Date: Tue, 27. May 2008 05:39:48

Experts say they suspect industrial pollutants are one possible cause of a statistical downturn in the number of boys being born in the United States.

Date: Sat, 23. May 2009 11:51:49

Good news today for the state, as North Dakota released its Sales and Use Tax Statistical Report.

Date: Fri, 5. September 2008 23:01:29

HealthDay - FRIDAY, Sept. 5 (HealthDay News) -- New research shows that obese people who have asthma are nearly five times more likely to be hospitalized for the problem and to have lower quality of life and worse control of the disease than those with asthma who are normal weight.

Date: Tue, 21. July 2009 15:22:00

PC World - Google is doing a little image control this week, trying to swat away criticisms of YouTube, its wildly popular video site. Google is fighting back against questions about the site's finances, as well as attacks on the quality of videos available on the site.

Date: Sat, 6. September 2008 03:46:16

HealthDay - FRIDAY, Sept. 5 (HealthDay News) -- New research shows that obese people who have asthma are nearly five times more likely to be hospitalized for the problem and to have lower quality of life and worse control of the disease than those with asthma who are normal weight.

Date: Sun, 27. September 2009 15:05:16

SD-Arcadia writes to tell us that Theora 1.1 has officially been released. It features improved encoding, providing better video quality for a given file size, a faster decoder, bitrate controls to help with streaming, and two-pass encoding. "The new rate control module hits its target much more accurately and obeys strict buffer constraints, including dropping frames if necessary. The latter is needed to enable live streaming without disconnecting users or pausing to buffer during sudden motion. Obeying these constraints can yield substantially worse quality than the 1.0 encoder, whose rate control did not obey any such constraints, and often landed only in the vague neighborhood of the desired rate target. The new --soft-target option can relax a few of these constraints, but the new two-pass rate control mode gives quality approaching full 'constant quality' mode with a predictable output size. This should be the preferred encoding method when not doing live streaming. Two-pass may also be used with finite buffer constraints, for non-live streaming." A detailed writeup on the new release has been posted at Mozilla.pa href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/26/1611252/Theora-11-Thusnelda-Is-Released?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/09/26/1611252"/a/ppa href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/26/1611252/Theora-11-Thusnelda-Is-Released?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1_-a-lU2b-Pf5IZqCYrP4lXRq84/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1_-a-lU2b-Pf5IZqCYrP4lXRq84/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1_-a-lU2b-Pf5IZqCYrP4lXRq84/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1_-a-lU2b-Pf5IZqCYrP4lXRq84/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/VO0da6Ox24M" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Mon, 11. August 2008 23:00:22

Chrysler LLC's manufacturing chief says the company is working with great energy and speed to fix its quality problems, but the payoff hasn't shown up yet in external quality studies.

Date: Wed, 22. October 2008 13:39:00

Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, has launched a stinging attack on the quality of its supply chain in China and called for improvements in the quality of goods and the way they are produced.

Date: Thu, 1. January 1970 00:00:00

J.D. Power?s 2009 Initial Quality Study shows the quality of vehicles built for American consumers has improved this year, but imported brands are still top of the list.

Date: Sun, 11. July 2010 04:19:51

Britain has decided to conclude its best known statistical barometer. The country will no longer have a census, the official government population count.