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Suppose I need about 2000€ per month - my rent is 500€ and my health insurance is 700€ (unfortunately). Also there might be family to support.

So to survive for a year, I would need 24K of savings. It takes several years to build that up with a normal salary.

To pay for a house or flat, most people work 30 years where I live. And that is with 50K they pay in cash in the beginning - which I don't have, as I don't have rich parents. It takes several years to save 50K with a normal salary. I haven't worked as an employee for a while, but there are taxes to be paid, social insurance, pension plans and what not (mandatory where I live). I think with 60K, maybe < 10K would be left over per year. That's not counting iPads, new Computers, car, whatever (meaning I won't be able to save all that). Also, the pension plan is supposed to be worthless (they've been saying for years that the system will collapse), so I'd have to put some money into a private pension plan.

As a freelancer, I was up to 80K savings in about 3 years (sadly, since then severely reduced, but still).

Yes, you can live comfortably as an employee - as long as you don't lose your job for 40 years.
Do people just upvote on interesting titles because the Wikipedia article has no information on its own. Why not just link to this: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundament...
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> I like this.

Thanks!

> Does it depend on R6RS?

It uses syntax-case which I heard that Chicken 4.0 doesn't provide. However, the hackers on the Chicken list might be able to give you advice regarding a conversion to their macro system.
Great, more conspiracy minded "fight the power" crap from people who watched the Bush administration trample our rights for 8 years and called us traitors if we said anything.

At least they're not advocating firing shotguns at census workers, yet.
But then you're essentially using C+std::string rather than C++. The reason it's simple is that you're ignoring most of the things that distinguish it from C — and even then it's actually quite a bit more complex in ways that you can't get around (e.g. extern "C").
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Well, besides sending them our pitch... we didn't do anything special. Just don't send them a generic press release or spammed via PRWeb. Relationships are important.
This is what I've always done. I managed to keep my first Mac (a TiBook) feeling fresh for 6 years, and my second (a MacBook) still seems basically new at 2 years.

But can you do this with the unibody MBPs? The battery's not user replaceable, right? What about the HD and RAM?
I didn't see it mentioned anywhere on the store pages. Which would be nice to know when you're about to drop a stack of cash on it.
... And RAM, CPU speed, several more hours of battery life, backlit keyboard, thinner/lighter design.
I couldn't agree more. I left linguistics 10 years ago for the same reasons you described and never once looked back.
Similarly with NBA.com's League Pass. Whenever my favorite team plays the nearest team (almost 200 miles away) the game is blacked out for me.

Why make it hard for customers to pay you for the product they want? Why make it easier for the non-payers using atdhe.net or justin.tv than it is for subscribers like me to find the games we want? Why make customers pretend they're from Brazil so they don't randomly miss games?

Still, these services are a big step forward from what was available 5 years ago.
There are plenty of such such vulnerabilities in the wild: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=kernel+null+pointer+deref...
" Apr'10-1680x1050 - finally!"

This makes me think I'll be long dead before they offer 15" 1920x1200 wuxga.

Does anyone know why Apple lags in offering the higher screen rez? I got used to this rez some years back on my 12" Toshiba Portege, and have had it on my 15" Dell Latitudes since then. But have never seen the same for a MacBook
I would have thought http://www.techdirt.com/ was one of the richest veins to mine.
It depends how you count, though. I recently read a book that claimed inflation is more like 6 or 7% - for the things that matter.

The government decides what goods to put into the "standard basket" to calculate the inflation. They can choose goods that make inflation numbers seem good.

Yes I know it is usually not 10% (although we might still be in the middle of an economic crisis - Greece, one of the Euro countries, just going bankrupt). I am not sure if a typical salary raise is 10%, either. I am pretty sure that with salary raises alone, you won't be making significant headway as an employee (your company won't upgrade you from 50K/year to 100K/year). The only way to earn more is typically to switch jobs.

I never had a contract that said "salary will be raised by 10% every year", it was just a number I took out of thin air.
JIT compilation is not only forbidden, it's not possible without jailbreaking (once a page is writable, it can't be made executable)
Moblin _is_ Meego. Android is supported due to popular demand. Novel concept, right?
>I really hate the word “hacker”. Imagine, what Dijkstra will have to say about “a lang designed for ‘hacker’?” LOL.

That was a pathetic criticism of pg's "infatuation with the concept of hacker".

But I do agree that educators should not be spreading the myth of "the hacker". I see people who solve far complex problem than I face in my job, people who can store immense amount of information in their head, people who can abstract out the details from a problem, model complicated real life problems on paper struggle to solve their problems using a computer. Is it because of the tools that we give them? Is it because of some kind of cognitive dissonance? Is it a totally different mental model than they have been accustomed to? What would be the basic skills to become a good programmer? How do you develop interest and skills to solve more complicated computation problems using them? How do we make people appreciate the immense power of computers and the abstraction layers that we have to solve problems?

