Unlike other social networking sites like Facebook.com, men are almost twice as likely to follow other men on Twitter than they were to follow women, according to the study.
The Harvard study examined public entries of a randomly selected group of 300,000 Twitter users. The researchers studied in May the content created in the lifetime of the users' Twitter accounts.
It found that 10 percent of Twitter users generated more than 90 percent of the content, said Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, who led the research.
More than half of all Twitter users post messages on the site less than once every 74 days.
The median number of lifetime "tweets" per user is just one, according the research.
Twitter gets a lot of hype, but aside from everyone who's doing it in an attempt to cash in one way or another, nothing to see there...
As a wise police officer once told me: "You can't outrun radio waves, son"
At that speed, you don't have to... if they can't read the license plate, or even see if there IS a license plate, they can't do a whole heck of a lot. 300 to 400 mph is FAST. A friend of mine actually managed to make a stock car street legal, and he told me that, at the speeds he would do once a year (he only did about 1,500 miles per year with it, since it needed a complete engine rebuild after a few "runs"), "you know the striped lane dividers - at that speed, it's a solid white line." He blew by a radar trap, drove for a few more minutes, and parked in a restaurant. 10 minutes later, the cops came in, arguing as to whether the car in the parking lot was his. After they told him that they couldn't make a positive identification, they asked him to open the hood, just so they could take a look-see. They were impressed.
In fact, there is no RAID configuration at all that is slower than a single drive in the array so in fact there is never a penalty for using RAID.
Not true. Try this: instead of creating a 4-disk raid, split your 4 disks into/,/home,/var, and/srv - you save a lot of overhead associated with parity info on both reads and writes, AND you have the advantage of only accessing one drive for any particular piece of information (whether for reading or writing) so your log file doesn't interfere with your database which doesn't interfere with loading shared objects which doesn't interfere with that image you're editing in your home directory. Lower cpu load, better drive cache usage, less head movement (only one drive needs to seek to write any particular piece of data), less wear and tear, and less heat buildup. Using the same 4 drives in a RAID results in less performance and more wear and tear, and a loss of 25% of capacity...
If you're worried about data integrity, buy a second computer and back it up. Drives on the same machine are NOT a data integrity OR a backup solution. Neither are RAID - unless it's a distributed redundant RAID - and you'll have a second box in such cases, so what's the point?
making reads quicker (mirrored disks, and sometimes, but not necessarily, RAID5/6), though you have a performance penalty for writes
My software RAID6 arrays have higher read and write speed than a single drive. Read speed is limited by bus bandwidth, and write speed is limited by seek time and CPU time.
... and my setting up this box with / on one drive,/home on another,/var on another, and/srv on yet another also resulted in much-improved read and write speed... and in this case it has nothing to do with RAID, but allowing files to be read and written on multiple drives + multiple controllers + multiple caches. Improved performance without any of the overhead of doing parity calculations to support RAID... and a lot less disk wear, and less heat, since each write is to only one disk, not all the drives in a RAID.
RAID 1 hopefully prevents that a server will go down and it makes it possible to easily replace a bad disk.
I would guess that the key word there is "hopefully" - various RAID configurations can help when it's just a disk failure, but they do nothing if the problem was elsewhere - like a motherboard that takes out all the drives.
Also, by the time one disk fails in a RAID, there's a good chance that the others are ready to give up the ghost as well, so you stand a good chance of having another failure while you're trying to rebuild the array - most likely from a previously-unseen error on one of the existing disks. After all, the hardware doesn't know that sector you wrote a year ago is unreadable until it tries to restore it...
Scientists have put the commonly-cited five-second rule to the test. They found that food that comes into contact with a tile or wood floor does pick up large amounts of bacteria. Food doesn't pick up many germs when it hits carpet, but it does pick up carpet fuzz.
Since this is slashdot, I'd bet most will pick bacteria over carpet fuzz any day... after all, if it doesn't look fuzzy...
many people believe that gastric acid enzymes found in the stomach are strong enough to destroy the "small, harmless" amount of bacteria that could gather on a piece of food in five seconds. But are these bacteria really harmless?
In 2003, Jillian Clarke, then a high school senior, decided she wanted to find out. During an internship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she and a doctoral candidate, Meredith Agle, took swab samples from floors all over the campus, including labs, hallways, and bathrooms, and found that the amount of bacteria on the floors was very low. When she published her research, she concluded that if a piece of food falls on a relatively clean floor, the five-second rule is, in fact, applicable.
It definitely wasn't all Bush II's fault - a LOT of the blame has to go to Reaganomics. Trickle-down economics didn't work then, and Obama's version (bail out the "too big to fail" is trickle-down economics, but with even less trickle-down effect) is just as destructive.
And yes, I agree, the Fed needs to be investigated.
If you're going to move to Kanuckistan, sooner is always better than later.
If you're going to call something on an absorbent pad a wing because it bears a passing resemblance to a real wing then you shouldn't have a problem calling satellite solar panels wings - they look much more like real wings.
Next you're going to say that Red Bull does give you wings... it doesn't... same as sanitary napkins don't have wings either... just like the satellite doesn't have a "wingspan".
