Yeah, I would pay a higher price too, I already have a pro account, got it when I heard that SmugMug bought it and the money wouldn't go to Yahoo anymore. I bought one year pro for my brother but he never used it and I don't think my dad would or my sister either. Basically I don't know anyone close to me whom I'd gift a Flickr pro account and they'd use it.
don't buy ASUS if you're a programmer because of their newer keyboard layout (right_shift, up button, Fn button are aligned)
my right pinky, instead of punching right_shift, always accidently press up button (in vim it's mutable, but in console it throws me out of flow every time)
Older ASUS are fine, they have big, wide right_shift button
I'd generalize this all the way out to say: most modern hardware runs Linux just fine with a little effort; most modern keyboards, however, are far from ideal for extended use.
I have no idea why things have gone so steadily downhill for so many brands, but especially the ASUS/Acer types are just painful. Track down in person any model you are considering and give it a whirl before you place your order. As others have said, start with Lenovo, since they do an above-average job.
I have the ASUS Zenbook UX31A (the updated version of the UX31E) which came out about two months ago and the right shift is nice and fat. The Fn key and the arrow keys are all aligned on a row just below the row with the right shift key. The keyboard layout on this machine is great.
if it's all about bots, why the US&UK CTR is 1/10th?
aren't US & UK markets more lucrative too to bots makers?
I suspect someone somewhere has CTR statistics for certain keywords on certain regions and kind of map it out. Bot makers may have ILLEGAL access and probably do it to avoid suspicion.
i sat on an mba class for a week or so, and they taught y=ax+b and talked, talked, talked about this simple linear model the whole week. you guys remember 'beta' ? -- they emphasize as if that variable can explain everything.
i dropped out of that course the next day. i felt mba classes are just too easy and would dull me. it might be better these days, but i doubt it beats the math stats courses i took.
couple years later i talked with a friend who took mba because he was not confident. he said the mba math is joke and does not compare to ee courses he took.
i wonder if the mba uses simple tools to solve hard problems. if that's the case, it's like a bodybuilder try mining with spoon. a lanky guy with pick will produce more.
It's still gives us some perspective and thought of how nature restructures things in a certain way. We could possibly build on that.
Ant traffic is handled by several simple rules. Maybe there's something we can learn from them too? We're already considering the removal of traffic lights - initially thought to help manage traffic flow. Do we necessarily need to manage them? Maybe.. maybe not.
it's hard for me to imagine that the first apple computer would be have been created if woz insisted on using a large cinema projector, much less two projectors
he hacked a regular tv instead, and that's how apple was born
