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Gravity map matching is an approach that can provide absolute references, the general problem there is that gravity maps are not good enough.

No, this is about preventing unwanted jamming/interference by a transmitter on frequencies it isn't intending or needing to transmit on as part of the design phase of a product. Ov…

Why? Why don’t we use TAI or GPS time for generic world wide coordinated computer time?

I have always thought the fork() interface was convoluted, perhaps it is more intuitive to some folks than me; using a old document to create a new one by copying it, opening it, a…

Nope

Weakly, yes. Enough to hold its own mass at rest, but I don't think it would work with any type of acceleration. It will stick nicely to a neodymium magnet.

Yes, the satellites should know 6mo in advance. UTC is still a head ache though.

In my case improved noise cancellation.

Next, if you really want to time something fast you should probably know about cache. In a modern computer there are levels of memory. For now we’ll say we have 3 levels: cache, ra…

Android too.

I won one from Sparkfun and just recently started using it. I have some experience developing on embedded platforms. The unit I have was a pain to flash the first time. I guess som…

MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) I just don't want anyone thinking MRSA stands for anything it doesn't.

This may or may not work. Ubisoft, EA, Blizzard and CD Projekt Red all have their own stores, not to mention Microsoft. I think the market is pretty saturated.

Android TV is different from Chromecast. Android TV can behave exactly as a Chromecast (you can wake it up by casting from your phone), but it also has a remote driven interface, v…

Yeah, that was my initial reaction as well. It looks like she flexes at her shoulders more than I'm used to seeing, but nothing groundbreaking. We've known that a dolphin kick is f…

I feel like they should have named the compiler 'rustic'.

To continue your point, often companies tier their products by their firmware to save development/manufacturing costs. If anyone can change the firmware, they may be able to make a…

I imagine that is probably a webcam photo, so left/right are backwards.

He is not right either... 15 is 0xF. 16 is 0x10.

I'll be honest that I was very tempted to put on a suit, set up a fake newsroom and make a video because of this comic this morning.

BCD was my thought as well. For the uninformed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal

Android, however I would say that it was successful before android.