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    Back of PCB

    Just to point out: these are not components that just fall off randomly. So if you are finding them randomly on the floor of the case, that suggests either physical damage (maybe during install), or pretty severe overheating.
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    Sound Quality: MP3 ripped from a CD vs a non-ripped MP3

    As you say, this is quite analogous to storing your photos in JPEG rather than RAW. It's fundamentally an issue of balancing costs (more primary and backup storage, slower transfers for backups, time and energy spent converting formats) and benefits (lossless transfer to some hypothetical...
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    Sound Quality: MP3 ripped from a CD vs a non-ripped MP3

    The difference in audio quality will be likely negligible. The MP3s produced by the vendor may even be better in quality, because they have the option of using audio that is closer to the original source (i.e. they can skip over the step of converting the audio for CD). But again, this is...
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    i want to study software engineer

    What country do you live in?
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    Help me build an Ikea desk

    The monitor shelf is not a "real" product, but rather a combination of an Ekby Jarpen shelf and Capita legs. They're both available in a few different sizes; I stumbled across the blog post your images are from, and he used the 4 inch legs. The doo-dad to hang a computer under the desk was...
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    I'm having trouble distinguishing these majors, help? (Engineering/Physics/Applied)

    How old are you? I'm guessing high school or earlier? It's certainly possible to get a bachelor's in multiple different engineering fields, but it's significantly harder than just picking one and the pay-off tends to be limited. And having a whole slew can backfire, as people handling hiring...
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    Ai fud

    I think it is useful to think of a single AI as a single "intelligence", in the sense of an individual human. That AI may spawn "children", either using identical code to itself or not, which may or may not run on the same hardware. In effect, an AI is like a human but: * Potentially able to...
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    Why cant it run .exe?

    "uarch" is generally used as an abbreviation for microarchitecture, which is not the same thing as an instruction set architecture (ISA). x86 and ARM are ISAs. A microarchitecture is the architecture of a particular implementation of an ISA. In essence, the ISA is an interface specification...
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    Why Reveal Personal Details Of Your Life On The Net?

    ATOT is an online support group for the socially incompetent. Did you not get the flyer?
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    Why cant it run .exe?

    The CPU in the Nokia Lumia Icon is a Qualcomm Krait 400, which uses a 32-bit ARMv7 instruction set. The limiting factor in porting code is not how many bits wide the addresses used by the CPU are (16-/32-/64-/whatever-bit), but the CPU architecture and instructions that it supports. The two...
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    Can a mobile website function/look like a mobile app?

    A lot of mobile apps are just wrappers for a website, so the obvious answer would be "yes". The limiting factors are going to be that some things are difficult or, less often, impossible to do with standard Web technologies, and some things may be difficult or impossible to do with reasonable...
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    Why do I keep needing to provide administrator access to do anything?

    Windows will nag you when performing certain actions, regardless of whether your account has administrator rights, to: * Prevent you from accidentally doing something you'll regret * Prevent installed software (mostly malware) from doing these things without user interaction As noted above...
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    Undervolting LED damage?

    How many terminals does your switch have? I'm guessing 2? My guess is that the LED (and an internal resistor) is wired in series with the switch. The LED probably drops 1.8 V or so (if it's red; generally more for other colors). 3.3 - 1.8 = 1.5 V, which is going to be pretty close to the...
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    Undervolting LED damage?

    This is a little misleading. LEDs, like other diodes, behave like a fixed voltage drop. Current through the LED will be governed by the resistance of the circuit (resistors in series, wires, internal resistance of the LED, etc.). Without a current-limiting resistor they will often pop and...
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    How much power is needed to communicate with a geostationary satellite?

    Iridium is the name of both a satellite constellation and the company that manages it. Iridium satellites orbit at 781 km (485 mi), which is low Earth orbit (LEO). LEO has the advantage of cutting down distance from transmitter to receiver, and (in their case at least) the disadvantage that...
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    How much power is needed to communicate with a geostationary satellite?

    It's not clear what you are trying to accomplish. To answer your direct question, no, you cannot reprogram an arbitrary smartphone to function as a GPS receiver. Some relevant information: Geostationary satellites orbit at an altitude of 35,786 kilometres (22,236 mi) (they are in ~24 hour...
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    Burning smell, LCD is brighter

    This thread probably belongs in the Peripherals forum.
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    Can you write a program in any language?

