Why Your Pointy Haired Boss Is A Mathematical Certainty. The Occupational Employment and Wages report … [shows] how many people have what job and what they get paid. But what is that dot … that employs nearly 2 million people and pays nearly $90,000? Why it’s General and operations managers, of course. It’s an attractive, well-paying job, that doesn’t seem to be too discriminating about who gets hired. Comments Aditya Chaturvedi 14 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: Cool
MPAA to use digital fingerprints to fight P2P movie sharing. At last, they’re beginning to use technology, instead of regulation, to fight technology. Comments S Anand 14 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: Yeah, had a heart attack when I saw it the first time :-) TOPFRAME 14 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: :-) lol! funny comment-ator Venkat 14 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: I think you can have an upper limit on the number characters that one can type. (rather cut-n-paste) :-)
Google donates infrastructure to Wikipedia. Possible benefits to Google? Test another end use for the famed Google OS Get an “authoritative” knowledge base to provide search results on Position against Microsoft Encarta as an encyclopaedia
We are the final frontier. The Guardian asks leading scientists what they think will be the next revolution in science. (It’s almost a trend, spawning books like The Next Fifty Years.) First came the Copernican revolution in the 16th century. The Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus argued that the Earth was not at the centre of the solar system. Charles Darwin got personal more than 300 years later by implying that humans weren’t special either. With the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin promoted his theory of evolution via natural selection. Nearly a century later, two Cambridge-based scientists, James Watson and Francis Crick, unravelled the structure of DNA. So what’s next? What will be the fourth revolution? ...
Are computers increasing or hampering productivity? This article at NY Times talks about the increasing levels of distraction PCs drive us to, with e-mail, Internet, games, music, photos, movies, books, chat, … It’s a form of ADD: attention deficiency syndrome. Harvard Business Review has an article titled Why Smart People Underperform (Jan 2005: subscription required) talks about its impact in the business world.