solder. Takes 4 strokes/drags and some extra flux afterwards to remove bridges (usually the 1st 2 pins on each drag).

It's surprisingly easy and i've had no issues on up to tqfp144's.

Re:ColorHug is an open source display colorimeter on Monday November 14, 2011 @04:39AM (#3233461)
I have a spyder 3 that works in Linux via argyllcms.
mid 20s, uk.

I, along with my younger bro & sis and friends, had to be back in by dark and rarely had to say where we were going. sometimes we'd go off on bike rides well out of the city or even take a small boat we found and row/motor it around the rivers(tamar/tavy) (no safety equipment, repaired it ourselves, hilariously overloaded). fires, explosions, trespass, "base"/bunker/dam building, tree-climbing, ragging my donated scrambler in wasteland, etc were all regular activities.

Now I see my other bro and sis (~10yrs younger than I) and they always have homework or are on their laptops. my youngest brother used to go with us sometimes when he was ~4 so he knows what "play" is but none of his friends want or are allowed to join him.

It's being developed by a non-profit foundation.
Re:NETduino on Thursday August 04, 2011 @04:45PM (#2847680)
Whether the item works is the least of your problems when it comes to military jets. Trust me, if it's UK-mil it's a bureaucratic nightmare (expensive) to develop software that can be proven to be of high-integrity. To reduce costs you use stuff that has been proven safe before (we still use 8051s and wire-wrap).

Put simply, if the pilot makes decisions on how to fly (in flight or on later analysis) based on an electronic piece of equipment, it'll have cost shitloads. This fact is why I want to get out of mil-aero in the UK; developing embedded soft/elec is mostly about jumping through hoops.

Re:NETduino on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @05:08PM (#2843110)
Depends on the duration.
As much as i'd like to have a universal device sometimes a well-crafted, well-designed, dedicated device is hard to give up once you are used to it.

Would you rather use a TI-calc emulator on android or the actual device?

Waste disposal/processing isn't cheap and Thorium produces significantly less waste than Uranium.
Re:Researchers create rollerball-pen ink to draw circuits on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @09:08AM (#2709322)
This has given me an idea: an etch resist pen in a plotter-like setup. It's about time I use the steppers i pulled out of old Epson printer and use up some of my copper-clad boards.

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