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sebbi
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Comment #6724207
I wonder what's their source for this infographic (or how old it is). $1 per second equals $31.536.000 per year. That's only 204.5 billion for Samsung which had 268.8 billion in 20…
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Comment #6724186
Because it is too small. Not even in the hundreds per second. $100 per second equals $3.15 billion in yearly revenue and Twitter has roughly a tenth of that ...
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Comment #6166785
Lower pressure = air can move faster ...
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Comment #6156601
That would be the use case ... but not for the amount of money that "dream" currently costs ;-)
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Comment #6122372
The recorded signal would be exactly the same. GPS just sends the clock of the GPS satelites and their positions. You then calculate your position from the runtime of the signals .…
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Comment #5524907
Exactly. The OP is mixing things up ... this fusion drive is just a means to convert electric energy to velocity, not a fusion reactor to generate power.
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Comment #5524868
I think you are missing the point that this kind of fusion requires huge amounts of power. It isn't self sustained. The benefit being that you can electricity instead of chemicals …
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Comment #5473617
Hell, even my 10 inch tablet has a 2560x1600 resolution and Japan Display displayed a 7 inch panel with that resolution in November 2012 ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yGsWT9wfc…
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Comment #5358621
"isn't likely to be price-competitive" ... indeed
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Comment #5335033
I think the problem was that the A class had no ESP ... after they noticed that it could fall on its side in extreme slalom, this was one of the first (non-luxury) cars to include …
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Comment #5316072
I don't think busses, self driving or not, could ever compete with high speed trains. I have yet to see a bus driving 220 mph on a street crowded with other cars, busses and trucks…
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Comment #5136713
At prices of 60 cents per GB in SSDs and Apple asking for $100 for 16, 32 or 64 additional GBs? $300 might buy you a 512 GB SSD ... and on an iPad it justs buys you 128 GB instead …
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Comment #5131801
The iPhone5 is smaller than the average Android device, right? I have no problem to reach the upper left corner with my thumb on a Nexus 4 ... and yes, the author is probably right…
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Comment #5081872
http://www.sinfulrobot.com/ ... rule #34
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Comment #5079736
I await the moment they prohibit passengers to bring lithium ion batteries on board, because ... you know ... they ARE small bombs.
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Comment #5018631
Some form of BASEXY encoding XY not being 64? I see +,-,/,! and ":" in the text. Also spaces and newlines. BASE71?
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Comment #4854967
5-6 MB/s is fine? My backup runs with 100+ MB/s and still feels awefully slow :/
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Comment #4776208
If it is anything like the C300, it would be one reason not to buy the car. One can only speculate what Crysler thought while trying to make a working interface (especially voice).…
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Comment #4749972
Well ... I live in a country without voting machines and we still manage to count all votes on the same day. There is no need for faulty machines, is there?
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Comment #4745990
No arms in downwash, closer together (when all copter electronic parts are on the topside of the frame) ... plus you might be more likely to hit the ceiling indoors than the floor.…
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Comment #4702840
Seems to be online again ...
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Comment #4702828
same here ... M/S up and running ... all recently migrated HRD apps down :/
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Comment #4654440
The only balloon that is imaginable to fly in outer space is one that launches so fast that it reaches escape velocity and than continues like anything else we send up there. Even …
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Comment #4582379
"This app is incompatible with all of your devices." I have a Galaxy Nexus and a Nexus 7 ... hmmm
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Comment #4557632
I regularly touch the lower right corner with the base of my hand when trying to reach the upper left back button on my good old 3GS ... that's not only an issue with large phones.…