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it's not like they hide their ideology though - the paper is called the economist! Oddly enough they and The Telegraph (the most conservative UK daily) were the only places with de…

I think that's actually the mathematical definition of zero !

Media attention this will get = zero Result of a scientist saying "Well no you can't PROVE there is no link" = wifi being banned in schools.

If you have a CNC mill or a 3D printer in the office you can certainly turn around prototype designs quickly!

It cuts both ways. There are designers who build things that can't be made - and especially things that can't be mass produced cheaply and easily. But there are also people with 20…

I think it's more that when the NYT talks about the new "Job's designed iPad", Ive kicks the cat.

>Do some fancy satellites have proximity sensors and self-destruct mechanisms. If the opposition had just spent $XXXBn on a reusable space shuttle to retrieve satellites and you we…

So apart from the tricky business of grabbing a bit of space junk going past you at Mach33 and changing it's delta-V so you can grab it and attach it to your satelite. And the tric…

Porting pure .Net apps should be trivial - if you also believed that Java was "build once and runs everywhere"! But how many real world (especially corporate in-house) .Net apps do…

Corporates will buy it because it's Windows. Average Joe will buy it because MSFT has a massive ad budget Of the rest; (money>sense) > iPad : Android ;

It was a very 'sensible' decision if you are an MBA! If Sony had been a little more flexible and far sighted it could have worked. But as you say, it resulted in the DAT tape and m…

If you wanted a tablet that had no compatibility with Windows - why would you get a Windows tablet? You are stuck in the problem of either adding a 'bit' of backwards compatibility…

He doesn't have to run a company - that's what VPs are for - he has to LEAD a company. In the 70s you lead by having the best hardware - you needed Woz at the head. In the 80/90s y…

You could take everything you just said and apply it to Sony in 1980. Then their founder, Akio Morita, retired with poor health and they diversified into lots of sensible business …

Twas ever thus. Ben Rich was Kelly Johnson's assistant at the original Lockheed Skunkworks (creator of the U2, SR71, etc) - he was regularly approached to leave and create skunkwor…