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Kindle Total Cost of Ownership: Calculating the DRM Tax | Unicom Systems Development
Although the Kindle doesn't make sense for me, your situation may be different. For instance, if you use an e-reader primarily for recreational reading, you may want to keep far fewer books than the 50%/year I used. If you read a bestseller a week, that's 52 * $10 = $520 a year. If your retention ratio is 10%/year, then your DRM tax would be about $70, which is a lot less painful.
December 2009
*NEW!* Clickbank Total Security - Master Resale Rights | Clickbank Security Script Dowload Protection Page - Download Perl / CGI
November 2009
Needle in a haystack: efficient storage of billions of photos | Facebook
The Photos application is one of Facebook’s most popular features. Up to date, users have uploaded over 15 billion photos which makes Facebook the biggest photo sharing website. For each uploaded photo, Facebook generates and stores four images of different sizes, which translates to a total of 60 billion images and 1.5PB of storage. The current growth rate is 220 million new photos per week, which translates to 25TB of additional storage consumed weekly. At the peak there are 550,000 images served per second. These numbers pose a significant challenge for the Facebook photo storage infrastructure.
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October 2009
Flickrbits and Pieces - The definitive list of Flickr tools, applications, plugins, mobile apps and games
Places and Spaces :: Mapping Science
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science is meant to inspire cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate human activity and scientific progress on a global scale. It has two components: the physical part supports the close inspection of high quality reproductions of maps for display at conferences and education centers; the online counterpart provides links to a selected series of maps and their makers along with detailed explanations of how these maps work. The exhibit is a 10-year effort. Each year, 10 new maps are added resulting in 100 maps total in 2014.
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Optimize caching
Most web pages include resources that change infrequently, such as CSS files, image files, JavaScript files, and so on. These resources take time to download over the network, which increases the time it takes to load a web page. HTTP caching allows these resources to be saved, or cached, by a browser or proxy. Once a resource is cached, a browser or proxy can refer to the locally cached copy instead of having to download it again on subsequent visits to the web page. Thus caching is a double win: you reduce round-trip time by eliminating numerous HTTP requests for the required resources, and you substantially reduce the total payload size of the responses. Besides leading to a dramatic reduction in page load time for subsequent user visits, enabling caching can also significantly reduce the bandwidth and hosting costs for your site.
S.Lott-Software Architect: Agile Methods and "Total Cost"
Many folks ask about Agile project planning and total cost. As our internal project managers wrestle with this, there are a lot of questions.
September 2009
Mac 4 Ever : Exclu : iPhone, une vraie passoire pour certaines données personnelles
Mac4Ever vous le confirme : il est tout à fait possible, pour le développeur de n'importe quelle application iPhone, de récupérer les numéros de téléphone des appareils sur lesquels celle-ci est installée, et ensuite, de les envoyer (par exemple) sur une base de données distante. L'opération peut se faire à l'insu total de l'utilisateur
The Wand Company Ltd
De Dona i Ocell a Manguera Bomberos Barcelona
CBT Nuggets Linux Series Video Tutorial
Paper Cuts
Total Surface Area Required to Fuel the World With Solar
August 2009
Birmanie et Iran : l'illusion des sanctions - Yves Thréard
Want More Miracles? Be Generous.
July 2009
The Tetherless World Weblog » Data.gov Datasets Translated in RDF!
We have created 16 RDF datasets covering 187 of the datasets published at data.gov (171 EPA datasets are subsets of three larger EPA datasets). The original datasets were published by EPA, US Census Bureau, USGS and Office of Management and Budget in CSV compatible format, and they contributed 13,532,250 table entries. The translated RDF datasets includes a total of 2,927,398,352 triples involving 2,526 properties.
Jardin Zen css: La beauté de la conception CSS - Spip
Cache Safari de l’iPhone: pas très éfficace … | Webd
Linux based SolarNetOne Solar-powered networking anywhere
June 2009
Le monde selon Monsanto - Arte FR
Plus de 28 000 demandeurs d'emploi dans l'informatique, selon la Dares
La Dares vient de publier les statistiques du chômage pour le mois d'avril 2009. Elle recense au total 28 100 demandeurs d'emploi dans l'informatique.
