If you read the actual article, Graham isn't actually claiming that Microsoft is dead (despite his provocative title) but that it is simply irrelevant -- that it's something startups don't need to worry about.
It's the worst kind of speculation we can have, worse than speculating on the stock or commodity market. If you buy a bunch of stocks on a company, and if the market crashes, you still own bits of that company, and the company may be just doing well, making a profit every year.
Not if they've gone bankrupt. They you are left with nothing. In the real world.
I think it would be useful to point people to the Coworking Wiki for efforts to support mobile workers with a bit of community. It looks like a great start, though sadly, my home city, London is a bit lacking at this time. If anyone knows good spots, please add them to the website.
Speaking as a teacher, I agree with this move. The problem with homework (at least in the schools where I have worked) is that it is expected to be graded and counted toward the overall academic progress of the child. This is an issue because as a teacher I cannot trust that the work done at home is the child's own. Aside from the easy things to catch like copying there are a myriad of parents and tutors who will use homework to artificially boost a child's grades.
Homework should be used for practice, but not count for the final grade.
What's the reason for developing a whole new branch of Ubuntu for a specific purpose? (Such as the EDUbuntu) Why not just have a list of programs that people might want to download. Are there really changes that need to be made at the operating system level for multi-media editing?
Seriously...at what point does someone think it's a good idea to lie to their children like this?
The problem is the other parents. Try raising a child not to believe in Santa and you will be quickly ostracized by other parents. Plus, you don't think any of those parents are going to let your kid play with theirs when the holidays roll around, do you?
Amirhussein Jaharuti, the manager of a major Internet service provider in Tehran, said the government's restrictions focus on pornography, and he feels that filtering is appropriate.
"This is the demand of Iranian families, that they don't want their children to use these kinds of sites,"
Ah it's good to see that families are the same the world over. Even in Iran parents don't want to take responsibility for raising their own children.
For the cost of getting people to the moon and keeping them their for any significant period of time, you could send probably dozens of unmanned expeditions all over the solar system.
The setting is to be a war-torn post-9/11-like Trek universe
Sounds like Trek wants to imitate the awesomeness that is BSG. Good luck guys, BSG is as great as it is because it doesn't fall in the the Trek writing traps.
Why bother? Perhaps my economics is shaky, but wouldn't reducing the amount of currency in circulation increase its value? Seems like a self-correcting system to me.
When ever you read about someone with this wonderful used fryer-oil powered vehicle, they're always taking it on some cross-country trip.
Because a cross country trip (like the one I took this summer) is a damn good way to test it out over a long distance and a variety of terrains. Plus, it generates interest. What American doesn't love the idea of setting out on the open road?
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If you read the actual article, Graham isn't actually claiming that Microsoft is dead (despite his provocative title) but that it is simply irrelevant -- that it's something startups don't need to worry about.
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Aside from that, faith is so, so easy and science too hard.
Please don't kill Roomba! He's my friend.
Check out page #8, middle section: AHMED THE EGYPTIAN and AHMED THE TALL.
"Oh my god run! It's a tall Egyptian and his name is Ahmed!
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No kidding. I'm sick and tired of such pointless news. We should focus on more important things -- like Britney's Hair.
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Not if they've gone bankrupt. They you are left with nothing. In the real world.
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Jesus fucking Christ my EYES! Why so many fonts and colors?
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I think it would be useful to point people to the Coworking Wiki for efforts to support mobile workers with a bit of community. It looks like a great start, though sadly, my home city, London is a bit lacking at this time. If anyone knows good spots, please add them to the website.
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Speaking as a teacher, I agree with this move. The problem with homework (at least in the schools where I have worked) is that it is expected to be graded and counted toward the overall academic progress of the child. This is an issue because as a teacher I cannot trust that the work done at home is the child's own. Aside from the easy things to catch like copying there are a myriad of parents and tutors who will use homework to artificially boost a child's grades.
Homework should be used for practice, but not count for the final grade.
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I made this for Mars, but I think it still answers the question.
What's the reason for developing a whole new branch of Ubuntu for a specific purpose? (Such as the EDUbuntu) Why not just have a list of programs that people might want to download. Are there really changes that need to be made at the operating system level for multi-media editing?
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The problem is the other parents. Try raising a child not to believe in Santa and you will be quickly ostracized by other parents. Plus, you don't think any of those parents are going to let your kid play with theirs when the holidays roll around, do you?
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I must say, I've never been one of the Roland haters on slashdot, but then I never knew that he wears orange glasses with a matching shirt
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You forgot a link or two.
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Ah it's good to see that families are the same the world over. Even in Iran parents don't want to take responsibility for raising their own children.
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That may be true, but there are other, better reasons to send humans.
This comment brought to you by the verizon math department
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because ID cards don't even begin to tackle a core crime prevention challenge: determining a person's unspoken intentions
Let's make that a bit clearer, shall we?
because ID cards don't even begin to tackle a core crime prevention challenge: determining a person's thought crimes
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It already happened six episodes ago.
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Sounds like Trek wants to imitate the awesomeness that is BSG. Good luck guys, BSG is as great as it is because it doesn't fall in the the Trek writing traps.
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Why bother? Perhaps my economics is shaky, but wouldn't reducing the amount of currency in circulation increase its value? Seems like a self-correcting system to me.
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So... is that ascii drawing child porn? What if I say it's a drawing of a child?
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Oh won't you look like a fool once intergalactic civilization gets going.
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I hope the future of journalism doesn't have any more of these The Future of Journalism articles.
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Because a cross country trip (like the one I took this summer) is a damn good way to test it out over a long distance and a variety of terrains. Plus, it generates interest. What American doesn't love the idea of setting out on the open road?
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