    This is the practical, and most useful, answer. For a more academic answer, look to Turing completeness. As long as the languages you consider are all Turing complete (and most programming languages are considered to be so), then any program you can implement in one you can (in principle)...
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    Want to make a career in BI & DW

    1. This is probably the wrong forum for this question. 2. You should spell out your acronyms.
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    Code anachronism

    Matlab also uses % for comments, but that does not look like Matlab.
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    If you do this you are fired

    Probably for about the same reason that there is a Unicode code point for "multiplication sign", distinct from the one for the letter x or asterisk. There might be some context (now or in the future) where it would be desirable to represent them with different glyphs (images), so they give you...
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    Python: Help optimize this algorithm

    Here is an example of an alternate approach. Because it's late, and Python's obsession with whitespace is irritating, and because it was too annoying trying to sort out Python 2.x vs. 3.x differences, this example is in Perl. #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; sub strToSCC { my $input = shift; #...
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    Python: Help optimize this algorithm

    Your example output appears to have dropped all space characters (0x20). Also: does the requirement that a line must be less than or equal to 28 characters still apply if that line is the last or only line (i.e. no need to reserve 4 characters for the newline)?
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    If you do this you are fired

    Could be worse. How about control characters in variable names?
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    -12V reading

    The spec for the -12 V rail (and -5 V rail, if used) is actually +/- 10%. The positive rails require +/- 5%. You are well within the spec. Also, as a general disclaimer: in order to have useful measurements you need to measure with a multimeter or similar (not the motherboard's onboard...
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    Hammock Stand?

    I have this one: http://www.amazon.com/Vivere-Univers...HGB2VENKJ69J46 (I actually bought it packaged with a hammock, but same stand). It's a "space saving" design (the hammock ends are sort of "folded over" the ends), and won't work with all hammocks. They have a more conventional one too...
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    Does lightning really not strike twice?

    Define "never", I guess. The path of a lightning bolt is essentially a random process with many possible outcomes. If you have a large enough data set, you will start to see duplicates. It's like shuffling a deck of cards; if you do it enough times, eventually you will repeat yourself. There...
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    Does lightning really not strike twice?

    So, a few things. Bearing in mind that I am not by any means an expert in lightning formation or the power grid. First, what is lightning? Lightning is an electrical discharge; it's a type of dielectric breakdown that occurs when the potential difference (e.g. voltage) between clouds and...
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    Where to start with a GUI redesign?

    The Design of Everyday Things Don't Make Me Think As a mild disclaimer, these are both newer editions than the versions I have.
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    what's with the bad language on IGN

    Broadcast TV and radio are regulated under FCC standards that impose fairly strict rules. Cable and satellite TV are not governed by the same standards (because they are "opt-in"), although they tend to engage in a lot of self-censorship anyway. There are no such rules for websites based in...
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    Does This hold water?

    But why is CPU architecture the one determining factor? Why not any other criteria?
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    anyone drink bourbon whiskey

    Jack Daniels is not bourbon. If it were, they would call it bourbon (but not "Kentucky bourbon"). Bourbon can be made in Tennessee, or anywhere else in the US. http://www.jimbeam.com/about-bourbon/bourbon-ingredients @OP: I am personally fond of Four Roses, especially their Small...
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    Anyone here have to work with name formatting?

    You can, but as always with regular expressions (and double-always with human names), doing it right can be complicated. For example, fixing capitalization in the O'Malley case is easy enough (I'm using Perl's regex syntax, which is a bit different from Powershell's): s/^O'(.+)$/O'\u$1/i...
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    Hacking firmware for devices - what are the difficulties?

    Perhaps this will provide some perspective: the only difference between "firmware" and "an operating system" is the device it is installed on. It's just a different word, a mostly arbitrary distinction. Traditionally firmware has referred to the software on smaller, simpler devices (and in...
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    Why is it so hard to make a fully HTML CSS compliant web browser?

    There are multiple inter-related standards (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) which are themselves problematic. CSS especially is complex, with many moving parts that interact in not-always-obvious ways, complicated edge cases, no reference implementation, and dense "standard-ese" writing. The standards...
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    Physical Hard Drive - PHD - a new technology!

    I didn't read all of it, but this sounds an awful lot like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Storage
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    Cleaning up a simple bash script

    Just to clarify, it will only be readable/writable/executable to root if you set those permissions. It's perfectly possible to have a file that belongs to root but is readable/etc to other users. @OP: for future reference, ssh can execute multiple commands, you just need to wrap them in...
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    I'm on my way to getting banned for almost a year if not forever.

    It's a shame that these points are automatic and there is nothing you can do to prevent them.
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    Image Server for WebApp... questions about how to serve images

    There are real advantages (and disadvantages) to hosting images (and other static content) from a separate subdomain.
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    buying mp3 online

    FWIW, Google Play's music store sells MP3s that are usually 320 kbps. Not that I really think you could tell the difference. 256 kbps, or slightly lower VBR, is the norm for Amazon's service.
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