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Coolest Gadgets (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... foolproof equations that take the guesswork out of life—and the funniest twist on an idea since Richard Smith’s The Dieter’s Guide to Weight Loss During Sex. Call it the algebra oracle: By plugging in the right variables, GEEK LOGIK answers life’s most persistent questions. It covers Dating and Romance, Career and Finance, and everyday decisions like Should I get a tattoo? Can I still...
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iTWire - Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... Win 7 Home Premium upgrade costs AUD RRP $249, with reports of one Australian retailer (said to be Richard Smith Electronics) already racing out with a $237 upgrade deal. $249 divided by 3 means that each copy really costs only AUD $84, which is less than half the price of a single user license, bringing down the cost of Windows for multiple home users quite nicely. The 3-user pack...
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Paul D Shenton's Birding Blog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... my first ever visit before the recent period of glasnost: after receiving instruction from Richard Smith, I was blindfolded and then bundled in a windowless van before being driven to the location by some blokes in black suits. Thankfully times have now changed and despite the runways on the above map of Area 51 looking worryingly similar to the plans for the expanded reserve, I fully...
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Fleet Street Invest (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
... email Sign up to recieve The Right Side here... Yesterday, I asked my friend and math Ph.D. Richard Smith, who founded the excellent website, to run the numbers. I wanted him to find the optimal percentage trailing stop for gold. Of course, I realize all the disclaimers apply: “past performance doesn’t mean future results” and so on. But testing trailing stops on gold going back to...
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WorldCAD Access (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... hardware, though, it's better to run netbooks with Linux. (I use Ubuntu-based Linux Mint .) Richard Smith of Symscape confirms this: Would you believe me when I say you can install Caedium and run CFD [computational fluid dynamics] calculations on a netbook? I've installed and run modest (small) CFD calcs on an ASUS Eee PC 900 9-inch netbook (1GB RAM, 20GB solidstate drive) running...
