1) They have apps for Android and iOS that can read their books. It will even automatically download them. 2) They don't make much of a profit off of their LCD/eInk tablets. The money comes from the books. 3) You can't even argue that they lock you in to the tablets by only allowing their books, because you can side-load books.
Perhaps, but an oligopoly doesn't mean that they are actively colluding, as was the case here. Because of the active price fixing, this effectively became a monopoly because all members were in talks regarding keeping prices up.
From the very link you provide, under "Historical monopolies":
Robin Gollan argues in The Coalminers of New South Wales that anti-competitive practices developed in the coal industry of Australia's Newcastle as a result of the business cycle. The monopoly was generated by formal meetings of the local management of coal companies agreeing to fix a minimum price for sale at dock. This collusion was known as "The Vend". The Vend ended and was reformed repeatedly during the late 19th century, ending by recession in the business cycle. "The Vend" was able to maintain its monopoly due to trade union assistance, and material advantages (primarily coal geography).
So, let me repeat: it is a monopoly if they are colluding on prices. The reason being that they are now acting as one entity and are not competing with each other.
Surely they should at least be banned from taking position as a CEO/CTO/whatever at any company in the future? If they OK'd price fixing, then they haven't demonstrated the moral/legal qualities required to hold such a position.
Mechanical design is very different, I've done both. You're working with analogue systems, which means that everything has a tolerance - let's compare it to 'bits of accuracy'. You can go to a higher accuracy, but it becomes vastly more expensive. Unfortunately, every copy of the component is different, which is scary for CS people. Imagine if every time you created a copy of something, it was *guaranteed* to be slightly different.
So, you suggest doing something like 'unit tests'. Well, that's what they did, and that's what happened here, a unit test failed. They should be getting 15 turns, but are only getting 9. They're not sure why, so they're going to brainstorm and come up with a bunch of possibilities, discount as many as they can based on physics, design etc, and see if they can figure out what's wrong.
Perhaps it would be better if the summary included something like "a unit test failed", then the CS people would understand.
It's worse than that when you need something that uses lots of cache, like Java. I'm getting ~100x better performance on my i5 laptop than my Pi when doing Java FPU benchmarks, and this is with the Raspbian (hardware FPU) release.
That's a model for finding minimum-risk movement paths. Nothing to do with the ocean... (I say this having spent my entire day working on a monte-carlo/particle filter alternative to wave surfing...)
The number of people who need something addressable like 485 can generally use I2C for most applications a Pi would be used in, and I2C is included. If it has to be 485 it's easy to use UART for Tx/Rx and a GPIO for data direction to control a separate 485 chip. Also, RS-485 doesn't specify differential voltages, only which resistor values are used as dividers, so even if they put in 485 it might need a separate supply to work with external hardware.
Once you have UART, it's easy to get 'real serial' through a MAX3232 chip. Unfortunately, those are expensive because 'real serial' runs at 13 volts, so it needs to boost it up from the 3v/5v supply. Keeping the cost down means that there was no 'real serial' included.
Except that once the police told her they would charge him with rape, she refused to sign her statement. Not only that, but against protocol her statement wasn't recorded, only written down. So, it's the police officer who wasn't present vs. her word and Assange's.
Four days after you're suggesting she's refuse to cooperate with the prosecution, she retains a lawyer? How does that work, exactly? And where is Ms. Wilen's statement to that effect?
I'm not sure how you managed to interpret it that way. Wilen didn't retain the lawyer. The politician/lawyer managed to persuade a friend to reopen the case and put him in charge of it. He was *publicly* funded, which means the state pays, and Wilen didn't put down a cent.
Sure, nnn.se does seem to be biased and a bit on the consipiracy side, however, it is the only place that I have found which actually documents a detailed timeline of the entire sequence of events which includes the 'rape'. If the BBC or the NY Times wants to do a detailed, researched timeline of similar detail to that provided by nnn.se, let them. I'll read it closely. However, all I can find is convoluted, explosive, READ THIS HEADLINE type of articles, and even the timelines that are on mainstream websites just say "He was charged", nothing about the details of what he was charged with beyond the words catch words "rape" and "sexual molestation".
