ummm...you don't know what the hell you are talking about. From "Programming Perl"
The three chief virtues of a Perl programmer (indeed, of any programmer) are sometimes said to be laziness, impatience, and hubris. Although these may seem like undesirable qualities at first blush (just ask your SO), there's more to this than there appears to be.
Laziness is the quality that makes you take great efforts to reduce the overall amount of work that you have to do. Lazy programmers are apt to develop reusable and general solutions that can be used in more than one place, and are more apt to document what they do, so that they don't have to ever waste time or torture their brains figuring it out again.
Impatient programmers get angry whenever they have to do anything that the computer could be doing for them. Hence, they develop programs that anticipate their needs and solve problems for them, so that they can do less (there's that laziness again) while accomplishing more.
Finally, hubris is that quality which makes programmers write programs that they want other people to see (and be able to maintain). Hubris is also a quality that promotes innovation: if you think that you have a better way and you're not afraid to prove it, you're often right.
The indisputable fact that it is a 'Parliment of Tyrants' where the unfree votes outnumber the Free by a goodly margin is only mitigated slightly by the fact that the instituition is incapable of action on major issues.
WTF are you talking about? About 120 (depending on who you ask) of the 191 member states of the UN are democracies. What you're saying was true 50 years ago when it the UN was founded, but far from true today. While the 'tyrants' may have too much power in the UN, they by no means form a majority. Occasionally you'll see a nasty majority come up on a committee, but by and large its the larger powers (many of which are democracies--think the US, France) that tend to block action.
Today I got a confirmation that my implanter is on the way. So excited about that! As I'm thinking about this project, I sometimes get overwhelmed with what can be done with RFID.
I also got the super small chips in the mail today. They are much smaller than the 'small' chips out there. (Cool!)
In 2003, per capita income in rural area is Yuan 2622 (RMB).
Per capita != "household income." And, from your same source (in the same paragraph!):
Ratio of urban household income to rural household income is 3.2:1.
So, for a urban family of three, their total household income would be $3139 ($327*3.2*3)...so a $150 computer would be ~5% of their total annual household income...
The median US household income is $43318.
5% of that figure is $2165--basically the price at which computers went mainstream in this country.
NOAA's National Climatic Data Center has a lot of the raw data available, most of it for free (especially if you're coming from a.edu domain). Both US and international data.
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The three chief virtues of a Perl programmer (indeed, of any programmer) are sometimes said to be laziness, impatience, and hubris. Although these may seem like undesirable qualities at first blush (just ask your SO), there's more to this than there appears to be.
Laziness is the quality that makes you take great efforts to reduce the overall amount of work that you have to do. Lazy programmers are apt to develop reusable and general solutions that can be used in more than one place, and are more apt to document what they do, so that they don't have to ever waste time or torture their brains figuring it out again.
Impatient programmers get angry whenever they have to do anything that the computer could be doing for them. Hence, they develop programs that anticipate their needs and solve problems for them, so that they can do less (there's that laziness again) while accomplishing more.
Finally, hubris is that quality which makes programmers write programs that they want other people to see (and be able to maintain). Hubris is also a quality that promotes innovation: if you think that you have a better way and you're not afraid to prove it, you're often right.
oh, and Perl is not an acroynm.
The indisputable fact that it is a 'Parliment of Tyrants' where the unfree votes outnumber the Free by a goodly margin is only mitigated slightly by the fact that the instituition is incapable of action on major issues.
WTF are you talking about? About 120 (depending on who you ask) of the 191 member states of the UN are democracies. What you're saying was true 50 years ago when it the UN was founded, but far from true today. While the 'tyrants' may have too much power in the UN, they by no means form a majority. Occasionally you'll see a nasty majority come up on a committee, but by and large its the larger powers (many of which are democracies--think the US, France) that tend to block action.
Ummm...from your own pdf:
Per capita != "household income." And, from your same source (in the same paragraph!):
So, for a urban family of three, their total household income would be $3139 ($327*3.2*3)...so a $150 computer would be ~5% of their total annual household income...
The median US household income is $43318. 5% of that figure is $2165--basically the price at which computers went mainstream in this country.
There is an easy module for doing this in perl, along with a working demo.
This is easier, if not much shorter... http://labs.google.com/suggest/
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2004/11/04.html
You get to watch/listen to him use it, which really gives you a sense of how far the software has come.
If you're in the US, try this site: http://geocoder.us/. It a demo of the perl module Geo::Coder::US, available from the CPAN. Pretty hott.
It uses the Census Bureau's TIGER/Line data, which isn't the most reliable for non-urban areas, but it's public domain.
NOAA's National Climatic Data Center has a lot of the raw data available, most of it for free (especially if you're coming from a .edu domain). Both US and international data.