And yet I live in Tokyo and I have never seen a charging point there. Can anyone tell me where there is a public point?
Every Nissan dealer has at least one charging station. You leave the car there while you go inside and enjoy free drinks, snacks, games for your kids, etc. Of course, that is as long as you are a Nissan owner.
Just recently Israel was fighting against Hamas, who was launching rockets while hiding behind civilians that they were purporting to represent. They really don't care about the people they "represent".
Suicide terrorists are glad to blow themselves up if they take a few infidel's lives with them. They believe they get rewarded with a number of virgins in heaven.
El Che Guevara is hailed as a hero for dying for his cause, even when he was directly responsible for the killing and misery of so many, especially his own people. You can buy one of "Che" iconic t-shirts almost anywhere, they sell like hotcakes.
Skype has been a continues stream of disappointments over the last few years.
First they started with this policy of taking away your credits if you haven't used them in a few years. They are still kind enough to let you "reactivate" them. This is like a bank taking your savings because you haven't used them in a while, but allowing you to get them back by dropping by. Its immoral and should be illegal.
Recently they also blocked access from the linux skype client 4.2.0.11 without any warning whatsoever, suddenly you just can't connect. And after updating to the latest version (4.3.0.37), it crashes every time. Turns out you have to do some changes to the sqlite database that holds your history (couldn't they do that automatically?).
Unfortunately opensource IM isn't much better. With so many usability issues, slow development (thinking about pidgin and gajim), and now Google turning their back on openness by disabling XMPP federation, the landscape of opensource IM looks gloomy.
If you are talking about pidgin, instantbird is based on pidgin's libpurple. So unless you mean the user interface part is full of security holes, I can't see the logic.
How is it that Maduro and his allies can continue to persist with economic policies so patently stupid that even an undergraduate student of economics at any American or European university can predict and explain their inevitable failures?
Stupid or genius? Depends on the goal.
If its to improve the economy and life quality, plain stupid. If its to stay in power forever, genius!
1. Ruin the economy, make people poor and easy to manipulate
2. Create many social programs to "help" the poor, the poor depend on the state
3. Confiscate and nationalize everything, the state must run as much as possible, have everyone working for the state
4. Make it clear that they have to support and vote for you, or they lose their job and "hard earned" state benefits ...
6. Profit! You get all the votes from the poor, and most people are poor now:)
This strategy worked well for Chavez, and now his golem, Maduro.
Here is an interesting bit of this interview, just in case the page is removed (because Globovision is now controlled by the government):
"Look General, you still don't understand the revolution! Let me explain: This revolution aims to make a cultural change in the country, change the way of thinking and living, and those changes can only done being in power [in office]. So the most important thing is staying in power to make the change. We get the political floor from the poor: they are the ones who vote for us, that is the reason for our speech of defending the poor.
So, THE POOR MUST CONTINUE TO BE POOR, WE NEED THEM LIKE THAT, until we can achieve a cultural transformation. Later, we can talk about economy of production and wealth distribution. Meanwhile, we must keep them poor and with hope."
My script is can save some I/O and cpu cycles, but has to keep more files open at a time (could run out of filedescriptors in extreme cases). The script you describe must be shorter and easier to understand, but I would only use it for smaller files, where discarding duplicates before reading the whole file doesn't make a big difference. The next step is to create some UI that allows deleting duplicates easily.
#!/usr/bin/perl # $Id: findDups.pl 218 2014-01-24 01:04:52Z alan $ # # Find duplicate files: for files of the same size compares md5 of successive chunks until they differ # use strict; use warnings; use Digest::MD5 qw(md5 md5_hex md5_base64); use Fcntl; use Cwd qw(realpath);
my $BUFFSIZE = 131072; # compare these many bytes at a time for files of same size
my %fileByName; # all files, name => size my %fileBySize; # all files, size => [fname1, fname2,...] my %fileByHash; # only with duplicates, hash => [fname1, fname2,...]
