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Comment Re:Irresponsible or what? (Score 1) 334

I'd be more optimistic about this scenario, if we could at the very least stop killing ourselves over silly things like religion and oil. Only then would I be hopeful about a possible future with unlimited resources. We use a vast of our recourse to secure imaginary borders and fight or our imaginary God! No so hopeful :(

Comment Re:No surprise (Score 2) 529

-- This is very insightful; Mother Teresa doubted the existence of God on a regular basis, but she kept doing her charitable work faithfully until the day she died. It gave her piece of mind; isn't that what we all want?

Comment Re:Should Everybody Learn Calculus? (Score 2) 387

I agree, but it does teach logic, problem solving, and critical thinking. It will also teaches students to use a set of steps to solve a problem. Kids are not being taught a lot of these types of skills in school today. Most kids are taught Algebra and never use it -- but that's not the point. The underlying problem-sovling skills are what matters.

Submission + - Real-world usage again shows iOS far ahead of Android, other rivals Read more (electronista.com)

ClaraBow writes: Yet another real-world usage statistic has surfaced showing that users with iOS devices are far more engaged with them than those of any other platform. Among Black Friday buyers who used mobile devices to shop online, 82 percent were on the iOS platform doing so, with the remaining 18 percent using Android. Using mobile devices to shop on Black Friday was up 9.8 percent overall from last year, with mobile devices accounting for 38 percent of all Black Friday shopping traffic and 21 percent of online sales.

Read more: http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/11/29/real.world.usage.again.shows.ios.far.ahead.of.android.other.rivals/#ixzz2m8Nkrzio

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