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Suit Satellite
Old news but I found this cute/interesting.
Take a space suit, fill it with batteries, some sensors and a radio transmitter sending on amateur frequency.
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Thinking Machines and the way we think about them
I read this recently:
When we interact with computers and other machines, we often use language ordinarily used for talking about people. We may say of a vending machine, `It wants another ten cents for a lousy candy bar.' We may say of an automatic teller machine, `It thinks I don't have enough money in my account because it doesn't yet know ( Read more... ) -
Feedback loop
In an EFY article (sep '93) about Phase Locked Loops I found this cute illustration...
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bang 4 buck etc...
When you have n things to do, figure out the bang u get for each of them, then figure out the bucks you need to spend for each of them, divide bang by bucks for each of them and sort on bang/bucks - thats it. You learned prioritization.
Now, who will teach measuring so you can do all the figuring out required? :) -
nokia + microsoft!
My first reaction was... what a crappy deal! They should have taken the android route.
http://redmonk.com/sogrady/page/3/ -
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To the couple making out in the car in front of mine last night in rd no 10: sorry, i didnt mean to cause panic, it was dark at 8pm, and i had to switch on my headlights !!! -
Damn... WTF...
Some idiots decided to do a snake dance on their bike on begumpet flyover, and i had to slam my brakes to avoid a collision (I was going pertty fast around 80 or so). Now, they decided to race me and stopped at the filling station at shamlal - when i stopped, they didnt want to talk, just land blows on me. A crowd collects, and stop those guys. One ( Read more... ) -
googling skills vs laziness
So this dude comes over, says 'hey i googled a lot for this but i couldnt figure out - can i run some perl cgi in our existing tomcat? i need to achieve blah blah blah...'.
I opened FF, searched for 'cgi in tomcat' and opened the tomcat 6 link which has the necessary information. I dont get it.
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