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Comment · 13 years ago
Did you actually read the blog post? It's rife with blatant grammatical errors.
Awful use of conjuctions and a bizarre obsession with commas plus errors that a spellchecker will miss (eg. "roughly out 9 out of 10 applicants" under the method section.)
Apparently you wouldn't hire the author, and she wouldn't hire herself.
Comment · 13 years ago
A bunch of videos around town and some photos of damage etc.
http://oleg-kozyrev.livejournal.com/4468083.html
Examples of other meteorite strikes in the past:
http://oleg-kozyrev.livejournal.com/4468452.html
Damaged zinc plant? https://twitter.com/Dokhrimovich/statuses/302269134685757442
Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/15/us-russia-meteorit...
AP News Story: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_RUSSIA_METEORITE?S...
Video close to epicenter.. Loud boom then broken windows and alarms.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0cFOIoITW4
Hashtag #Челябинск on twitter for more info.
Comment · 14 years ago
Blogspam.
Original english article with photos: http://www.3ders.org/articles/20121107-voxeljet-builds-aston...
Sourced from original german article:
http://www.voxeljet.de/news-und-events/news/james-bond-skyfa...
Comment · 14 years ago
Yeah I got the numbers from a local newspaper article.
It was definitely the AC72 that we went to see.. it was launched in July and completely towered over all the over yachts and surrounding buildings.
The numbers, I guess, are from the AC45 that was launched months ago. Looks like the numbers weren't accurate, but that's the NZ Herald for you.
Comment · 14 years ago
I'm also in Auckland.
We went down to the wharf to see it the day it was launched.
Staggering size...
It's a catamaran with a 13m (42.7 ft.) tall solid wing and is expected to be able to hit 50 knots (90+ km/h).
They have to anchor it to a tonne and a half of ballast just to keep it from taking off on it's own.
Comment · 14 years ago
Photos from Viking Lander 1 and 2, 1976-1977
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/mars/vikinglander...
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/07/vikin...
http://mars.spherix.com/spie2003/SPIE_2003_Paper_GVL_files/i...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Mars_Viki...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/First_Col...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Mars_Viki...
Comment · 14 years ago
Do I really need to point out that Samsung are awarded nearly an order of magnitude more patents each year than Apple? (http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/topo_11.htm)
In order the most patents were awarded to IBM, Samsung, Canon, Panasonic, Toshiba and Microsoft. So Samsung is no. 2, while Apple is all the way down in 38th place.
If anything, I'm willing to bet that Samsung and the other Asian manufacturers are the overzealous ones trying to use patents to muscle their way into the higher end of the technology market.
More patents are now awarded to foreign countries than the USA. Mostly Japan, Korea, Germany and Taiwan.
If you think Apple is on the wrong end of the argument, well I guess you don't want a domestic technology market?
Comment · 15 years ago
the sms short code "twttr" was already taken by Teen People or something like that.