Edward Baptist's new book , "The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery And The Making Of American Capitalism", drew a lot of attention last month after the Economist said it was too hard on slave owners . What you might not have taken away from the ensuing media storm is that "The Half Has Never Been Told" is quite a gripping read. Baptist weaves deftly between analysis of economic data and narrative prose to paint a picture of American slavery that is pretty different from what you may have learned in high school Social Studies class. The whole thing is well worth reading in full . Baptist positions his book in opposition to textbooks that present slavery like a distant aberration of American history, cramming 250 years into a few chapters in a way "that cuts the beating heart out of the story." To counter that image of history, Baptist devotes much of the book to depicting the lived experience of enslavement in a way that's vivid and i...
tosinrogue!! A blogger Number System Number system: It is an organized and systematic way of representing number. Bit, Byte, Word and Character • A bit is the smallest quantity of information that can be stored or manipulated in a computer system. Digital computer store information in form of “1” or “0” at a defined memory location or address. A single binary digit is known as a bit. It is the smallest unit of information. • A byte is a group of eight bits. – Byte = 8 bits • A word is a contiguous group of bytes. A word means the basic unit of information operated on by a computer. Usually a word represents a number or instruction Typical word sizes: 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 bits 1K = 1024 bytes Characters are ...
Apple is a famously secretive company — and no doubt that’s one reason that breathless rumors about what it’s working on have become a genre unto themselves . One overlooked byproduct of this rumor mill is the ever-growing collection of computer-generated renderings of Apple creations that don’t yet exist — and often never will. These depictions range from best-guess approximations based on alleged leaks to completely speculative flights of fancy. As dazzling and convincing as some of the images are, they are nothing more than visual rumors, stoking the fire of Apple speculation. So who makes these images? And more to the point: Why? It turns out there are quite a few visualizers of imagined Apple gear out there, all over the world, and of course their answers vary. All those that I contacted cited some variation of creative expression. But some have also figured out that these entertaining conjectures can serve as an effective source of publicity — and even rev...
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