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jedidia said:
So my wife just went to bed, I stayed up to play a bit, when suddenly the printer beside me jumps to life and starts spitting out paper. She was figuring out how to print stuff from her phone over WIFI. I start to wonder who the actual nerd is in this family... :shifty:
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I used such technology before buying my own office. I drove to my parents house, stopped my car, waited 5 seconds so my smartphone found my parents WLAN, printed, entered the house, went to the printer, fetched my print-outs and drove back to university. :lol:

Of course, I had to pay the price in form of buying boxes of paper and ink for them.
 
Dear application programmers: When your program is launched, it is never OK to check for a running instance, signal that instance to open a new window/tab, and exit. When you do this, your users end up with a multiple files open in the same process, which can lead to significant data loss should that process crash.
 
This is random comments, right? Good:

I got a new phone. Pre-loaded on this phone is some sort of NFL football app. It spams me with stupid news about the NFL. It updates itself. I don't even watch football. I dislike the NFL. I really hate having football shoved in my face using bandwidth I pay for. I resent the assumption that everyone likes NFL football. I finally figured out how to remove this app; problem solved for now.
 
Andy44 said:
This is random comments, right? Good:

I got a new phone. Pre-loaded on this phone is some sort of NFL football app. It spams me with stupid news about the NFL. It updates itself. I don't even watch football. I dislike the NFL. I really hate having football shoved in my face using bandwidth I pay for. I resent the assumption that everyone likes NFL football. I finally figured out how to remove this app; problem solved for now.
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That is something I dislike as well - I like (real) football, but I choose the app, to inform me about it.

I am still waiting for my new phone to ship to me... ordered a Nexus 6, after two months of decision process. In the end, the many recently discovered security problems in Android and the very slow updates by all manufacturers except Google/Motorola became the deciding point. Now I can also safely root my old phone and use it as backup toy.
 
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Andy44 said:
This is random comments, right? Good:

I got a new phone. Pre-loaded on this phone is some sort of NFL football app. It spams me with stupid news about the NFL. It updates itself. I don't even watch football. I dislike the NFL. I really hate having football shoved in my face using bandwidth I pay for. I resent the assumption that everyone likes NFL football. I finally figured out how to remove this app; problem solved for now.
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I find the same thing with the NHL app even though I like hockey. For some reason they push notifications with idiotic clickbait articles when all I really need is scores. As hard as it may be to believe, I dont give a damn about Sidney Crosbys pet hamster giving birth. :rant:

Urwumpe said:
I am still waiting for my new phone to ship to me... ordered a Nexus 6, after two months of decision process. In the end, the many recently discovered security problems in Android and the very slow updates by all manufacturers except Google/Motorola became the deciding point. Now I can also safely root my old phone and use it as backup toy.
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That last android security breach was terrifying. I can barely stand the android devices that I use on a day to day basis now, the fragmentation problems it is having are brutal.
 
BruceJohnJennerLawso said:
That last android security breach was terrifying. I can barely stand the android devices that I use on a day to day basis now, the fragmentation problems it is having are brutal.
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Yeah, but that is mostly a problem of the manufacturers, who underestimated the costs of their modifications. Samsung does more (and more unsafe) own software on their products, thus it also takes longer to make a new Samsung Android.

And yeah, the security problems are hard... but then, not too unsurprising. Other operating systems went through the same problems in the past 2 years.
 
So my wife just went to bed, I stayed up to play a bit, when suddenly the printer beside me jumps to life and starts spitting out paper. She was figuring out how to print stuff from her phone over WIFI. I start to wonder who the actual nerd is in this family...
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Must be scary when you don't expect it :lol:
 
Well, at first I was in full 90ies mode, thinking "oh, an order probably got caught in the cache and the printer remembered it just now for some reason". Then I remembered what year it was, and the first thought was "wtf, that still happens??". Next I heard the bedroom door opening, and thought "oh great, now she's going to ask me what the hell I was doing while she's trying to sleep". Then I heard triumphant cackling through the half opened door and put one and one together.
 
Analogous, but not as funny.
My cousin worked in the oil industry, and often got work info on fax machines. Fair enough in the office, but he took one home and installed it in the lounge, handy he thought.
His 93 year old mother had a different opinion when this thing burst into life during her evening telly viewing...I think she's still in orbit.

N.
 
I've been looking for a good basic fast browser. I've been beating my head against Chrome and Firefox, hate them both. Bloat, bloat, bloat. Ugggh.

Just installed Pale Moon (www.palemoon.org), a open fork of Firefox pre-Australis that seems to be really lean and mean. Really snappy; I like it.
 
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Does anyone know the calculation to figure out propellant flow rate for a rocket engine?

I only remember that some of its variables are specific impulse & thrust.
 
ISProgram said:
Does anyone know the calculation to figure out propellant flow rate for a rocket engine?

I only remember that some of its variables are specific impulse & thrust.
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F = mdot * isp <---> mdot = F/isp.

F : Thrust (in N)
mdot: mass flow in kg/s
isp : specific impulse in Ns/kg
 
Andy44 said:
This is random comments, right? Good:

I got a new phone. Pre-loaded on this phone is some sort of NFL football app. It spams me with stupid news about the NFL. It updates itself. I don't even watch football. I dislike the NFL. I really hate having football shoved in my face using bandwidth I pay for. I resent the assumption that everyone likes NFL football. I finally figured out how to remove this app; problem solved for now.
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That is one of the reasons I went with a Windows Phone: essentially no preinstalled crapware and, should a carrier nonetheless choose to go wild with it, every app can be removed without rooting.

On the randomness: these days I dusted off FSX and the PMDG 737 NGX after about three years, went through the two tutorials and...I don't remember anything. As complicated as the A-10C, but in a different way.
 
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ISProgram said:
Not too sure how to convert Ns/kg to m/s, but thanks!
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Actually, its very simple.

[math]\frac{Ns}{kg} = N \cdot s \cdot {kg}^{-1} = \left ( {kg} \cdot m \cdot s^{-2} \right ) \cdot s \cdot {kg}^{-1}=\left ( {kg} \cdot {kg}^{-1} \right ) \cdot m \cdot \left ( s \cdot s^{-2} \right ) = m \cdot s^{-1} = \frac{m}{s}[/math]

m/s is just a short form of Ns/kg, which is the more accurate unit, since it is impulse (Ns) per mass (kg).
 
Random question of the day: why does seemingly every news outlet in the UK write "Nasa" instead of "NASA"?
 
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