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Thanks, Whoaa. I was always carrying the iPad plus a pad of paper to every meeting three years ago when I started this fiasco :) There were other drawing & notes apps out there, bu…

Have a look at http://betterexplained.com/ - Kalid's got some of the most intuitive explanations I've seen.

And things are continuing to change, too. More and more FPGAs and CPLDs are showing up in end user electronics - our hardware is becoming software.

It's an old one, but I still think of it every time someone is trying to come up with an acronym: http://dilbert.com/fast/1993-06-23/

IMO, A big danger of implementing centralized authentication across multiple sites is that will make social engineering schemes aimed at stealing a user's credentials more plausibl…

Hence the -maxdepth 3 param: # time find / -maxdepth 3 -perm -7 -type d -print /tmp /var/tmp real 0m0.034s user 0m0.005s sys 0m0.028s This was run on a pretty anemic VPS. Might hav…

find / -maxdepth 3 -perm -7 -type d -print and tweak as needed.

He did do some trading when he was around: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/einsteins-relative...

"The rest just want to forget about whatever is going on in their lives and get high. Why can't people just admit the truth?" Many people consuming alcohol are doing so for similar…

Storing something like a username in client-side data and then trusting its accuracy is effectively delegating your authentication outside you circle of control. Saying that encryp…

"..Dozens of people collaborated spontaneously, motivated by loyalty, friendship, or the love of craftsmanship. We were hackers, creating something for the sheer joy of making it w…

It's getting there. Check out http://ccmixter.org/ .

The man wants to enrich himself by boning the hottest chick he can, and possibly at her expense if she is seeking a longer relationship. It's perceived sexual gratification vs perc…

For those interested, "The (Mis)Behavior of Markets" by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard Hudson examines, among many other things, the 1987 "Black Monday" event. Mandelbrot theorizes …

Masers (microwaves) were actually developed before lasers were, and do work pretty well for power transmission (as these things go - still quite a loss). You have the problem of di…

I have been looking into drafting tables for this very purpose - used ones can often be found in the local buy & sell for quite cheap. Being adjustable by design, they look ideal (…

"It's all about expectations with the iPad." My thoughts exactly. Purely as a reading device, it will be fantastic for scientific papers which are usually in hard formatted PDFs. R…

The touch screen will not provide an adequate replacement for buttons and knobs - if you emulate buttons and knobs, that is. With capacitive multi-touch, there's a real opportunity…

It upgrades well to a HTML page if you don't have flash. FTFY :)

"I need a Mac to program the iPad? Why?" You need a computer to transfer data to it, so why not to program it? Yes, the toolchain is not available for windows, but that's at least …

Government control of private property - this is how some public utilities operate. Private industry builds the infrastructure, but the government aims to bring stability through r…

Simplicity.