The total according to this article is 295 exabytes.

In the late 60's a Fortune 500 corporation, that ran a chain of over 3,000 retail stores, needed to calculate annually the bonuses to be paid to the store managers.

To do the calculations they used a room-full of Comptometers operated by dozens of women.

The process took as long as a week to complete.

Microsoft has over 90,000 employees

Tastes just like chicken vindaloo.

I have most of my addons working on Minefield 64-bit 4.0b7pre (released 08-24-2010)

I disabled "Add-on compatibility checking"

Even though a few of them show as incompatible, they seem to work normally.

The exceptions are Xmarks & Web Developer which don't seem to behave.

Is that anything like the opium-smoking drones of the 19th Century or the cocaine-sniffing drones of today?

SCA stands for?

School Construction Authority
Scientific Computing Associates
Scottish Canoe Association
Sexual Compulsives Anonymous
Shipbuilders Council of America
Society for California Archaeology
Society for Creative Anachronism
Society for Cultural Anthropology
Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists
Student Conservation Association
Surgical Care Affiliates
Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget

As if anyone like that would admit to be reading /.

I wrote a web-based certificate issuing app. The layout of the certificates was mandated by law. I have found that creating PDF's is the best way to ensure that printed output stays consistent with the report design requirements. Plus you can easily save them locally or email them with the assurance that the recipients will see the same report you designed.

From the Abstract it seems this study was reported on July, 2008. Where is the follow up?

Waiting for Nexus One.

You young whippersnappers and your emacs or vim. In my day it was edlin or nothing.

I got my copy from the local public library.

Read "The Quiet War" by Paul McAuley Fascinating SF novel of humanity on Titan and other moons of Saturn.

The brain size of the average cat is 5 centimeters in length and 30 grams.