Look to 20 August 2010: "On the basis of very little information, including what appears to be a decisive utterance by Ms. Ardin, prosecutor #1 decides to arrest Assange in absentia on suspicion of rape and other sex crimes. When Ms. Wilén is informed of that decision, she is unable to continue the interview and leaves without approving the written account of it."
Then 21 August 2010: "Less than one full day after the arrest warrant is issued, it is revoked by prosecutor #2 who finds that there are no grounds for suspicion of rape or any other sex crime. Anna Ardin is interviewed by the police via telephone, and gives an account of her sexual encounter with Assange on 13 August which differs from what she has previously told friends. Now, she says that she was the victim of a sexual assault, during which Assange is said to have destroyed a condom and duped her into having unprotected sex. But the "used" condom she subsequently provides as evidence turns out to be unused, and therefore could not have been destroyed in the manner that she claimed."
In fact, just read the whole thing. You may be enlightened.
Ok, I can accept that, SA can be a bit scary to the colonialists. What about the Pinochet trial though? Surely crimes against humanity are worse than bad sexual conduct? If Pinochet didn't get extradited, how on earth could Assange be extradited?
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A few things:
1) They have apps for Android and iOS that can read their books. It will even automatically download them.
2) They don't make much of a profit off of their LCD/eInk tablets. The money comes from the books.
3) You can't even argue that they lock you in to the tablets by only allowing their books, because you can side-load books.
Perhaps, but an oligopoly doesn't mean that they are actively colluding, as was the case here. Because of the active price fixing, this effectively became a monopoly because all members were in talks regarding keeping prices up.
From the very link you provide, under "Historical monopolies":
Robin Gollan argues in The Coalminers of New South Wales that anti-competitive practices developed in the coal industry of Australia's Newcastle as a result of the business cycle. The monopoly was generated by formal meetings of the local management of coal companies agreeing to fix a minimum price for sale at dock. This collusion was known as "The Vend". The Vend ended and was reformed repeatedly during the late 19th century, ending by recession in the business cycle. "The Vend" was able to maintain its monopoly due to trade union assistance, and material advantages (primarily coal geography).
So, let me repeat: it is a monopoly if they are colluding on prices.
The reason being that they are now acting as one entity and are not competing with each other.
It is a monopoly if they are colluding on prices.
Surely they should at least be banned from taking position as a CEO/CTO/whatever at any company in the future? If they OK'd price fixing, then they haven't demonstrated the moral/legal qualities required to hold such a position.
Then why don't you just buy a whole bunch of your books from them? It would be like a direct cash transfer from Amazon's bank account into yours...
If hard drive space was your bottleneck - yes. Imagine if every time you tried to store more than 500GB you had to swap out to tape...
It's great for getting rust off of bicycle chains, but make sure you put some REAL grease on afterwards, or your chain will wear!
Mechanical design is very different, I've done both. You're working with analogue systems, which means that everything has a tolerance - let's compare it to 'bits of accuracy'. You can go to a higher accuracy, but it becomes vastly more expensive. Unfortunately, every copy of the component is different, which is scary for CS people. Imagine if every time you created a copy of something, it was *guaranteed* to be slightly different.
So, you suggest doing something like 'unit tests'. Well, that's what they did, and that's what happened here, a unit test failed. They should be getting 15 turns, but are only getting 9. They're not sure why, so they're going to brainstorm and come up with a bunch of possibilities, discount as many as they can based on physics, design etc, and see if they can figure out what's wrong.
Perhaps it would be better if the summary included something like "a unit test failed", then the CS people would understand.
It's worse than that when you need something that uses lots of cache, like Java. I'm getting ~100x better performance on my i5 laptop than my Pi when doing Java FPU benchmarks, and this is with the Raspbian (hardware FPU) release.
Hey, I never said it was an amazing place. However, I suspect it also isn't as bad as we've been led to believe.
(Yes, I know, don't feed the A/C blah blah blah)
That's a model for finding minimum-risk movement paths. Nothing to do with the ocean...
