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First Game Programmed By Kids With KidsRuby (and Gosu)
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How to Obtain Data From Matlab Plot?
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Amazon Start To Offer Free Same Day Delivery for Prime Members
According to this Huffington Post article,
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On Thursday, Amazon began offering free same-day delivery to Prime members in 14 metro areas across the country: Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, the San Francisco Bay (including Oakland), Seattle-Tacoma, Washington, D.C., San Diego and the Tampa Bay. |
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Same-day delivery used to cost Prime members an extra $5.99 per order. To qualify for free same-day delivery, you must place an order before noon and spend at least $35. |
It will be very interesting to see how this play out in the spreading metropolitan in US. The main issue is the economics of delivering cost and how to make it scale.
Google Start To Offer Wireless Service (Project Fi) Starting From $20 Per Month
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How to Find Out Available Memory for Matlab In Linux
An useful command in Matlab (Windows) is “memory”, basically, it gives you some idea of how much memory is available and how much has been used by Matlab.
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>> memory Maximum possible array: 3743 MB (3.924e+09 bytes) * Memory available for all arrays: 3743 MB (3.924e+09 bytes) * Memory used by MATLAB: 1072 MB (1.124e+09 bytes) Physical Memory (RAM): 3958 MB (4.150e+09 bytes) |
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* Limited by System Memory (physical + swap file) available. |
However, this command is only available in Windows platform. To
Install Map Updates On Old Garmin GPS Nuvi 360
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My First Personal Encounter with Windows 10
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