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Yeah, that's how the ARM microcontroller market works. I imagine NXP's peripheral set will be quite similar to the ones on their existing Cortex-M0 chips. Freescale will presumably base theirs on what's in their M4 parts, albeit scaled down. For another point of reference you could look at STMicro's Cortex-M0 implementation as well.
It would be interesting to see how much money was lost or gained by Bayer based on this. I assume that usage might go up by at least a factor 20 in India (and their production costs go down) so those 6% might actually be a fair deal in the long run.
I must say we were trained to give the best service. Now resolution cases can be hard to figure out for an agent (especially as no one is assigned to an account, so it's random at each call).

Now, as in a lot of companies, you can try to be an asshole, call again and again, ask to be called back, send mail after mail, ask to speak to a senior agent etc. At some point it can trigger a special handling of your case, but everyone want you to disappear.
I think that Linus is at a point where he plays with it, because he knows that peoples know his game/character and that he will easily publicly say harsh words to someone. Thus by 'democratizing' it, nobody got ostracized in the developer community by having being called a 'moron' by Linus, because we all know (Linus included) this can happen to anyone.
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I guess that depends on your objective. In either case (communicating a message, or arbitrary conversation) you can choose to be ok, or you can choose to be exceptional.

Ums in either case are a distraction, and to some annoying. The degree obviously varies from person to person. Being a good conversationalist is as counter-intuitive as skiing (where you have to lean forward when facing downhill) in that a good conversationalist is in fact a good listener, and only interjects to elicit more conversation from the other party. So... in a way you're right. Uming a lot when you're really just listening isn't going to affect anything ;-)

Making a speech is about communicting a message. There are many ways to structure that message, for example SCIPAB, but the structure and supporting slides, if any, can be spectacularly annihilated by a mediocre delivery.

To be exceptional you need to work on your delivery. That means slowing way down, not using ums and ahs, maintaining eye contact (I've addressed a 5000-strong crowd, so believe me when I say it's irrespective of the size of the audience), and getting your body language right.

Depends entirely on how good you want to be :-)

If you want to be exceptional you could do worse that start with The Voice Book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0571195253/ - Amazon.com is sold out). It's been derided somewhat elsewhere in this thread, but Toastmasters is another hugely useful route.

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I've seen solar powered road photoradars, and road lights on some crossings between cities. Solar cells are on 2-3 meter pole, at +- 45 degree, and have sth like 0.5 square meter surface, and big box the size of car battery under the solar cell.

I guess it's more cost effective than draw the wires a few kilometers from the city.

EDIT: sth like that http://www.google.pl/imgres?q=%C5%9Bwiat%C5%82a+baterie+slon...
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I think the point is that you don't have to keep two parallel versions of the same code, since it's possible to write a single version that it's both compatible with 2.7 and 3.X.
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... In which case they would cost more to cover the cost of setting up a logistics operation from scratch.
issue is that even when i am not controlling the playlist and randomly moving my hand it recognizes it as gesture... seems like lot needs to be done to differentiate between noise and actual gesture. anyways nice try.
ARM is a brilliant (if not the poster-boy) example of why the UK government should be investing in new technology companies rather than car manufacturing and banking.
Fair point. I actually thought launch rock would have more on best practices for launch pages but couldn't find something http://launchrock.com/blog/category/bestpractices
Then is it okay to pirate software too? For instance, is it okay for me to pirate all the apps from Mac App Store since I didn't steal any physical copies?
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The choice of symbol for via is confusingly similar to an out-of-range symbol.

If I saw it in a piece, I would think that someone had tried to use some clever bullet point without specifying the character set properly.
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Spaces (parenthesis, semicolons, bangs etc) in file names are not subtle edge cases if you consider system as tool for reaching user's goals. Programs have to process file names with spaces not because kernel aesthetics, but because users want and need files with normal, readable names.

Actually, I would happily agree to ban \n as edge case - it's useless for end user and a readable file names separator is needed for scripts (like \0, which is forbidden because it is useless for users and extremely inconvenient to work with in C).
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Ultracapacitors are great and all that but they can discharge incredibly quickly causing all sorts of problems (fires, explosions, dead equipment etc). These are several orders of magnitude more likely than LiPoly cells to do it as well. They are much more suceptible to damage too which can cause internal shorts.

An analogy: a traditional LiPoly cell is like a twisted rubber band waiting to unwind. An ultracap is like an inflated balloon ready to pop.

Also, they are not trialled for longevity yet and are expensive.

They sound good but are as usual, just an engineering trade off.
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It was the first place I looked for answers and haven't found nothing there.
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Exactly my point. If we use the government to protect ourselves from PayPal, we have to be careful not to kill WePay, Stripe, Dwolla, Gumroad, etc. in the process.
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> when available here in the USA is coming very close to being double the magic $25 I was hoping for(1).

You were expecting a free-shipping model A, and instead have to pay for shipment (the horror!) and only have the model B available (exactly as they say). If there's any problem here, it lies with your expectations.

