Comment 35 yrs later (Score 1) 44
shades of John Brunner's "Shockwave Rider"...
Tower Switch-Off Embarrasses Electrosensitives 292
Sockatume writes "Residents in Craigavon, South Africa complained of '[h]eadaches, nausea, tinnitus, dry burning itchy skins, gastric imbalances and totally disrupted sleep patterns' after an iBurst communications tower was put up in a local park. Symptoms subsided when the residents left the area, often to stay with family and thus evade their suffering. At a public meeting with the afflicted locals, the tower's owners pledged to switch off the mast immediately to assess whether it was responsible for their ailments. One problem: the mast had already been switched off for six weeks. Lawyers representing the locals say their case against iBurst will continue on other grounds."
App Store Piracy Losses Estimated At $459 Million 202
An anonymous reader passes along this quote from a report at 24/7 Wall St.:
"There have been over 3 billion downloads since the inception of the App Store. Assuming the proportion of those that are paid apps falls in the middle of the Bernstein estimate, 17% or 510 million of these were paid applications. Based on our review of current information, paid applications have a piracy rate of around 75%. That supports the figure that for every paid download, there have been 3 pirated downloads. That puts the number of pirate downloads at 1.53 billion. If the average price of a paid application is $3, that is $4.59 billion dollars in losses split between Apple and the application developers. That is, of course, assuming that all of those pirates would have made purchases had the application not been available to them for free. This is almost certainly not the case. A fair estimate of the proportion of people who would have used the App Store if they did not use pirated applications is about 10%. This estimate yields about $459 million in lost revenue for Apple and application developers."
A response posted at Mashable takes issue with some of the figures, particularly the 75% piracy rate. While such rates have been seen with game apps, it's unclear whether non-game apps suffer the same fate.
Comment before there was MAKE (Score 1) 184
one of CL Strong's "Amateur Scientist" articles in SciAm gave construction details for logic units based on water jets... gates, flip-flops, etc. 1966 or thereabouts...
Comment see also (Score 1) 53
DeBence Antique Music World has some great stuff along the same lines... and an antique website to match.
Comment Wow! Look at that! (Score 1, Insightful) 370
I've never needed more than vi to configure, make and install my kernel on BSD:
vi MYKERNEL
cd /usr/src
make buildkernel && make installkernel
phew! I'm done.
vi MYKERNEL
cd
make buildkernel && make installkernel
phew! I'm done.
Comment Re:Making /. posts live longer with mods - A HOWTO (Score 1, Offtopic) 174
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2) Search Slashdot for a similar article about the same topic (or something vaguely similar
3) Find a 4- or 5-rated comment, change a few words around (i.e. "Bill Gates" -> "Microsoft CEO", "insightful" -> "interesting", etc.), and repost as your own! This technique has been proven to work time and time again, and it can be yours AT ABSOLUTELY NO COST!
N.B. - "No cost" does not include lawyer fees for plagairism/I.P. trials
erickrout.com
