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leecbaker

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About leecbaker

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    Comment #6563268

    If you slow the bike from either the front wheel or the back wheel, energy is removed from the whole bike. There's little to no benefit from harvesting from both wheels.

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    Comment #6480951

    As I understand it, if you ar a resident of the another country as defined for the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (330 days a year outside the US _or_ have permanently settled wit…

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    Comment #6041647

    In the leaked Rogers video, they say "OK Google now, what is the weather." Maybe that is the keyphrase? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bUmuI...

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    Comment #5981090

    Kayak when in the Western hemisphere, Skyscanner in the Eastern hemisphere.

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    Comment #5955232

    I talked to a company that did this kind of work, and they used tiny MEMS mirrors made of gold plated silicon. They wouldn't tell me much about their customers, but they specialize…

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    Comment #5787368

    I appreciate the ability to browse around my inbox while writing an email, and I suspect that is why the change was made; however, I wish they had left in the ability to compose fr…

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    Comment #5776389

    That picture is not a free-flying blimp, but an Army aerostat (tethered balloon). About 10 are used to enforce the southern US border. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethered_Aerosta…

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    Comment #5715954

    Programmer, artist, technical writer, etc.

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    Comment #5071403

    IIRC, they had a lot of problems with engine failures, as the 747 really pushed engine technology and size at the time. Joe Sutter's book [1] is an interesting look at the history …

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    Comment #4726271

    Some quick corrections: Southwest operates from Dallas Love Field (DAL) instead of DFW- almost all commercial flights at DAL are Southwest flights. Midland(MAF) is a city about 350…

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    Comment #4447326

    I have heard rumors that they use the TCP TTL field to detect tethering, regardless of device type. If you open a connection from a tethered device, the TTL field will be one count…

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    Comment #4416881

    T-Mobile won't allow you to tether a phone that uses this package, so they presumably wouldn't allow another device to share the package. Src: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/0…

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    Comment #4228162

    6 to 12 weeks in advance according to this reservation agent. "IAMA Delta/KLM/Air France reservation agent that knows all the tricks to booking low fares and award tickets AMA" htt…

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    Comment #3901135

    Gold is an inferior conductor to copper, and is used in electronics because of its corrosion resistance, and would not make better wire for most purposes.

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    Comment #3806322

    I quickly typed Computing Science in Google, and got the following list: University of Auckland Victoria University of Wellington University of Waikato University of Alberta Simon …