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Also in 1987 the only count of "software developers" were people working at IBM/ICL/Burroughs etc. Most of these women devs were in pretty menial jobs - the equivalent of the India…

I worked with several women programmers who had worked for big-iron computer companies in the 60s/70s. There was a demand for programmers, there were no CS grads, so the companies …

There is no fair use. The universities pay a fee to AC based on an estimate of the number of copies, AC then distribute that to the authors. Unfortunately it doesn't work - most of…

Why do they care what verisign say? If you type an address in to chrome, or an an Android phone Google can decide how to resolve it anyway they want. Who needs DNS when you own the…

Depends if you are a RIM shareholder or not! From a OSS point of view, Google don't release changes to the GPL kernel immediately until the hardware makers have actually produced a…

If RIM wants to survive it should do what other hi-tech businesses faced by both higher quality and more agile overseas competitors do. Lobby it's friends in Ottawa to require all …

Valuation $8Bn Stealing back options $100K Meaning no founder or employer will ever trust silverlake - priceless Silverlake are now totally worthless as a VC and any startup funded…

Most small business take 0 salary and all of it as profits. Generally capitalist countries tax dividends (investment income) at a lower rate than salary (worker income) and you als…

That already sort of happens. In fast scenes there is a big change between frames so they appear different = high frame rate. In low rate scenes the frames are more similar so equi…

This is going to be for digital projection. Running the film at twice the speed would need new projectors, new film handling and so on - the physical film size would be twice as lo…

See the xkcd cartoon in the first comment

Other way round, GR says time slows down in areas of HIGH gravity. You live longer in the basement than the penthouse

To be fair, the improved Newton-Raphson method is only from 1669, medical research has only just about reached that now.

The German solution is to burn their dirty high sulfur coal in Poland. Most German coal is stripped mined so unless you fall of the bucket excavator there aren't many miners killed…

But do you factor in the deaths in Iraq into the cost of oil fired power stations? And flooding in Bangladesh and sea level rises as part of the CO2 cost of coal?

Although if your heat the mercury to 1200C in the presence of hydrocarbons, sulfur and a bunch of other elements and then spray it out of the stack as water vapor you are likely to…

If it is just a user testing program they would only put it on a random small percentage of machines - otherwise you would be swamped by the amount of data. You might also have bia…

Everybody uses a robotic system for refueling - really it's just a crane that seals to each fuel rod tube cap. The problem with CANDU is that you can't operate them with a fast eno…

So if youy use a Samsung machine in a lawyers office, or in a classified role or anywhere subject to HIPA presumably you should switch brands - or face a negligence charge? Could b…

But then you have to go the laptop makers site for any extra drivers - how do you know that they don't have the keylogger in them? Although Intel's own drivers now work better for …

Good plan Dr Evil - the reason you need the generators is that a shut-down reactor still generates typically a few percent of it's power output for a while. Covering this in concre…

No the whole point of radioisoptopes is that they aren't forever. The mercury and cadmium that will be released by all the new coal stations that will replace the nukes is forever.…

Unless of course he needed to install any video,network, chipset, audio, bluetooth etc drivers from Samsung's site in which case all bets are off.

In Ryanair's case they do mean it. They basically don't allow price comparisons. Ryanair like a lot of the sleazier cheap airlines advertise very low $1 fares and then add $100 in …

IIRC they were talking about having a separate web server just for google's spider so it could be redirected by the load balancer and be tuned for more static content