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by izend 15y ago
The largest unintended effect will be the massive loss of employment in the transportation industry.
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by izend 15y ago
That sentiment is a little short-sighted... Its equivalent to blaming Obama for the poor economy a year into his term. Nokia was on the path of failure long before Elop arrived.
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by izend 15y ago
"I don't think I've ever seen a company cut employees en masse like this truly help a company come from behind to regain their former status." Apple?
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by izend 15y ago
My father always said Engineers and Doctors (at the same experience level) get roughly the same salary in Germany and France. Not true in the US or Canada.
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by izend 15y ago
And the profit margin will be a lot smaller on "dumb phones".
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by izend 15y ago
There were nearly 6,420,000 auto accidents in the United States in 2005. The financial cost of these crashes is more than 230 Billion dollars. 2.9 million people were injured and 42,636 people killed. About 115 people die every day in vehic
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by izend 16y ago
Great article explaining the issue but his solution is basically protectionist which would instantly create million of jobs in the US. Why is China allowed to tack on a 15-30% premium on imported foreign goods but we aren't allowed to do th
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by izend 16y ago
Spain and Portugal as well...
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by izend 16y ago
I strongly agree the mass adoption of self driving cars will be the most significant development of the foreseeable future. It will create a social upheaval on par of the Industrial revolution by the mere fact of the number of people who ha
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by izend 16y ago
I was banned from Google Adsense about a week before I was to receive my first $100 pay check. I have estimated that if I was not banned I would have easily made over $10k in ad revenue over the last 3 years. I still have no idea why I was
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by izend 16y ago
I have played with the Nexus One and Samsung Galaxy S (Vibrant) and I have to say the Galaxy S is a much smoother experience. The tactile feel of the Galaxy S is just awesome.
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by izend 16y ago
Samsung.
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by izend 16y ago
$400K mortgage at 5 year variable of 1.90% and 25 year amortization is only $1,674 per month. This is exactly why low interest rates are quite dangerous...
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by izend 16y ago
Not as scary as if the Tsar Bomb was detonated in space above North America. It would wipe out the entire power grid of the continent.
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by izend 16y ago
And plus I know I would not be willing to give my University the details of my salary, unless they retrieve them from a salary survey company.
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by izend 16y ago
Run a VM with Windows just for iTunes.
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by izend 16y ago
If a Computer Science standardized test existed for all high school students I would bet my shirt that we would see a different between female vs male results.
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by izend 16y ago
It appears they should abandon their relational database if they are not using any of relational features.
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by izend 16y ago
We will reach $500/bbl eventually after the US dollar is hyper inflated away.
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by izend 17y ago
And it required 380 engineers to build the Burj Dubai. The only difference is for most software projects it is acceptable to have "bugs" as customers will still pay for it, even if it's in a poor state of quality. But "bugs" in a 2,717 ft
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by izend 17y ago
"including computer code that was intended to defeat security measures that online ticket vendors put in place to prevent automated ticket purchasing" That just describes a bot...
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by izend 17y ago
Canada refused to join the coalition of willing for Iraq and we are the US largest trading partner.
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by izend 17y ago
Several interesting facts emerge from the table. First, any countries and regions even some that received substantial debt inﬂows never defaulted. This includes the United States at the federal level, Canada, Australia, South Africa (except
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by izend 17y ago
I was at CES this year and those monitors were amazing. We asked when they were going to be released the Samsung guy said later this year.
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by izend 17y ago
If you remove the acquisitions revenue was actually below Q4 2008 revenue, exponential growth where are thou?
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by izend 17y ago
I can abandon Flash sockets if this becomes mainstream.
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by izend 17y ago
Your points are quite valid, however, I must say when I went in for my last surgery a young surgeon was standing at a computer and reading up on procedures on a medical Wiki. I would have to guess that has improved his efficiency versus tr
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by izend 17y ago
However, the way Al Gore has presented Climate Change has not at all been like scientific discussion, it has been portrait as a topic where the discussion and debate is over. That is my problem with individual such as Al Gore because state