In questo secondo articolo vedremo come pilotare un sensore sonico sul vostro Arduino. Il sensore sonico più citato su internet è il Ping))) della Parallax. In realtà ne esistono anche altri, ma poiché non sembrano più convenienti, useremo il Ping.

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There is a future for SmallTalk? I was a very strong fan of the SmallTalk language, but in the last five years I have seen more and more contraction of its usage in the IT field.

The OLPC project, which uses also Squeak Smalltalk and its done by the core team fo Squeak, is not going very well.

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Oracle buys BEA and Sun buys MySql.

In reply,Migrosoft is hungry and is watching Yahoo :-)

<joking> 

Any bets on the next money-based-news?

I'm going for

• Oracle buys Sun: "We need more hardware to run Oracle and WebLogic together! "
  
• Google buys Oracle: "We have *even* more hardware...come on!"
  
• Apple buys Google: "So nice LOGO", retrodating a bunch of stock options, I suppose.
  
• Microsoft buys Apple ("So annoied their are more cool then us!") and shut down all them all so you will end up using their search engine, I hope.

</joking> 

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The trends of this october are about some upcoming products. A clear analisys of QuarkXPress failure is sketched in roughlydrafted site. I do not think the same consideration can be applied to Vista.

As Joel said, M$ can throw away much money before only starting to see its market reduced.

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