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The original 747-100 /was/ spacious on international flights, the upper deck had a lounge and a piano. This wasn't due to some bygone era where passengers weren't treated like catt…

They have it right, LDR acts differently if it's a register argument or register plus offset vs a immediate. The immediate pseudo-instruction: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.…

Papilio one and papilio pro are both under $100 Vendor - https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11158 OEM - http://papilio.cc/

Keep in mind, ITAR and AECA regulations are concerned with export weapons and weapons systems to non-US entities. The munitions list (USML) includes everything from guns to airplan…

Allegedly, Samsung is pursuing tizen as a browser based os for their devices[1]. This seems accelerated after the Motorola mobile acquisition. I'm guessing they are looking at that…

Not sure I buy either of the metaphors. Silver has industrial, scientific, and commercial (i.e., jewelry) applications that create demand and use the commodity. Bitcoin, on the oth…

Historically, spikes in income inequality have been a harbinger of a recession - the theory is it can indicate misapplication of capital. In that investment income is outpacing gro…

I'm guessing it's aimed more at the embedded/system programming crowd. Visual Studio is a PITA when you aren't targetting Win32. Right now we use eclipse which has pretty substanda…

Technically, he's charged with espionage and giving aid to the enemy. With the stated motive of "sparking a public debate" regarding current war policy, a more targeted leak would …

In 2011, Wired posted[1] the transcript of conversations between Bradley Manning and Lamo, the man who informed on him. It's an interesting read and gives a window, albeit a small …

Light on dark can be really hard to read for anyone with a pronounced astigmatism. The background color bleeds into text dramatically lowering the contrast. On computer displays, b…

Looking at the code, UDP/Broadcast is used only for negotiation. After negotation, a TCP socket is used for the actual transfer.

It's neat. I noticed a couple of subtle bugs. 1) The code assumes both the client and the server have the same endian. This can be issue since a uint32 is used for both the synchro…

The user supernodes were mostly retired after microsoft bought Skype. See: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-s...

Sounds similar to NT (No Text) on usenet...

This is already pretty common at the college-level.

Agreed with parent. The burdened rate (that is pay, plus benefits, plus company overhead) for a decent sized software company will easily be $200 - $800 /hr depending on location a…

The proposal is to keep LTS releases - but lose the interim releases. I assume after an LTS release you'd be given an option "upgrade" to the next LTS testing branch which give you…

I should add: the value proposition for mono is a bit bizarre. On the server, typically mono is chosen because mono on linux is much cheaper than azure, or windows hosting (AWS, et…

Ximian has a plugin ( http://mono-tools.com/ ) that lets you remote deploy/debug mono applications from Visual studio - it was free after a survey not sure if it still is or if it …

.NET Micro framework is actually a different beast in that's it's close to the metal but it's not compiled to a specific architecture. The MF is a bytecode interpreter vs the mainl…

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It's been rebranded ecomstation and it's sold through another vendor now.

FWIW, One of the links in the article http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/alzheimers-diabetes-brain indicated a correlation between nitrates and Alzheimer's. This has also been publishe…