You can wait till the Model A becomes available. You can also arrange for people at your hackerspace to order 100 together to make the shipping cost negligible. Other than Apple, RP seems to be as good or better at delivering on their promises as any other vendor. And apple mostly deliver on their promises because they hardly ever make any.
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That's unlikely, mobile device lifecycles are way shorter than those of desktop computers. Even native game developers often don't target mobile devices that are outdated.
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The speed benefit of not having to take a guess on one of two distributors would be more than wiped out by the delays caused by rPi having to do it all themselves, and would likely make it harder for them to meet their price targets.

And regardless, even if you ignore the downsides, at the very best all it would do is make the way a little easier, it doesn't solve the op's problem of having to wait before buying.
Bayer shareholders should hold the senior management accountable for not caring enough to bring the drug to more than 2% of the Indian market.
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Especially as ARM originated from Acorn, whose success came from manufacturing the BBC Micro, for a publicly funded organisation (the BBC).
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> You can also arrange for people at your hackerspace to order 100 together to make the shipping cost negligible

Out of interest, is this currently possible with their one-per-person restriction? If not, would be nice if there was a way for people to group together and get one-each, all in a single shipment.
I really wish it had VGA output, without that it's useless to me since I have no spare monitors to connect to it.
> The FAQ was reallly difficult to gauge the overall direction that Posterous is headed.

Given the effort that goes into carefully negotiating the acquisition process, you can be sure that this lack of clarity is not an accident.
That's quite a niche you're going after there.
That has nothing to do with Ubuntu: run xev, press windows/command keys, see output. By default xorg binds the keys to Super_{L,R}.

Besides, Open any terminal emulator and Alt/Option either behaves as Meta by default or has the option to do so, e.g. Terminal.app).

For all current practical purposes and in most default cases Alt behaves as either Alt or Meta depending on the context and Super as Super. Even emacs folks (maybe the biggest piece of software in use today relying the most heavily on Meta) agree on that [0].

Meta really does not exist anymore and all mappings one can come up with (whether they are using Alt or Super) are merely fallbacks.

[0] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MetaKeyProblems
> I compensate by ordering my properties alphabetically so I can scan horizontally to find any property (background and border come first, margin and padding are near the middle, text-transform and width are near the end...).

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In the future you will be able to buy directly form the few existing retailers.

The only reason that you can't now is because they sold all their product. Both RS and Farnell are pretty large distributors (worldwide, not just UK) and should be able to easily meet demand. Only problem is confusion about selling to individuals not businesses, but that'll get solved.

EDIT: The foundation is a non-profit charity, where everyone involved has other jobs. That sounds sub-optimal for receiving orders, processing them, shipping them, and handling returns. It's much better that they've outsourced that to companies who are in business to sell stuff.
Probably a big loss. It costs in their other market sectors which include Chemo drugs, various palliative care drugs/equipment.

Technically, they're pricing the cure high so it doesn't affect their keeping you sick drugs.

This sort of shit is why medicine should be 100% government/taxpayer funded research agencies with an enforced zero profit outcome.

Drug companies are simply not ethical when there are shareholders and profits involved.
I think few people would argue that drug companies' prices are reasonable, and when it comes to life vs. death I no longer care much about the "they're a business, they're allowed to make a profit" line - of course it's still true, and of course they are, but there's a (subjective) line between "making a good profit" and killing people through greed.

That said, what pricing would be fair? When people claim that these pills cost bugger all to make, the answer is (perfectly validly) that the second pill costs bugger all, the first one costs $$$$ in R&D. So I don't know how cheap they would have to be to be considered a fairer price, and I've no idea if it's possible for anyone outside the companies to work out - even if you ignore the fact that what's fair is so subjective.
One could argue that writing a/float(b) just to get float result isn't free (nor nice for that matter) either. But I still think the strongest argument is that someone who isn't corrupted by other languages would expect to get a float result (when necessary).
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Hampsterdam was a huge success. Until politics got involved and caused the whole thing to be shut down. In fact it worked so well that a Governor lost job because he wasn't willing to shut it down when he found out about it.

>For every innocent American whacked by a cop, there are probably a hundred whacked by a "worthless thug." What kind of defender of the innocent worries more about the former than the latter?

You do realize that cops have no obligation to protect you right? That was a supreme court ruling. Being between a cop trying to shoot someone is exactly as dangerous as being between a "worthless thug" trying to shoot someone.
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If my work's performance requirements were so tight as to make that an issue, I would use C. Or numpy. CPython is slow. CPython is so mind-numbingly slow, for many many reasons, that each numeric variable could be a bigfloat and it would not matter the slightest.

Now, let's talk semantics. Not converting to floating point is precisely the kind of hidden computation that should be avoided, at all costs, in a language. Haskell is efficient and rigorous, and its division operator does floating point conversion. So, no excuses.
"The Bayer price of Rs 34,11,898 per year ($69,000) is more than 41 times the projected average per capita income for India in 2012, shattering any measure of affordability." This is good enough for any govt to act so and rightly done as well!

Also "6% royalty on net sales every quarter to Bayer" that isnt all unfair
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I meant it as a joke, but... That's the problem with the world and software today. It's a trigger happy lawyer friendly world that everyone is too quick to go sue for a quick buck. It wrongly taints legitimate people's work like this.

