Politicians and entertainers are walking and talking advertisements of themselves. Unfortunately scientists and engineers are not, It's their works that are influential. The ranking algorithm will reveal them if the pages of their works are ranked instead.

If that's the amount of effort he would have to go through to know Charles Linneaus, then I bet Charles Linneaus was not influential.

The ranking is not about the people but their current version of the wikipedia page. And what is the realm of influence? Other pages of wikipedia.

Ghenghis at 84 while Adolf is at 5? And where are Asterix and Obelix? Clearly the list is flawed.

The list just shows how poorly the algorithm has been constructed. Politicians and entertainers are walking and talking advertisements of themselves. Unfortunately scientists and engineers are not, It's their works that are influential. The ranking algorithm will reveal them if the pages of their works are ranked instead. There are numerous other biases in this kind of an algorithm.

Politicians and entertainers are walking and talking advertisements of themselves. Unfortunately scientists and engineers are not, It's their works. The ranking algorithm will reveal them if the pages of their works are ranked.

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?