Apple News: Reputable Analyst Agrees With Munster: The Apple HDTV Will Enter Living Rooms In 2015
It’s hard to think of two analysts as different frome one another as Gene Munster and KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. While Munster has foolishly prattled on, predicting an Apple HDTV set every single year for at least five years without it coming true, Ming-Chi Kuo draws upon proven supply-chain sources across the Far East to make predictions about upcoming Apple products with almost unerring accuracy. When Munster opens his mouth, everyone laughs; when Kuo opens his, everyone listens.
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Technology News: Gartner Says the Natural Life Cycle of a Technology-Driven Company Is Under 10 Years
The pervasive role of technology now exposes every company, not just technology companies, to increasingly rapid technology-driven life cycles, which are typically less than 10 years, according to Gartner, Inc. “Long-term expansion cycles influence all businesses, and your major competitor in 10 years – if you survive that long – probably does not exist today,” said Steve Prentice, vice president and Gartner Fellow. Mr. Prentice examined the future life cycle of technology companies during Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, which is taking place in Barcelona through Thursday. He cited examples of IBM Personal Systems Group, Nokia, MySpace, Kodak, Borders, HMV and other companies which have struggled or even failed to remain relevant. He said history indicates that the leaders in one wave rarely survive to dominate the next.
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Programming News: More thoughts about compression & storage
One of the things that I liked in LevelDB is that it pretty much had compression built in from day one. The entire format is built to save space just about wherever it can. From using 7 bit numbers to prefix compression to making compression core part of the on disk data structure. Considering the cost of I/O, it is usually worth trading CPU time for I/O costs. LMDB, in contrast, went quite the opposite way. It actively discourage compression, since you have no support in the format. But it is more than that, LMDB is meant to be used by directly getting a memory pointer, and it actively encourage you to do such things as have a pointer reference from one record to another record.
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Photography News: 8 Ways to Prepare for an Awesome Landscape Photography Session
What is your photographic specialty? Do you even consider yourself to have one? The answer to these questions might depend on whether or not you’re a professional photographer or do it for the enjoyment of the hobby. It’s a commonly known rule amongst professionals that you can usually maximize your success by concentrating in one or two specific disciplines or styles, whether it be wedding and engagements, kid and family or even food and product photography. The thought process behind this is that spreading yourself too thin among many types can cause you not to excel at any in particular.
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