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Thanks for the tip! I just installed Artemis on 3 tablets and it's fantastic for my purposes. And looking at the Artemis forums, there are a number of people building Star Trek-lik…

This is an incredible and timely resource for me. I'm currently building a spaceship cockpit for my young sons. I'm a former EE, so I've got the blinky LEDs, switches, LCDs, keypad…

No, collisions are a very real risk. In fact, they've already happened. In 2009, an Iridium satellite accidentally collided with a Russian satellite. Space-X is talking about quadr…

We have a local Lego re-seller ( https://bricksandminifigs.com/ ) which I visit occasionally. One time I spoke to the owner about the business economics. They try to buy complete k…

In general, this is good advice for dealing with price objection in the negotiation of a premium product. It correctly emphasizes long term relationships over a single sale. It als…

Prime beef is only 2-4% of all graded beef(1). Of this, most is sold to restaurants. So I don't think it was ever the "standard meat for sale", but it is available if you look. But…

They are very small, but not microscopic. They are done in yellow ink, which is why they are very hard to see. If they were printed in black ink, I think you'd be able to spot them…

Here's a great article with many more examples: http://www.pcworld.com/article/249951/computers/if-it-aint-b... My favorite is the 90 yr old Texas company that uses an IBM 402 from…

A never-used $200 "burner" laptop might be a wise investment in this case.

In this case, get a lawyer and don't answer any questions without them. Also, if you do leak a hard copy, print it at a public place and use a B&W printer. Color printers are relat…

Having started my career making military radars, I've always been amused by tourists that criticize the cost of products that are required the have extreme performance and reliabil…

It's important to note that these improvements only apply to BLE. Classic Bluetooth (EDR) is not changing, at least not significantly. Also, there will continue to be minor spec re…

On a larger scale, this sounds like the premise behind Asimov's Foundation books. In essence, a visionary mathematician predicts a 30,000 year dark age descending on the Galactic E…

FlightCar is a business that uses another entity's property and services without permission and for profit,but without remuneration. This is not at all comparable to a private indi…

The degree of "burden" that FlightCar imposes on SFO is irrelevant to SFO's ability to charge a fee to FlightCar. SFO owns a platform and nobody is entitled to use it without payin…