Posts by Eddy Ito

Re: "stupid fucking idiot dipshit wanky cock-sucking Will.I.Am"

Personally I've always thought his half second cousin thrice removed was a much better artist. Perhaps you've heard of him, Will.I.Fucking.Aint.

Re: Instant vs Brewed

Coffee (As served in the US) so weak it should not be called Coffee.

There is a reason for that. Mostly it's because everyone is using the same recipe that was used during both the Great Depression and WWII. My grandmother fortunately predated both and knew how to make a real cup of coffee. Today with a pound of coffee weighing in at about 10 oz and most people grabbing their cup from the coffee shop down the street a good cup of coffee has fallen to the gods of profit margin and what the average Joe will pay for his (below average) cup of joe.

As for the brewing vessel and method, Chemex is nice.

Re: Longburn

Given the layout of my local Wally World I'd half expect them to be located between the stationary and cleaning chemicals, you know right next to the LPG exchange rack.

Re: Quick Reader Poll:

I ditched my previous watch because the battery only lasted a year, switched to an Eco-drive and haven't looked back. That said, if it was wireless and I could just drop it on a recharging pad at the end of the day then daily would probably be fine but I'd prefer a week or more for traveling.

The thing with a watch is that it shouldn't ever stop and people are creatures of habit so if it fits the daily routine it has a spot, likewise if it fits a weekly or monthly routine it is easy to work with. The real pain in the arse is when it lasts 3 or 4 days or less than a day and doesn't fit nicely into the routine. Whatever it does it has to work on a convenient and consistent schedule because battery gauges suck sewage through a straw because the use and power draw profiles are so varied.

Re: umm..

Ok, I still don't see how the chicken also meant to die. If it were a modern joke I'd understand given the amount of traffic and speeds it travels but when the joke appears to have originated, 1847, the invention of the automobile was still nearly 40 years distant and Lincoln wouldn't be elected for over a decade so crossing a road should have been trivial unless there happened to be a horse carriage at full gallop coming through. This whole chicken suicide sounds like some sort of new-age codswallop to me.

Re: Human physics !

Makes sense. Doing the math to convert a typical 2000 Calorie (kilocalorie) per day diet is equivalent to 96.9 Watts. That means a banana provides enough energy to power a person for about one hour fifteen minutes or an iPhone for the better part of a month.

Re: 6 months?

It seems to me that the easiest way to kill the canary would be for one of the geographically diverse signors to revoke their PGP signature so that the webpage which may still be "alive" because of the update frequency would be effectively dead. In using the signatures as a true indicator and it wouldn't even require looking at the webpage between updates. One merely checks the status of the three signatures and if the Tuvaluan signor (or anywhere outside of the offending jurisdiction) has revoked her signature it can be assumed that the canary is dead even though the webpage hasn't been updated. They could even work out a system where one signature would be revoked when the request for data was received and a second if they lost the decision for a proverbial threat level color code [Green, Blue, Yellow, Orange, Red]

Re: Each year we get the 'new words' announcement...

Pity about them removing cyclogiro as Seoul National University actually has one working. Of course in keeping with the times the university dutifully called it a cyclocopter.

Re: It'll be good in about 5 years time...

Well the standard A plug is 12 mm x 4.5 mm so it might be possible to make a flush mount adapter to convert it to the smaller C plug.

I for one will be happy to do away with the awful micro-B-with-3.0-sidecar connector.

Re: Prior Art

Even Siri is a relative newcomer and is one of many spin-offs of a Darpa project called CALO going back over a decade. Another implementation that is Siri's senior is SILVIA so it really has to be dependent on the implementation.

Re: @foxyshadis

I can tell you that being only 20 miles from downtown LA and you might get actual definition broadband but not more. Sure I can pay for the high speed up to 15 Mb/s package but can guarantee that you'll be luck to see the high 5 to low 6 Mb/s range because the infrastructure simply can't handle it. I dropped back to the cheapest net connection available and dropped from nearly 6 to about 3.5 Mb/s and saved a lot of money doing it. If I lived a little further away where the truly expensive new housing is I could get blistering speed over fiber but paying the associated Mello-Roos taxes (about $1000/month) simply isn't worth it.

Re: Why?

