Even that isn't novel. Quoting some work done last year "Running a 10,000-node Grid Engine Cluster in Amazon EC2": "Also, we mainly requested for spot instances because ..."

Doesn't make it less interesting for me though.

I totally agree with you, this slow down is expected. But, whereas some projects that get funded will have this slowdown close to or already after their goal* if at all, the Ubuntu Edge project is stalled at about one third of their stated goal. We can safely assume that everyone wanting a Ubuntu Edge, knowing about it, and with the money for it already donated. There will be no geeks pledging for the phone at the last minute. So, either at the end someone with lots of funds (and possibly connected to Canonical) just orders around 30 thousand of these phones so that the goal is met, or this campaign will fail.

* NOTE: I'm not trying to focus on the issues discussed on the Slashdot thread I linked to. Merely to the money they made relative to their goal.

This is no more than free publicity for Bloomberg then. They're pledging to give 80 thousand USD to a project if it gets fully funded. Said project after getting 7 million in the first 24 or 48 hours, has only managed to go up 1 more million in two weeks. And it needs 24 million more in the next two weeks!

Chances of actually having to give the 80 kUSD... close to 0. Free publicity... a lot!

Yes, that's what that means. It is said that these are merely monitors, they are not meant to kill all the bugs. Just like having a mouse trap empty does not mean no mice in your house, having no bedbugs in your trap does not mean no bedbugs. But, keep it there for n days and the 0.23^n chance of it consistently failing at catching something becomes negligible.

My guess is it wouldn't work as well (the entire plastic bowl + CO2 source thingy). It says in the article one of the main advantages of this contraption is the high walls that make it hard for the bugs to come out. Fleas would most likely just jump out of the trap once they realized there's CO2 in there but nothing to eat.

If you think Pussy Riot had all to do with the Orthodox Church and nothing to do with political activism against Putin, you got your story as wrong as Kremlin wanted you to.

In case you don't know the specific term for this (and how widespread it is): Parthenogenesis.

There are 4 questions in my comment. You decided to answer the sarcastic half. Could you please focus on the second half of the comment, the part of some that actual interest?

Because if you just buy Apple computers the problem magically gets solved? Aren't Macs produced in China? What about other companies (HP, Dell, etc.)? Which of them still produce the entire laptop (motherboard, RAM, SSD/HDD, etc.) in the US?

I didn't know that, thank you for the information. However, my point was not to say the Gates Foundation was equal to the Nobel foundation, just pointing out that investing the money is part of what they do. If the Gates foundation ends in 2080, I hope they invest their money rationally until the end in order to maximize the return it gives to society. Just because it's set to end in 5 years shouldn't mean let's stop investing and throw parties until we run out of cash.

Except that being next to equator does not guarantee "near perfect weather". Plenty of friends from places close to equator just say "back home we carried an umbrella every day even if it only rained once a week, because when it did it was pouring really hard.

And to further counter your example, the more artistic oriented among those friends, even after years of being in a place with significant seasonal changes really appreciate contrast of green summer bursting with activity and people vs the white winter of cold and quiet. Different people for different things, I guess.

Yes, the Gates Foundation should just use all its money this year and close shop by next year. That will do much better for humanity!

Guess what, wealth investing has to be a big part of any decent foundation's work. The Nobel Foundation has been around for 113 years and the way they did that was by investing the money they got in the first place. Otherwise it would have ran out a long time ago.

Replying to myself... always nice! At least it's for a clarification about the state of the world when it comes to iPhones.

I knew, unlike what my previous comment indicates, the differences in the size of the screen. But, quite frankly, they seem minute enough that I can't distinguish them unless they are next to each other. Individually, I can't spot the screen differences (once again, I haven't had enough time with either to figure that out).

Not the AC that wrote the text, but I want to contribute anyway. I'm by no means an ignorant when it comes to phones and stuff, but I'm not following the checking all the pics and following all the news on new phones. I guess I would call myself average on this field.

With that said until you described the differences (which I may now use to recognize it), the only way I knew to distinguish both was based on the connector. Small on the 5, big on everything else.

That's like saying there's a good reason McDonald's exists... we really needed crappy burgers and nature wasn't giving us any

The only reason multivitamins exists is because some people saw a market there and started selling them. Whether helped by a crazy chemist or not. It doesn't mean we need them. Hell, we've been in this planet for long and we never had the need for added doses of vitamins. What's with the 20th century, apart from crap food, that suddenly makes us need more vitamins? And if the problem is the crap food then clearly we don't need extra-vitamins per se, we need to revisit our dietary choices.