I want to live in your magical world where handheld RFID scanners just need to be pointed in the general direction of the tags and can be depended on to catch 100% of the tags without human supervision.
Savi's tags and readers include large data capacity, choke point location capabilities (door, gate, etc.), programmability as long as the reader-tag link is "solid", and 3-7 year battery life, depending on tag type, usage, and environment.
Read range can exceed 300 feet though our guaranteed range is 300 feet for most applications. Readers are omni-directional so that this should be interpreted as 300 feet radius which provides a coverage circle of 600 feet diameter.
We also provide handheld readers with range capability up to 150 feet.
Our EchoPoint tags can be used at a door (including dock doors) or at a 15-20 foot wide access gate with passing speeds up to 40 MPH with multiple tags in the field and at higher speed when only a few tags are present on a vehicle and or trailer or shipping containe
So unless the cattle is moving at more than 40MPH when they're being running up the ramp into the back of the truck, they can be read by a handheld unit.
Many people are wondering wtf would anyone use this for... and interestingly enough I was just watching a news report that was describing why ranchers out in the middle of nowhere were against the US government's upcoming law that may require them to tag and track every beef cattle during its travel from the birth canal to the slaughter house. Most ranchers said they have no way of uploading tagging and tracking data when out in the middle of their 1000 acre land, and would cause most small beef producers to go out of business because they couldn't be compliant with the law.
Their arguments were all straw-man arguments. For the one you cite, they could have scanned, then uploaded the data when they returned to the homestead. Onoe of their other arguments was that they couldn't get the cattle into a truck with one hand and hold the scanner with the other - also a straw man - you can just hang the RFID tag reader on the truck's ramp and let it read the tags as the cattle enter the truck - but a 5-cent zip tie or a strip of duct-tape is unthinkable.
Really? Are you trying to say that you and other retarded republicans don't enjoy oral?
Your comment is just one more reason to be thankful that I don't live in the U. S. of A.
Then again, I wouldn't fit - not obese, don't vote along party lines like a sheeple, know the difference between capitalism and corporate welfare, between a democracy and an oligarchy, can find my country on a map, speak moe than one language, think gay marriage is fine and that God has no place in politics... I just wouldn't fit in, neither with the "retarded republicans" nor the "retarded democrats".... it's obvious neither party has the answers, just borrow and spend and blame everyone else and kick the can down the road for the next person to deal with.
Thinking you can fix a debt problem by doubling the debt yet again in the next 5-1/2 years is what's retarded.
After over 6 months on the market, I realized that the program would never just sell itself, and that I need some real marketing done for it.
Write a program that will "just sell itself" and you'll be set... at least until the program becomes self-aware and realizes it doesn't need YOU!
Or viral marketing. Just look at all the malware that tell people that their PCs need to buy anti-virus software... now that's viral marketing.
Or figure some pr0n angle. Everyone knows the Internet is for pr0n. You can call it the "FapMaster 3000" or something... Get Billy Mays to... on second thought...
Call it the "Jacksonator"... people are buying anything that mentions Jocko nowadays - a plain white box will do for shipping, and when people call for refunds, say "Just Beat It!"
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On the other hand, a shorter DNA strand has less room for errors that might be non-life threatening.
Meaning duplication errors are magnified.
... but since those duplication errors ARE life-threatening, they get removed from the gene pool more efficiently. So over time, the shorter genes would tend to have better duplication, since the ones that don't duplicate properly are culled much more ruthlessly (ok - "ruthlessly" is an anthropomorphism - but you know what I mean).
So then we have the competition being between longer gene strands that aren't as efficient in duplicating, allowing more errors, and shorter genes that are better at making near-perfect copies of themselves. The shorter ones would tend to dominate - sort of like an evolutionary "principle of parsimony" - the shortest gene sequence that gets the job done wins.
Go to the aforementioned third party and have it replaced with an aftermarket part - the maker of which had to pay Ford for the plans, rights, and maybe even royalties.
Absolutely false. Aftermarket parts such as mufflers, shocks, air filters, spark plugs, rims, brake pads, shoes, calipers, suspension parts, etc., aren't made from plans purchased from the assemblers (Ford is a car assembler, not a manufacturer). Your aftermarket muffler is 100% non-Ford - no licenses, no permits, no royalties, no other rights needed.
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The median twitter user makes one post, then abandons the account.
It doesn't mention mac usage ...
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/146975,just-a-few-on-twitter-do-all-the-tweeting---study.aspx
Twitter gets a lot of hype, but aside from everyone who's doing it in an attempt to cash in one way or another, nothing to see there ...
At that speed, you don't have to ... if they can't read the license plate, or even see if there IS a license plate, they can't do a whole heck of a lot. 300 to 400 mph is FAST. A friend of mine actually managed to make a stock car street legal, and he told me that, at the speeds he would do once a year (he only did about 1,500 miles per year with it, since it needed a complete engine rebuild after a few "runs"), "you know the striped lane dividers - at that speed, it's a solid white line." He blew by a radar trap, drove for a few more minutes, and parked in a restaurant. 10 minutes later, the cops came in, arguing as to whether the car in the parking lot was his. After they told him that they couldn't make a positive identification, they asked him to open the hood, just so they could take a look-see. They were impressed.
