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Will Steacy Blog: The Facebook Effect

by karlcow

Corporate taxes paid on profits fell to 12.1% in fiscal 2011. Companies on average paid 25.6% from 1987-2008.

December 2011

Performance Calendar » Why Inlining Everything Is NOT The Answer

by karlcow

A user’s cache can only hold less than a day’s worth of browsing data: An average user browses 88 pages/day, an average page weighs 930KB, and most desktop browsers cache no more than 75MB of data. For mobile, the ratio is even worse.

November 2011

HTML5 - 12 Cool HTML5 Geolocation Ideas

by karlcow

Public transportation sites can list nearby bus stops and metro locations.Late night out? Taxi or car service Web sites can find where you are, even if you don’t know.Shopping sites can immediately provide estimates for shipping costs.Travel agencies can provide better vacation tips for current location and season.Content sites can more accurately determine the language and dialect of search queries.Real estate sites can present average house prices in a particular area, a handy tool when you’re driving around to check out a neighborhood or visit open houses.Movie theater sites can promote films playing nearby.Online games can blend reality into the game play by giving users missions to accomplish in the real world.News sites can include customized local headlines and weather on their front page.Online stores can inform whether products are in stock at local retailers.Sports and entertainment ticket sales sites can promote upcoming games and shows nearby.Job postings can automatically include potential commute times.

October 2011

HP's ousted Apotheker to take home $25 million - Sep. 22, 2011

by night.kame

Since Apotheker didn't stick around long enough to collect a performance bonus , the company will just use his bonus target as the "average," which is equal to twice his salary.

En même temps, le "performance bonus" c'est normalement un bonus donné en fonction de la performance, pas sûr qu'il en eu mérité un, même en restant plus longtemps.

September 2011

Tokyo metabolizing creates vision for Tokyo as new urban form « Tokyo Green Space

by karlcow

In Tokyo the average household is less than 2 people, and these smaller households seek new connections with neighbors, colleagues, and friends. I think the most radical suggestion is that an awareness of other people living around you might be considered a positive feature rather than something to be concealed or suppressed.

Image Color Summarizer

by karlcow

colour summarizer will produce descriptive colour statistics for an image. Reported will be the average, median or mode, minimum and maximum of each RGB and HSV triplet element.

August 2011

Anne Kaneko's Blog: Radiation (1)

by karlcow

Borrowing some data from the source below this could be 2.1 mSv for the year to 11 March 2012. Well, the same as the UK average but well above the Japanese recommended  limit.

Measuring a platform’s smartness - QuirksBlog

by karlcow

However, it would be a mistake to compare the current browsing stats to the current sales stats. The browsing stats are mostly caused by already deployed devices, including the three-year old devices that are still the best the less affluent smartphone users have. So it’s best to see the current browsing stats as a kind of 12- to 24-month moving average of smartphone sales coupled with platform “smartness” (and note the deliberate vagueness and huge margin of error). That explains Symbian’s continued dominance: its sales market share may plummet all it wants, people still have an awful lot of Symbian devices on hand to do their browsing with.

June 2011

TomTom sorry for giving customer driving data to cops • The Register

by karlcow

We are now aware that the police have used traffic information that you have helped to create to place speed cameras at dangerous locations where the average speed is higher than the legally allowed speed limit.

March 2011

Photosmith – the iPad mobile companion for Adobe Lightroom

by rmaltete
Photosmith is the culmination of the blood, sweat, and tears from two independent developers over far too many months. We wanted to make a premier photo app, easy enough for the Average Joe and powerful enough for professional photographers. Most of us fall somewhere in between, but many of us have the same need- to organize our photos. Now that everything has gone digital, we have more photos than ever, and a bigger and bigger need to keep them organized. Adobe’s Lightroom has become the number one choice for digital photo management. But it requires a desktop or notebook computer, and while very powerful, isn’t suited for a tablet. The iPad allows you to download your pictures directly from the camera using Apple’s Camera Connection Kit. However, the built-in Photos App doesn’t offer any sorting, categorizing, or practically anything other than viewing, and even that is limited. Photosmith bridges this gap. Now photographers can take their pictures in the field, download them to the iPad, and use Photosmith to review their images, add to custom collections, filter by certain criteria, assign metadata, and filter by that data. Photosmith also fills a critical gap in the photographer’s current mobile workflow- allowing full 1:1 zoom of even 21 megapixel RAW images.

Make: Online | Is It Time to Rebuild & Retool Public Libraries and Make “TechShops”?

by karlcow

Hackerspaces usually revolve around everyone paying the rent (part of the membership, the largest cost of a space) and shared costs. It’s not really possible to estimate the average cost to get one started, but it’s usually whatever the rent is for a year in your local area for a pretty good-sized location.

