or if it's because of Steve Jobs and his "Linux is a cancer" and his "I'll fucking bury the Google boys - I've shafted companies before and I'll do it again",
Can't mod a guy insightful if he confuses Steve Jobs with Steve Ballmer.
IQ isn't a good indicator of intelligence, IMO. It's a number fed to parents to make them feel better about their kids. Who even takes an official IQ test anymore? Only kids whose parents already think they're bright.
I can see several differences. One is that an athlete only has a limited amount of time to make use of his gifts. A scholar, if he isn't overworked, will presumably be as talented, if not more so, as he gets older. So there's really no need, IMO, to rush through education. Another difference is that a 16 year old athlete probably has spent a healthy amount of time growing up with kids his own age. I don't know if a kid who enters college at 8 has that same opportunity.
And really, once he gets his PhD, what's he gonna do? Work? You've got the rest of your life to work, kid. Enjoy your childhood while it lasts.
Of course, if this is what he really wants to do, and isn't being forced into by his parents, then good luck to him.
I always hear about child geniuses entering college before they hit puberty, only to never be heard from again. Seriously, what do they do after they graduate? Most likely, they burn bright for a few years and then are burnt out by the time they're in their teens. Why not give them time to let their emotional maturity catch up to their intellectual maturity? What's the rush?
So how many of the people posting on Slashdot are CRs and what companies do they represent?
I confess. I'm paid by Viagra to make impotency jokes and generally ridicule those with erectile dysfunction. It's something that I do normally, so getting paid to do it is a sweet deal.
Anybody who uses the term "rinky-dink" seven times in a short article can't be taken seriously. Is he really writing, or just trying to up his word count?
Although he misread the graph (you divide by a million to get a percentage of internet users, kinda like a Nielson ratings share) - his point is correct. BBC is a much larger website and slashdotting won't affect it much.
Here's a comparison of bbc.co.uk and slashdot.org:
People who are so poor that spending a couple dollars means going two days without food, go into cyber cafes to post to their blogs? And Google should think about these people if they implement any donation scheme? I really don't understand your point, or how your original post was modded Insightful.
(As an aside, these are probably the people who could benefit from donations to charity... )
WOW $3.00 a book to print, $300.00-150.00 for a textbook, $50.00 -30.00 for a hardcover novel or softcover tech book and $8.00 for a paperback; no wonder Google scares the jabeebers out of them!
1. A $300 Textbook would most likely be almost full of color ilustrations, and it would cost a lot more to print than $3 per book
2. I've never seen a novel that costs $50. It's usually closer to $20, and even less than that for popular novels that retailers offer discounts on.
3. You are not factoring in the costs of distribution and marketing.
4. The retailer and the publishing house take their cut of the sales. The author usually only gets about 10% of retail (and usually only the book has sold enough to cover their advance).
The UK ending a ban on space flight would be like China ending a ban on rodeos. Does anybody actually see the UK sending astronauts into space? It's about as likely as seeing bullriding in Beijing.
1. If a company is run by someone who makes more than a billion dollars a year - that person has to get out of the company. They can start a new company, but the old company has to lose that person. This would effectively remove Bill Gates et al at the top. They could start Microsoft #2, but Microsoft would have to find new people to lead the company.
First of all, hardly anyone, if anyone, makes a billion dollars a year. Not even Bill Gates. If you are talking about the value of their stock, than you will also have to remove Steve Jobs, Lary Page, Sergey Brin, etc...
Second of all... well, there are just so many things wrong with this proposition that I will just assume you were kidding.
Let's assume that you make hardware. You have a lot of competition, and you have 10% of the market. Nobody offers Linux drivers. All of a sudden, you decide to offer the drivers, and your market share goes up to 12%. All of a sudden, Linux has added 20% to your business.
Yes, if the cost of developing Linux drivers is zero, that would be true. But it doesn't matter if your market share goes up to 12% if the cost to you of gaining that market share is more than you receive in return.