I do not know the answers to these questions. But I strongly believe that spreading this myth of a hacker, who are almost born with these magical skills,is not helping. Everybody should program computers. Everybody can program them.
The first company on the list is TwitPic - a bootstrapped company that makes a profit > $1M/year

Most of the other companies are venture-funded companies and it looks like they're all making losses
Cool. So, what value will Intel be providing? Are there specific optimizations that can be obtained with Atom-specific compilation?
Toms Hardware did a reasonable roundup: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i5,2410.html

On the media apps, the i5 beats the equivalently clocked i7 on most of the benches. On the productivity section, the i5 is equal to the i7 on 2 of the 5, and beaten by 10-20% on the others (those that seem to feed heavily on the hyperthreading and extra cache of the i7). Notably, though, the i5 and i7 are a wash in the Photoshop test (a key benchmark for the sort of things I do).
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In which case the solution is just better suburb design. Make sure there's an area zoned commercial within twenty minutes' walk of nearly every house. Big enough to support at least a small supermarket plus a few cafes and restaurants, and ideally an elementary school as well. It's bad if you have to drive just to get milk and eggs or to take your kids to school.

I grew up in suburban Sydney and was always confused by why Americans derided suburbs so much; but then I saw American suburbs. All they need is better planning. Throw in some more commercial districts, and prevent the building of zillions of identical houses by discouraging a single builder from building hundreds of houses; instead sell individual lots to individuals who can then contract with their own builders.
Good point. Also, the iPad + charger + Bluetooth keyboard is only 2.1 pounds. I challenge you to fit 10 hours of mobile productivity in a smaller footprint.

For anyone that travels a lot and writes, the iPad is a godsend. Please see http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/4/11/856114/-My-iPad-...
"If programming languages were about computational power, we would have stopped with Fortran.

Programming languages are about the freedom of expressions."

I strongly disagree, /some/ programming languages are about expressive power - others are about computational power.

We didn't stop with Fortran, we moved onto C then C++ - they might not be able to do anything more in the computer science theoretical sense, but in practice they produce faster executables, and in real world applications that means more computational power can be brought to bear on problems with these sorts of languages.

Maybe speed doesn't matter for your problem, or lambdas are an especially nice fit. Mainly I'm just worried that you are going to produce substandard code with this kind of mindset... good code is written with the language's strengths and weaknesses in mind, not to enable the flavour-of-the-month paradigm to be used in an extremely sub-optimal fashion.
I just received my Envy 15 last night. It's a beautifully designed machine but has 2 glaring flaws:

1. The screen only tilts to ~105-110 degrees. This makes it tough to use on your lap or on a short table (commonly found in coffee shops sadly).

2. The AC-DC power supply is bulky. The plug has 3 pins too. Earth is not needed for laptop power supplies! There is no electric shock risk for a laptop user! I was dismayed to find such a hideous power supply bundled with this laptop.
Yeah, the white unibody has a very nice build to it; it doesn't seem like it will crack. But only time will tell.
2 cups of his coffee a day is enough to pay my rent! Incidentally, caffeine powder bought in bulk is a much cheaper solution to daily caffeine needs than coffee. Also, it makes it easier to monitor your dosage.
I've never noticed, as I use xmonad and don't really worry about screen real-estate. I started using a Windows 7 netbook, and you're right, the tiny screen makes things difficult. The solution is to not use Windows :)
Looks like someone restored it.
I'm suprised you jumped in and bought one so quickly. Seems like "just another media consumpion device" could have been determined before purchasing.
My kid has a leapfrog, but that doesn't curb her curiosity about other devices.

I don't know how it is with others, but my kid is fascinated with all my computers. My netbook, my MBP, my Droid, my Touch, and now my iPad. I don't discourage her curiosity. We had a VIC-20 when I was a kid and later a Commodore 64, and that's probably the reason I love programming to this day.

What she wants most of all is for her parents to sit with her as she discovers. The iPad is really good for that - the best computer I own for that use case, I think. I can't stand the Leapfrog for long, but watching her with the iPad is fun. It helps that I have the chops to build little apps to distribute on my own devices.
Is that actually a concern? I can't tell if you're being flippant or serious...
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Weird. The Thinkpad had 1920x1200 for a while (until they rolled it back to 1680x1050). Strange that Apple didn't follow suit.
The "author" has yanked down her personal domain, but you can find her resume in google cache here

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7a3-_Y7...
it turns out that spending 80 minutes per day in one really sucks, and if we can build a society where people live closer together and can ride a train to work, that's progress

That's fine as long as you realize that it's your definition of progress. I spend between 70-90 minutes commuting by car each day and I have no problem with it: it's normally quite relaxing. There's essentially no traffic for me to deal with since I live out in the country and commute to a suburban job. And one of the reasons we moved out here is because we don't want to live next to everyone else.

