Except that from 1970 to 2008 (years for which data is available), per capita GDP of the Dominican Republic went from 50% of Cuba's to 87% of Cuba's. The HDI has improved more as well.
You heard wrong. The estimate is that it will account for about 20% of Amazon's profit in 2013. It is growing faster than the rest of their business, though.
Just go to Vegas or look up the current World Cup odds at any online sportsbook and it is very likely that these odds are better predictions than whatever they came up. These sportsbook odds are based on actual money bet by people who know something about sports betting instead of financial types. If these quants were actually confident that they had some sort of an edge, they would put their money where their mouths are (and affect these sportsbook odds). Of course, these sportsbook odds are also affected by amateurs, but the same is true with almost anything else, like the stock market. Another issue is the smaller liquidity compared to the stock market, but the amount of money bet on the World Cup should be large enough to make it less of an issue.
The big issue is that you cannot take the word of hard drive manufacturers about drives' reliability at a face value. Google's study (PDF) and CMU's study show much higher real-life HDD failure rates than you would get from manufacturers' MTBF claims. RAID 1 or higher is not the full solution - multiple failures, controller failures or data corruption can still occur. Your drives will most often fail without any warning.
Sorry, but he is correct. Here are the Google Analytics stats from a top 200 U.S.-based general interest website from yesterday (May 5): Operating System contribution to total: 1. Windows 91.86% 2. Macintosh 7.12% 3. Linux 0.69% 4. iPhone 0.13%
Versions of Windows: 1. XP 80.44% 2. Vista 14.65% 3. 2000 3.31% 4. Server 2003 0.80% 5. 98 0.68%
This drive doesn't outperform MTRON (http://www.mtron.net/english/). They announced 120 MB/s read, 90 MB/s write drives and they are shipping 100 MB/s read, 80 MB/s write drives already. The SSD-based Fusion IO card (http://www.fusionio.com/) at the claimed 800 MB/s read and 600 MB/s write speed would beat both them handily. Still, it's good to see a major manufacturer up its speeds.
Writing about something you care about is not the same as writing because you must do it to pass a class. As to blogs, as you said yourself, they are not structured as school papers are, so the fact people write them shows that they do like to write in their own ways much more than in they ways they were forced to in school.
You're using a straw man when talking about people "passionate" about a subject. I didn't say I wanted passionate people writing for Wikipedia - I want experts or at least knowledgeable people writing. You are wrong when saying that a short article by a student is better than nothing at all. If you've been following any Wikipedia news lately, you should know that the problem with many of the new articles is that they are not notable and therefore quickly deleted. Editing these amateurish articles takes up valuable time of other editors.
I bet many of their contributions will be deleted or edited out and they will know the opposite, that they can't contribute.
That's the last thing we need - students, therefore definitely not experts on the topics of environmental history, writing articles because they are forced to by their professor, instead of having any real interest in the subject. This assignment probably makes it less likely that they will ever contribute in the future: know how many "papers" I wrote of my free will since I graduated? ZERO.
I don't disagree that regular HDDs will still have their uses by then. I was talking about laptops, though - where power usage is more important (even when it's an extra 20 minutes), video storage is less important, and the current 2.5'' HDDs are comparatively even slower. There is one more thing that I expect will jump start their acceptance, even if they are way more expensive - the "cool factor." Flash-based HDDs will be visibly faster to end users than magnetic HDDs, giving laptop-makers a good reason to use them as a selling point. Laptop buyers will see them in expensive laptops owned by their friends and they will see that they are better. When that happens, magnetic HDDs will be seen as old technology, kind of like CRT monitors were seen for a couple years, even though they were cheaper and had better specs. I can see external eSATA magnetic HDDs becoming more popular when a lot of cheap storage is needed because they have the big plus of portability.
With the current market trends, the flash memory-based HDs should be cheap enough to replace magnetic hard drives in laptops by 2011 in most applications. They are already superior in access time, drive life, power use, and transfer speeds (see the FusionIO demo or MTRON drives).
Latest data on Firefox market share and versions from a popular (100,000+ unique visitors/day) general-interest site I own, collected in the last 2 days:
Share of pageviews (including robots): 12.3% Share of pageviews (excluding robots): 13.0%
Most popular versions: 1.7.8 on XP: 23% 1.7.10 on XP: 20% 1.7.5 on XP: 12% 1.7.2 on XP: 5% 1.7.8 on NT: 5% 1.7.x on OS X: 4% 1.7.7 on XP: 4% 1.7.9 on XP: 3% 1.4 on XP: 2% 1.7.3 on XP: 2% 1.7.10 on NT: 2% 1.7.5 on NT: 1% 1.7 on XP: 1% 1.7.8 on Win 98: 1% 1.7.6 on NT: 1% 1.7.10 on Win 98: 1% 1.7.10 on Linux: 1%
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Except that from 1970 to 2008 (years for which data is available), per capita GDP of the Dominican Republic went from 50% of Cuba's to 87% of Cuba's. The HDI has improved more as well.
Here is an interactive map showing where computer and mathematical occupations are overrepresented.
