Comment They're square... (Score 2) 32
50,000 square kilometres is 19,305 square miles, not 31,000.
Alternatively, 31,000 square miles is 80,290 square kilometres.
Submission + - Google's Slideshow Of Interesting Things (blogspot.com)
Kilrah_il writes: Google's Creative Labs came out with a slideshow of interesting things on the web. In the slideshow you will find "lot of interesting HTML5 apps, iPhone apps, visualization tools, 3D projections, art projects, creative YouTube videos, crowdsourcing services and many other interesting things." It ranges from cool YouTube videos to really amazing data collection projects and much more. Guaranteed to ruin your productivity for today. Watch it here.
Comment Re:You can buy a serial-to-usb converter for $15 (Score 1) 460
DH485 on Allen Bradley equipment is impossible over a USB/Serial converter. So they made a special USB protocol adapter instead (some time after real serial ports became hard to find on laptops!)
Comment Re:That's a bit vague... (Score 1) 602
I'm trained as an electronics engineer, I could probably design an alarm clock, radio control or a bit of a mobile phone - they've all been used in bombs before.
I also write software, and I'm sure that's used in terrorism. That makes most of the
Who's that banging on the door - ahh! they've come to take me away....
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