Pretty remarkable considering that e-books aren't technically printed... Painted? maybe. Rendered? perhaps. Printed? only if it is flat text with no formatting info.
Q: "SSD Price Drops Signaling End of Spinning Media?" A: No
Let's face it, a hard drive to hard drive is currently the backup method of choice. Anyone who denies it can be pointed to a plethora of, "Ask Slashdot: How do I store my data?" discussions. Just like when tape drives could store more than the systems hard disk, a hard disk offers to hold more than the average SSD. Never mind the fact that when an SSD fails, it's more than likely end-game for your data. But when a HDD fails, there's any number of data recovery companies at hand to restore it.
The introduction of SSDs will add pep to the computers we use, but hard drives will continue to be the workhorse for storing the bulk of our data for a long while to come.
When I was running a (now defunct) website, I noted that the ads were the slowest part of my site to load. My solution was to take all the static images and, with a little help of some additional PHP into my existing image system, I cached them. This sped up the loading of the page dramatically and allowed me to refresh my ad-cache when my site traffic was low.
I recommend you FedEx half a dozen packs of frozen peas to your hotel before you leave. There's two reasons for this.
1. When you're asked if you want mushy or regular peas you can say, "None, thanks. I brought my own." at which point you pull the bag of peas out of your pocket and enjoy some rather cold, but edible peas.
2. When you make some off hand remark about the Redskins best football team ever to your traveling companion, you can say to the passing soccer goon who hadn't realized you were an American, "No thanks, I brought my own." at which point you pull the bag of peas out of your pocket and enjoy a rather cold press against your blackened eye.
research also raises question marks over the legendary reliability of Macs
My University leased laptops to all the students. The art majors made a stink about IBM lappies and the second or third year into the program, they began leasing Macs to art majors... long story short: the Macs had a higher DOA rate than the IBM lappies.
i += 4;/* Ignore the first 4 billing fields preceding payment info. */ Better - describes what is ignored.
i += 4;/* Ignore the first 4 billPayChk() billing fields preceding payment info. */ Best
Having been the last step in a 4 tier support team for years, I've seen my fair share of bad comments in code (oh, the number of times I've wanted to utter, "no $%!7, Sherlock" while debugging). The most helpful comments skipped entirely the WHAT the code was doing and went straight to the why and pointed me to more info. Info is sometimes an old support log, a technical document or another place in the code. Generally speaking, comments like this can save hours of debugging/troubleshooting an issue found by users in the field.
When I'm curious about a distro, I test ride it on VirtualBox as it minimizes the amount of time I waste on the distro. That's not to say that all Linux distros are a waste of time... My advice is that you install a few apps and go through a couple of updates in the virtual machine before you spend any time on doing an install on a real machine.
When people come to me with that kind of problem enough times, I simply revoke their administrative privileges on the computer. However, I still give them the password to the Administrator user. This lets them install apps without having to harass me to do it and keeps nasty stuff from doing too much when the user does something stupid.
Still. You gotta' wonder how *exactly* they're counting. There's, "Ha! I made Firefox crash" vulnerabilities and then there's "Ha. I just executed arbitrary code on your computer."
...and the moment someone reads the text, they'll be infected with a strain of H1N1 that causes them to dream of of nude pigs made to look like Rick Astley.
This aught to make supermarkets happy as it's bound to cut down on the number of cashiers entering organic produce (e.g. 94011 - organic bananas, 94664 - organic vine tomatoes) as regular, less expensive, produce (4011 - bananas, 4664 vine tomatoes).
I think people tend to forget that the X.10 versions of Ubuntu are considered to be less stable than the X.04 versions. They're meant to be the version before the next increment to the major (e.g. 9.10 to 10.04) number and it's expected that there will be kinks to iron out. The point is to make the upcoming X.04 version stable. If you don't want to be stung, don't install a X.10 version. Then again, I've never had an issue with a X.10 versions (namely, 8.10 and 9.10). In fact, they tend to fix my hardware issues from the previous version.
Well, I see a slew of problems with using Toughbooks from 2001, but I think the point that's easiest to make without writing a whole college length essay on the matter is that it'd be hard to collect 50,000 (the number of OLPCs sold to Mexico) Toughbooks, let alone the 260,000 sold to Peru (soruce). Even if they did have Toshiba or some other company make brand new machines, doing so at the $100 that they were originally shooting for would be impossible as no such machine existed at that price point when OLPC started.
So, assuming the OP is right, they're basically open-sourcing a telephone where the only thing you can change is where the numbers are placed and what the handset looks like. Maybe I'm missing the point, but how does this benefit anyone?
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E-Books Are Only 6% of Printed Book Sales
Pretty remarkable considering that e-books aren't technically printed ... Painted? maybe. Rendered? perhaps. Printed? only if it is flat text with no formatting info.
