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Comment Re:Geoprocessing errors are common (Score 1) 123

by Sanglant on Sunday April 05, 2009 @09:57PM (#27470793) Attached to: Flawed Map Says L.A.'s Crime Highest Next to Police HQ

With the cluster being on city hall looks like either the geocoder was misconfigured or the dataset was light a few columns for a run or two. With a cascading geocoder, and City/State as the only good data, it'd drop them all on city hall. They've the cities own addressing layer and E911 data to use for incident points so I'd be doubtful about it being a garbage in/out issue. You think they would've passed it through a filter first to just return street_address and address_point results though if they're aiming for household level detail.

Laptops with Big RAM? 172

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @03:41PM from the beyond-the-2Gb-barrier dept.

Fubari wonders: "Anybody know when laptops over 4gb might be coming out? Some of the dev-tools I want to run are just obscene RAM-pigs. On the desktop I'm using now (Win2003), it sucks up 1.6gb just to boot. By the time I log in and start doing work, it is stretching 2Gb. Move that to Vista, add a VM-Ware session or two, and I'm worried I'll be pushing 4Gb. I'm torn between buying a 4Bb-max laptop now, or some mini-desktop that can fit in a set of luggage wheels. A friend of mine suggested something like this, but my first choice would be something designed to be portable. Any suggestions?"

Vanishing Honeybees Will Affect Future Crops 322

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @03:07PM from the bee-gone dept.

daninbusiness writes "Across the US, beekeepers are finding that their bees are disappearing — not returning while searching for nectar and pollen. This could have a major impact on the food industry in the United States, where as much as $14 billion worth of agriculture business depends on bees for crop pollination. Reasons for this problem, dubbed 'colony collapse disorder,' are still unknown. Theories include viruses, some type of fungus, poor bee nutrition, and pesticides."

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