If a savvy entreprenuer figures out a way to make more selling Linux-compatible hardware/support than it costs to develop/maintain it, than by all means he should do so.
Slashdot Mirror
Can't mod a guy insightful if he confuses Steve Jobs with Steve Ballmer.
For every short kid, there's a blind kid?
IQ isn't a good indicator of intelligence, IMO. It's a number fed to parents to make them feel better about their kids. Who even takes an official IQ test anymore? Only kids whose parents already think they're bright.
And really, once he gets his PhD, what's he gonna do? Work? You've got the rest of your life to work, kid. Enjoy your childhood while it lasts.
Of course, if this is what he really wants to do, and isn't being forced into by his parents, then good luck to him.
I always hear about child geniuses entering college before they hit puberty, only to never be heard from again. Seriously, what do they do after they graduate? Most likely, they burn bright for a few years and then are burnt out by the time they're in their teens. Why not give them time to let their emotional maturity catch up to their intellectual maturity? What's the rush?
I confess. I'm paid by Viagra to make impotency jokes and generally ridicule those with erectile dysfunction. It's something that I do normally, so getting paid to do it is a sweet deal.
I think you are searching microsoft's home page, not using MSN search. If that's the case, well, duh.
Depends what you mean by "own". They are way in front, but they don't even have 50% of the total market. A big lead, yes, but heardly insurmountable.
Google's market cap is just barely under $100 billion. Cash is not a problem, and as long as they stay ahead of the game, it won't be.
Market cap is not the same as cash. But yeah, Google has plenty of cash right now.
Google's services are more compatible with more browsers and more OS's than Microsoft's are.
What services are you talking about? MSN Search is compatible with any browser and any OS, isn't it?
Anybody who uses the term "rinky-dink" seven times in a short article can't be taken seriously. Is he really writing, or just trying to up his word count?
Here's a comparison of bbc.co.uk and slashdot.org:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details? &range=6m&size=medium&y=r&url=bbc.co.uk#top
Not trying to troll, and I admit I haven't downloaded it yet, but from the screenshots it looks kinda silly.
(As an aside, these are probably the people who could benefit from donations to charity... )
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Image:Gnomehint.png
Well they are all probably using Microsoft products too :)
1. A $300 Textbook would most likely be almost full of color ilustrations, and it would cost a lot more to print than $3 per book
2. I've never seen a novel that costs $50. It's usually closer to $20, and even less than that for popular novels that retailers offer discounts on.
3. You are not factoring in the costs of distribution and marketing.
4. The retailer and the publishing house take their cut of the sales. The author usually only gets about 10% of retail (and usually only the book has sold enough to cover their advance).
You still think authors are making a killing?
Flock will encourage people to create more blogs... and this is a good thing?
Web 2.0 = Coke 2.0
I love how the third screenshot shows an IM conversation with Ryan "Topside Pornstar" :)
You need years of XXX experience for a job? Man, I knew I should have done that one video when I was approached by that guy with the mustache...
Also, the word "infamous" is used incorrectly. That's one of my pet peeves.
The UK ending a ban on space flight would be like China ending a ban on rodeos. Does anybody actually see the UK sending astronauts into space? It's about as likely as seeing bullriding in Beijing.
That's what he just said.
First of all, hardly anyone, if anyone, makes a billion dollars a year. Not even Bill Gates. If you are talking about the value of their stock, than you will also have to remove Steve Jobs, Lary Page, Sergey Brin, etc...
Second of all... well, there are just so many things wrong with this proposition that I will just assume you were kidding.
Yes, if the cost of developing Linux drivers is zero, that would be true. But it doesn't matter if your market share goes up to 12% if the cost to you of gaining that market share is more than you receive in return.
If a savvy entreprenuer figures out a way to make more selling Linux-compatible hardware/support than it costs to develop/maintain it, than by all means he should do so.
Firefox's userbase has declined each month since May, while IE has risen. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.a sp
:)
Well the good news is that Linux has gained a whopping 1% market share in 2 and a half years.