Q: "SSD Price Drops Signaling End of Spinning Media?" A: No
Let's face it, a hard drive to hard drive is currently the backup method of choice. Anyone who denies it can be pointed to a plethora of, "Ask Slashdot: How do I store my data?" discussions. Just like when tape drives could store more than the systems hard disk, a hard disk offers to hold more than the average SSD. Never mind the fact that when an SSD fails, it's more than likely end-game for your data. But when a HDD fails, there's any number of data recovery companies at hand to restore it.
The introduction of SSDs will add pep to the computers we use, but hard drives will continue to be the workhorse for storing the bulk of our data for a long while to come.
Let's pull out Occam's razor and shave a bit...
If you wanted to blow up a bridge, wouldn't it help to know how bridges are built?
There. Fixed that for you.
Oh my! Such profanity!
I suggested to my wife we try the sextruplet system with my big dipper and the neighbors, but she would have none of it.
...and I can open a Doublemeat Palace.
When I was running a (now defunct) website, I noted that the ads were the slowest part of my site to load. My solution was to take all the static images and, with a little help of some additional PHP into my existing image system, I cached them. This sped up the loading of the page dramatically and allowed me to refresh my ad-cache when my site traffic was low.
You must be a consultant. Oh, wait, that was a question. You must be the manager of a team of software engineers.
You bring up an interesting point. On second thought, I'll be Riker.
If it means that we can travel through space at FTL speeds, I'll buy it. Heck. I'll take two, but if I do, you have to let me be Worf.
I recommend you FedEx half a dozen packs of frozen peas to your hotel before you leave. There's two reasons for this.
1. When you're asked if you want mushy or regular peas you can say, "None, thanks. I brought my own." at which point you pull the bag of peas out of your pocket and enjoy some rather cold, but edible peas.
2. When you make some off hand remark about the Redskins best football team ever to your traveling companion, you can say to the passing soccer goon who hadn't realized you were an American, "No thanks, I brought my own." at which point you pull the bag of peas out of your pocket and enjoy a rather cold press against your blackened eye.
My University leased laptops to all the students. The art majors made a stink about IBM lappies and the second or third year into the program, they began leasing Macs to art majors ... long story short: the Macs had a higher DOA rate than the IBM lappies.
Also, check out freemesa.org for your area.
Having been the last step in a 4 tier support team for years, I've seen my fair share of bad comments in code (oh, the number of times I've wanted to utter, "no $%!7, Sherlock" while debugging). The most helpful comments skipped entirely the WHAT the code was doing and went straight to the why and pointed me to more info. Info is sometimes an old support log, a technical document or another place in the code. Generally speaking, comments like this can save hours of debugging/troubleshooting an issue found by users in the field.
When I'm curious about a distro, I test ride it on VirtualBox as it minimizes the amount of time I waste on the distro. That's not to say that all Linux distros are a waste of time ... My advice is that you install a few apps and go through a couple of updates in the virtual machine before you spend any time on doing an install on a real machine.
When people come to me with that kind of problem enough times, I simply revoke their administrative privileges on the computer. However, I still give them the password to the Administrator user. This lets them install apps without having to harass me to do it and keeps nasty stuff from doing too much when the user does something stupid.
Still. You gotta' wonder how *exactly* they're counting. There's, "Ha! I made Firefox crash" vulnerabilities and then there's "Ha. I just executed arbitrary code on your computer."
...and the moment someone reads the text, they'll be infected with a strain of H1N1 that causes them to dream of of nude pigs made to look like Rick Astley.
Anybody else configuring the HealBot addon for WoW in the back of their mind?
This aught to make supermarkets happy as it's bound to cut down on the number of cashiers entering organic produce (e.g. 94011 - organic bananas, 94664 - organic vine tomatoes) as regular, less expensive, produce (4011 - bananas, 4664 vine tomatoes).
I think people tend to forget that the X.10 versions of Ubuntu are considered to be less stable than the X.04 versions. They're meant to be the version before the next increment to the major (e.g. 9.10 to 10.04) number and it's expected that there will be kinks to iron out. The point is to make the upcoming X.04 version stable. If you don't want to be stung, don't install a X.10 version. Then again, I've never had an issue with a X.10 versions (namely, 8.10 and 9.10). In fact, they tend to fix my hardware issues from the previous version.
Well, I see a slew of problems with using Toughbooks from 2001, but I think the point that's easiest to make without writing a whole college length essay on the matter is that it'd be hard to collect 50,000 (the number of OLPCs sold to Mexico) Toughbooks, let alone the 260,000 sold to Peru (soruce). Even if they did have Toshiba or some other company make brand new machines, doing so at the $100 that they were originally shooting for would be impossible as no such machine existed at that price point when OLPC started.
Take my floppies, please!
...no, seriously, take them. My wife will thank you.
So, assuming the OP is right, they're basically open-sourcing a telephone where the only thing you can change is where the numbers are placed and what the handset looks like. Maybe I'm missing the point, but how does this benefit anyone?