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Comment Re:Seeing the gravity is only 1/6th up there (Score 1) 90

Yeah it is surprising how many people think there is no gravity in orbit.

Gravity is only reduced by roughly 10 percent at that distance from earth. The reason it seems like there is no gravity is you are always falling towards the earth. You just happen to keep missing !

Do a retrograde burn and you will stop missing quickly though.

Comment Re:They are scared (Score 1) 670

Of course you will be more tired. But if you keep up your routine with your caloric intake way down, then you will lose weight. You have to. If you were not gaining weight on your old diet, with the same routine as now, the food has to go somewhere.

Now doing the same things with less calories, you can't maintain weight, your body will burn it.

Comment Re:Even worse... (Score 1) 408

Inductance.

ALL the power that goes into your home is transmitted wirelessly over the short distance between the coils in a transformer outside.

It uses inductance to move power from one coil to another, and the Qi works the same way.

It is actually fairly efficient and can change the voltage at the same time. Win-win!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonant_inductive_coupling

Submission + - Valve Announces Family Sharing on Steam, Can Include Friends (techgage.com)

Deathspawner writes: Valve has today announced its next attempt at a console-killer with “Family Sharing”, a feature that will allow you to share your Steam library with family, and close friends. This almost seems too good to be true, and while there are caveats, this is going to be huge, and Valve knows it. As Techgage notes, with it you can share nearly your entire Steam library with family or friends, allowing them to earn their own achievements, and have their own saved games. Given the mammoth collection of games available on Steam, the fact that this feature is becoming a reality is almost as interesting as the feature itself.

Comment Re:Fire Sale (Score 1) 244

My Casio Pathfinder ( http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc18/gaijinnv/PAW2000_Zulu_16OCT09.jpg not my pic, but same watch/strap I use ) has basically infinite battery life since it is charged via solar. I live in northern Canada, and even in the middle of winter where the days are like 6 hours, and I'm in winter clothes, the batt indicator is never off full.

Of course, it also has altimiter, barometer, compass, thermometer, and syncs nighly with the atomic clock in colorado.

It would take something pretty hefty to knock this off my wrist.

Comment Re:18,650? Really? (Score 3, Informative) 351

Ya. Just in case it isn't obvious, 18650 means 18mm Diameter, 65mm length, and 0 at the end indicates a cylindrical cell. AA batteries are 14500 sized, and CR123's are 16340s.

I use 18650s and 26650s in all my flashlights. Lithium is cheap, bright, and long lasting compared to AA NiMH. Love em!

Comment Re:How many knew that it was a global release? (Score 1) 443

If you want to watch English shows, learn English well enough to do so, or watch subtitled.

Dubbed shows are always horrible, the acting is unlistenable, and really throws the vibe off.

I never watch anime for example dubbed, only subtitled even though my Japanese is very spotty.

That being said I don't know if the English version is available there either, but just sayin haha.

Comment Re:So it listens all the time... (Score 1) 151

Really? Because the ARM white paper seems to indicate otherwise.

http://www.arm.com/files/downloads/big_LITTLE_Final_Final.pdf

"In the big.LITTLE task migration use model the OS and applications only ever execute on Cortex-A15 or Cortex-A7 and never both processors at the same time."

Says it takes about 20 microseconds to switch at 1GHz operating frequency.

It is invoked by setting a power state level and only 4 cores are ever presented to the OS.

There is a type called big.LITTLE MP which presents all 8, but I've found numerous sources(http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/03/samsungs-exynos-5-octa-checking-out-the-chip-inside-the-galaxy-s-4/ to start) saying the S4 does not use this at all. Maybe with a kernel recompile it could be done, but isn't currently.

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