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yali writes:
A U.S. government survey of depression rates by job category has revealed some interesting results. The headlines are about food service and healthcare providers, who perhaps unsurprisingly have the highest depression rates. But buried in the official report is an interesting split. When the data are separated by gender, engineering is the least-depressing job for men. But it has one of the higher depression rates for women (fifth-highest among 17 job categories). Although women are generally at greater risk for depression, that does not fully explain the difference. 3.3% of male engineers have a major depressive episode per year (versus 4.7% of men overall). By comparison, the rate is 11.1% for women engineers (versus 10.1% overall). Is the engineering workplace an especially depressing place for women?
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__aajbyc7391 writes:
By 2012, Linux will ship annually in 128 million mobile phones, or about 8.8 percent of all handsets sold, according to a new market research report. The report also forecasts a bright outlook for other open source mobile technologies, including Java, WebKit, and others. According to the report, from Informa, Linux in 2006 was the second most popular OS for smartphones sold worldwide, shipping in about 11.7 million handsets, the "vast majority" of which went to customers in Asia. Uptake in Europe and North America during 2007 is forecast to drive overall shipments close to 20 million, or about 17.3 percent of the smartphone market. From there, shipments are expected to nearly quadruple by 2010, reaching 27 percent of all smartphones by 2012. The article at LinuxDevices has a couple of interesting shipments forecast graphs — they're worth checking out.
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Cliffe writes:
Novell has laid off the AppArmor developers, including Crispen Cowan AppArmor's founder and team leader.
"Novell wants the community to pick up maintenance and development of AppArmor. But tossing it in the wind and hoping is not good enough assurance for me, so now it's my business to go find sponsors who are willing to pay for AppArmor development," Cowan said. AppArmor is a Linux Security Module which Novell acquired and released open source last year.
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syphoon writes:
British band Radiohead have announced the forthcoming release of their new album "In Rainbows" on October 10th. Unencumbered by a label contract, they have opted to sell it as both a download and a disc box. The interesting part? Not only will it be DRM-free, but the price of the download is completely up to the customer.
