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Comment Andreesen on MBAs (Score 1) 487

by postagoras on Sunday July 10, 2011 @09:34PM (#36716162) Attached to: Have American Businesses Been Stranded By the MBAs?

There's a decent interview of Marc Andreesen in the NY Time Sunday Magazine for today, 7/10/11.

Quote:
M.B.A. graduating classes are actually a reliable contrary indicator: if they all want to go into investment banking, there’s going to be a financial crisis. If they want to go into tech, that means a bubble is forming.

Comment Words on play - play on words (Score 1) 283

by postagoras on Friday February 12, 2010 @10:27PM (#31123546) Attached to: Emmerich Plans <em>Foundation</em> As a 3D Epic

The quote is backwards, it was actually "I can't shoot this thing in real because it all has to be done in CG.'"

The first three books would be an excellent play, which is the heart of his problem.

Submission + - Terabytes of Mars Pictures Released to Public (arizona.edu)

Submitted by

Riding with Robots

on Monday June 04, 2007 @02:37PM

Riding with Robots writes: "The team that runs the high-rez camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has just released more than 1,200 Mars images to the Planetary Data System, NASA's mission data archive. The team has also released 1.7 Terabytes of data to a user-friendly site that allows users to quickly home in on each image, most of which are a gigabyte-sized files measuring 20,000 by 50,000 pixels. Not all the images have been thoroughly studied yet: in the announcement, the camera's lead scientist said, 'These images must contain hundreds of important discoveries about Mars. We just need time to realize what they are.'"

Submission + - GNU Emacs 22.1 Released!

Submitted by

pundit

on Monday June 04, 2007 @02:29PM

pundit writes: "GNU Emacs 22.1 has been released, and is available for download on the GNU FTP site and its mirrors. This new release features support for the GTK+ toolkit, enhanced mouse support, a new keyboard macro system, improved Unicode support, and drag-and-drop operation on X, plus many new modes and packages including a graphical user interface to GDB, Python mode, the mathematical tool Calc, the remote file editing system Tramp, and more!"

Submission + - Space Exploration Strategy

Submitted by postagoras on Monday June 04, 2007 @02:08PM

postagoras writes: NASA and 13 space agencies from around the world are releasing the latest product of their Global Exploration Strategy discussions. The document, "The Global Exploration Strategy: The Framework for Coordination," reflects a shared vision of space exploration focused on solar system destinations where humans may someday live and work.

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