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Gravity map matching is an approach that can provide absolute references, the general problem there is that gravity maps are not good enough.

No, this is about preventing unwanted jamming/interference by a transmitter on frequencies it isn't intending or needing to transmit on as part of the design phase of a product. Overcoming intentional jamming is an entirely different ballgame.

Why? Why don’t we use TAI or GPS time for generic world wide coordinated computer time?

I have always thought the fork() interface was convoluted, perhaps it is more intuitive to some folks than me; using a old document to create a new one by copying it, opening it, and deleting its contents is not something I had considered.

Nope

Weakly, yes. Enough to hold its own mass at rest, but I don't think it would work with any type of acceleration. It will stick nicely to a neodymium magnet.

Yes, the satellites should know 6mo in advance. UTC is still a head ache though.

In my case improved noise cancellation.

Next, if you really want to time something fast you should probably know about cache. In a modern computer there are levels of memory. For now we’ll say we have 3 levels: cache, ram, and a hard drive. Cache is small but very fast, it is the closest level to the CPU. RAM is bigger but slower and the hard drive is much much slower. Because the cache is small the computer has to pick what’s in it. At program load the cache will be full of information related to whatever was running before you. After you run you will have left some information in the cache which will not need to be fetched from slower levels of memory. Unless your usecase is to run your test code repeatedly very quickly, you should be wary of timing multiple calls in fast sequence as the later calls will execute faster due to the cache being primed to execute your code.

Android too.

I won one from Sparkfun and just recently started using it. I have some experience developing on embedded platforms.

The unit I have was a pain to flash the first time. I guess something got corrupted at some point and I had to recover with a very unreliable process from a Debian box. That said after the first flash, everything install wise has been wonderful.

The development environment is great for my purposes, however setup was non-trivial. Had I not been comfortable in eclipse I doubt I could have gotten the ld flags set correctly, or changed the c++ std for the compiler.

I love being able to upload code over wifi.

MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus)

I just don't want anyone thinking MRSA stands for anything it doesn't.

This may or may not work. Ubisoft, EA, Blizzard and CD Projekt Red all have their own stores, not to mention Microsoft. I think the market is pretty saturated.

Android TV is different from Chromecast. Android TV can behave exactly as a Chromecast (you can wake it up by casting from your phone), but it also has a remote driven interface, voice recognition, and apps with non touch interfaces. Developers must release a android TV version of their application in order for their app to work with Android TV, the entire android ecosystem is not available to TV by default.

Yeah, that was my initial reaction as well. It looks like she flexes at her shoulders more than I'm used to seeing, but nothing groundbreaking.

We've known that a dolphin kick is faster than any of the strokes for a long while.

I haven't ever seen someone do it sideways, but I suppose that's probably because it's more difficult to keep going straight.

I feel like they should have named the compiler 'rustic'.

To continue your point, often companies tier their products by their firmware to save development/manufacturing costs. If anyone can change the firmware, they may be able to make a $99 router perform like a $599 router (if I recall this was one of the big pulls for open-wrt or dd-wrt on the linksys 54g).

I imagine that is probably a webcam photo, so left/right are backwards.

He is not right either... 15 is 0xF. 16 is 0x10.

I'll be honest that I was very tempted to put on a suit, set up a fake newsroom and make a video because of this comic this morning.

BCD was my thought as well. For the uninformed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal

Android, however I would say that it was successful before android.

As the article notes, that is a rather infamous case that is a large part of the reason former Illinois governor George Ryan was convicted, as it uncovered a cash for passing grades on commercial driving tests scheme. It was a horrible tragedy.

I don't really think you can say that. It's not because they did something particularly positive, but more because they did something negative that had positive side effects. A positive externality maybe?

TL;DR:

Problem: You have one remote, but a bunch of robots. You cannot address them individually; each robot will recieve every command. How do you get them into useful positions?

Solution: Each robot is slightly different from the other. if you can figure out how each one deviates from your control you may be able to use the error to create a control algorithm.

And why can't they be remade? It seems to me once upon a time Apple was in dire straights.

Honestly, they were completely based off Ubuntu at one point, and I have found upgrading OS versions on the fly to be flaky to say the least. From what I've read, I am not the only one with issues, so it is hardly surprising that a distro going for being extremely user friendly would choose to make this particular option unsupported.

I know now they have a Debian version, but I have no experience with dist-upgrade on Debian.

This feels like a functional architecture. It's really cool.

Thanks, I've been feeling like what I've been doing lately just isn't up to snuff, and have been getting frustrated. I think this will help change my perspective.

If you're interested in a custom hardware solution, the folks at hackaday.com may be helpful.