Multiply is in. But will Viiv do fractions?
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Intel's new marketing slogan: Multiply! The chipmaker is set to release a big ad campaign to promote dual-core processors.
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Did you see Alan Greenspan on 60 Minutes tonight?  What a revelation, one of the most powerful political and economic forces, but until now, basically silent. There were so many interesting things in the interview, but one of them left me with an urgent action item. Lesley Stahl, the interviewer, asked what currency he got the advance on his book in? He said it didn't matter, because he could convert to whatever currency he wanted, begging the question. She pressed, and he volunteered that the best choice is to be diversified. Which of course is a conclusion every money manager would reach on their own, it's just like stocks and bonds, you never want to have all your eggs in one basket, the best strategy is to be diversified.  I've wanted to be diversified in currency for quite some time, but have found it's not so easy. I have an investment account and a checking account, both are in US dollars, and neither offers the option of anything other than that. I just spent a couple of hours with Google trying to figure out where I could open an account that would allow me to keep cash in euros, yen, yuan, dollars (Canadian, US, Australian or New Zealand), pounds, or... ? I found that I could become a currency trader, which is absolutely not what I want. What I'd like is something like a mutual fund for currency. Or failing that, a certificate of deposit that allowed me to specify what currency it would be in.  So I thought I'd ask the smartest people I know, the readers of this blog. Do you keep your savings in more than one currency? Is there an online bank that does this well, one that a US citizen can use (that is, it sends 1099's to the IRS). Any ideas would be much appreciated.
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Plus: Write-downs widen DirecTV's loss...Time Warner net income slips...Cell phone unit shores up Verizon.
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The Bond Yields chart on the DataBank pages from Aug. 12 through last Sunday transposed the four-week yield changes for Treasury notes and municipal bonds. And the Regional Indexes chart in the DataBank on Oct. 7 and last Sunday used an incorrect scale; it should have indicated changes of plus or minus 8 percent, not 4 percent. Todayâs charts, on Page 12, show the correct changes for the last four weeks. A reader pointed out the Bond Yields error in an e-mail message last week.
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It's a keypad phone. No, it's a keyboard handheld. Two, two, two tricks in one. 2 x 2 x 2 = 8 out of 10.
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Growing profits isn't magic. It's math.
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A simple question yields a surprising answer.
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Per l'Istat il dato riguarda un quarto delle separazioni
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I can imagine the comments we'll see on this article. What about X distribution? And so on... I'm not going to justify my reasons for choosing Debian. You can use whatever distro you want. It's just a matter of preference.
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"Rubinius is a project to watch", so says Charles Nutter in his post Rite, Rubinius, and Everything &mdash; I think he's right.  Evan is hard at work making things work better in rubinius.  He's now got continuations working (I think this makes him the first alternative implementation of Ruby to do so), and says he should have serializable continuations soon (see his post on it here).  W00t!
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No more math required to figure out how many calories are in that 20-ounce bottle of pop. Revised labels will calculate it for you starting next year.
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RE the letter from an ex- Scottish Gas customer, I have the same problem.  I pay my son's electricity bill on the internet, and had a message that his payment was to rise by pounds 14 per month, despite the fact that I opted for the capped bill until 2010.
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Plus: At 80, fractal discoverer Benoit Mandelbrot says he has much math work left to do. [News.com Extra]
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Is it more appealing to hear that a product is selling at a 50 percent discount or to hear that it has been marked down twice, first by 25 percent and then by a further 33 percent? The two options come out to the same result, of course. But a paper in the Journal of Consumer Research reports that consumers tend to prefer the second option, since they often proceed by the flawed arithmetical process of adding the two sale percentages together to get 58 percent.
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Calling GarageBand â08 âpretty impressive,â Asher Fulero (Remix) confesses that multitake recording is âone of my favorite new featuresâ and calls the new VIsual EQ a âpro-level nugget.â  âWith spectral analysis overlaid atop the EQ curve, you can drag the four curve points and see the results on the signal in real time. Support for 24-bit recording, playback and output (24-bit-capable audio interface required) lends even more of a professional edge, as do the new mastering options that offer a host of preset master-track effect chains.â
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Virginia Tech plans to announce on Tuesday that its System X now operates at 12.25 teraflops, or 12 trillion calculations per second, up from 10.
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I added his expand/collapse code to the HTML rendering of Scripting News, per my recent request. It seems to work nicely.  Does it work in Opera? Please let me know.