Newspapers haven’t been killed off by the Internet (at least, not yet!). The reason for this is that when we buy a newspaper, we’re not buying the news. These days the news is free (gratis) – we can go online and read newsfeeds from organisations like Reuters or the Associated Press, or original reporting from ...
A US defence contractor has received more than $1bn in funding to build a prototype unmanned fighter aircraft for the American military. Northrop Grumman will build at least three full-scale flight prototypes for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) over five years The contract win will allow Northrop to continue work on its ...
One purloined test key can mean a book has to be junked, Haga said, resulting in a potential loss of $20 million for a popular textbook. ‘We’ve seen more and more of these teacher solution manuals showing up on peer-to-peer networks, eBay and other places,’ she said. ‘Once that happens, it can kill a textbook…It ...
Hey all, Starting this morning, I modified meyerweb.com to have the following on every page[1]: Why? To allow anyone who wants to restyle my site to do so simply by adding the appropriate rules to a user stylesheet. By using descendant selectors starting with the site ID, the styles will apply only to pages on ...
“News.com – FASB’s all wrong on this one”:http://news.com.com/FASB%27s+all+wrong+on+this+one/2010-1014_3-5302648.html?part=rss&tag=5302648&subj=news.1014.5 It will mean the end of many broad-based options programs, curtailing the American innovation and creativity that sets us apart globally, and that fundamentally, America’s workers, businesses and overall economy will pay the cost. Though I have issues with the pragmatist’s argument that expensing options is too ...
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