Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed." "OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!" His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands. Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"
Yale School of Management: "Laszlo Bock leads Google's people function globally...Laszlo earned a bachelor's degree in international relations from Pomona College and an MBA from the Yale School of Management."
University of Tennessee DCN Lab: We currently use a very safe, comfortable 128 channel cap(high density EEG sensor array) to collect the infant EEG/ERP. The EEG cap contains sponge discs and there is no risk to the infant wearing the cap.
Iris Cafe (Facebook): First, the good news! Fall has brought everyone back to the neighborhood and the cafe is bustling with customers old and new! Sadly, this means we are no longer able to offer wifi/computer use at tables. We understand that means some of you will have to go elsewhere, but we hope you'll come by for a coffee or a meal when possible!
In the sidebar of the WSJ CPA story - Google Gives $100 Million Award to Outgoing CEO: "Google Inc., fresh off announcing a management shake-up, will give a $100 million equity award to outgoing Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, who in April will be succeeded by company co-founder Larry Page. Poornima Gupta, a spokeswoman for Google, confirmed on Saturday that it was the first such award for Mr. Schmidt since he joined the company in 2001. It includes stock and options. She declined to comment further...On Thursday, Mr. Schmidt filed paperwork to sell company shares currently valued at $335 million this year, his first such sale in more than three years. He currently owns 9.2 million Google shares, which are valued at nearly $5.8 billion"
The "S" Conundrum: Can Dividends be Wages or Vice Versa?: Any knowledgeable practitioner reading this newsletter will quickly realize that the potential IRS argument that wages are too low is the flip side of the question, when is compensation too high in order to eliminate income for a regular "C" corporation? In both "S" and "C" situations the issue is what is reasonable compensation.
Sep. 22, 1997: AOL's Big Coup ("The Web was going to kill it. Microsoft was going to bury it. But by grabbing CompuServe, America Online keeps on growing."). Jan. 24, 2000: The Big Deal ("How the AOL-Time Warner merger happened. Does it make any sense?"). May 31, 2010: Facebook...and How It's Redefining Privacy ("With nearly 500 million users, Facebook is connecting us in new (and scary) ways"). Dec 27, 2010: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg ("Person of the Year. The Connector").
Probably non-gender specific, as you suggest, but from the linked article: "The following post is an excerpt from a research paper I wrote this semester examining the use of high school computer science classes to increase the number of women in computer science."
The government planned to find another home for the more than $1 million in computer hardware and software that were previously purchased to host the (apparently) relatively low-traffic Recovery.gov site, but were no longer needed after hosting was switched to Amazon.
Fareed Zakaria: "While businesses have a way to navigate this new world of technological change and globalization, the ordinary American worker does not. Capital and technology are mobile; labor isn't...That makes it more difficult for the American middle-class worker to benefit from technology and global growth in the same way that companies do. At this point, economists will protest. Historically, free trade has been beneficial to rich and poor. By forcing you out of industries in which you are inefficient, trade makes you strengthen those industries in which you are world-class. That's right in theory, and it has been right in practice...And yet something feels different this time."
Slashdot Mirror
Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed." "OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!" His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands. Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"
Priceline - William Shatner Busts A Move
Yale School of Management: "Laszlo Bock leads Google's people function globally...Laszlo earned a bachelor's degree in international relations from Pomona College and an MBA from the Yale School of Management."
University of Tennessee DCN Lab: We currently use a very safe, comfortable 128 channel cap(high density EEG sensor array) to collect the infant EEG/ERP. The EEG cap contains sponge discs and there is no risk to the infant wearing the cap.
Iris Cafe (Facebook): First, the good news! Fall has brought everyone back to the neighborhood and the cafe is bustling with customers old and new! Sadly, this means we are no longer able to offer wifi/computer use at tables. We understand that means some of you will have to go elsewhere, but we hope you'll come by for a coffee or a meal when possible!
Alan Eustace, Senior VP of Google Engineering & Research, started off 2010 by touting Google's 'guiding Privacy Principles', but would later have to apologize for the company's Street View privacy breach, saying that the company was 'mortified' by the 'mistake'. Last week, Bloomberg reported that Google gave Eustance a $10 million equity award in 2010 for his efforts.
