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Not sure how long you've lived there but the mall I think you're referring to (utc) was remodeled not long ago. The clientele in the area has gotten more upscale and the re-design …

Why not Gallium Nitride?

Bay Trail atom is already competitive with tablet-focused ARM. I've got a Samsung 500T that runs "real" windows. It weighs as much as an iPad and has ~10 hour run time, same as the…

"Hitting The Market" != "there is no general availability of the Dell "Copper" servers at this time."

Why don't we take the brilliant hackers and programmers at the NSA and task them to fix and re-build the ACA exchange system? Building a database to track the communications of eve…

My Atom-powered Windows x86 tablet weighs 1.5 lbs (same as iPad) and gets ~10 hours of run-time. How does Windows suck at power again?

Change isn't intrinsically bad. Change is bad when it removes characteristics of the neighborhood that caused people to move there in the first place. Isn't this NIMBYism, just fro…

Furthermore, unless you get stuck out multiple times a week half the rent cost still puts you way ahead. QFT. The thousand-plus dollar difference in rent buys a heck of a lot of "I…

Algorithms by S. Dasgupta, C.H. Papadimitriou, and U.V. Vazirani looks really promising as an introductory algorithms textbook. I wonder if anyone has experience using it in class?…

True. But generally the cost of guessing and doing something wrong is much higher than saying "I don't know" and asking someone else or Googling the result. School, through homewor…

Barely. IIRC it's 0 points if blank, -0.25 if wrong, so if you eliminate 1 choice it's worth it to guess. I'd like to see it be -5 points if wrong, since this is more reflective of…

Thought this at first but seems like the model is pretty different. Bandcamp sells direct and allows tons of free streaming. This service is geared towards placement in "stores" li…

What about lying down? A few years ago, BBC covered a scientific study[1] showing that sitting at a 135-degree angle dramatically reduced spinal disk movement. Anecdotally, I found…

Agree that it will look better, and is probably a better experience. Sadly college admissions is a game, and it is risky to ignore it.

Also, a good internship will look much better on a college app than a few extra points. Sadly, nope, unless you're applying to a high-end private school. I know the UC system doesn…

Have you ever taken compilers, operating systems, or some other project-heavy class? If so I'm pretty sure you've noticed several individuals completing a project with ease while t…

Is anyone else bothered by the lack of lossless audio availability on Amazon and other music distributors? This has been a stumbling point for me. Why doesn't Amazon offer FLAC or …

Good observation but I disagree, to some extent. Technical books that teach low-level knowledge and technologies will always become obsolete quickly. But books that enable the read…

So why not have team members work shifts? Get 24 hour coverage in the office without having frazzled people making poor decisions. Besides, the people making the decisions aren't t…

Agree 100%. I bought a Samsung 500T under the same premise about 6 months ago. 1.5 lbs, 10 hour battery life, atom processor, and it runs "real windows". It's not as good a tablet …

Which makes me wonder, aren't one's finger prints all over your iPhone exterior anyway. If someone steals one's phone wouldn't it be easier to dust it for prints than crack the sec…

Nothing. SPI and I2S is usually not implemented with free-running clocks anyway, the clock only runs when there's data on the interface. Sorry, grandparent.

My best guess is that your sound is stimulating some capacitor connected to a voltage-controlled clock oscillator in the laptop. The voltage provides by the sound is causing the fr…

To give some evidence to the parent, look at a chart of STEM graduates vs liberal arts, comparing 1985 to 2009 [1]. Across the board we've pushed a wider range of people into colle…

That's why streets with many narrow storefronts are the most crowded with pedestrians. Correlation != causation.