The run away inflation scenario you describe would only happen if the money supply grew as exponentially, which no competent central bank will allow to happen.

To be sure, minimum wage will contribute to inflation, but not in any catastrophic sort of way. Earning minimum wage does not mean a person will suddenly be able to afford to pay double for basics such as food, healthcare, transport etc. Earning at that level pretty much just means a person makes just enough to scrap by and not starve or die in the cold.

The goal of minimum wage is not to make anyone rich, rather it is to ensure a minimum standard of living among those who work at the lowest rung and the money for this increased payroll to come from corporate profits.

I think it's because the Roomba is autonomous, where as the Washing Machine is comparable to a Vacuum Cleaner -- a user is required to operate it.

If they made a Washing Machine that would load, sort, dry and fold your laundry all by itself, and all you had to do was sporadically top up the consumables and empty out the trap, i think it would qualify as a robot too.

Erm. Google already HAS changed the world. What they are doing now is using their success to help push the frontiers of Science, to make Science cool again. How is this not a good thing?

Yep. Each time the so called libertarians come out with their spiel, I am reminded of the quote "In a democracy your vote counts, in feudalism your count votes."

Essentially they want the world to go back to an era when the rich and endowed had all the power and the poor could go get fucked.

Main reason is that a more contemporary DSLR sensor is actually more sensitive even tho it's surface area is smaller due to advances in semiconductor fabrication etc. On top of that, a new camera would have a much better image processor.

At the end of the day, what we want to achieve is not just high sensitivity in low light, but vibrancy of colour and fine detail in low light.

I would actually like to see them implement this in a still camera. Cut the megapixels down to 2 or 3 (this is more then enough to put online and ), and make it 7x more sensitive than today's still cameras.

That need not even be the case. You could still do it in 35mm, 1080p HD video is roughy 2.1 megapixels, where as the EOS1DX is 18.1mp.

So there is definitely enough room to make pixels 7 times larger than a EOS1DX

We need to make more of this Cluebat you speak of and gangrape a few companies...

In the end, Groupon is just a marketing tool. It's up to you to be smart about using it. If repeat business does not happen, it's more likely a weakness of your business model than Groupon's fault.

I once bought a coupon for a restaurant. The food was bad and when I complained, I was insulted by the owner.

Needless to say, I did not go back, and it's really not Groupons fault.

Yeah, I consult on it. xD

You're looking at it the wrong way. The device works, but like most things man made, it has shortcomings. Imagine the learning experience the kids will have in overcoming these limitations.

What if the next version of the R-Pi contains a fix to these problems developed by a bunch of kids in one of those schools? Wouldn't that be cool?

If it's strictly SMS, I seldom use it. These days all I get are SMS spam, and the OTP tokens whenever I bank online. Why pay 10c a message when i can Whatsapp, gtalk or facebook message on my phone for the price of my data plan?

How is this bad? I sometimes exploit this by typing a location into the general search bar, fully expecting a google maps result to click on.

If i wanted BingMaps i would have used bing instead.

For photoshop i guess. But CS4 was when it really got good for working stiffs. Multiple artboards in Illustrator and InDesign gets dragged kicking and screaming into the digital distribution age. I never looked back.

"1 millilitre is 1 cubic centimetre (CC) of water (1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm), 1 litre is 1000 CC's"

And the most practical part is that 1000cc = 1 litre = 1kg of water.

How heavy is a jug of water? Just look at the volume.