Comment In New Zealand (Score 1) 146
We have MG, BYD and LDV Chinese EV's and all are fine vehicles. I own an MG and it's been fantastic
Comment Machine Learning (Score 1) 70
Sounds like a good application for machine learning to perfect a suitable CRT filter
Comment Could be worse (Score 1) 164
From the looks of the pictures it's simply shaken itself to pieces.
Down here in Australia and New Zealand, Samsung top loaders have a bad reputation for catching fire and burning peoples houses down.
Lastest Samsung Washing Machine Fires
Comment Re: Answers (Score 1) 77
I was disturbed to find out one of my banks doesn't recognise case in its passwords. I put my password in with caps lock on and it worked. Tested a few combinations of upper and lower case all worked.
Comment Hand Trucks (Score 1) 331
Build all your workstations and servers onto racks made from hand trucks, you know the ones with 2 rubber wheels that you use to move fridges and the like.
You can build little shelves etc onto them with places to hook all the various cables then when you need to move you simply unplug the cables and wheel them out the door.
It's cheap and effective you don't need people tripping over themselves trying to carry heavy bit of a gear onto a truck. If the gear already has wheels on it it's much easier to move safely.
Comment Next Window (Score 1) 138
Plenty of touch overlays for larger screens used this technology, I have a stack of overlays for 32" panels that use IR like this.
A much better options would be something like Next Window Overlays
http://www.nextwindow.com/
They use a pair of 1 dimesional ir cameras and a bar of ir lights to triangulate objects in their field of view so by placing the cameras in the top two corners of the screen and the ir leds between them you can have a simple bar rather than a square frame like this thing. Mount a bunch of them on the ceiling next to each other and you'd have instant 3D multitouch
Comment Generation G (Score 1) 251
Google are clearly putting all their staff together so they can only socialise with each other, eventually pairing off and producing Generation G offspring
Comment Like is the only option (Score 2, Interesting) 448
There isn't an option to dislike
NASA Tests Flying Airbag 118
coondoggie writes "NASA is looking to reduce the deadly impact of helicopter crashes on their pilots and passengers with what the agency calls a high-tech honeycomb airbag known as a deployable energy absorber. So in order to test out its technology NASA dropped a small helicopter from a height of 35 feet to see whether its deployable energy absorber, made up of an expandable honeycomb cushion, could handle the stress. The test crash hit the ground at about 54MPH at a 33 degree angle, what NASA called a relatively severe helicopter crash."
Feed Magnetic clothes hangers rearrange your closet (engadget.com)
Filed under: Household
As with most things that have remained fairly constant over the years, it was just a matter of time before someone with a tick of free time and a bright idea gave a new face to the clothes hanger. Daniel To's simply-named magnetic clothes hangers maintain the same forked design to gingerly hold your favorite threads, but rather than sporting a rotating hook, a magnetic cube was attached in order to give design-conscience homeowners a new way to assemble their closets. Of course, you'll need a metallic rack / roof to take advantage of the attractive (ahem) design, but we sure hope these end up coming in a heavy duty flavor for the more weighted aspects of our wardrobe.[Via Freshome]
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Feed Chocolate the key to uncovering PC passwords (theregister.com)
Sweet talk and sweets is all it takes
Three years since the last time they pulled this stunt, cheeky researchers can still wangle IT passwords with free chocolate and flirting.
Feed Mainframe now obsolete for data warehousing (theregister.com)
Let Intel inherit the earth?
Reg Reader Workshop Many would have argued in the past that a data warehouse was not a "real" data warehouse unless it existed the in big iron mainframe number crunching environment.
Feed Nokia's 6120 Classic: thin HSDPA is (finally) in (engadget.com)
Filed under: Cellphones
Great googlie mooglie, what's this? Can it really be a 15-millimeter thin candybar from Nokia, the makers of those chunky multimedia computers? Ok, it's not as thin as their N76 but let's give 'em some credit here for trying. Having fermented in the rumor mill for a few weeks, we now have ourselves a fully mature Nokia 6120 Classic running S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1 over quad-band GSM and WCDMA/HSDPA 850/2100. The handset packs a 2-inch QVGA display, A2DP stereo Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, a 2 megapixel camera with flash, and MicroSD slot to store your media. A pre-tax, pre-contract price of €260/$352 will get you up close and personal when these hit sometime before June lets out. Check all the pics in the gallery below. Sorry, only a tiny backside pic for now; Nokia's being a bit shy 'bout their junk.
[Via Ring Nokia]
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