It doesn't surprise me they were firings. One of the biggest problems here in SoCal is the lack of able talent. We're constantly hiring and about nine in ten are let go in the first six months because they simply can't or won't do the job they claimed they could. Frankly we had a better time of it at the depths of the recession as it was much easier to find good help even though it also increased the pool of inappropriate people to wade through as many folks were just applying for any job hoping to get lucky.

Re: Unfounded concerns

Let's not forget that card theft is often grab and run. Actual muggings are also a time limited affair unless you really are at the far end of a dark alley so it isn't likely that someone will stand there waiting for you to try remembering your PIN. Besides, it's much easier to search through the wallet/purse later for the scrap of paper all the PINs are written down on.

Re: As always, good work

Yes, the current setup isn't near optimal given the awkward airflow. I expect calibrating the airspeed indicator will give a low reading given the slipstream around the van will be faster than the actual speed of the van so it should be spaced off at least far enough to get reasonably clean air. Being in clean air will also allow for some rather interesting data collection as working a few load cells into the mounting hardware will give an idea of what you've got for lift and control forces. In a pinch you can borrow some load cells from a cheap digital scale.

Re: Unsubscribe

Yep, seems like a quick way to make the "this address is live" list. It's not that hard to just train the spam filter.

Re: Where's the Fan?

From the specs tab on the website:

Cooling/Power/Form Factor

-Max Power: 235W

-Bus Interface: PCIe® x16

-Slots: Two

-Form Factor: Full height/ Full length

-Cooling: Passive heat sink

Then below that:

System Requirements

-20 CFM airflow cooling at 45° C maximum inlet temperature

Re: Why won't they sort it out?

If the rumors of a 3 year major release cycle are true then with 8 having been released in 2012 that would put 9 on track for next year. Given the effort it will take, who knows maybe they will listen to the folks in the focus groups, for the next rev perhaps it's easier to just let the old 8.x wounds scab over than apply yet another bandage in the hope someone will find it attractive.

Re: Apathy

This web site would seem to indicate that a good number of Moz devs have been asleep until - well for another couple of hours.

Re: A glimmer of hope

Da gubbermint legislated GSM, that didn't turn out too badly.

Not in the US where this law applies. The transition from analog saw several different technologies being used and at one point it wouldn't matter if you could unlock your phone since it would only work on a single carrier. It's gotten better over here but that's only because smaller players got gobbled by the bigger ones who weren't interested in having six different systems in their network.

Now let's look at something the US gub't did legislate for a long time. Automotive sealed beam headlamps hamstrung automotive design in the US for quite some time but certainly made it simple to replace as you had a choice of manufacturers of your 7" hi/lo round lamps up until 1957 when 5-3/4" lamps were allowed which were available in hi/lo and hi only. Then in 1974 Uncle Sam authorized the unthinkable - rectangular lamps! I wonder what cars could have looked like if folks could have designed lighting systems to a functional requirement rather than being forced to use one of A, B, C or D.

That's just it, the computer only knows it's a flash drive because the flash drive says it's a flash drive. If it says it's a video adapter, cdrom drive, ethernet port, etc. that's what the computer 'believes' and it's quite possible something else might need an update. Ask yourself what your grandmother would do when presented with the following;

"Windows has found a security update for your WiFi adapter. Click OK to install WPA3 and make your network more secure" [OK]

Re: What's great about it..

"Though not that cheap, when compared to a RPi B+, as you need the docking board for the Odroid-W to get the USB and ethernet"

It appears the board itself does have USB but it's unpopulated. My guess is that the physical connector was too large for their envisioned purpose and left it so the user can install one if they feel so inclined. A nice consideration IMHO as I've seen too many Daytona Beach type boards where it's tiny and low profile with a coastline packed with highrises.

Re: Bacon is a vitamin [tm]

"And what's the point of that?"

I know lots of folks who like jerky.

Re: Looks much like an ITX board only much dearer

For similar or less money you can get any number of far more powerful computers/boards. Intel NUC, Asus VivoPC, etc. I suspect the reason things like the NUC board are frequently more expensive than the computer is because the big box discounters don't do bare boards. Given that most of those come with specs that easily outpace this one I think calling this "fat" is a bit of an overstatement especially when you consider they used the lightweight "G" variant of the atom instead of the "F" which has twice the memory bandwidth.

Re: Headline wrong?

The market is a zero sum game - one idiots losses are another idiots gains

Let me guess, everything you know about the stock market you learned from the movie Trading Places with Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy and now you're confused about between the difference between the stock market and the futures market.