(I say this having spent my entire day working on a monte-carlo/particle filter alternative to wave surfing...)
Perhaps it's not quite as bad there as you've been led to believe?
Because 64 is less than 86, so 86 must be better, right?
The number of people who need something addressable like 485 can generally use I2C for most applications a Pi would be used in, and I2C is included. If it has to be 485 it's easy to use UART for Tx/Rx and a GPIO for data direction to control a separate 485 chip. Also, RS-485 doesn't specify differential voltages, only which resistor values are used as dividers, so even if they put in 485 it might need a separate supply to work with external hardware.
The CIA. One of the women pressing charges used to work for a CIA-funded anti-Castro group. It's not that far fetched.
Then they can interview him in the embassy to complete their investigation, after which they can charge him. Easy.
Once you have UART, it's easy to get 'real serial' through a MAX3232 chip. Unfortunately, those are expensive because 'real serial' runs at 13 volts, so it needs to boost it up from the 3v/5v supply. Keeping the cost down means that there was no 'real serial' included.
According to her allegations,....
Which she refused to sign. Those allegations, legally and ethically, mean absolutely nothing.
It's called consent. Learn what the fuck it is.
She didn't have an issue with it while he didn't have the condom on. THAT is consent. She can't retract that consent at a later date.
Except that once the police told her they would charge him with rape, she refused to sign her statement. Not only that, but against protocol her statement wasn't recorded, only written down. So, it's the police officer who wasn't present vs. her word and Assange's.
Four days after you're suggesting she's refuse to cooperate with the prosecution, she retains a lawyer? How does that work, exactly? And where is Ms. Wilen's statement to that effect?
I'm not sure how you managed to interpret it that way. Wilen didn't retain the lawyer. The politician/lawyer managed to persuade a friend to reopen the case and put him in charge of it. He was *publicly* funded, which means the state pays, and Wilen didn't put down a cent.
nnn.se has complete copies of the original interviews, in translated English as well as the original Swedish. They have over 15MB of PDFs of news clippings. I'm not sure what more you want in terms of references...
http://www.nnn.se/nordic/assange/protocol.htm
http://www.nnn.se/nordic/assange/resources.htm
Sure, nnn.se does seem to be biased and a bit on the consipiracy side, however, it is the only place that I have found which actually documents a detailed timeline of the entire sequence of events which includes the 'rape'. If the BBC or the NY Times wants to do a detailed, researched timeline of similar detail to that provided by nnn.se, let them. I'll read it closely. However, all I can find is convoluted, explosive, READ THIS HEADLINE type of articles, and even the timelines that are on mainstream websites just say "He was charged", nothing about the details of what he was charged with beyond the words catch words "rape" and "sexual molestation".
The attorney is disappointed. He was placed by politicos to represent them. They don't have anything to do with him, never chose him to represent him.
Here's the chronological series of events:
http://www.nnn.se/nordic/assange/sequence.htm
Look to 20 August 2010:
"On the basis of very little information, including what appears to be a decisive utterance by Ms. Ardin, prosecutor #1 decides to arrest Assange in absentia on suspicion of rape and other sex crimes. When Ms. Wilén is informed of that decision, she is unable to continue the interview and leaves without approving the written account of it."
Then 21 August 2010:
"Less than one full day after the arrest warrant is issued, it is revoked by prosecutor #2 who finds that there are no grounds for suspicion of rape or any other sex crime. Anna Ardin is interviewed by the police via telephone, and gives an account of her sexual encounter with Assange on 13 August which differs from what she has previously told friends. Now, she says that she was the victim of a sexual assault, during which Assange is said to have destroyed a condom and duped her into having unprotected sex. But the "used" condom she subsequently provides as evidence turns out to be unused, and therefore could not have been destroyed in the manner that she claimed."
In fact, just read the whole thing. You may be enlightened.
Ok, I can accept that, SA can be a bit scary to the colonialists. What about the Pinochet trial though? Surely crimes against humanity are worse than bad sexual conduct? If Pinochet didn't get extradited, how on earth could Assange be extradited?