Library as places for hacking litterature?

January 2011

Objectify

by ludochane
The Google App Engine/J low-level datastore API is simple and elegant, neatly reducing your data operations to four simple methods: get, put, delete, and query. However, it is not designed to be used by the average develope

December 2010

You’ve Got to Have (150) Friends - NYTimes.com

by jeanruaud
Put simply, our minds are not designed to allow us to have more than a very limited number of people in our social world. The emotional and psychological investments that a close relationship requires are considerable, and the emotional capital we have available is limited. Indeed, no matter what Facebook allows us to do, I have found that most of us can maintain only around 150 meaningful relationships, online and off — what has become known as Dunbar’s number. Yes, you can “friend” 500, 1,000, even 5,000 people with your Facebook page, but all save the core 150 are mere voyeurs looking into your daily life — a fact incorporated into the new social networking site Path, which limits the number of friends you can have to 50. What’s more, contrary to all the hype and hope, the people in our electronic social worlds are, for most of us, the same people in our offline social worlds. In fact, the average number of friends on Facebook is 120 to 130, just short enough of Dunbar’s number to allow room for grandparents and babies, people too old or too young to have acquired the digital habit.

November 2010

Google Code Blog: Make your websites run faster, automatically -- try mod_pagespeed for Apache

by srcmax & 1 other

So today, we’re introducing a module for the Apache HTTP Server called mod_pagespeed to perform many speed optimizations automatically. We’re starting with more than 15 on-the-fly optimizations that address various aspects of web performance, including optimizing caching, minimizing client-server round trips and minimizing payload size. We’ve seen mod_pagespeed reduce page load times by up to 50% (an average across a rough sample of sites we tried) -- in other words, essentially speeding up websites by about 2x, and sometimes even faster.

October 2010

Opera: State of the Mobile Web, September 2010

by karlcow

The average monthly cost of mobile traffic with Opera Mini is $15.72 instead of $157.20. Opera Mini saves you $141!* * Doesn’t apply for unlimited rate contracts.

August 2010

FOSS Patents: Western civilization runs on the mainframe

by karlcow

In terms of software, the average mainframe customers spends about $1 million in annual licensing fees.

Using Menus in WordPress 3.0 | Digging into WordPress

by mozkart
The menu system in WordPress 3.0 was hotly anticipated. But perhaps unbeknownst to many average WordPress users, actually using this feature takes some coding work. In fact, even enabling the features take a bit of code. Below we’ll go through the steps for inserting a custom menu into your theme. Note that many themes will have menu functionality built-in. This is for Do-It-Yourself folks who are trying to add it to their existing theme.

July 2010

NASA - First-of-its-Kind Map Depicts Global Forest Heights

by karlcow

The new map shows the world’s tallest forests clustered in the Pacific Northwest of North America and portions of Southeast Asia, while shorter forests are found in broad swaths across northern Canada and Eurasia. The map depicts average height over 5 square kilometers (1.9 square miles) regions), not the maximum heights that any one tree or small patch of trees might attain.

June 2010

5 iPad Apps That Changed My Mind

by oseres
I was not optimistic about the future of the iPad prior to its release. It seemed a unicorn among horses in the tech world, something precious and therefore expensive, but without any real tangible benefit over its brethren in terms of functionality, at least for the average person. Clearly, I was wrong.

toChecklist plug-in for jQuery

by redyrod
The toChecklist plug-in for jQuery will give you the functionality of a SELECT box without the need to ctrl+click items to select them. The Demo Options in the upper right show a standard HTML multi-SELECT box (annoying and difficult for average users!). Click the "Convert" button immediately below it for a quick demo of what this plug-in will do.

modwsgi - Project Hosting on Google Code

by karlcow & 1 other

The aim of mod_wsgi is to implement a simple to use Apache module which can host any Python application which supports the Python WSGI interface. The module would be suitable for use in hosting high performance production web sites, as well as your average self managed personal sites running on web hosting services.

April 2010

Build Your Own NYT Linked Data Application - Open Blog - NYTimes.com

by karlcow

To help you get started (and since linked data applications are a little different from your average Web application), we thought we’d provide a sample application and detailed information about how we built it.

March 2010

» Artists in the Canadian urban fabric • Spacing Montreal

by karlcow

The Montreal neighbourhood of the H2T postal code (northward from avenue du Mont-Royal to avenue Van Horne between St-Denis and Jeanne-Mance) is the most artistic in Canada with artists accounting for 7.8% of its workers, ten times the national average.

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