You heard wrong. The estimate is that it will account for about 20% of Amazon's profit in 2013. It is growing faster than the rest of their business, though.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/business/senate-passes-start-ups-bill-with-amendments.html?_r=1&hp
Just go to Vegas or look up the current World Cup odds at any online sportsbook and it is very likely that these odds are better predictions than whatever they came up. These sportsbook odds are based on actual money bet by people who know something about sports betting instead of financial types. If these quants were actually confident that they had some sort of an edge, they would put their money where their mouths are (and affect these sportsbook odds). Of course, these sportsbook odds are also affected by amateurs, but the same is true with almost anything else, like the stock market. Another issue is the smaller liquidity compared to the stock market, but the amount of money bet on the World Cup should be large enough to make it less of an issue.
The big issue is that you cannot take the word of hard drive manufacturers about drives' reliability at a face value. Google's study (PDF) and CMU's study show much higher real-life HDD failure rates than you would get from manufacturers' MTBF claims. RAID 1 or higher is not the full solution - multiple failures, controller failures or data corruption can still occur. Your drives will most often fail without any warning.
Sorry, but he is correct. Here are the Google Analytics stats from a top 200 U.S.-based general interest website from yesterday (May 5):
Operating System contribution to total:
1. Windows 91.86%
2. Macintosh 7.12%
3. Linux 0.69%
4. iPhone 0.13%
Versions of Windows:
1. XP 80.44%
2. Vista 14.65%
3. 2000 3.31%
4. Server 2003 0.80%
5. 98 0.68%
This drive doesn't outperform MTRON (http://www.mtron.net/english/). They announced 120 MB/s read, 90 MB/s write drives and they are shipping 100 MB/s read, 80 MB/s write drives already. The SSD-based Fusion IO card (http://www.fusionio.com/) at the claimed 800 MB/s read and 600 MB/s write speed would beat both them handily. Still, it's good to see a major manufacturer up its speeds.
Writing about something you care about is not the same as writing because you must do it to pass a class. As to blogs, as you said yourself, they are not structured as school papers are, so the fact people write them shows that they do like to write in their own ways much more than in they ways they were forced to in school.
You're using a straw man when talking about people "passionate" about a subject. I didn't say I wanted passionate people writing for Wikipedia - I want experts or at least knowledgeable people writing. You are wrong when saying that a short article by a student is better than nothing at all. If you've been following any Wikipedia news lately, you should know that the problem with many of the new articles is that they are not notable and therefore quickly deleted. Editing these amateurish articles takes up valuable time of other editors.
I bet many of their contributions will be deleted or edited out and they will know the opposite, that they can't contribute.
That's the last thing we need - students, therefore definitely not experts on the topics of environmental history, writing articles because they are forced to by their professor, instead of having any real interest in the subject. This assignment probably makes it less likely that they will ever contribute in the future: know how many "papers" I wrote of my free will since I graduated? ZERO.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fragmentized
fragmentize (frgmn-tz)
tr. & intr.v. fragmentized, fragmentizing, fragmentizes
To break or become broken into fragments.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000
I don't disagree that regular HDDs will still have their uses by then. I was talking about laptops, though - where power usage is more important (even when it's an extra 20 minutes), video storage is less important, and the current 2.5'' HDDs are comparatively even slower. There is one more thing that I expect will jump start their acceptance, even if they are way more expensive - the "cool factor." Flash-based HDDs will be visibly faster to end users than magnetic HDDs, giving laptop-makers a good reason to use them as a selling point. Laptop buyers will see them in expensive laptops owned by their friends and they will see that they are better. When that happens, magnetic HDDs will be seen as old technology, kind of like CRT monitors were seen for a couple years, even though they were cheaper and had better specs. I can see external eSATA magnetic HDDs becoming more popular when a lot of cheap storage is needed because they have the big plus of portability.
With the current market trends, the flash memory-based HDs should be cheap enough to replace magnetic hard drives in laptops by 2011 in most applications. They are already superior in access time, drive life, power use, and transfer speeds (see the FusionIO demo or MTRON drives).
Your top resource should be the Business Plans Handbook. Those are real business plans that got their authors financing for their businesses.
Oops missed one:
1.7.6 on XP: 5%
Latest data on Firefox market share and versions from a popular (100,000+ unique visitors/day) general-interest site I own, collected in the last 2 days:
Share of pageviews (including robots): 12.3%
Share of pageviews (excluding robots): 13.0%
Most popular versions:
1.7.8 on XP: 23%
1.7.10 on XP: 20%
1.7.5 on XP: 12%
1.7.2 on XP: 5%
1.7.8 on NT: 5%
1.7.x on OS X: 4%
1.7.7 on XP: 4%
1.7.9 on XP: 3%
1.4 on XP: 2%
1.7.3 on XP: 2%
1.7.10 on NT: 2%
1.7.5 on NT: 1%
1.7 on XP: 1%
1.7.8 on Win 98: 1%
1.7.6 on NT: 1%
1.7.10 on Win 98: 1%
1.7.10 on Linux: 1%
Firefox users running the latest version: ~25%