Comment Re:This seems foolproof! (Score 1) 94
Impeccable logic.
Impeccable logic.
But they are already under direct government ownership. It's going from being a direct government agency, to a (presumably somewhat less directly controlled?) state corporation. Maybe they will sell 49%.
Last I checked, Iceweasel is just Firefox without any encumbered logos. Everything else is the same. The one in testing has shit australis UI, for example.
I still use an E71 (from.. 2008?). Candybar with qwerty. Symbian so it's not as dumb as S40, but it's dumb by modern standards. I still get close to a week of battery life (on the ancient original battery).
Makes good quality calls, has reception where all of my friend's iphones and androids don't... has real buttons.
I kinda prefer the 500 (like 2500 but dial), little more classy. Not very good when calling a robot that needs you to press "1" for something, though.
Still have one, but killed the landline some years back now...
There isn't a "EU" ban, it is up to each country. Greece has a ban, but it is not really enforced.
I'm pretty sure heat death was programmed in C.
Yeah, Zenith pioneered this. "Space Command". Pretty limited, obviously, but functional.
NYC has solved this problem by trucking its garbage to neighboring states.
European rate is more around 1/100k if you don't count ex-Soviet Union (esp Russia). Which isn't the Western European Liberal gun grabbing place you love to hate.
Belarus 5.1
Bulgaria 1.9
Czech Republic 1.0
Hungary 1.3
Poland. . 1.2
Moldova 6.5
Romania 1.7
Russia 9.2
Slovakia 1.4
Ukraine 4.3
Denmark 0.8
Estonia 5.0
Finland 1.6
Greenland 19.4 (not sure what that's about).
Iceland 0.3
Ireland 1.2
Latvia 4.7
Lithuania 6.7
Norway 2.2 ( If one discounts the single anomalous terrorist attack of 2011, the homicide rate in Norway falls to 0.6)
Sweden 0.7
United Kingdom 1.0
Albania 5.0
Andorra 1.3
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.3
Croatia 1.2
Greece 1.7
Italy 0.9
Kosovo 3.6
Malta 2.8
Montenegro 2.7
Portugal 1.2
San Marino 0.7
Serbia 1.2
Slovenia 0.7
Spain 0.8
Macedonia 1.4
Austria 0.9
Belgium 1.6
France 1.0
Germany 0.8
Liechtenstein 0.0
Luxembourg 0.8
Monaco 0.0
Netherlands 0.9
Switzerland 0.6
It would be even lower if you throw out warsaw pact and yugoslavia, which again, are not really what you are talking about. Most major Western European countries are 1/5th the murder rate of US or less.
Because the militarization of police in the US.
I love Geany. There's a windows port as well, if people aren't aware of it.
They're also awesome. Think of them like the AVR or PIC with more.. everything. More RAM. More ROM. More IO. More interfaces, both type and quantity. More Hz. Same price, they work with GCC.
I've been getting STM32s from china for cheaper than the basic AVRs on an arduino (not sure how, as even qty 1000 is like 4x the price on digikey, but they work like the real thing, so who knows?!).
I used to love AVRs, but whenever I go back to them now, they seem so limited. the ARM MCUs have a bit of a learning curve, but it's so worth it. With GCC and libopencm3, it's an entirely open source setup. The nucleo boards are dirt cheap arduino-ish things, to get started on, with integrated programmer & debugger.
There's really no reason to use 8bit MCUs anymore, unless you're making a $0.40 gadget, and need to squeeze out that last nickel.
At least the dust is less toxic these days.
That's a myth. Asbestos based linings were never banned, and still exist.
I learned that a couple years ago. I swore it was banned too, but it isn't the case.
There are roughly 8.7 Wales to an Oklahoma.
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.