Comment Re:Cable Lacing (Score 1) 635
I can see how that would be relaxing, and I have an application at work where I may try this: cleaning up a mess of a telecom closet when I have some spare cycles to burn.
Comment Re:Cable Lacing (Score 1) 635
Wow... I've seen lacing over the years but never gave it a second thought until reading your link. Interesting, thanks!
Comment Re:Laserdisc, Pocket PC, Nokia phone, Thinkpad T42 (Score 2) 635
I believe they recently announced Star Wars theatrical releases for BluRay.
Comment Re:Say what you will but this is cool (Score 1) 52
Amazon recently announced it was getting into the advertisement business, and it beat out Google to acquire Twitch.
Pure speculation on my part, but I have to wonder if this is just Google's CEO trying to steal some of the spotlight away from Amazon?
Suddenly, Google is saying, "Oh yeah... delivery drones. We've been doing this for some time now." It smells like petty CEO bickering. (As cool as delivery drones are.)
Comment Re:more rules.... (Score 1) 338
How often do people run their vacuums? Once or twice a week for 10 minutes? I'd hardly call that serious pollution.
Comment Shes not that great (Score 0) 364
Outside of the show shes pretty average. She only looks good in relation to the rest of the crew.
Comment How is YouTube doing? (Score 1) 181
Netflix has been getting troubled by the telecoms a lot, but how about YouTube? Are they less bothered by the telecoms? Do they just not complain publicly as much? How does being a part of Google make their situation different than Netflix's?
Comment Its been done (Score 4, Interesting) 475
Some people already tried it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Comment Re:Are there any reasons... (Score 1) 174
Well there is quite a bit more equipment between the battery and electric motor. Not quite like the old days of controlling the speed with a rheostat. That said for $15K you could buy a brand new car or a pretty nice used one.
Comment Playback at 24 FPS. (Score 4, Funny) 94
If it's possible to play this back at 24 FPS, we can shoot that 3 minute homemade porn we've always wanted!
Comment Re:Sounds smart, but is it? (Score 1) 125
If you want to look into revolutionary design changes look into the Mill CPU architecture.
They've put their lecture series available on the web about their intended architecture - it's kinda a hybrid DSP / general purpose with some neat side steps of contemporary CPU architectures.
San Jose Police Apologize For Hiding Drone Program, Halts Until Further Review 59
v3rgEz (125380) writes As part of MuckRock's Drone Census, the San Jose Police twice denied having a drone in public records requests — until the same investigation turned up not only a signed bid for a drone but also a federal grant giving them money for it. Now, almost a full year after first denying they had a drone, the department has come clean and apologized for hiding the program, promising more transparency and to pursue federal approval for the program, which the police department had, internally, claimed immunity from previously.
Comment Analog (Score 1) 273
Nobody ever does work with analog circuits...
Comment They are (Score 2) 140
The brakes are controllable on cars with collision avoidance.
Comment Too much bullshit (Score 3, Interesting) 140
I bought a 99 Volvo S80 and it has the fancy auto dimming rear view mirror. The car was used so of course expensive mirror no longer dims. You can't even swap out a junked mirror because of the address bullshit. You have to keep the circuitry from your mirror and swap only the mirror itself. Otherwise you need the dealer software to reprogram the main computer.