# treat params as files or dirs foreach my $arg (@ARGV) { $arg = realpath($arg); if (-d $arg) { addDir($arg); } else { addFile($arg); } }
# get filesize after adding dirs, to avoid more than one stat() per file in case of symlinks, duplicate dirs, etc foreach my $fname (keys %fileByName) { $fileByName{$fname} = -s $fname; }
# build hash of filesize => [ filename1, filename2,...] foreach my $fname (keys %fileByName) { push(@{$fileBySize{$fileByName{$fname}}}, $fname); }
# for files of the same size: compare md5 of each successive chunk until there is a difference foreach my $size (keys %fileBySize) { next if $#{$fileBySize{$size}} < 1; # skip filesizes array with just one file my %checking; foreach my $fname (@{$fileBySize{$size}}) { if (sysopen my $FH, $fname, O_RDONLY) { $checking{$fname}{fh} = $FH; # file handle $checking{$fname}{md5} = Digest::MD5->new; # md5 object } else { warn "Error opening $fname: $!"; } } my $read=0; while (($read < $size) && (keys %checking > 0)) { my $r; foreach my $fname (keys %checking) { # read buffer and update md5 my $buffer; $r = sysread($checking{$fname}{fh}, $buffer, $BUFFSIZE); if (! defined($r)) { warn "Error reading from $fname: $!"; close $checking{$fname}{fh}; delete $checking{$fname}; } else { $checking{$fname}{md5}->add($buffer); } } $read += $r; FILE1: foreach my $fname1 (keys %checking) { # remove files without dups my $duplicate = 0; FILE2: foreach my $fname2 (keys %checking) { # compare to each checking file next if $fname1 eq $fname2; if ($checking{$fname1}{md5}->clone->digest eq $checking{$fname2}{md5}->clone->digest) { $duplicate = 1; next FILE1; # skip to next file } }
I'm in the process of customizing/buying a Lenovo X230 for a family member, despite their BIOS whitelist shenanigans.
The Lenovo store always has a super special e-coupon discount, they are kind enough to give you the code right there in the checkout process.
A few days ago the laptop in my cart, with the coupon, was $1,037. Now, after applying the new black friday e-coupon (10% discount), the price is $1,061.10
Perhaps I should buy it now, before they have an even better Christmas "sale".
And did Venezuela stop being able to import groceries after they seized El Exito? Was the country ruined?
Yes, and yes. There is a huge scarcity of even the most basic imported products, such as milk, corn flour (a staple product in Venezuela), toilet paper, etc.
Hunger and poverty have gone down significantly since 1999. Even the anti-Chavez people accept this.
In case you can't read Spanish, the debt since 1999 until the end of 2012 has been increased by $275,300,000,000. After googling for a while I found the 1999 debt was of $31,484,000,000. So the debt before/after Chavez: 1999: $31,484,000,000 <--- I didn't miss a digit 2012: $306,784,000,000
And right after Chavez died, Maduro asked China for a new loan, in which the terms are a mystery. The government has a number of secret funds, and a share from oil imports go directly there. Nobody knows how much money is there, or how is it used exactly. The perceived risk in Venezuela is so high that the bond interest for any new debt would be valued above 13%, among the highest in the world.
I would also like to point that this happened during a period of historically high oil prices. In 1999 the price was around $18 per barrel. After 1999 the price soared and nowadays its around $100. In 1999 Venezuela was the 5th largest oil exporter. What has happened since then? Where did all the money go? Most experts predict the price to decrease in the following years, if so, Venezuela missed the boat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brent_Spot_monthly.svg
Chavez also seized the oil companies, and stopped Venezuela's biggest resource being a cash cow for foreign companies.
Where did you get that from? Did Chavez say so? The oil industry was nationalized in 1976. What he did in 2003 was to fire most of the employees that PDVSA after a general strike. These were highly trained specialists that are now working in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc.
I've never been there. It's probably the country I most want to visit, and one of the main reasons is because it's so hard for a foreigner to know what the country is really like. I just read the Venezuelan newspapers and talk to Venezuelans sometimes here in Europe (mostly rich Venezuelans who don't like Chavez).
