If your Flash device is “4Gb” with a formatted capacity of 3900Mb, and you do nothing but write to it as fast as you can - at, say, 30Mb/s - you’ll still only be able to replace its entire contents every 130 seconds. At that rate, it’ll take you 150 days to hit 100,000 cycles
Companies generally prefer to bring in ranks of lawyers and bankers to scrutinize a deal before proceeding, a process that can eat up days or weeks. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg largely negotiated the deal over a few days with Instagram’s Kevin Systrom. Mr. Zuckerberg ditched all that. By the time Facebook’s board was brought in, the deal was all but done.
“Mitt Romney represents a continuation of the idea that the only people making a contribution to society are rich people who invest money and that it’s not worth it for them to pay taxes because they won’t invest in the economy,” Butkovitz said, calling the idea perpetuated by the Tea Party “myopic and obsessive.”
Today I Learned: Claude Monet could see ultraviolet light
The problem with Mike Daisey’s lies is that they’ve painted a picture of the Evil Empire, a place devoid of any happiness or humanity. A dark, Dickensian scene of horror and tears. They also make anyone who tries to tell a fuller, more balanced account look like an Apple or Foxconn apologist because your mind is already full of the “knowledge” of how bad it is there.
Any reasonably competent, well-intentioned writer or editor would assume that most people reading this would think the new iPad gets hot, implying severe discomfort and a significant flaw that will affect nearly everyone who uses it, rather than merely warm, which would imply an occasional minor inconvenience for the few people who might notice and care.
Clearly, no such editor is employed by Consumer Reports.
Leonard Nimoy and Jimi Hendrix, 1970
A pocket whale!
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