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9000 USD is OK. When you get OVER 9000, it's ridiculous.

No. I think what he meant was that let's say people are willing to trade X ISK or whaever it's called for 1 USD, and the spaceship is 9000X ISK therefore it might cost 9000 USD.

The conversion/trade I suppose doesn't always work that way.

That theory sounds bad, man. I'm an bi-lingual Asian from a relatively older age compared to you (10+) and have been living in the US for quite some time.

The 'imagine' part only happens when one is still relatively bad at the language that person is trying to speak. I wouldn't say that I 'imagine' or have any intermediate representation when I speak in English.

Sure... But then 20 minutes for a 100 miles even with not much things to do is good to me!

The problem is less likely the distance but availability of charging stations.

Did anyone notice that the first link on ... "Since 2005, Flickr has become synonymous with inspiring imagery." ... was actually linking to flick.com, but not flickr.com?

Edit: In fact the second link also links to flick.com.

Last time I tried installing Linux (/Ubuntu) on a Macbook it was a balls cooking experience with the combination of NVidia and Intel. Pure intel HD might be better, but why do I want to solve those problems in the first place?

I need my balls not to be cooked by the power-hungry processors.

I need a light shit because I walk with my backpack a lot.

I need the key layout on the keyboard not a pain in the ass.

I need my palm to be like little Fonzie. What Fonzie like? It's cool.

I need standard linux, because I don't care enough to learn about all the quirks of Apple.

I need to have a thing that is light, 3G-capable, has good key layout, cool, and I forget to mention, I'm cheap too. So ask me why do I need to spend 5 times as much for your Macbook again?

Of course if you never plug anything in, it will stay up for a long time. The problem arises when there are things being plugged in and out.

Many USB devices don't work with the Pi. It's pretty picky.

    pi@mia ~ $ uptime 
     15:40:15 up 94 days, 23:03,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05

No I don't have a power meter. I know the Black works on a USB 2.0 port of my laptop and my desktop too, so it uses less than 500mA. From my experience working with Ti's stuff, they are often pretty good about power consumption though.

My main problem with the Pi is that it is very finicky... plug a USB device in, and it dies/connection drops and all kinds of weird things happen. I have seen none so far on the Black.

Got the Black delivered on my door today, will try to post a quickie review tomorrow :-)

Sure enough... It might be possible to host the site on the Pi itself. However, I think that's probably risky.

My main concern is that the Pi is powered by an Ethernet controller that is connected to the USB bus, and it might drop out in special circumstances

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=3...

Thanks for your comment. Will fix the title.

>I believe Wayland window managers [1] will replace most of X11 for most users in a couple of years, but X11 will still be around to run legacy apps (similar to the way you can run X11 applications in

This comment must have been submitted from an X11 application running in MacOS X. I am having the s

Not the first time that fingerprint readers are deemed the wrong answer (to the "wrong" problem? -- one better not trust their own fingerprints to keep their data secure)

From ThinkWiki: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Integrated_Fingerprint_Reader

The UPEK device is supported by thinkfinger. Those devices and Authentec ones are supported by libfprint.

However: The fingerprint reader is an INSECURE device and gives a false sense of security! There has been quite a bit of research by a hacker named Starbug, a member of the Chaos Computer Club, Berlin, Germany. He outlined in two very good talks how to forge each and every available fingerprint sensor available at the cost of a few euros, using materials from your local hardware store, a digicam and a laser printer!

Remember, using fingerprints for authentication is much similar to having a password which is written on anything you touch.

Number of units they will sell.

Yes. I'm the kind of guy who couldn't care less about retina screens (they don't look that much sharper to me)... but definitely can tell the difference that IPS screens make. In contrast with the TN LCDs that you buy that requires tuning to make the images and text not washed out, with IPS everything looks right out of the box without you having to fix anything.

Especially much better text rendering when you turn on subpixel rendering, which is a huge deal to me (I'm typing this on my 22 inches 2209WA which I had for two years and absolutely love).

Because it is upgradable. You just have to have the expertise to do it. Soldering a SMD component, while not exactly something that everyone can do, is indeed doable.

Disclaimer: I can solder some SMD chips...

There are several things that puts the Chromebox ahead:

1, It is as small, slick and quiet as a Mac Mini. 2, It is designed to run Linux. 3, The hardware is backed by Smasung/Google. 4, It has a freakin' SSD? Unless you're compiling AOSP or put all of you music on it, 16GB is some space to spare. I guess there are ways to expand the internal storage too.

It'll be a very capable PC or thin client if that's at all possible.

I wonder how feasible it is to put a Linux distribution here and get it working. I know it is possible with the Chromebook, and if it's gonna work for the Chromebox, then shut up and take my money.

One thing that's pretty important too is PHP-FPM. I've been dreaming about this for a long time for my nginx deployments.

http://php-fpm.org/

> feeling like I had to pass through all four levels of Ninja Warrior and climb to the top of Mount Midoriyama, just to be allowed to launch frickin’ VNC in a GUI or load the backup program I use on all the other machines on my network…

If he was doing remote administration via VNC, he was probably doing it wrong.

