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friends with the engineer behind the sensor tech inside it. if you have any questions i'd be happy to forward them to him
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1.5 hrs to full charge, 30 min to 80% charge. I'd charge it while making breakfast.
>30 min to 80% charge That's impressive. But why does it take 60 minutes to charge the last 20%?
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Stack Overflow seem to be doing OK: http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/7/21/stackoverflow-upda... I think there is a case for an open stack, but I think unless you pick a real dog of a platform good people can make it work well. It comes down to a "can I get good people for stack X?" as much as "Does stack X work or cost too much?"
Just like in the case of Trello if you already have the experience you can probably save money if you use what you already know how to use. In almost all other cases open source stacks are cheaper. Stackoverflow and Trello are always held up as the shining examples of how the Microsoft stack is able to hold its own. That's great, I even know people that insist on running their web servers on Apple hardware. Whatever…
With machine learning & cloud pieces in place, MS health could potentially be HUGE !
Health care data is all over the place, & if msft can become a central repository for all/a significant portion of fitness/health data, it will be really valuable.
from [1], "There's just one problem. "Most of these things are individual islands," Mehdi says — there are a million options, but they're all siloed to a single platform, app, or gadget. "You'll use device X or Y, some stuff is in the cloud, but we think that there's kind of a next step that's coming, which is the ability to unify all that data and democratize it, and then add some real value on top. And that's where we see the ability to kind of get to that next level.""
0. http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2014/10/29/introducing-micro...
1. http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/29/7118533/microsoft-health-...
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Visual Studio doesn't seem to install correctly on my Ubuntu box.
Last time I tried running Unity on my Windows box I ran into some issues. (Put differently: The argument is nonsense)
Perhaps you were installing an older version?
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COM is horrible to write code for (although not THAT bad), and is tricky to troubleshoot (hurray for TLBs and massive hex registry strings) but it is a very handy feature of the system! Does anything exist on other platforms like Mac OSX and Linux? CORBA was written all over the place GNOME1 / 2 time as I recall but I don't actually know if anything like COM exists anywhere?
If I'm not mistaken dbus is a spiritual sibling of DCOM.
Thanks.
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Your phone can't lock to GPS faster because it can use cell towers to narrow down your position first. The Band should lock more quickly now that it has a general idea of where you are. I have a Garmin GPS watch, and the initial lock does take a long time.
Thanks, you are correct. I tried again a few hours later from home (about 50 miles away from my initial test) and it locked within 30 seconds. Edit: I've had it plugged into my MBP to charge for about 35 minutes and it still said 80%. After turning it completely off and back on fixed this (now says 100%). Edit2: I really wish I could play music via bluetooth with this.
(Quoting Wikipedia: »in order to obtain an accurate satellite location from this transmitted message the receiver must demodulate the message from each satellite it includes in its solution for 18 to 30 seconds. In order to collect all the transmitted almanacs the receiver must demodulate the message for 732 to 750 seconds or 12 1/2 minutes.«)
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Last time I tried running Unity on my Windows box I ran into some issues. (Put differently: The argument is nonsense)
It installed fine for me. Get the latest download here: https://unity3d.com/unity/download Perhaps you were installing an older version?