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Students will get this device for $35.

It is not just about courses in youtube. Quite a few courses are already available in the educational network in India. At present, only a small section of the students have access to these; that too, only at school. The main objective of the government is to provide means to access these courses.


goto is very useful in device drivers, especially in functions that require clean up (e.g., freeing memory) in case an error is detected.


This is no political gimmick. I am from Kerala, where Oommen Chandy is CM, and can quite understand what he is trying to achieve. Mr. Chandy is a straight forward and no non-sense person who speaks his mind. And he has created enough enemies in doing so. Now there are quite a lot of people who blame him for corruption for no reason. This is his way to put an end to such blame game; way easier than denying all allegations against him.


I know quite a few high level languages, but C is the main one. It is probably because I work on system software.

One good thing that I figured out is to learn concepts from high level languages and use them in C. I guess lot of people are doing the same.


And Nokia seems to be gambling like a startup. If the Atom based smartphone doesn't work out well, they may be wiped out of the smartphone market altogether. A MeeGo phone with a powerful ARM processor (OMPA4/Tegra2) may have been a safer bet.


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