Also:

> I know quite well what I’m doing, but not to the level that is apparently required to keep a simple LAMP machine running.

Wat?

I'm unsure about the first one, but the second one is no way can be true. Diplomatic problems aside, it's technically impossible. Google don't write the drivers for those phones, manufacturers/carriers do, so how in hell can Google sneak in alone without drivers?

The way Gtalk client deals with unreliable connections is perfect. I don't have a 3G plan so I often walk around my campus roaming from one hotspot to another. It doesn't use the regular jabber of you notice.

Also SSH without a physical keyboard is gonna be a pain in the back.

Linux is designed to people who want a computer, but aren't willing or capable or spending enough for Windows or Mac. Also Microsoft and Apple haters as noted.

Your level of ignorant is amazing.

When I read "It's all about the feel," I imediatelly realized why he didn't get why people like Android. If he likes the feel, then nothing beats Apple.

But I do use it for different purposes. I need a physical keyboard. I need to ssh to my server when I need to. I need google talk. That's why I use Android.

This is the code that should go to the server side for calculating star ratings:

Star Ratings

I’ve been awfully busy programming lately. My Django-based side project is coming along well and I hope to have it ready for use in a few weeks. Please don’t ask more about it, that’s really all I can say for now. Anyways, I came across an interesting little math problem today and was hoping some skilled programmers out there could come up with a more elegant solution than mine.

Problem: Star Ratings

People can rate cheeseburgers on my website with a star rating of 0-5 stars (whole stars only), 5 being mighty tasty and 0 being disgusting. I would like to show the average of everyone’s ratings of a particular cheeseburger to the nearest half star. I have already calculated the average rating as a float (star_sum) and the total number of people that rated the particular cheeseburger (num_raters). The result should be stored as a float in a variable named “stars.”

My Solution (in Python):

  # round to one decimal place and
  # separate into whole and fractional parts
  parts = str(round(star_sum/num_raters, 1)).split('.')
  whole = int(parts[0])
  frac = int(parts[1])

  if frac < 3:
    ___frac = 0
  elif frac > 7:
    ___frac = 0
    ___whole += 1
  else:
    ___frac = 5

  # recombine for a star rating rounded to the half
  stars = float(str(whole)+’.'+str(frac))

I don't think ARM can displace AVR, mainly because ARM is expensive and weekend projects often doesn't require that much power for computation. ARM fits in neither the simple projects category (AVR would do it more cheaply) nor complicated projects category (x86 would do it faster and more cheaply) for independent hackers. Plus, AVR now has a very friendly Arduino kit which is an important factor because of the sheer amount of support and community around it. Also, ARM is not standardlized, and is not very well supported with free software, which is another limitation which AVR doesn't have.

I often follow hackaday.com -- it has tons of links to amazing projects and resources for the curious.

I'm not doing AVR programming that much other than the microtouch kit, but I'm doing a little bit more on the TI's msp430 platform, mainly because I'm a student and thus, I'm cheap. Plus, TI's msp430 is insanely efficient, you can go very very low power and its language is C which is 'nicer' than the popular arduino pseudo-C code.

For msp430 I often visit 43oh and refer to TI datasheet, they are often very very good.

My jaw just dropped upon seeing what can be achieved considering the amount of resource that was used.

If you're used to program only with modern hardware (PC/Mac/iPhone/Android/whatever) you'll never understand how insanely fast 2.5k RAM can be consumed. For example, declaring a fixed char[] of 255 chars would consume 10% of the entire amount of physical memory you have (you can, however, have "swap" on the Microsd card but that's another problem.)

Previous projects of him include Zork for his same hardware platform ( http://rossum.posterous.com/zork-for-the-microtouch ) , the Atari Microsd drive ( http://rossum.posterous.com/a-little-atari-810-disk-drive ). Other parts that come with the microtouch kit (microtouch simulator on Windows, the shell, pacmac, 3d maze, paint) are mind blowing too.

Microtouch is an amazing kit. I had a chance to work on the Microtouch for a while and it was incredibly fun. I currently have my microtouch kit hanging outside of my office as an interactive picture frame ( http://tnhh.net/pancake/2011/09/lolz-pic-frame.html ), but because of this I might want to take it back some time :-)

Fastmail has the email business and they got my money for that -- so their intention is clear. You have an awesome Google 7GB email box for paying Google nothing. It's not clear what they want to and will get from you.

I'm not saying that wonderful things are never free, Free software is an example. However, keep in mind that Google is a business and they'll have to make money. They are not idealistic Richard Stallman who can squat from one house to another.

Yeah, trusting Google more than some random E-mail hosting company is probably right. However the catch is that in the last resort I always have my credit card number for the proof of ownership.

Fastmail is not really some random company (one of the companies that I feel they know what they're doing) and is very decent in providing user access control. They have Wubikey integration and a dozen more methods to make sure your account is safe. Also, they implemented who sign on what IP years before Google. Btw -- I have 7 days of sign-on history.