Sure, you are welcome. Just watch your back, don't go out after 6pm. And when you go out, try to stay in the eastern part of the city. Also, don't exchange your currency in the airport or any official place, as the policy is to rip off tourists. Ahhh, don't forget to bring your own toilet paper too.
How were you modded informative? From the article:
"Crawford approached Jewish organizations last year looking for funding and people to help him with technology that could be used to surreptitiously deliver damaging and even lethal doses of radiation against those he considered enemies of Israel."
How are they not pro-Israel? Not everything that you disagree with is anti-semitic. Really the only bias evident is your own.
And if they wanted to request funding from Iran they would have offered to use their weapon against the enemies of Iran. Would that mean they are pro-Iran?
I don't know if you are anti-semitic or not, but an anti-semitic would jump to the same conclusion you did without a really thinking about it. Perhaps you are not anti-semitic, you just don't really think.
Bitch, please. Muslim terrorists build bombs out of pressure cookers. These Jewish terrorists wanted to build a fucking death ray.
Except that the terrorists are not jewish. They were trying to get funding by jewish organizations by promising to target enemies of Israel. Instead of funding them, the jewish organizations contacted the FBI.
So no, the jews in this story are not the terrorists, in fact, they are the heroes.
It lookes like the slashdot editor (samzenpus) is either trying to discredit the jews on purpose or is too stupid to write a decent summary.
For the record, it would all be so much simpler if everyone just started speaking Finnish. Once you see a word in 99.9% of cases you know exactly how to pronounce it.
In Spanish you also don't have to guess the pronunciations, plus its easier than Finnish.
But let's get real, no country will ever change their official language just because there is a better one out there. People never think their native language is awkward, because they grew up with it. Ask any chinese and they will tell you that mandarin is the easiest in the world. At some point in history Esperanto was seen as a possible universal language for all countries to adopt, unfortunately the plan failed.
Hell, we can't even agree on a standard measuring system (metric vs imperial) or current standard (110v / 220v 50hz / 60 hz).
I realize the 992% figure is confusing, but I didn't make up that figure, I read it in an article. The term used is "accumulated devaluation", maybe some economist can make more sense of this.
Venezuela has had a similar currency exchange regulation system for 10 years now. The limits are ridiculous: - 400$ for traveling abroad, the paperwork has to be submitted 20 days in advance - 400$ for internet shopping *per year* - credit card usage abroad has a different limit depending on the destination and duration. On average 100$ per day, the paperwork has to be submitted 30 days in advance
Basically the government wants to control everything, not only for businesses but also individuals, and it does a crappy job at both. The end result is investments going elsewhere and the economy suffers.
The country has never before been in such a bad shape. Since Chavez took office, the Bolivar lost its value by 992%. This is in the country with the second biggest proven oil reserves in the world, and an oil price of more than 100$.
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And yet I live in Tokyo and I have never seen a charging point there. Can anyone tell me where there is a public point?
Every Nissan dealer has at least one charging station.
You leave the car there while you go inside and enjoy free drinks, snacks, games for your kids, etc.
Of course, that is as long as you are a Nissan owner.
So having a long rod is desirable? What else is new?
It does come with a microSD slot!
I don't know if you are kidding, but this is Sony: they could have used Memory Stick instead of microSD.
Just recently Israel was fighting against Hamas, who was launching rockets while hiding behind civilians that they were purporting to represent. They really don't care about the people they "represent".
Suicide terrorists are glad to blow themselves up if they take a few infidel's lives with them. They believe they get rewarded with a number of virgins in heaven.
El Che Guevara is hailed as a hero for dying for his cause, even when he was directly responsible for the killing and misery of so many, especially his own people. You can buy one of "Che" iconic t-shirts almost anywhere, they sell like hotcakes.
...and kill two birds with a single... 300,000 mirror array?!
Skype has been a continues stream of disappointments over the last few years.
First they started with this policy of taking away your credits if you haven't used them in a few years. They are still kind enough to let you "reactivate" them. This is like a bank taking your savings because you haven't used them in a while, but allowing you to get them back by dropping by. Its immoral and should be illegal.
