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Unique Visitors = 1/10th of Unique IPs? 261

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday May 02, 2006 @02:13PM from the that-might-be-pushing-it dept.

Max Fomitchev submitted a little blog entry where he proposes that the ratio of unique IPs to actual unique users is 10:1. This flies in the face of the numbers you usually see attached to these sorts of things. I'm not sure about the logic he uses to come up with these numbers either.

Comment More Info on the Home Page? (Score 2, Insightful) 166

by soloset on Tuesday May 02, 2006 @10:50AM (#15245284) Attached to: Multi-threaded Programming Makes You Crazy?

You can probably get a better idea of the purpose of the program on their home page (click the link in the menu of the sourceforge page that says, "Home Page").

Not sure why they didn't link directly to it?

New Apple Campaign Target PC Flaws 819

Posted by Hemos on Tuesday May 02, 2006 @10:20AM from the so-many-submissions dept.

sodul writes"Apple just started a new campaign to emphasize the advantages of Mac versus a regular tasteless PC. The ads represent a young cool looking man (Mac) and a white collar in his 40's (not cool, PC). In one of the ads the PC repeat itself several times because it had to reboot. In an other one (and maybe the most aggressive of all) PC is sick because of a virus, while Mac is healthy. You can watch the new spots on Apple's site "

FOSS Is Not Free if It's Not Free From Complexity 523

Posted by Hemos on Tuesday May 02, 2006 @09:28AM from the pomp-and-circumstance dept.

A reader writes:"This article argues that freedom from complexity is an essential part of the first FOSS freedom - the freedom to run a program. Freedom to run means nothing if the exercise of such right excludes people who do not possess high technical knowledge or advanced skills sets. Without the guarantee of "ease of use", the freedom to run FOSS for most users is a hollow promise. " (My own bias ensues here): I think that there are some valuable points in here; what good is a good if it cannot be used, but OTOH this argument seems simplistic.

Da Vinci Code Message Revealed 96

Posted by Zonk on Sunday April 30, 2006 @05:55AM from the funny-judge dept.

Ironsides writes "The message embedded in the Da Vinci Code ruling earlier this week has been cracked. The message reads 'Smithy Code Jackie Fisher who are you Dreadnought' and is a reference to an event from about 100 years ago. The encryption scheme itself was based on the Fibonacci number Sequence which is the same one used in the novel."

Journal Journal: Making the Switch (Pt 1)

Journal by soloset on Friday April 28, 2006 @02:31PM

Well, I'm finally going to do it. Switch to Linux, that is. Or at least stick my toe in the waters of alternative OSes with a dual-boot.

Disclaimer: I am not a computer geek. I can write code in several languages, but I am not a 'code ninja'. I don't get the hex jokes on ThinkGeek (I do get the binary ones). I don't really understand regexp (/s'\v']? huh?). I'm not stupid (well, sometimes I am), but programming is my hobby, not my defining passion.

Software Lets Programmers Code Hands-free 261

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday April 27, 2006 @11:13PM from the look-ma-no-keys dept.

Yetihehe writes "New Scientist is reporting about a new speech recognition tool that promises to let programmers write clean code without ever having to lay a finger on their keyboard. 'The tool, called VoiceCode, has been developed to help programmers with repetitive strain injury (RSI). This is a common affliction for people who spend a lot of time using a keyboard or mouse and causes pain in muscles, tendons and nerves in a sufferer's arms and back. Some estimates suggest 22% of all US computer programmers, or 100,000 people, suffer from the condition.'"

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