If you take a chocolate bar and make it 10% smaller but charge the same price then your margins and profits go up. That's what the hard-drive manufacturers did by simply changing the definition of MB. Granted, it was a one time thing. But they did get a nice surge in profits around the time that they made the changeover.

And historical meanings shouldn't be changed simply so that marketing speak can be used to sell less at the same price.

I love how 1 MB of RAM is 1048576 bytes but 1 MB of storage is now 1000000 bytes of storage, simply because the hard-drive industry decided that they could make more money by using the same term, change the historical meaning in the computing industry from base-2 to base-10 (essentially downsizing the actual storage), and charging the same amount.

Either convert totally to GiB, MiB, etc. for everything computer related or stick with the old convention. It's when you are mixing the two in a particular context (i.e. computers) where you run into problems.

Has no one seen the movie "In Time"?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt16...

The poor will get a "Life" clock and the rich will be able to "buy" extra years....

It is interesting that Google is making 75% of mobile ad revenue on the Apple platform ($9 billion) vs Android ($3 billion).

I wonder if this is because advertisers are paying more for ads on the Apple platform or if its because people who have Android phones are not using the smart features as much as Apple users. It's likely a bit of both.

It was outclassed even at the time it was being used for Babalon 5 by Pentium PCs and Macs. Amigas were only used for the first season...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...

This seems like a question that Musk may have asked one person one time and it became part of his story.

My Dad used to ask us kids stupid brain teasers like these. Every time we would give him the answer while rolling our eyes. Maybe he was getting us ready for a job at SpaceX. (grin)

I use a free program called mRemote v1.50 as it integrates Putty, RDP, VNC, Citrix, etc. into one console. It's a good tool as you can organize your connections using folders. As a network architect, it's nice to be able to connect to network devices by site. It has a few bugs, such as screwing up the sort order, but nothing major.

There is a newer version out called mRemoteNG 1.72. The last update was from the end of 2013 and it looks like the project is on hold for whatever reason.

It does what I need it to do and that's all I ask of any tool...

The Security community, maybe... Not all Pirates are smart Pirates. Some end up getting scurvy (trojans, spyware, etc) as a result of their pirating ways.

It's rocket science....

It's possible that they aren't able to get certain parts from their standard outside supplier and are forced to use local, Chinese, or black market parts due to the embargo. All you need is one part that isn't manufactured to the right quality or specification...

Car key/fob, house key, SecureID for VPN, Jeep logo tag, and two small grocery store membership thingies.

I guess the most interesting thing would be the SecurID fob.

Personally, though, I find the car key/fob which enables automatic unlock and push-button start on my Jeep the be the coolest thing... (grin)

I used to have all sorts of other things on my key ring, but it was just too heavy and bulky. Now I leave things like the mail box key at home.

No, just no....

Store the documents in their original format.

There are many possible reasons why you shouldn't mess with the originals such as formatting, legal implications, loss of content because one format supports stuff that the other doesn't, etc.

The only way that I could see this working is if you converted everything to an open format but kept copies of the originals and linked to them. But if the plan is to dump the original documents, then it just isn't worth it....

i do not think that word means what you think it means...

Most Pop music, music on the top 40, is very formulaic and overly processed. I agree that some of it is actually produced well and will a lot of talent. But those tend to be few and far between in the top 40.

Exactly. This is a wired technology. The device needs to make electrical contact with the charging pad strips. Just because it doesn't require a traditional cable or plug doesn't change that fact. The open dots alliance page actually refers to it as "wire-free" technology, referring to the fact that you don't need a cable. The article writers are misunderstanding the technology and substituting wireless for cable free.

It would be interesting to see just how this technology works. After all, you won't be able to just toss a device on it. It looks like you will have to place it. Also, you won't be able to place devices in different orientations unless they are connected to differing circuits as the +/- would be reversed for one of them.

Finally, since these are electrical contacts, they will likely be subject to wear, breakage, corrosion, etc.

I agree. There is a distinct lack of discussion that outlines where Hadoop shines versus a RDBMS and these other tools. I did some reading and it seems like a database system does better with data that is organized and has a distinct relationship between data sets. Hadoop and parallel processing seems to work better for data that is highly unstructured and for which you need to delve deeply to find relationships and create adhoc reports.

Some have mentioned that one of the reasons for interest in Hadoops decline is that it is expensive. There are always newer tools being released that may cost less just to gain market share. The question is, as always, are they actually better products?

I also agree that different problems require different solutions. Unless you are taking specifics, it becomes very difficult to produce a valid debate over the technology that would produce what is required. It's like arguing the merits of MS Excel vs. MySQL without knowing what the requirements are.

This could be worth of Slashdot if were were discussing the science, the need for proper scientific method, etc. But , much like sports reporters, a lot of people are blowing by this because the bias is that sports and science do not mix.

- It's interesting that the scientific firm used to back up the findings of the report once produced reports that second hand smoke didn't cause cancer
- It's interesting that the report relies on the Refs remembering the starting PSI values. We know just how unreliable memory is
- From a scientific standpoint, it would be trivial to rip apart the findings of the report