Recently they also blocked access from the linux skype client 4.2.0.11 without any warning whatsoever, suddenly you just can't connect. And after updating to the latest version (4.3.0.37), it crashes every time. Turns out you have to do some changes to the sqlite database that holds your history (couldn't they do that automatically?).
Unfortunately opensource IM isn't much better. With so many usability issues, slow development (thinking about pidgin and gajim), and now Google turning their back on openness by disabling XMPP federation, the landscape of opensource IM looks gloomy.
If you are talking about pidgin, instantbird is based on pidgin's libpurple. So unless you mean the user interface part is full of security holes, I can't see the logic.
How is it that Maduro and his allies can continue to persist with economic policies so patently stupid that even an undergraduate student of economics at any American or European university can predict and explain their inevitable failures?
Stupid or genius? Depends on the goal.
... :)
If its to improve the economy and life quality, plain stupid. If its to stay in power forever, genius!
1. Ruin the economy, make people poor and easy to manipulate
2. Create many social programs to "help" the poor, the poor depend on the state
3. Confiscate and nationalize everything, the state must run as much as possible, have everyone working for the state
4. Make it clear that they have to support and vote for you, or they lose their job and "hard earned" state benefits
6. Profit! You get all the votes from the poor, and most people are poor now
This strategy worked well for Chavez, and now his golem, Maduro.
Read this enlightening interview with the ex CEO of PDVSA (the oil company):
http://globovision.com/articul...
For the Spanish-impaired, a google translation is quite decent:
http://translate.google.com/tr...
Here is an interesting bit of this interview, just in case the page is removed (because Globovision is now controlled by the government):
"Look General, you still don't understand the revolution! Let me explain: This revolution aims to make a cultural change in the country, change the way of thinking and living, and those changes can only done being in power [in office]. So the most important thing is staying in power to make the change. We get the political floor from the poor: they are the ones who vote for us, that is the reason for our speech of defending the poor.
So, THE POOR MUST CONTINUE TO BE POOR, WE NEED THEM LIKE THAT, until we can achieve a cultural transformation. Later, we can talk about economy of production and wealth distribution. Meanwhile, we must keep them poor and with hope."
It is long and convoluted in the same way that an airplane is long convoluted compared with a bicycle ;)
My script is can save some I/O and cpu cycles, but has to keep more files open at a time (could run out of filedescriptors in extreme cases).
The script you describe must be shorter and easier to understand, but I would only use it for smaller files, where discarding duplicates before reading the whole file doesn't make a big difference.
The next step is to create some UI that allows deleting duplicates easily.
#!/usr/bin/perl
...] ...]
...]
# $Id: findDups.pl 218 2014-01-24 01:04:52Z alan $
#
# Find duplicate files: for files of the same size compares md5 of successive chunks until they differ
#
use strict;
use warnings;
use Digest::MD5 qw(md5 md5_hex md5_base64);
use Fcntl;
use Cwd qw(realpath);
my $BUFFSIZE = 131072; # compare these many bytes at a time for files of same size
my %fileByName; # all files, name => size
my %fileBySize; # all files, size => [fname1, fname2,
my %fileByHash; # only with duplicates, hash => [fname1, fname2,
if ($#ARGV < 0) {
print "Syntax: findDups.pl <file|dir> [...]\n";
exit;
}
# treat params as files or dirs
foreach my $arg (@ARGV) {
$arg = realpath($arg);
if (-d $arg) {
addDir($arg);
} else {
addFile($arg);
}
}
# get filesize after adding dirs, to avoid more than one stat() per file in case of symlinks, duplicate dirs, etc
foreach my $fname (keys %fileByName) {
$fileByName{$fname} = -s $fname;
}
# build hash of filesize => [ filename1, filename2,
foreach my $fname (keys %fileByName) {
push(@{$fileBySize{$fileByName{$fname}}}, $fname);
}
