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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 27 2013 @ 03:01 PM EST |
Newspick
Apple won't crumble. but it
has peaked.
Economist, syndicated to the linked
ChronicleHerald, and to my morning print
edition which also carries with it a graphic, the first on this
page from Asymco.
I don't know enough about the role of capex in this line
of business, but it's an interesting picture.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 27 2013 @ 04:16 PM EST |
The 50 million dollar lie
If you watch Gates in his "mosquito" TED
talk, you see he earnestly wants to believe in a Big Brother school system, with
cameras in every classroom, every word a teach utters, every move a teacher
makes under scrutiny by others. "Good" teachers, of course, embrace this, while
"bad" teachers don't. It's not at all surprising to me that a commissioned
study should honour his bias that there should be such good and bad
teachers.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 27 2013 @ 08:37 PM EST |
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Where is Google+'s growth coming from?
It's not at the expense of Facebook or Twitter. Instead, like them,
Google+ is
cannibalizing smaller, local social networks. "The growth in the large, global
social platforms is
coming broadly at the expense of local services like
MeinVz, Hyves, Copains d’Avant. Even more interestingly,
we are seeing a large
decline across the board in local Chinese services with Tencent Weibo, Kaixin,
Sina Weibo
and QZone all declining substantially, up to 57% in the case of
Tencent Weibo."
I don't understand what SJVN is getting at here.
Google+ was for its early period invitation only, then they
amalgamated under
the one sign-on for all Google services. So subsequent growth should be very
visible. The
China situation is odd. If I add up the numbers for Chinese
services in the given graph I get 80% of global
internet users are using a
Chinese service. Well of course some (many?) are using more than one service,
and
maybe that shows a healthier ecosystem than elsewhere, but I don't suspect
Google is responsible for any
decline here. Adding up Google+ and Facebook
users gives only 75% and we know a significant number of
people use both.
Google services, singly or all at once, still get turned off in China at the
whim of some petty
bureaucrat, and the forums are full of the kludges needed to
get around this. Another factor is my Android
phone came with factory rom
including a suite of Google Apps and Sina Weibo, TenCent, MobileQQ, Baidu, and
Youku. Why would Google be my first choice?
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Authored by: celtic_hackr on Monday, January 28 2013 @ 07:47 AM EST |
Among the things I find most interesting is what I see as a law, the DMCA,
which, as near as my mind can tell prima facie Unconstitutional.
My reasoning,
1) The punishment for breaking the DMCA clearly falls into the category of
"excessive fine" and "cruel and unusual punishment", in
clear violation of the Constitution. (Amendment VIII)
2) The Library of Congress is a body of government within the Legislative Branch
of the US government, but no power in the Constitution gives them the power to
interpret the law. That power was given to the Judicial Branch of Government.
This seems to be a clear breach and an attempt to remove Constitutional review
from the Judicial Branch.
(Article III. Section 2. Clause 1.)
3) Nowhere in the Constitution does it grant the right to Congress to delegate
it's lawmaking ability. Ergo, granting to the LOC the right to change the law
every three years is Unconstitutional. (Article I. Section 1.)
Now, I am not a lawyer, and all that, perhaps someone with knowledge and
experience could jump in and tell where my weak points and strong points are in
this. Also whether I am wrong or right. I'm confused, because I don't see why no
one before has challenged this on these grounds.
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Authored by: complex_number on Monday, January 28 2013 @ 08:10 AM EST |
Unlocking
your mobile phone now a crime
The next step must be to make buying or
importing an unlocked mobile phone into the US a Federal Crime.
From my
position (at the moment somewhere in the middle east) the US is becoming more
crazy in the laws it passes. I suppose the senators and congressmen must fill
their time with stuff like this instead of tackling the real issues that face
the US, such as the Federal Deficit, declining competitiveness and a whole raft
of others.
For the US Networks to be able to pay their tame lawmakers to
pass this law let alone for the President to enact it is just silly to us
Foreigners/aliens. Many other countries have vibrant and competitive mobile
phone markets without even trying to resort to laws like this.
The phone I'm
using today is unlocked. I was locked to a network but when the contract ended
they unlocked it for me. I then switched to a rolling 1 month contract with
another network using that phone. No quibble at all. Now, it has a Sim for the
local Orange network in it. Freedom!
So, the US (formerly known as the land
of the free) is nailing itself up inside its own coffin. A truly sad state of
affairs indeed.
--- Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life,
The Universe & Everything which is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 28 2013 @ 10:24 AM EST |
[.PDF]
http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s8863.pdf
explains De Moivre’s
equation
The
Greek
letter
s, with no subscript, represents a measure of
the
variability of a data set (its standard deviation). So if we measure,
for
example, the heights of, say, 1000 students at a particular
high
school,
we
might
find
that
the
average
height
is
67
inches,
but
heights
mig
ht range from perhaps as little as 55 inches to as much as 80
inches. A number
that characterizes this variation is the
standard
deviation.
Under
normal
circumstances
we
would
find
that
about
two-thir
ds of all children in the sample would be within one standard
deviation of the
average. But now suppose we randomly grouped
the 1000 children into 10 groups of
100 and calculated the
average
within
each
group.
The
variation
of
these
10
averages
would
likely
be
much smaller than s because it is likely that a very tall person in the
group
would be counterbalanced by a shorter person. De Moivre
showed a relationship
between the variability in the original data
and the variability in the
averages. He also showed how one could
calculate the variability of the averages
( sx¯) by simply dividing the
original variability by the square root of the
number of individuals (n)
that were combined to calculate the averages. And so
the variability
of the average of groups of 100 would be one-tenth that of the
original
group. Similarly, if we wanted to reduce the variability in half,
we
would
need
groups
of
four;
to
cut
it
to
onefifth
we
would
need
groups
of
25,
and
so
forth.
That
is
the
idea
behind
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Authored by: OpenSourceFTW on Monday, January 28 2013 @ 11:05 AM EST |
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/0
1/how-newegg-crushed-the-shopping-cart-patent-and-saved-online-retail/
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br>
Newegg is my favorite place to buy computer parts. Their prices are awesome
(most places can't beat it, except maybe Amazon sometimes), their shipping is
blazing fast (and cheap XD, often free), and their customer service is great.
Even when I don't buy from them, I still price it on their site, then check the
reviews there. I built a computer some time ago using nothing but parts from
them, and it was an absolute steal. Highly, HIGHLY recommend them.
And now they
invalidate a stupid patent. I respect them even more now.
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- Newegg ROCKS! - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 28 2013 @ 12:16 PM EST
- Newegg ROCKS! - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 28 2013 @ 12:52 PM EST
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Authored by: SilverWave on Monday, January 28 2013 @ 01:24 PM EST |
Quote:[PJ: What if it's true that the Republicans tried to
steal the election by a tech sneak trick in Ohio but were
thwarted by Anonymous, for example, as some reports alleged?
Anyone got a links to a source that explains this?
---
RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 28 2013 @ 03:28 PM EST |
So give it all to the EFF, EFF sues Facebook again. Give it all the the EFF, EFF
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 28 2013 @ 05:06 PM EST |
Now that's neat. My wife's father suffered from Parkinson's in his last years.
Anything that can help even in the slightest is worthwhile.
That it's math makes it neat.
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: albert on Monday, January 28 2013 @ 07:04 PM EST |
Link
"The nation’s other major consumer-facing e-mail provider —
Microsoft — which markets the Hotmail and Outlook brands, declined comment for
this story."
I wouldn't expect one, either. When has MS ever stood
on principle for anything? The company that created special software for law
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