If I was was Douglas then I would, at this point, refuse to change the license. If you don't want to use it due to some anal overpaid lawyer then your problem, use something else.

A lawyer may tell you this makes your software unworkable, but common sense tells me that this clause means jack all. As you say, it could be construed to mean anything and a court with any common sense would throw out any claim. It would be difficult to fully define the term "evil".

(Having said that, I understand it would probably cost a bucket load through the legal system, that same lawyer bending you over again)
This is a difficult decision to rule on, without resorting to petty emotions, without access to the underlying data. One must balance the incentive for drug companies to develop drugs (and get that development financed) with the price inelasticity of the healthcare market.

There is marginal cost, the cost to produce one more product independent of development cost, and fully amortised cost, which amortises the development (and, holistically, finances future development). Saying we should abolish innovator drug patents ignores the latter.

If we take the assumption that a life tomorrow is worth about a life today cutting pharma's revenues 97% means the development model is unsustainable. The government would have to develop drugs (or promise to refund all or most of the cost of developing a drug that gets FDA approved).

On the other hand we know that, since most people will pay whatever they able to for healthcare, drug companies have too much leverage. The market doesn't function well un-aided.

The problem here is the way this decision has been implemented throws up a lot of regulatory uncertainty. Having an objective framework for how innovator drug companies can be subject to need-based forced licencing (and under what boilerplate terms) would allow pharma companies to plan how to allocate development dollars.
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HDMI => DVI => VGA should work, no? A lot of adapters, but at least you'll get a signal out of it.
IMO, #3 was more about YAGNI[1], i.e. you probably won't need the speed, integrity constraints, relations, etc. delivered by SQL, so keep your data model flexible and lightweight until a shortage of those things is actually getting in your way.

I wouldn't be surprised if many people criticizing #3 had no practical experience with NoSQL and the benefits brought by its lack of baggage.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aint_gonna_need_it
I checked - those adapters cost more than the Raspberry Pi! Around $50.

The cheap cables you may be thinking of require the device to output a VGA signal.
though if Tiobe is at all believed, Python is declining sharply in interest.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

Java script seems to be going strong. Python has fallen by 3 places and has the maximum drop in ratings among top 20 languages.

Python is right next to Perl.

Since according to many Pythonistas and the references they used to point to in the past when they talked of Perl, Perl was dead for the same metrics which Python has now.

1. A major revision whose ecosystem isn't ready.
2. Current stable widely deployed version is going to go away soon.
3. Fall in ratings.
4. Fall in usage.
5. Rise of new languages like clojure.

And since now Python has the same metrics and is next to Perl.

Can we say Python is dead? It must be since TIOBE says so!
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Your point 4 is exceedingly optimistic. The environment won't "recover". It will certainly reach a stable equilibrium, but that equilibrium may well be something we, as a species, won't particularly like or thrive in.

While we're talking arable land, we need to consider that the majority of the land that could be deployed as farmland is home to a whole host of ecosystem services and bio-resources that, if destroyed, won't be coming back. Temperatures can stabilize, pollution can go down, but if we can't stave off habitat loss and destruction, we'll be a lot worse off than today. More people means they all need somewhere to live, somewhere to grow their food, and somewhere to put their waste. That space is all at the expense of organisms we need. We can't just shrug our shoulders and assume everything will bounce back eventually.

As for the fertility implosion itself - it needs to happen, sooner or later. Those 20-year olds in the Middle East and the babies being born today? Yeah, they'll get old, too. Brooks' view on demographics is a pyramid scheme, we need to figure it out, and I'd sooner have it happen now while we still have a relative diversity of species and environments left.
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If I wanted an image scaled, I'd give it a size in em or similar, not in px.
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> I no longer care much about the "they're a business, they're allowed to make a profit" line - of course it's still true, and of course they are,

I disagree here. Pure laissez faire capitalism works no better than pure communism or socialism. You need a mix of both to have a functioning economy and IMO it should be pretty clear at this point that health care works best (cheapest and most effective) on the socialism side. American has the most expensive health care in the world, but not the best service.
Truth is, clinical trials are mind-bogglingly expensive and takes years for turnover. Also some newer drugs (I'm not sure about Nexavar) are rightfully expensive to manufacture due to requirements in equipment, sterile conditions, etc.

If I were to say anything negative about this it would be that this sets a bad precedent for any new drugs coming to India -- knowing that the government can effectively void out drug patents after certain number of years, the big pharmas probably would not want to set up shop in the country altogether. Does that sound familiar?

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People could pay upfront for production of things, see for example the recent case of "Double Fine Adventure" on Kickstarter.

Also production means change all the time. It is not a given that you need a zillion of people to make a movie. It is also not a given that such movies are a need of mankind - as you say yourself, that particular movie you saw was really lousy.

Even today most movies don't make money.

The hit driven approach could be replaced by other means of funding. Just off the top of the head, what if instead of saying "what would be the most mainstream message of a movie possible, so that it has the highest conceivable target demographic", movies would be sponsored by people who want to convey some subtler message (ie millionaires or fundraisers, or simply enthusiastic people).
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