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Reaching a mass of people via Facebook is, to some degree, relatively easy. If you have 50 to 100 people you can reach directly and they, in turn, reach out to their direct connect…

I've learned Facebook and LinkedIn can produce really disappointing results. Over the last couple of weeks we've been pushing hard to develop awareness for a worthy cause (special …

We are trying to qualify for a grant that would allow us to devote significant resources towards the creation of apps for children with special educational needs. We could really u…

I guess the point of the short comment was lost: How can anyone say that any of the current crop of OS's is "wonderful"? Wonderful? Really? Whether you use Windows or OSX (or both,…

> OS X is wonderful ROFL

Here you go: http://www.tak2000.com/data/Satellite_TC.pdf

Can a privately launched satellite in orbit be considered free from control from any one nation? Would my satellite be sovereign territory? Might this be an idea for the future of …

I do wish that they would have included data on the exact measurement setup. IR thermometers are affected by surface material characteristics and can be affected by orientation and…

Prompted by an offline discussion I thought it'd be a good idea to talk about the other effects. I focused my post around the power requirements of the image processor circuitry. H…

You are right, of course, however, I have built quite elaborate LED-based backlight systems and have metrics on this too. A few years ago we did a custom system with a 1,000 Watt (…

You are welcome.

I'd sure like to know if those who are for this sort of thing have any experience building and flying these things. It's really easy to voice opinions from the outside. Armed with …

I've been flying model airplanes, helicopters and other RC contraptions since I was 10 years old. Decades. I've flown, designed and built nearly everything out there, from pure (no…

After years of designing custom display systems based around highly customized FPGA-based real time image processors we learned a very interesting lesson: Power consumption and ima…

Nah. Not hard. Different. People have a natural inclination to resist the new. My guess is that a competent programmer with OO experience should be comfortable with Objective-C wit…

That's really funny partner. Using Excel for generating code fragments that can be cut and pasted into your compiler is powerful and fast. Nothing wrong with it. But, go ahead and …

Of course. This was just one illustration of Excel as an augmentation tool. There are probably thousands of such special applications out there, some commercial, some not, that use…

>It's hard to experiment with a toolbar in Excel because millions of non-computer-geek users Excel is another of my favorite "Why did they do that?" examples. In my opinion, MS abs…

> Why not experiment and try to be better at what you do? Herein lies the problem. The term "better" is most definitely subjective. Not to pic on Xcode, but this is a prime example…