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Thanks for the article link. I think the evolution of English through new word use is generally an excellent and exciting thing. It can just be a little disconcerting adjusting to …

The use of "foreground" as a verb in that article really bothers me for some reason.

Look on the bright side, if you wouldn't be interested in it in another 3 months then you just saved yourself $200 by not buying it immediately.

Anyone else notice that in the Tyco contactor picture it's labelled "Coil 3.14 Ohms"? It makes me think they only needed it to be 3 Ohms, but an engineer somewhere couldn't resist …

The reminders are only printed once a week on Saturday mornings and use maybe 5-10cm of paper. It's just nice to have a physical reminder to do things sometimes, something you can'…

I wondered when this might happen. You can't really rely on any of these devices with a 'cloud' based backend to work a couple of years after you've bought them (As anyone with a N…

The thing I find most surprising is that she went from being a protesting vegan hippy-type, to a Daily Mail reader who says "I don’t read the Guardian—nobody I know reads the Guard…

You might want to edit your login page ( http://snowinseconds.com/account/login ) it still has some Lorem ipsum on it!

From the few details [1] I've been able to find it seems like it's unusable in the UK anyway as it uses 151-154 MHz, which is a licensed band. If they moved it up into the 433ishMH…

On my Moto G (which is listed as being 'Partially compatible'), it's nearly impossible to get any of the demos in the app version to respond to the phone's movement. I'm assuming t…

There's a strange sense of morality in being able to execute someone but not show their full last words due to swearing. The US media seems to view the world in a similar way.

Just a note - It's not GPS satellites taking the pictures. It seems to be the RapidEye [1] satellites, which are much closer to earth at 630km. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rap…

I only recently discovered that there's another player lurking over at http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/ that has the schedule overlaid onto the live stream with the ability to easily switc…

Check out some of the bitcoin/dogecoin 'faucet' list sites and you'll see they've been reincarnated, right down to the terrible GeoCities web design.

I went back to part 1 and looked at his conclusion...it's painful to read. Here's an excerpt: "Beats me why music files differ, but they do! The only explanation I can come up with…

The restriction on antibiotics is for the protection of everyone, it's not just to screw you out of $50. If people are allowed to throw antibiotics at any problem they think might …

>Plus pepper sprays and pocket knives are common place Pepper spray is illegal in the UK. Pocket knives with folding, non-locking blades under 3 inches are legal to carry around. L…

I was talking about adding the sensors to the bluetooth sticker device, that's why it'd add cost. The sensors in your phone won't help to work out where the sticker is. The bluetoo…

Getting an exact location would be very tricky as the received signal strength can be affected by so many things (Thick walls, reflections, interference...). I'd imagine you could …

For simple dead reckoning you'd need to add a magnetometer into the mix as well, otherwise there's no way to know which direction the sensors are facing relative to anything else. …

Unfortunately a gyro and accelerometer would only be able to provide the orientation of the device, not its location relative to the phone.

I'm guessing the same lumbering beast is hiding under these new changes, including the search annoyances like not being able to exclude whole categories from the results.

This looks really good, but as a Web Dev with Cystic Fibrosis who was developing a site based on virtually the same idea (the graphs, the health and medication logs - almost all id…