I really wish people would quit with the assumption that everyone else wants what they want!
This is how I use my g1. Check some sites, answer mail, make some notes to myself.
Actually there are several different things working in concert here.
1) The ability to mmap adress 0
2) Code which knows how to escalate privileges of an entire process if run in kernel space.
3) A kernel module which intentionally calls a bad pointer, to illustrate the point.

3 by itself is not a vulnerability. In fact, it is by itself just a stupidly written peice of code, the real vulnerability is in 1 & 2 which take advantage of a vulnerability in null pointer handling.

In fact, even if I didn't know anything other than 1 and 2, It is possible to start fuzzing syscalls until I accidentally cause one to dereference a null pointer, in which case it is game over.

Edit: another way to say this is: Kernel null pointer vulnerabilities are a class of vulnerability, much like buffer overflows are a class of vulnerability. Even if there is just a toy example of the exploit in an article, it doesn't change the concept. Much like the classic "Smashing the stack for fun an profit"
the actual email contained my login/username, I assume you could just use that
Performance (even on single machine) would definitely be one of the significant advantages.
My criterion is pre-1945 body count for the governments in question, including non-military actions (like the Holocaust of the Jews, Gypsies, and Slavs; and the Holodomor of the Ukranians) as well as military. It doesn't matter whether or not you count Operation Keelhaul, the campaign against "rootless internationalists," and the like: Stalin worked more people to death in the GULAG network (and starved to death in the special settlements) than Hitler gassed (and worked to death: the Nazi concentration camps were modeled on their Soviet counterparts) in the Holocaust.

The Communists targeted class enemies, while the Nazis targeted racial ones, but this was a less important distinction than you think: if you were a kulak and became poor, you were now a poor kulak, not a proletarian... and in practice, Lenin and especially Stalin managed to off an awfully large number of race enemies anyways.

Edit: For the "worst _criminals_" part, as opposed to "worst faction": look at the crimes that the Nazis committed, that the Japanese committed, and that the Western Allies committed; Stalin committed crimes of the same categories, including crimes which one of these three groups did commit and the other two did not. The Winter War was Stalin's Manchuria; Berlin was his Nanking; his artillery bombardments of cities were his strategic bombing; the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was his Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact; his extermination of the Ukranians and the kulaks was his Holocaust (remember: a kulak was a class enemy, but a kulak who became poor was now a poor kulak, not a proletarian); and he committed the Katyn Forest massacre, which was on a larger scale than any comparable massacre done by anyone else.
It feels solid, but wouldn't call it durable. It definitely feels like the kind of thing you wouldn't want to drop. I'm constantly worried about the screen getting scratched, though I know it is inevitable.
I liked the, "if anyone out there has a Digg or Reddit accout, submit this so we can get the word out" comment.

I hear Digg and Reddit accounts are free these days...
The only similarity I see is that they translate basenames to full paths. However, autojump only does this with 'cd' while lightning does this with _any_ command. Autojump works by analyzing your command history while lightning lets users control their basenames with shell globs. If lightning is similar to autojump, then I guess other smart-cd projects are as well: http://github.com/rupa/j2 and http://www.skamphausen.de/cgi-bin/ska/CDargs
For me, the iPad does not provide more utility compared to other devices I use to warrant carrying around and maintaining yet another device (Yad? iYad?). If it did or I thought it would, I would keep it. That it makes me physically uncomfortable is another factor. YMMV.
It's not just MS. Apple also "leverages" [Infosys](http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/04/13/microsoft-outsou...)
You're better off doing this with a Google form that feeds to a Google spreadsheet automatically. Then, you can publish the spreadsheet read only and not worry about anyone blanking it or corrupting the data.
If an alert goes out on your behalf then you are CCed (SMS/email/push) that an alert was triggered.

We also have some plans to allow responders to communicate back to you that they've received the alert and are taking action. We'll probably roll this out in the next 30 days or so.
You don't know me, so why are you surprised? I thought I would like it and could use it, it's not working out, I don't expect it to work out, so I'm returning it. It's not a political statement.
So far what I knew are StackOverFlow.com and PlentyOfFish.com

1- The stackoverflow engine is a great example. Also you have the power of SilverLight, if you want to make your application interactive.

2- You are not really locked in, you should just pay the server licenses. Expensive, but that's the price you pay for using MS products. Read Jeff Articles about StackOverFlow, they have mentioned licensing and its matters.

