Jesus also becomes influential by the amount of discredit and disbelief his identity gets. And not to mention the sheer amount of advert dollars spent. Adolf gets to the top of the list too.

Indian?! Is that a language? Spoken where?

But the question is, do they deserve that kind of salaries for people who are unable to run the company into profitability? Plus the $10M in stock options.

They have got $133M in cash and equivalents. And a $1.5B in debt. Basically the company is chewing down its own rear. KKR, Silverlake, Tech Crossover have 68.5% stake in the company. The CxO's are having a good time. $12M per year for CxO's is a great deal for a bunch of morons. So the IPO is a nice way to try to extend the party the morons are enjoying before they float their resumes and land at another party.

You cannot claim your own assets as goodwill. Only acquired assets can be claimed as goodwill, and not more than the amount the assets fall short than the purchase price. Which means, they bought into some pretty lousy deal in the past. And they are amortizing their past sins.

I find it difficult to read tech books on a 7'' screen. I prefer a 10'' screen for reading tech books. In fact I find 10'' inch suitable for novels too. So I prefer a 10'' kindle. I wish it could open many more formats comfortably, like pdf's, djvu's, chm's etc. apart from epub and mobi. Plus note-taking and highlighting would make it perfect. It doesn't exist. So I didn't bother to own a kindle.

I find it difficult to read tech books on 7'' screen. I prefer a 10'' screen for reading tech books. In fact I find 10'' inch suitable for novels too. So I prefer a 10'' kindle. I wish it could open many more formats comfortably, like pdf's, djvu's, chm's etc. apart from epub and mobi. Plus note taking and highlighting would make it perfect.

This isn't so important in the context of India. In India political parties have better and more effective methods to influence the voters. One method that is currently the favorite is to bribe the voter. In the currently held election political parties were offering $8 to $16 per vote. Another method is called as "booth capturing". Where a bunch of goons or politically influential people storm a polling booth and start pressing the buttons on the voting machine in their favor. The prime ministerial candidate from the currently ruling party was caught doing exactly that. The penalty would be that he might have to privately apologize. Another popular method is to spread fear among the voters. Some employers have threatened their employees to vote for a particular party or risk losing their job. Most people are not aware that its a secret ballot and hence comply. May be its true too, who knows? The voting machine could be watching you.

The rich become powerful and the powerful become rich. Democracy is a charade.

Where is facebook?

Yes, Internet is increasingly becoming an essential piece of infrastructure. Government should own the infrastructure and probably involve private players to lay, maintain and upgrade the network infrastructure.

How about Banking? Should Banking become publicly owned too? Or is Bitcoin the right model?

Explaining the Photoelectric effect using the particulate nature of light.

MS didn't fork because they wanted to make their desktop users (95% market share) *naturally* get used to and then gravitate to the windows mobile market (2% share). Windows mobile lacked apps and app developers. So they wanted to capitalize on their existing windows desktop app's and app developers by making them develop for the common windows 8 platform. As Ballmer said, Windows 8 is a big risk for MS. The risk that the mobile market may instead drag the desktop market share in its direction. Reducing the desktop market to ~2%.

In India I think it's 80%. With a population of 1.25 Billion who have an avg IQ of 79, it just can't be 20%.

Will this new architecture of AMD support OpenCL 2.0?

If "Kaveri" is what you are referring to, it also happens to be the name of a river in South India.