Comment Re:Google is catching on fast (Score 5, Funny) 347
Microsoft has both of them beat with IE 6.
Comment Smart move to preserve choice in the market (Score 1) 857
I think the important thing to note is that publishers will not be able to simply adopt the Texas standard in all their textbooks in order save publishing costs. They will have to produce two separate textbooks unless they want to lose the huge California market. Meaning the smaller states will have a choice instead of being stuck with the Texas revisions.
Debunking a Climate-Change Skeptic 807
DJRumpy writes "The Danish political scientist Bjørn Lomborg won fame and fans by arguing that many of the alarms sounded by environmental activists and scientists — that species are going extinct at a dangerous rate, that forests are disappearing, that climate change could be catastrophic — are bogus. A big reason Lomborg was taken seriously is that both of his books, The Skeptical Environmentalist (in 2001) and Cool It (in 2007), have extensive references, giving a seemingly authoritative source for every one of his controversial assertions. So in a display of altruistic masochism that we should all be grateful for (just as we're grateful that some people are willing to be dairy farmers), author Howard Friel has checked every single citation in Cool It. The result is The Lomborg Deception, which is being published by Yale University Press next month. It reveals that Lomborg's work is 'a mirage,' writes biologist Thomas Lovejoy in the foreword. '[I]t is a house of cards. Friel has used real scholarship to reveal the flimsy nature' of Lomborg's work."
Comment Realistic pricing (Score 1) 217
They need to be realistic about the price.
The majority of Americans won't be willing to pay..... oh, it's for the iPad. Double the price.
