Arduino and RasPi complement each other very nicely. With Arduino, you get a microcontroller, not a full computers. This means that Arduino is cheaper than the RasPi, but has less computing grunt. (Well, apart from the Due, which is more expensive than the RasPi, but has less computing grunt.)
We're very lucky to have two platforms. It's good for innovation and good for us. Indeed, many hobby projects use both; a common setup is Arduino for hard real-time control and sensing and RasPi for high-level logic and communication.
1. It doesn't come with a battery, wifi, GPS, screen etc. You only pay for (in both price and power consumption) the features you need. 2. It's really cheap. This means that you can destroy it and not feel bad about it. You can't say that of your mobile phone.
If what you actually want is a PDA with custom peripherals, then your perfectly good mobile phone may well be perfectly good. If you want something else, then a Raspberry Pi or Arduino may be better.
The first compiler was ARITH-MATIC, and was indeed written in assembler.
The first Lisp compiler, however, was written in Lisp. Or, more accurately, the first Lisp compiler was a set of instructions on paper for translating Lisp to assembler which people "ran" by hand. The second Lisp compiler was written in Lisp, and bootstrapped by hand.
Assuming we really were starting from scratch, I think you might be underestimating how long it would take to re-domesticate enough plants and animals.
Nope. It doesn't store the actual data from the RSS feed.
Some feeds only return the last N items, even when the data pointed to is still there. Google Reader archives it all the way back to the first time that someone pulled the feed, and the archives are fully searchable.
As you rightly point out, misconduct by attendees at geek conferences has a long history, and organisers should be wise to it by now. PyCon had a code of conduct for attendees. Clearly they were prepared to deal with misbehaviour, because they did in fact deal with it. Presumably they had a publicised way to contact the conference organisers if someone misbehaves.
So here's what I don't get: Why didn't Richards take advantage of that?
If you are at a conference and someone misbehaves in a way that could make other attendees feel uncomfortable or unsafe, that's the first place you should go. You can always make it public later if the conference organisers don't sort things out to your satisfaction. If it was a relatively innocent mistake for which you have received the appropriate level of apology, but you still think the public should be aware, you can talk about it later without naming names or posting pictures.
I'm not blaming Richards for getting someone else fired. I realise it was the end of the conference and everyone was tired. Nonetheless, I'm puzzled why someone of her experience and stature didn't think to go to the organisers first.
It's just as easy to send them an email as it is to send a message to the whole world. Did PyCon not make it sufficiently clear that the door was always open if anyone had any concerns?
Google Reader does not kill RSS. There are plenty of RSS readers out there. Now it only demands that you need to sync readed/unreaded in different way but all the RSS feeds can be imported and exported to almost any reader. There is no such problem with Google Reader cleaned off.
The death of Google Reader means the death of eight years of archives. I will no longer be able to search my RSS feeds for something I read three years ago (something I do at least once a month). Any RSS application or service that I switch to won't have that data because it doesn't exist anywhere else.
So yeah, I'm sticking with Evernote partly because it's more feature-rich, but mostly out of spite.
Nations have been attacking munitions factories, power stations, and infrastructure ("dam busters", anyone?) for a long time, too. As a general rule, these facilities are staffed entirely by civilians.
Some of the people who write malware are more like the factory workers who build bombs or the engineers who build aircraft, than the soldiers who carry guns.
You can't stop piracy, but you can make piracy less convenient than paying for it. You can also demand money in return for things other than the software, such as your attention.
UK pays for TV so can you name 2 shows you would be willing to pay say $5 a month for?
I can name five that I'd pay $10-12 a month to a single biller for.
However, those shows are on different services, which only allow overpriced large bundles of crap I don't want. Oh, and some of those services aren't available in my country. Pirates do provide the service that I would happily pay for, but I don't patronise them.
Of course, there's no contradiction with it both being a built-in operator and being in a library. typeof, anyone? But, of course, then the naysayers would just complain that C++ is even more bloated.
I don't care about iGoogle, but I'd pay $5/month for just Reader. But it'd have to have all of the features (e.g. full text search, feed discovery), and some of the missing ones (e.g. shared feeds exportable in such a way that feedburner could pick it up).
Bonus marks if it can handle feeds from invite-only Blogger blogs.
It's also good that it happened to EA and not a smaller company. EA has a better chance of absorbing the loss and learning from it. Not that this is likely, but I'm an optimist like that.