# for files of the same size: compare md5 of each successive chunk until there is a difference
foreach my $size (keys %fileBySize) {
next if $#{$fileBySize{$size}} < 1; # skip filesizes array with just one file
my %checking;
foreach my $fname (@{$fileBySize{$size}}) {
if (sysopen my $FH, $fname, O_RDONLY) {
$checking{$fname}{fh} = $FH; # file handle
$checking{$fname}{md5} = Digest::MD5->new; # md5 object
} else {
warn "Error opening $fname: $!";
}
}
my $read=0;
while (($read < $size) && (keys %checking > 0)) {
my $r;
foreach my $fname (keys %checking) { # read buffer and update md5
my $buffer;
$r = sysread($checking{$fname}{fh}, $buffer, $BUFFSIZE);
if (! defined($r)) {
warn "Error reading from $fname: $!";
close $checking{$fname}{fh};
delete $checking{$fname};
} else {
$checking{$fname}{md5}->add($buffer);
}
}
$read += $r;
FILE1: foreach my $fname1 (keys %checking) { # remove files without dups
my $duplicate = 0;
FILE2: foreach my $fname2 (keys %checking) { # compare to each checking file
next if $fname1 eq $fname2;
if ($checking{$fname1}{md5}->clone->digest eq $checking{$fname2}{md5}->clone->digest) {
$duplicate = 1;
next FILE1; # skip to next file
}
}
I'm in the process of customizing/buying a Lenovo X230 for a family member, despite their BIOS whitelist shenanigans.
The Lenovo store always has a super special e-coupon discount, they are kind enough to give you the code right there in the checkout process.
A few days ago the laptop in my cart, with the coupon, was $1,037.
Now, after applying the new black friday e-coupon (10% discount), the price is $1,061.10
Perhaps I should buy it now, before they have an even better Christmas "sale".
And did Venezuela stop being able to import groceries after they seized El Exito? Was the country ruined?
Yes, and yes.
There is a huge scarcity of even the most basic imported products, such as milk, corn flour (a staple product in Venezuela), toilet paper, etc.
Hunger and poverty have gone down significantly since 1999. Even the anti-Chavez people accept this.
http://www.el-nacional.com/economia/Deuda-Gobierno-asciende-millardos-dolares_0_164383786.html
In case you can't read Spanish, the debt since 1999 until the end of 2012 has been increased by $275,300,000,000.
After googling for a while I found the 1999 debt was of $31,484,000,000.
So the debt before/after Chavez:
1999: $31,484,000,000 <--- I didn't miss a digit
2012: $306,784,000,000
And right after Chavez died, Maduro asked China for a new loan, in which the terms are a mystery. The government has a number of secret funds, and a share from oil imports go directly there. Nobody knows how much money is there, or how is it used exactly. The perceived risk in Venezuela is so high that the bond interest for any new debt would be valued above 13%, among the highest in the world.
I would also like to point that this happened during a period of historically high oil prices. In 1999 the price was around $18 per barrel. After 1999 the price soared and nowadays its around $100. In 1999 Venezuela was the 5th largest oil exporter. What has happened since then? Where did all the money go? Most experts predict the price to decrease in the following years, if so, Venezuela missed the boat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brent_Spot_monthly.svg
Chavez also seized the oil companies, and stopped Venezuela's biggest resource being a cash cow for foreign companies.
Where did you get that from? Did Chavez say so?
The oil industry was nationalized in 1976. What he did in 2003 was to fire most of the employees that PDVSA after a general strike. These were highly trained specialists that are now working in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc.
I've never been there. It's probably the country I most want to visit, and one of the main reasons is because it's so hard for a foreigner to know what the country is really like. I just read the Venezuelan newspapers and talk to Venezuelans sometimes here in Europe (mostly rich Venezuelans who don't like Chavez).
Sure, you are welcome. Just watch your back, don't go out after 6pm. And when you go out, try to stay in the eastern part of the city. Also, don't exchange your currency in the airport or any official place, as the policy is to rip off tourists. Ahhh, don't forget to bring your own toilet paper too.
