I recorded some video of the intermittent display issues I’ve been having with the new 27″ iMac. You can see examples of both the horizontal white static/noise (need to watch carefully to see it in the video) and the complete screen blanking:
There’s a second video showing similar problems as well.
Looks like this [...]
The first release of SPSS was in 1968. I’m rather impressed that SPSS (the company) has remained profitable basically selling one product, SPSS (the program), for four decades.
Here’s a talk from PyCon 2008 about scripting SPSS with Python:
BTW, at Lafayette we used Mathematica which is no spring chicken either. It’s twenty years old this year.
It’s already considered old school to do the undetectable noscope monitor hack (heh!) in Counter-Strike. But writing on my monitor with a permanent marker doesn’t sound like a great idea to me. So based on a suggestion from someone in #cplug the other night, here’s my offering…
Background: In games like Counter-Strike source, most [...]
Google Trends lets you look at search query and news trends for keywords.
I was actually doing something similar to this using a little Python script and Cacti. I still like my method better, as it gives actual numbers, but Google’s interface is pretty cool.
So Vonage has “filed to raise $250 million in an initial public offering and named a new CEO,” according to The Street (via Slashdot). But there’s this problematic little detail in the prospectus:
While our revenues have grown rapidly, we have experienced increasing net losses, primarily driven by our increase in marketing expenses. From the period [...]