3- Not So Cool? You already said, it has an awesome IDE?
RISC will rise again! Seriously though, it will be great to have as much competition as possible. I want my next phone to be quad-core and run for a week on a charge. A lot of competition is the quickest way to get companies to produce their best work. Look at what Intel did once AMD gave them a good kick. The real trick is that both companies need to remain strong. AMD needs to get back in the game.
But it makes it useless as "the computer for mom".
Thanks for posting this, I couldn't find the proper search terms to see if this was a widespread problem. On my system only a reboot fixes the sound system for some reason though.
However, implying that "anti-glare" is better makes it easier to justify charging an extra $50 (for something that used to come standard on all devices... grr).
Apple just solved the battery issue in their laptops: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs-13inch.html A less disjointed setup (you don't have to worry about the laptop display falling over like the iPad might if bumped) and a more powerful system. It's 4.5 lbs, but that's still pretty damn light if you ask me.

Price is a big differentiator though. It's hard to compete with $500 + whatever the keyboard costs.
I think they will use their own software, only it will be supported by Infosys.
The money may be in landing some university contracts. Get them to offer it free to students. They could then use it as a marketing ploy for how seriously they take safety.

That said, I think the big flaw in the whole thing is the burden it puts on the user to keep it up to date. I'm not terribly interested in having to think ahead about where I'm going, when I'll be back, and to "check in" when I get there. What I'd be more interested in is something like this:

It automatically tracks you via GPS at all times. This data is strictly off limits to anyone but you with the following exception. You setup a short list of people as your emergency contacts. In the event one of these people is concerned about your whereabouts. They can send an email to an address which distributes to your whole emergency contact list. If no one knows where you are, 2+ (configurable) people can choose to independently log-in to the service and once enough have used their "key" your GPS location becomes available to them.

Also there's no reason the service couldn't become pretty smart about your expected whereabouts (we're all creatures of habit after-all). If you strayed far from behavior it algorithmically expected, it could trigger an alert on the phone (probably best if it was obscure, so if you were kid-napped or something you couldn't be forced to dismiss it under duress). If you didn't dismiss the alert it would notify your emergency contact list.
I desperately want to drop cable, but I'm a huge sports fan which means no viable alternative to ESPN really hurts. Anyone have any suggestions?
American object lesson, post Reagan Era: if you throw enough trinkets at the poor, they forget about their miserable lives for a while and consider themselves middle-class, despite their humiliatingly boring jobs and inability to advance in life. You don't even have to increase wages; that's what credit cards are for. Bonus points if you can drive them tens of thousands of dollars into student debt pursuing degrees that don't get them anywhere.
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Unfortunately weight training works best if your muscles actually move instead of just stretching. I do wonder whether the "trying to lift your car" exercise routine would eventually build your muscles, though.

The other thing I wonder is whether you can do weight training without weights by pitting one hand against the other. Try to curl your biceps on one arm while pushing down with your other hand to try to prevent it. Is there any reason this won't work? Could be a good way to build muscle while sitting at your desk.
Afaik, It's not about efficiency, it's about cost. It is much more expensive to hire your own people to do it than outsource to Infosys.
Everybody should program computers. Everybody can program them.

I was with you up until this point. I don't know that everyone can program computers, and it's quite possible that many people cannot.

Observe: some people cannot, as programming requires intelligence and some people are in fact no more intelligent than vegetables, usually due to brain damage. If we progress further we have people that are capable of simple thought, but cannot even recognize themselves in the mirror. Somewhere down the line of progression (since we cannot really rank intelligence, let's assume we are progressing in whatever "direction" of intelligence leads to the ability to program [if there is more than one, pick one arbitrarily]) we can choose a brain which gives people the ability to construct rudimentary programs. I admit the line here is extremely fuzzy, because programs can vary in complexity: the least you need is to be able to remember two words: "print 'hi'". At this point our knowledge goes to hell, it's not really clear what functions of our minds are necessary to construct and understand varying levels of program complexity, or whether anything special is required at all. Simple statements like "everybody can program", or "only some can program" gloss over extremely complicated neurological (possibly psychological, as well) issues that won't be resolved for some time, and have no known answer.

We may believe it to be true, but I would say such a belief is heavily influenced by our own experiences, as well as our own socialization with people that share that experience. We can program, why couldn't others? It's tempting to believe that because it was true for us it's true for everyone, but sadly (or not so sadly) this really isn't always true. Stating as fact that everyone can reeks of bias and optimism, because honestly it just isn't that simple.
I recommend it for people who opens lot of tabs or heavy web pages. Opera Mini makes an awesome compression job.