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That's right, storage is all too often forgotten. Some ways energy can be stored: - kinetic energy storage e.g. spinning flywheel - potential energy storage e.g. pump water at an a…

there's also the fact that phones have relatively limited memory. I suspect the Dalvik VM runtime memory footprint is much lower than that of the JVM.

In case you didn't know, this is the guy who started ffmpeg which does the heavy lifting in projects like VLC, etc.

Does anyone know how processes are implemented in termite? I remember looking at candygram a while ago (erlang style message passing for python) and reading that a 'process' uses t…

I seriously doubt they cost that much. The only electronics on the bike I can think of is the head light LED and the dynamo to power it. The rest of the electronics are in the dock…

> None of the apps skipped a beat. out of curiosity, how can you tell if the apps skipped a beat? It's hard enough when you have to focus on 2 audio streams, I can't image how you …

thanks that's very helpful indeed.

> 2. Water Tower I have though of doing this for my house in the past. Before I start building the tower I wanted to have a feel for how much energy one can store using this method…

yes I thought the same and it reminded me of this video by Matthieu Ricard: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1424079446171087119... More specifcally at this point: 37 min 2…

Unfortunately I can't try Parallels (again). I already tried their demo version a while ago when I was trying to decide whether to purchase VMWare or Parallels. It seems possible t…

ok good to know. I'm going to take another look.

shame it doesn't work in VMWare. I tried both isos, the 7MB and 77MB one and tweaked a little bit with the settings but I just get a black screen, it doesn't seem to boot at all. I…

things I liked: (been using an alpha for a couple of weeks now) * the new notification 'bubbles' in the top right hand corner look good * coming out of hibernate/suspend mode recon…

any chance you could get it working on the Wii? Sometimes I like to sit back in my sofa and browse HN from the Wii. It renders ok but could do with a few tweaks. I usually use the …

I use the native OSX emacs in the terminal with the fonts increased a fair bit. It loads really fast (~ 1 second) I tried Aquamacs but didn't like the fact that it was significantl…

> If you want to run Windows, then you'll want to pass on ARM netbooks not necessarily. Remember Windows Mobile already runs on ARM so Microsoft already has plenty of experience po…