If you mean the very first tea party protests, then neither were astroturfing. The tea party has since been co-opted by The Man, where the SOPA/PIPA protests have not.
You surrender to a drone in exactly the same way that you surrender to a missile.
Being against drones is like being against tanks. They're just the latest and greatest weapon available to the military. I have no problem with drones. They are a good substitute for a manned aircraft in many scenarios.
The problem is that they are being used in scenarios where you wouldn't use a manned aircraft. Missile-launching drones are weapons of war, and so they should only be used in officially declared war zones. Pakistan is not an officially declared war zone.
Can anyone name a single protest in the past 20 years that has actually caused a change?
Yes. The 1999 WTO protests in Seattle (and the follow-up S11 protests in Melbourne) caused lots of changes. After that, the authorities could no longer trust protestors to behave themselves, and so became far more adversarial. These protests effectively undid the multiple decades of goodwill that had been established between police and activists since Vietnam.
I'm guessing that's not the kind of change you meant, though.
Oh, and while I think of it, the early Tea Party protests gave the Koch Brothers a ready-made astroturf front to help in their campaigns to sway public opinion. I guess you could say that had long-lasting effects.
On a more serious note, the SOPA/PIPA protests seem to have worked, though of course the work isn't finished.
The hell they will. Under that scenario, both Reid and Pelosi would know full well that drone strikes would be a useful thing to have when their side got back into power.
Besides, speaking against drone strikes means actually taking responsibility on an important public policy issue which lobbyists don't care enough about to put up sufficient amounts of cold hard cash. That won't happen any time soon, no matter who is in the White House.
So kudos to Rand Paul. He's an idiot, but he's doing the right thing here. We don't need more people like him, but we need more people who will do this.
Which one of the four defenses of liberty is that, again?
As much as I think that a stupid meme coined by a former president of the John Birch Society should be the standard by which the debate is set, freedom of movement is one of the more fundamental rights there is.
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Particularly good advice for the hypothetical friend who leaves loaded guns lying around their house.
Throughout most of human history, the infant mortality rate was 30-40%.
Arduino and RasPi complement each other very nicely. With Arduino, you get a microcontroller, not a full computers. This means that Arduino is cheaper than the RasPi, but has less computing grunt. (Well, apart from the Due, which is more expensive than the RasPi, but has less computing grunt.)
We're very lucky to have two platforms. It's good for innovation and good for us. Indeed, many hobby projects use both; a common setup is Arduino for hard real-time control and sensing and RasPi for high-level logic and communication.
This.
The features of a Raspberry Pi are:
1. It doesn't come with a battery, wifi, GPS, screen etc. You only pay for (in both price and power consumption) the features you need.
2. It's really cheap. This means that you can destroy it and not feel bad about it. You can't say that of your mobile phone.
If what you actually want is a PDA with custom peripherals, then your perfectly good mobile phone may well be perfectly good. If you want something else, then a Raspberry Pi or Arduino may be better.
The first compiler was ARITH-MATIC, and was indeed written in assembler.
The first Lisp compiler, however, was written in Lisp. Or, more accurately, the first Lisp compiler was a set of instructions on paper for translating Lisp to assembler which people "ran" by hand. The second Lisp compiler was written in Lisp, and bootstrapped by hand.
Assuming we really were starting from scratch, I think you might be underestimating how long it would take to re-domesticate enough plants and animals.
Nope. It doesn't store the actual data from the RSS feed.
Some feeds only return the last N items, even when the data pointed to is still there. Google Reader archives it all the way back to the first time that someone pulled the feed, and the archives are fully searchable.
As you rightly point out, misconduct by attendees at geek conferences has a long history, and organisers should be wise to it by now. PyCon had a code of conduct for attendees. Clearly they were prepared to deal with misbehaviour, because they did in fact deal with it. Presumably they had a publicised way to contact the conference organisers if someone misbehaves.
So here's what I don't get: Why didn't Richards take advantage of that?
If you are at a conference and someone misbehaves in a way that could make other attendees feel uncomfortable or unsafe, that's the first place you should go. You can always make it public later if the conference organisers don't sort things out to your satisfaction. If it was a relatively innocent mistake for which you have received the appropriate level of apology, but you still think the public should be aware, you can talk about it later without naming names or posting pictures.
I'm not blaming Richards for getting someone else fired. I realise it was the end of the conference and everyone was tired. Nonetheless, I'm puzzled why someone of her experience and stature didn't think to go to the organisers first.
