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+ - Dragonfly spy drone fits in a hand Georgia Tech-> 0

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garymortimer

on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @12:51PM

garymortimer writes "The TechJect Robot Dragonfly is a multi-engineering design. It requires everything from aerodynamics, machine design, mechatronics, electronics, communication systems, flight control software, user-interfaces and much more. We’ve put in a lot of work to bring harmony to chaos and bring the dragonfly to life; however, getting something robust enough to endure the elements, strong enough to outlast crashes and accidents; smart enough so everyone can operate them easily; and finally cheap enough so everyone can afford one, we have to professionally manufacture the robot bugs; which is an expensive proposition."
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FreeBSD Throws the Clang/LLVM Switch: Future Releases Use LLVM 360

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @11:33AM
from the rms-weeps-quietly dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Brooks Davis has announced that the FreeBSD Project has now officially switched to Clang/LLVM as C/C++ compiler. This follows several years of preparation, feeding back improvements to the Clang and LLVM source code bases, and nightly builds of FreeBSD using LLVM over two years. Future snapshots and all major FreeBSD releases will ship compiled with LLVM by default!"

+ - Raspberry Pi launches, sells out in 90 minutes-> 0

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Simon Brooke

on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @04:26AM

Simon Brooke writes "Raspberry Pi launched at 6:00 UTC this morning; I didn't manage to get onto the site at all, but clearly other people did because by 7:00 Farnell.com were sold out and now the other supplier, RS Components are sold out too."
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2010

Comment: Re: weapons, explosives and intimidation? (Score 1) 392

by unhooked on Thursday June 24, 2010 @05:16PM (#32683822) Attached to: Canadian Arrested Over Plans to Test G20 Security

Every news agency in Canada?
Google it... "taser cop drunk driving Robinson"

Comment: Re: weapons, explosives and intimidation? (Score 3, Informative) 392

by unhooked on Thursday June 24, 2010 @04:14PM (#32682864) Attached to: Canadian Arrested Over Plans to Test G20 Security

Even better, one of those fine officers drunk-drove someone to death, left the scene, drank more, came back and is still walking around free.

Comment: Re:In a related story... (Score 1) 399

by unhooked on Thursday February 18, 2010 @08:21PM (#31193566) Attached to: IOC Claims Olympian Lindsey Vonn's Name As Intellectual Property

Pretty damn close, winter 2010 vancouver olympic winter games. The IOC is just about as evil as it get's.

On a side note - Tolkien was wrong.
Five rings to rule them all, five rings to find them,
Five rings to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

Comment: Just as long as ... (Score 1) 277

by unhooked on Thursday January 21, 2010 @12:53AM (#30842356) Attached to: Scientists To Breed the Auroch From Extinction

the damn thing doesn't start talking to me, I hate that shit.
It's the reason I'll never go back to Milliways.

Comment: Re:HandBrake? (Score 2, Insightful) 619

by unhooked on Monday January 18, 2010 @12:07AM (#30804356) Attached to: HandBrake Abandons DivX As an Output Format

No, handbrake is a front end for the de-facto standard for creating multimedia files... get to know them and you won't care which flavor of the month format is being used. Personally I stopped using handbrake years ago because the developers always seem to be dropping X for some lame reason.

2010

2009

Comment: works (Score 1) 416

by unhooked on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @10:54PM (#29676917) Attached to: What To Do With a Free Xbox 360 Pro?

The 360 works fine for my purposes playing media streamed from my FreeBSD box. Not as pretty as the shares coming from the gaming machine using media player 11, but it works and I don't have to think about it. Ushare is the app used for sharing media and it is part of geexbox so I'm sure if you wanted more functionality it would work for you.