$550,000, same 0-60 acceleration, MUCH higher top speed (420 mph/ 676 km/h). So what if it isn't completely street-legal ... even if the cops bought a Veyron, they'd be eating your dust ...
Not true. Try this: instead of creating a 4-disk raid, split your 4 disks into /, /home, /var, and /srv - you save a lot of overhead associated with parity info on both reads and writes, AND you have the advantage of only accessing one drive for any particular piece of information (whether for reading or writing) so your log file doesn't interfere with your database which doesn't interfere with loading shared objects which doesn't interfere with that image you're editing in your home directory. Lower cpu load, better drive cache usage, less head movement (only one drive needs to seek to write any particular piece of data), less wear and tear, and less heat buildup. Using the same 4 drives in a RAID results in less performance and more wear and tear, and a loss of 25% of capacity ...
If you're worried about data integrity, buy a second computer and back it up. Drives on the same machine are NOT a data integrity OR a backup solution. Neither are RAID - unless it's a distributed redundant RAID - and you'll have a second box in such cases, so what's the point?
The improvement is huge ...
I would guess that the key word there is "hopefully" - various RAID configurations can help when it's just a disk failure, but they do nothing if the problem was elsewhere - like a motherboard that takes out all the drives.
Also, by the time one disk fails in a RAID, there's a good chance that the others are ready to give up the ghost as well, so you stand a good chance of having another failure while you're trying to rebuild the array - most likely from a previously-unseen error on one of the existing disks. After all, the hardware doesn't know that sector you wrote a year ago is unreadable until it tries to restore it ...
Since this is slashdot, I'd bet most will pick bacteria over carpet fuzz any day ... after all, if it doesn't look fuzzy ...
or this ...
FAT32? You are fucking lame!
There, fixed it for you.
What RAID is good for:
Better to just throw a disk in an old machine and back up to it regularly.
It definitely wasn't all Bush II's fault - a LOT of the blame has to go to Reaganomics. Trickle-down economics didn't work then, and Obama's version (bail out the "too big to fail" is trickle-down economics, but with even less trickle-down effect) is just as destructive.
And yes, I agree, the Fed needs to be investigated.
If you're going to move to Kanuckistan, sooner is always better than later.
Next you're going to say that Red Bull does give you wings ... it doesn't ... same as sanitary napkins don't have wings either ... just like the satellite doesn't have a "wingspan".
Well, they've got a miniaturized one that fits in a wristwatch and runs linux ... but the pizza-box antenna that comes with it is a bit of a downer ...
You're already in it. Hand-held readers for active tags have a range of 150 feet.
From the product blurb:
So unless the cattle is moving at more than 40MPH when they're being running up the ramp into the back of the truck, they can be read by a handheld unit.
Or if you want passive hand-helds - this one is good for 3'.
Other portables: This one does 3' to 10' (adjustable), and another one that does 6', so what's your beef?
Their arguments were all straw-man arguments. For the one you cite, they could have scanned, then uploaded the data when they returned to the homestead. Onoe of their other arguments was that they couldn't get the cattle into a truck with one hand and hold the scanner with the other - also a straw man - you can just hang the RFID tag reader on the truck's ramp and let it read the tags as the cattle enter the truck - but a 5-cent zip tie or a strip of duct-tape is unthinkable.
Satellites aren't like kotex - they don't have wings. Even drinking Red Bull won't change that.
Your comment is just one more reason to be thankful that I don't live in the U. S. of A.
Then again, I wouldn't fit - not obese, don't vote along party lines like a sheeple, know the difference between capitalism and corporate welfare, between a democracy and an oligarchy, can find my country on a map, speak moe than one language, think gay marriage is fine and that God has no place in politics ... I just wouldn't fit in, neither with the "retarded republicans" nor the "retarded democrats" .... it's obvious neither party has the answers, just borrow and spend and blame everyone else and kick the can down the road for the next person to deal with.
Thinking you can fix a debt problem by doubling the debt yet again in the next 5-1/2 years is what's retarded.
Could be worse ... one woman tried to sue a local sex shop because she claimed her dildo impregnated her when the batteries leaked.
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Speaking of receipts - wouldt paying for getting a "Monica" now be tax-deductible as preventative medicine or something?
Which is worse - that adults play with them, or that they admit it? In a poll, either one would be the CowboyNeal option ...
So then we have the competition being between longer gene strands that aren't as efficient in duplicating, allowing more errors, and shorter genes that are better at making near-perfect copies of themselves. The shorter ones would tend to dominate - sort of like an evolutionary "principle of parsimony" - the shortest gene sequence that gets the job done wins.
Absolutely false. Aftermarket parts such as mufflers, shocks, air filters, spark plugs, rims, brake pads, shoes, calipers, suspension parts, etc., aren't made from plans purchased from the assemblers (Ford is a car assembler, not a manufacturer). Your aftermarket muffler is 100% non-Ford - no licenses, no permits, no royalties, no other rights needed.