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Posted on: Dec, 8th 2012
There are many people who believe that a machine isn't capable of generate random results and with this idea spend their savings betting in Internet on all kind of gambling waiting to find a pattern. In fact, the machine not only can generate random results, but also adjust them for that the prizes won are the needed for keep hooked the gambler and maximize the benefits of the casino. Follow reading "How a machine learns to harness a compulsive gambler?"
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Posted on: Aug, 17th 2010
A lot of enterprises announced already in the moment that will go to leave of giving support to the browser Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) in their tools, for instance: Google left of giving support in its searcher and Gmail, Facebook, Yahoo, Digg and Microsoft itself, that did a campaign to discredit to its browser that said: "You wouldn't drink nine year old milk, so why use a nine year old browser?". But there are good reasons for all of this. Read more of "The worst virus of Internet: Internet Explorer 6"
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Posted on: Sep, 3rd 2010
There is a big lack of knowledge about how is measured the quantity of information in a computer. It is a fact that storage device sellers and Internet providers have take advantage to cheat us. Also, not a lot of time ago was changed the nomenclature of the international system of information units generating even more confusion. Learn more about "How they swindle us with the Megabits, Megabytes and Mebibytes"
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Posted on: Aug, 17th 2011
There are a lot of people that kindly shares their connection with the neighbours, but there are a lot of more that do it without knowing it. In both cases this supposes a security risk. Learn more about "How to stop WiFi hackers?"
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Posted on: Oct, 8th 2010
A lot of people have only one partition in the hard disk where is the operating system, the virtual memory paging file and their personal files, because is as usually comes a computer newly purchased with Windows. Often I surprise discover the quantity of technical and people, that say be expert without having basics knowledges of the topic, that recommend have only one partition because, according to them, the hard disk works faster, when really is the opposite. Do you want to know why? Follow discovering "Partitions of the hard disk. Are good or bad?"
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Posted on: Sep, 14th 2010
How many times have you hear, told or wrote the expression X megs of bandwidth. I'm sure that a lot of times, because the continued use of this phrase, have been converted in the regular way of talking of all the people and is totally incorrect. Something seemed happens when say that we weight 154 pounds, being the pound a unit of mass and not of weight. We must say: "I weight 70 kiloponds" or "I weight 154 pounds-force". Follow reading if you want to know why the case of the megs of bandwidth, also is incorrect. Finish reading "The Megs of bandwidth doesn't exists"