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Comment other solutions (Score 1) 169

by fsiefken on Friday July 03, 2009 @02:52PM (#28574015) Attached to: Squeezing a Wikipedia Snapshot Onto an 8GB iPhone

I had this for ages with Windows Mobile had this for ages with Tomeraider3 wikipedia database. Instead of using bzip2, it's more efficient and elegant to store the table in sqlite and use it's excellent sqlite3 compression.

Comment Modammad Asgari knew (Score 4, Interesting) 512

by fsiefken on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @08:05PM (#28355661) Attached to: Statistical Suspicions In Iran's Election

tweet: unconfirmed: Mohammad Asgari,a system administrator in the interior ministry (in charge of securing election LAN) was killed #iranelection

Comment Re:So, what I think you're asking for is... (Score 1) 211

by fsiefken on Thursday April 09, 2009 @09:30AM (#27517241) Attached to: Building a Searchable Literature Archive With Keywords?

For tagging files: Leap http://www.yepsoftware.com/leap/index.html DEVONthink Has import files and folders option, tag support and you get advanced search (boolean etc.) as well http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/devonthink/devonthink2.html

Comment DEVONthink (Score 1) 211

by fsiefken on Thursday April 09, 2009 @02:08AM (#27514455) Attached to: Building a Searchable Literature Archive With Keywords?

There is a OSX application specifically written for these kind of scenario's: DEVONthink. http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/000231.html It has the Abby OCR engine built-in, a web server and an extremely smart search filter, which is able to find related documents based on metrics like keyword frequency.

Comment why i started to read slashdot in 1997 (Score 1) 159

by fsiefken on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @12:43PM (#27227155) Attached to: Homebrew Microcontroller Laptop, Made of Wood

This kind of articles, really really cool. But why the laptop casing, why not make it into a wearable? LED display mounted on left lower arm, chorded keypad on the right lower arm.

Comment Re:Dvorak is better, but how much better? (Score 1) 663

by fsiefken on Sunday January 18, 2009 @06:31PM (#26509925) Attached to: Dvorak Layout Claimed Not Superior To QWERTY

there are custom dvorak layouts for different languages. that said, in my language dutch, letter frequency is similar, different layout wouldn't add much speed so i just use standard dvorak with u and i switched.
you can optimize layout for your specific keyboard use, something which might happen in the future when we'll type with brain patterns.

Comment game of life simulation (Score 1) 403

by fsiefken on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @07:31PM (#26226887) Attached to: Interesting Uses For a USB LED Screen?

game of life simulation!

Comment Re:There's the Z800 (Score 1) 170

by fsiefken on Friday December 19, 2008 @04:46PM (#26176985) Attached to: Linux Compatibility With VR Goggles?

There was a program Win3d that enabled z800's use with ati. nvidia is a better combination though.

Comment Re:There's the Z800 (Score 1) 170

by fsiefken on Friday December 19, 2008 @04:44PM (#26176957) Attached to: Linux Compatibility With VR Goggles?

Excellent, I have been waiting to use my z800 with linux, in the meantime xp works ok. Would the driver be easy to port it to OSX?

Submission + - Hybrid Cars No Better than 'Predicting' Cars

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eldavojohn

on Wednesday May 09, 2007 @09:55AM

eldavojohn writes: "There's no doubt been a lot of analysis done recently on energy consumption, especially on the road. Now, a study released today reveals that cars with traffic flow sensors built into them can perform just as efficiently as hybrids. The concept of an 'intelligent' car that communicates with the highway or other cars is an old idea but the idea of them using sensors to anticipate braking could vastly reduce fossil fuel consumption. From the article, "Under the US and European cycles, hybrid-matching fuel economy was reached with a look-ahead predictability of less than 60 seconds. If the predictability was boosted to 180 seconds, the newly-intelligent car was 33 percent more fuel-efficient than when it was unconverted." Now, the real question will be whether or not you can convince consumers that the three minutes of coasting up to a red light or halted traffic is worth the 33 percent less gas and replacing your brake pads/cylinders less often."

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