In the sidebar of the WSJ CPA story - Google Gives $100 Million Award to Outgoing CEO: "Google Inc., fresh off announcing a management shake-up, will give a $100 million equity award to outgoing Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, who in April will be succeeded by company co-founder Larry Page. Poornima Gupta, a spokeswoman for Google, confirmed on Saturday that it was the first such award for Mr. Schmidt since he joined the company in 2001. It includes stock and options. She declined to comment further...On Thursday, Mr. Schmidt filed paperwork to sell company shares currently valued at $335 million this year, his first such sale in more than three years. He currently owns 9.2 million Google shares, which are valued at nearly $5.8 billion"
The "S" Conundrum: Can Dividends be Wages or Vice Versa?: Any knowledgeable practitioner reading this newsletter will quickly realize that the potential IRS argument that wages are too low is the flip side of the question, when is compensation too high in order to eliminate income for a regular "C" corporation? In both "S" and "C" situations the issue is what is reasonable compensation.
With apologies to Intel...
Sep. 22, 1997: AOL's Big Coup ("The Web was going to kill it. Microsoft was going to bury it. But by grabbing CompuServe, America Online keeps on growing."). Jan. 24, 2000: The Big Deal ("How the AOL-Time Warner merger happened. Does it make any sense?"). May 31, 2010: Facebook ...and How It's Redefining Privacy ("With nearly 500 million users, Facebook is connecting us in new (and scary) ways"). Dec 27, 2010: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg ("Person of the Year. The Connector").
Steve Ballmer greeenlighted the patent application after seeing this remarkable demo of the technology. :-)
Good thing he stuck with Frogger!
Nintendo gave simlar warnings 15 years ago: Virtual Boy, Nintendo’s Big 3-D Flop, Turns 15
In 2007, Bloomberg notes, IBM was bullish on online immersive environments like Second Life. Big Blue certainly put its patent efforts where its predictions were - 250+ published IBM patent applications mention 'avatar' or 'avatars'.
How Much Information Does Your GPS Store About Where You Have Been? So, is Max Speed on your GPS a bug or a feature?
Even well-intentioned software can backfire: Greek designer who issued “Anonymous” press release caught by metadata
Christmas 1975 BYTE Cover - Computers: The Ultimate Toys. Digibarn has more BYTE covers from the '70s and '80s. Outstanding!
Probably non-gender specific, as you suggest, but from the linked article: "The following post is an excerpt from a research paper I wrote this semester examining the use of high school computer science classes to increase the number of women in computer science."
As the Federal CIO sang the praises of Amazon.com-backed Animoto's use of the Amazon Cloud, the Chairman of the Recovery Board decided giving Amazon the contract to host Recovery.gov was the right thing to do, and called on the public to 'imagine if other, much larger federal agencies were to follow our lead.'
Credit for deciding to tap Amazon was given to government contractor Smartronix, who reportedly used AWS in the development and testing of recovery.gov, but did not go live with it in the initial roll-out.
The government planned to find another home for the more than $1 million in computer hardware and software that were previously purchased to host the (apparently) relatively low-traffic Recovery.gov site, but were no longer needed after hosting was switched to Amazon.
Daily unique visitors: slashdot.com vs. cars.gov vs. animoto.com
Samsung Galaxy S (T-Mobile) – buy one, get one free! (Android 2.1 OS). Yes, kind of looks like you need Steve Jobs' reality distortion field to convince people to pay undiscounted prices. :-)
Adds up to 20,000 requests, though.
Good enough for government data. :-)
Working Beyond Borders
Fareed Zakaria: "While businesses have a way to navigate this new world of technological change and globalization, the ordinary American worker does not. Capital and technology are mobile; labor isn't...That makes it more difficult for the American middle-class worker to benefit from technology and global growth in the same way that companies do. At this point, economists will protest. Historically, free trade has been beneficial to rich and poor. By forcing you out of industries in which you are inefficient, trade makes you strengthen those industries in which you are world-class. That's right in theory, and it has been right in practice...And yet something feels different this time."