That phone looks good, but I wish it had a physical keyboard and that it supported LTE.
Writing crappy questions like pearson has is absolutely a problem though.
Give him a break, after all this is the same guy that made Windows ME.
I hope you know that you did not address my argument at all but merely attacked me personally.
Dude, you forgot the "ad hominem" crap from your other 100 posts ;)
Seriously though, I appreciate the contributions that you and other developers of both OpenOffice and LibreOffice are doing.
But take a chill pill, even with all those long words, some of your posts here look rather childish.
All well and good, but how are you going to get exports out of the country in the first place when the U.S. Navy decides to blockade your ports?
Since Bolivia is a landlocked country, that shouldn't be an issue ;)
Except that the terrorists are not jewish.
Has anyone said they're not Jewish? Or that they are Jewish?
Yes, FatLitteMonkey said they are jewish, as well as others posting on this story.
It lookes like the slashdot editor (samzenpus) is either trying to discredit the jews on purpose
How? By not implying that they're Jewish?
The summary does imply that they are Jewish, which is why FatLittleMonkey and others are confused.
or is too stupid to write a decent summary.
a) samzenpus didn't write it b) samzenpus probably didn't read it
My bad, gurps_npc was too stupid to write a decent summary, samzenpus was too lazy to read it before posting it.
How were you modded informative? From the article:
"Crawford approached Jewish organizations last year looking for funding and people to help him with technology that could be used to surreptitiously deliver damaging and even lethal doses of radiation against those he considered enemies of Israel."
How are they not pro-Israel? Not everything that you disagree with is anti-semitic. Really the only bias evident is your own.
And if they wanted to request funding from Iran they would have offered to use their weapon against the enemies of Iran.
Would that mean they are pro-Iran?
I don't know if you are anti-semitic or not, but an anti-semitic would jump to the same conclusion you did without a really thinking about it. Perhaps you are not anti-semitic, you just don't really think.
Bitch, please. Muslim terrorists build bombs out of pressure cookers. These Jewish terrorists wanted to build a fucking death ray.
Except that the terrorists are not jewish. They were trying to get funding by jewish organizations by promising to target enemies of Israel.
Instead of funding them, the jewish organizations contacted the FBI.
So no, the jews in this story are not the terrorists, in fact, they are the heroes.
It lookes like the slashdot editor (samzenpus) is either trying to discredit the jews on purpose or is too stupid to write a decent summary.
101. Since I would have to pay 500$ for it, will I be able to run my own software on the Xbox One?
For the record, it would all be so much simpler if everyone just started speaking Finnish. Once you see a word in 99.9% of cases you know exactly how to pronounce it.
In Spanish you also don't have to guess the pronunciations, plus its easier than Finnish.
But let's get real, no country will ever change their official language just because there is a better one out there. People never think their native language is awkward, because they grew up with it. Ask any chinese and they will tell you that mandarin is the easiest in the world.
At some point in history Esperanto was seen as a possible universal language for all countries to adopt, unfortunately the plan failed.
Hell, we can't even agree on a standard measuring system (metric vs imperial) or current standard (110v / 220v 50hz / 60 hz).
I realize the 992% figure is confusing, but I didn't make up that figure, I read it in an article. The term used is "accumulated devaluation", maybe some economist can make more sense of this.
Venezuela has had a similar currency exchange regulation system for 10 years now.
The limits are ridiculous:
- 400$ for traveling abroad, the paperwork has to be submitted 20 days in advance
- 400$ for internet shopping *per year*
- credit card usage abroad has a different limit depending on the destination and duration. On average 100$ per day, the paperwork has to be submitted 30 days in advance
Basically the government wants to control everything, not only for businesses but also individuals, and it does a crappy job at both. The end result is investments going elsewhere and the economy suffers.
The country has never before been in such a bad shape. Since Chavez took office, the Bolivar lost its value by 992%. This is in the country with the second biggest proven oil reserves in the world, and an oil price of more than 100$.
Hopefully this new system will be able to calculate in Celsius instead of Fahrenheit...