Puts things in perspective: “In 1805 the news of the Battle of Trafalgar took 17 days to travel the 1100 miles to London; that’s a speed of 2.7 mph. By 1891 when the Nobi earthquake occurred in Japan, it only took the news one day to travel 5916 miles, a speed of 246 mph.” (src)
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SPEAR Algorithm
“The graph-based SPEAR algorithm (Spamming-resistant Expertise Analysis and Ranking) is a new technique to measure the expertise of users by analyzing their activities. The focus is on the ability of users to find new, high quality information in the Internet. A great benefit of SPEAR is that it actually returns two very interesting results at …
HTML5 Super Friends
32/64 bit Snow Leopard
So yeah, Snow Leopard boots in 32-bit mode by default, but that’s not a big problem as it only affects the kernel. 64-bit applications (like Finder, Mail, Safari, iCal, and iChat) will run just fine (including benefits) on a 32-bit kernel in Mac OS X! One can trigger OSX into booting the 64-bit kernel by …