Oklahoma City has a degree density of 159 degrees per square mile (from the survey) and 871.5 people/sq.mi (according to wikipedia). This means 0.18 degrees per person. San Francisco has, from the same sources, 7031 degrees and 17323 people per sq.mi. That is 0.41 degrees per person.
I don't know what the "expected concentration" is, but the educational density is clearly higher in SF.
Autorun should have been killed when Windows 95 was still around. It's such an obvious security risk.
Perhaps, but it was also extremely convenient for the common folk. Contrast "Insert the CD and follow the on-screen menu" to "Insert the cd. Click the start menu, point to All Programs, then Accessories, and finally click Windows Explorer. [snip explaining how to determine if your cdrom is D: or E: and how to run setup.exe]".
Once such a system is in place, it's hard for Microsoft to break compatibility ("Windows NT is so stupid, none of the CDs I inserted work!!")
In a better world, the CDs would have been signed from the start, and instead of autorun, you would have gotten some sort of Play button when the signatures checked out. Adding such a feature now would be less fruitful, since anyone who wanted to write a worm would join the masses of existing CDs and software developers set on the old way.
people who downloaded music spent more money on music (either discs, concerts or other products) than people who didn't download music
Even if this is true, it's a just a correlation. It does not imply that people who get to download freely will start buying more. If music is your life, you will probably be more prone to both buy and "try" music.
However, I suspect that if you can freely download music, you will buy more of it. Just a lot less than the amount you download. To pick something out of the air; if you listen to twice as much music for free, you might buy 5-10% more. Decrease in revenue per album: 45%. Increase in cost for the record label: 0%. Increase in profit: 5-10%.
the percentage of religious nutjobs outside of homeschooling is WAY higher than those inside
True. Almost all homeschooling parents I've met are normal, decent christians, while the public schools are full of crazy nutjobs worshipping the cult of their unholy prophet Darwin.
Second, as an author, I go through quite an effort to make sure that the spelling and grammar are correct throughout any work that I created. To have Amazon completely throw away my efforts and ruin my work would really anger me. This might encourage me to inhibit Amazon from selling any of my work.
Modifying spelling and grammar was just a secondary modification for patent blanketing. The main point was to replace words with their synonyms. You or your editor could go in and find 30 places where a word can be substituted for another, and you'd be able to generate a billion combinations. Chances are you even read the part I quoted without even noticing my modification.
"performing drive maintenance to combat performance-degrading results of prolonged usage, deletion of files"
This is what defragmentation does from the user's point of view, but not what it means. Defragmentation, as the word implies, is the process of reducing fragmentation, i.e. make files contiguous. This is achieved by moving chunks of data around, and the performance benefit comes from reducing the number of HD seeks required to read the data. Since a SSD is random-access, it doesn't have to seek so defragmentation is pointless. It just eats precious write cycles.
Garbage collection, on the other hand, is the process of reclaiming memory that is no longer used and putting it back in the usable memory pool. This is exactly what this technology does.
Indeed. This study was about mortality rates in adults over 12 years. If you're under 50, sitting on your ass all day is extremely safe. When you're 80+, being overweight could just mean you're not currently wasting away from cancer or some other illness.
They can't beat Google on results, so perhaps they want to talk schools and libraries into setting Microsoft Bing as their search page?
India is a huge source of new IT users with no existing search engine relationship. If Microsoft can make Bing their first exposure to web searches by playing the morality card, they could win a significant amount of users.
I've yet to find one instance in my work (IT manager over about 60 people in a large government agency with roughly 60 servers, 1,500 staff members and 18TB of data online) where I had to fill out a scantron form or decide which option was best - a, b, c, d, or all of the above.
Really, you've never had to pick one of five options? What kind of managing do you do?
The hope is to incorporate the new nanogenerator into biosensors, environmental monitoring devices and even personal electronics that will require no fuel source, internal or external.
Ehm.. There would be an external fuel source: the body.
Please NOTE that downloading and installing w32codecs, libdvdcss2 and other non-free codecs without paying a fee to the concerned authorities constitutes a CRIME in the United State of America.
The message continues like this for a couple more paragraphs and I'm left wondering: who are these codecs aimed at? People who just don't mind breaking the law (like file-sharers) or people who never read EULAs and dialog boxes and simply click the OK button?
Or.. uhm.. people who aren't Americans?
I'm sure I'll burn some karma here, but there are a lot of crazy laws in the world. The Chinese censorship, the Arabic ban on porn, the American DMCA. If you download a distro from a free part of the world, you can't expect it to fully comply with your particular regime out of the box.
Ubuntu is kind enough to warn Americans. You should consider yourself lucky, as this is far more heed than it would pay other yet-another-crazy-national-laws.
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This list is fake.
Oklahoma City has a degree density of 159 degrees per square mile (from the survey) and 871.5 people/sq.mi (according to wikipedia). This means 0.18 degrees per person.
San Francisco has, from the same sources, 7031 degrees and 17323 people per sq.mi. That is 0.41 degrees per person.
I don't know what the "expected concentration" is, but the educational density is clearly higher in SF.
If it's the fat you're after, oil is much cheaper and more pure. Mayonnaise is just about being delicious.
Making potato chips less unhealthy is equivalent to making them healthier. No one's saying "healthy", just "healthier".
As Donald Knuth once said, "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
He could probably have sold it a hundred times to a hundred different buyers.
Autorun should have been killed when Windows 95 was still around. It's such an obvious security risk.
