MOBIUS Libraries

Between 2006 and 2010, demand for processing cycles (MIPS, servers and the like) has slowly approached an 18 erpcent annual growth rate in the big banks. Storage, by the way, has hit 45 percent per year -- the advent of Big Data is here -- and although the unit cost of storage is still dropping, storage cost pools around the financial industry are expanding out of control. The growth phenomenon is now exacerbated by market conditions, and Moore's Law just isn't enough.

Taking a step back, you will likely ask, "How can this be true?" The answer involves yet another "law" -- actually, a paradox observed in the late 1800s -- "Jevons paradox," which states:Technological progress that increases the efficiency with which a resource is used tends to increase (rather than decrease) the rate of consumption of that resource. William Stanley Jevons developed this hypothesis in 1865, based on his observations of coal consumption vis-à-vis the technology advances designed to improve the efficiency of coal usage. It was his argument that these improvements alone could not be relied on to reduce consumption; rather, they would lead to increased consumption -- and he was right. Today we talk about elastic computing; in 1865 Jevons focused on "elastic coal" – well, at least the demand was elastic.

So the aforementioned growth in demand (passing the 20 percent mark per year) is actually fueled in part by the inherent efficiencies created by Moore's Law. Through 2010 we were in the Moore's Law zone of managing IT costs downward. Now we are a new world governed by the effects noted by Jevons.

The crab swarms were placed at the entrances of the logic gates and encouraged to move by a looming shadow that fooled them into thinking a predatory bird was overhead. The results closely matched the simulation, suggesting that crab-powered computers could indeed be possible.

these advantages not only suggest a very different design philosophy from Word, but also demonstrate that, from the perspective of an expert user, Writer is the superior tool.

when you examine LibreOffice and MS Office without assumptions, the comparison changes dramatically. That's especially true when looking at the word processors, LibreOffice's Writer and MS Office's Word.

In the same way, LibreOffice's extension PDF Import gives it an ability utterly lacking in Word. However, since many users are unaware of these extras, I have left them out for simplicity’s sake.

Z39.50 server target definitions have been removed from the sample opensrf.xml.example file

For each entry in z3950/services, map the following XML paths to the corresponding config.z3950_source table column as follows:

map the following XML paths to the corresponding config.z3950_attr

ike everyone else, I, too, always assumed that it was because either they were idiots or non-native English speakers. But I have very recently learned that is not the case. Indeed, the real answer is one of the more astonishing (at least to me) things I've heard in quite some time!It turns out that the dead giveaways of "spamese" are completely deliberate and carefully calibrated. Huh? Why? Because very few people of the type who frequent Quora would be fooled for ten seconds by these things. And guess what? Quora readers are the ANTI-audience for them!Instead, the obvious giveaways are used as a *pre-qualifier*, to ensure with the least possible effort that the ONLY people who respond to the scammers' initial mass mailings (and therefore have to be brought along individually during the later stages) are the absolutely most gullible, ignorant, susceptible, suckers they can find.Think of it this way: if you were running this as a business, which would make more sense: developing a highly believable pitch and sending it to 1,000 Quorans, knowing that 500 of them would eventually figure it out and call the cops? or writing a completely obvious scam and sending it automatically to 1,000,000 people, knowing that 999,990 will simply laugh and trash it...but the other ten have a very high likelihood of sending you thousands of bucks, with no one calling the cops?

According to one website: "Experienced scammers expect a 'strike rate' of 1 or 2 replies per 1,000 messages emailed; ... One scammer boasted 'When you get a reply it's 70% sure you'll get the money.'"