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Seahawks v. Patriots: How do the fans measure up?

Forget about football. Seahawks and Patriots fans don't see eye-to-eye on much at all.

30 JANUARY 2015   CNN MONEY   SARA ASHLEY O'BRIEN

While Patriots fans are much more likely hang out at concerts and imbibe at bars, Seahawks fans prefer to frequent water parks and the zoo. And unsurprisingly, they prefer to buy in bulk at Costco (founded in Seattle), unlike their competitors who shop at Sam's Club.

This is all according to a study released by startup PlaceIQ. The ad tech firm partnered with Datalogix to take a look at this year's Super Bowl fans: Patriots fans are more likely to be single, have a higher income and be a bit older. Seahawks fans skew younger, tend to be married with kids, and earn a little less. 

PlaceIQ also looked at how their likes, dislikes and habits compared to the average American consumer. Read More

The BSD/System V split

29 JANUARY 2015   OS NEWS   THOM HOLWERDA

>> Rob Landley: So gcc's library bindings strongly preferring System V system calls to BSD was due to the flood of Solaris end-users dominating the late 80's gcc development community to avoid paying Ed Zander extra for Sun's Solaris compiler. This combined with Linus reading Sun workstation manuals to get a system call list gave linux a very System V flavor. <<

Interesting - if opinionated - view on the whole situation. Not sure if all the dates check out, but it's a fun read nonetheless. Read More

The V-22 Gunship 

28 JANUARY 2015   STRAGEGY PAGE   JAMES DUNNIGAN

... Plans for arming the V-22 have always been an option and since 2007 the marines and SOCOM have been developing weapons for use on their V-22s. The main purpose for this is to give V-22s just enough firepower to clear the landing zone long enough to land, unload and get away.

... The V-22 can carry 24 troops 700 kilometers (vertical take-off on a ship, level flight, landing, and return) at 400 kilometers an hour and sometimes has to land in areas where the locals are firing at them.  

... The V-22 is the first application of the tilt-rotor technology in active service. The air force is already working on improvements (to make the V-22 more reliable and easier to maintain). The MV-22 gives the marines and SOCOM a lot more capability but, as it often the case, this is a lot more expensive. The initial production models of the CV-22 cost over $60 million each. SOCOM insists on a high degree of reliability for its aircraft. Read More

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