Perhaps, but it was also extremely convenient for the common folk. Contrast "Insert the CD and follow the on-screen menu" to "Insert the cd. Click the start menu, point to All Programs, then Accessories, and finally click Windows Explorer. [snip explaining how to determine if your cdrom is D: or E: and how to run setup.exe]".
Once such a system is in place, it's hard for Microsoft to break compatibility ("Windows NT is so stupid, none of the CDs I inserted work!!")
In a better world, the CDs would have been signed from the start, and instead of autorun, you would have gotten some sort of Play button when the signatures checked out. Adding such a feature now would be less fruitful, since anyone who wanted to write a worm would join the masses of existing CDs and software developers set on the old way.
How about if it was a group of recent divorcees or depressed teenagers?
This is an extremely cynical way of selling a $75 book, but as you say, freedom of information means for everyone.
people who downloaded music spent more money on music (either discs, concerts or other products) than people who didn't download music
Even if this is true, it's a just a correlation. It does not imply that people who get to download freely will start buying more. If music is your life, you will probably be more prone to both buy and "try" music.
However, I suspect that if you can freely download music, you will buy more of it. Just a lot less than the amount you download. To pick something out of the air; if you listen to twice as much music for free, you might buy 5-10% more. Decrease in revenue per album: 45%. Increase in cost for the record label: 0%. Increase in profit: 5-10%.
the percentage of religious nutjobs outside of homeschooling is WAY higher than those inside
True. Almost all homeschooling parents I've met are normal, decent christians, while the public schools are full of crazy nutjobs worshipping the cult of their unholy prophet Darwin.
Second, as an author, I go through quite an effort to make sure that the spelling and grammar are correct throughout any work that I created. To have Amazon completely throw away my efforts and ruin my work would really anger me. This might encourage me to inhibit Amazon from selling any of my work.
Modifying spelling and grammar was just a secondary modification for patent blanketing. The main point was to replace words with their synonyms. You or your editor could go in and find 30 places where a word can be substituted for another, and you'd be able to generate a billion combinations. Chances are you even read the part I quoted without even noticing my modification.
On GNU/Linux you have /dev/shm, which is tmpfs by default.
(Yes, "GNU/Linux". It's a requirement for posix shm in glibc.)
"performing drive maintenance to combat performance-degrading results of prolonged usage, deletion of files"
This is what defragmentation does from the user's point of view, but not what it means. Defragmentation, as the word implies, is the process of reducing fragmentation, i.e. make files contiguous. This is achieved by moving chunks of data around, and the performance benefit comes from reducing the number of HD seeks required to read the data. Since a SSD is random-access, it doesn't have to seek so defragmentation is pointless. It just eats precious write cycles.
Garbage collection, on the other hand, is the process of reclaiming memory that is no longer used and putting it back in the usable memory pool. This is exactly what this technology does.
Each particle represents a tweet - click on one of them and it'll appear on the screen.
Is it just me or does it seem to pick a random one regardless of where you click?
This is a reference to a South Park episode about a (very) personal transportation device simply called "IT".
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Is he also proficient with using a morse code transmitter?
Scotty? Yes, obviously.
Indeed. This study was about mortality rates in adults over 12 years. If you're under 50, sitting on your ass all day is extremely safe.
When you're 80+, being overweight could just mean you're not currently wasting away from cancer or some other illness.
They can't beat Google on results, so perhaps they want to talk schools and libraries into setting Microsoft Bing as their search page?
India is a huge source of new IT users with no existing search engine relationship. If Microsoft can make Bing their first exposure to web searches by playing the morality card, they could win a significant amount of users.
There are some jobs where you really shouldn't express dissatisfaction by spitting in the products.
dd bs=1M seek=1024 count=0 of=swapfile is even faster, but Linux at least refuses to use sparse files for swap.
* is a bitch to install (don't you love those 40 character CD keys?)
If that's all it takes to make you think the installation is a bitch, you should try Linux.
The site appears to be slashdotted at the moment, here's a google cache link: http://tinyurl.com/6rsjmz
I've yet to find one instance in my work (IT manager over about 60 people in a large government agency with roughly 60 servers, 1,500 staff members and 18TB of data online) where I had to fill out a scantron form or decide which option was best - a, b, c, d, or all of the above.
Really, you've never had to pick one of five options? What kind of managing do you do?
The six data centers currently take up over 8 million square feet, or the size of nearly 140 football fields.
In metric, that would be around 104 soccer fields.
The hope is to incorporate the new nanogenerator into biosensors, environmental monitoring devices and even personal electronics that will require no fuel source, internal or external.
Ehm.. There would be an external fuel source: the body.
Please NOTE that downloading and installing w32codecs, libdvdcss2 and other non-free codecs without paying a fee to the concerned authorities constitutes a CRIME in the United State of America.
The message continues like this for a couple more paragraphs and I'm left wondering: who are these codecs aimed at? People who just don't mind breaking the law (like file-sharers) or people who never read EULAs and dialog boxes and simply click the OK button?
Or.. uhm.. people who aren't Americans?
I'm sure I'll burn some karma here, but there are a lot of crazy laws in the world. The Chinese censorship, the Arabic ban on porn, the American DMCA. If you download a distro from a free part of the world, you can't expect it to fully comply with your particular regime out of the box.
Ubuntu is kind enough to warn Americans. You should consider yourself lucky, as this is far more heed than it would pay other yet-another-crazy-national-laws.