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Body art
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The recession, in tattoos
NO DOUBT you've been wondering, how, in this Great Recession, has the tattoo business been holding up? Lucky for you, you...
Január 1-jétől 30%-kal csökkentjük a gravitációt Magyarországon – jelentette be az újra aktivizálódott Gyurcsány Ferenc.
We've pointed to numerous studies , at this point, that have all found that, when done right, free ebooks can greatly increase the sales of physical books (and, in some cases, even of ebooks). Here's another empirical example of that in action. Chris Anderson points us to a blog post by someone at a mid-list niche publisher, talking about how successful its experiments with "free" ebooks hav...
A gumigyár hivatalos közleményben cáfolja, hogy csillagot adott volna a Costesnek. A tévedésért Krolvacsek Imre gumiszerelőt terheli a felelősség, de Gerendai tisztikeresztjével is gondok vannak.
I've written in the past how wonderful NPR's Planet Money podcast is. During the "dark days" of the financial crisis, it was one of the true beacons of light explaining in easy-to-understand detail what was happening, and exploring aspects of the story that the mainstream press glossed over completely. In the process, they broke some stories, highlighted some key aspects of the debate, and r...
Dan Bull , who wrote, recorded and made videos for his brilliant open letters to both Lily Allen and Peter Mandelson , was asked by UK ISP TalkTalk if he would be interested in creating a new song concerning the Digital Economy Bill. In response, Bull created this lovely song reminding us all about the old home taping is killing music argument :
Make sure your sarcasm meter is properly ...
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Intel has launched its next-generation Xeon 5600 line, the 32nm "Westmere-EP." The new lineup brings more cores, more threads, Turbo Boost, and more instructions, all in the same socket format and thermal/power envelope as the older Xeon 5500 line.
At the top end of the 5600 family is the six-core, 3.33GHz X5680, and at the bottom end is the quad-core, 2.40GHz E5620. All of the parts in the 5...
A future full of helpful robots, quietly going about their business and assisting humans in thousands of small ways, is one of technology's most long-deferred promises. Only recently have robots started to achieve the kind of sophistication and ubiquity that computing's pioneers originally envisioned. The military has hundreds of UAVs blanketing the skies above Iraq and Afghanistan, and Roombas ar...
Every few years I almost get snookered into making a major furniture purchase at Ikea . Then I come to my senses.
First, what Ikea is good for -- the little chotchkas you need to get a house started. Dishrags. Flatware. They have a starter box with a few pots and pans, measuring cups, a spatula, scissors, cheese grater. A hundred little things that if bought separately would cost $500, but the...
Buttonwood's notebook
Investment bankers' pay
Buttonwood
When you can run an investment bank, but can't use technology
ONE detail leaps out of the Valukas report into the colla...
Egy érdekes bejegyzés született a port25-ön Scott Collison-tól (Geeknet). Összeszedtek néhány statisztikát a nyílt forrású szoftverek és a Windows platform együttéléséről:
Az elmúlt 5 évben 10%-kal nőtt az opensource szoftverek kompatibilitása a windows platformon (82%)
A legtöbb opensource program mára már platform független lett
A Windows az egyetlen oprendszer, amin a top10 valah...
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Music and the economy
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How hard times affect pop music
THE invaluable Eric Barker directs us to new research on the lyrical content of pop songs during har...
Someone, who prefers to remain anonymous, alerts us to the news that Symantec has discovered that a USB battery charger from Energizer installs a dangerous rootkit after installing the required driver . You would think that legit companies would know better than to install a secret rootkit after the Sony rootkit fiasco from a few years back. This particular rootkit constantly listens for comm...