It's just as easy to send them an email as it is to send a message to the whole world. Did PyCon not make it sufficiently clear that the door was always open if anyone had any concerns?
I don't know about "never". If the person is a public figure, or the remarks were made in a public manner, then I can see the argument there.
Google Reader does not kill RSS. There are plenty of RSS readers out there. Now it only demands that you need to sync readed/unreaded in different way but all the RSS feeds can be imported and exported to almost any reader. There is no such problem with Google Reader cleaned off.
The death of Google Reader means the death of eight years of archives. I will no longer be able to search my RSS feeds for something I read three years ago (something I do at least once a month). Any RSS application or service that I switch to won't have that data because it doesn't exist anywhere else.
So yeah, I'm sticking with Evernote partly because it's more feature-rich, but mostly out of spite.
Nations have been attacking munitions factories, power stations, and infrastructure ("dam busters", anyone?) for a long time, too. As a general rule, these facilities are staffed entirely by civilians.
Some of the people who write malware are more like the factory workers who build bombs or the engineers who build aircraft, than the soldiers who carry guns.
It devalues the work you are doing [...]
Really? I value things that I've paid money for (even when I didn't have to) far more than things I haven't paid money for.
You can't stop piracy, but you can make piracy less convenient than paying for it. You can also demand money in return for things other than the software, such as your attention.
I can name five that I'd pay $10-12 a month to a single biller for.
However, those shows are on different services, which only allow overpriced large bundles of crap I don't want. Oh, and some of those services aren't available in my country. Pirates do provide the service that I would happily pay for, but I don't patronise them.
Such things belong in a library.
Of course, there's no contradiction with it both being a built-in operator and being in a library. typeof, anyone? But, of course, then the naysayers would just complain that C++ is even more bloated.
You haven't lived until you've tried squab marsala.
I don't care about iGoogle, but I'd pay $5/month for just Reader. But it'd have to have all of the features (e.g. full text search, feed discovery), and some of the missing ones (e.g. shared feeds exportable in such a way that feedburner could pick it up).
Bonus marks if it can handle feeds from invite-only Blogger blogs.
Speak for yourself. Personally, I've already stopped checking two of those sites regularly.
It's also good that it happened to EA and not a smaller company. EA has a better chance of absorbing the loss and learning from it. Not that this is likely, but I'm an optimist like that.
No. Google got behind the SOPA/PIPA protests, but that's a different thing.
Google did not persuade Wikipedia to black out on that day.
If you mean the very first tea party protests, then neither were astroturfing. The tea party has since been co-opted by The Man, where the SOPA/PIPA protests have not.
You surrender to a drone in exactly the same way that you surrender to a missile.
Being against drones is like being against tanks. They're just the latest and greatest weapon available to the military. I have no problem with drones. They are a good substitute for a manned aircraft in many scenarios.
The problem is that they are being used in scenarios where you wouldn't use a manned aircraft. Missile-launching drones are weapons of war, and so they should only be used in officially declared war zones. Pakistan is not an officially declared war zone.
Can anyone name a single protest in the past 20 years that has actually caused a change?
Yes. The 1999 WTO protests in Seattle (and the follow-up S11 protests in Melbourne) caused lots of changes. After that, the authorities could no longer trust protestors to behave themselves, and so became far more adversarial. These protests effectively undid the multiple decades of goodwill that had been established between police and activists since Vietnam.
I'm guessing that's not the kind of change you meant, though.
Oh, and while I think of it, the early Tea Party protests gave the Koch Brothers a ready-made astroturf front to help in their campaigns to sway public opinion. I guess you could say that had long-lasting effects.
On a more serious note, the SOPA/PIPA protests seem to have worked, though of course the work isn't finished.
The hell they will. Under that scenario, both Reid and Pelosi would know full well that drone strikes would be a useful thing to have when their side got back into power.
Besides, speaking against drone strikes means actually taking responsibility on an important public policy issue which lobbyists don't care enough about to put up sufficient amounts of cold hard cash. That won't happen any time soon, no matter who is in the White House.
So kudos to Rand Paul. He's an idiot, but he's doing the right thing here. We don't need more people like him, but we need more people who will do this.
Which one of the four defenses of liberty is that, again?
As much as I think that a stupid meme coined by a former president of the John Birch Society should be the standard by which the debate is set, freedom of movement is one of the more fundamental rights there is.