Tablets are toys

You give kids iPads, and they will start playing games, checking Facebook, sending messages to classmates and watching Youtube.

Most radiation treatment for cancer is localized so it isn't as big of a risk to the bone marrow..

If they are going to give some one total body irradiation, they will have to give you a stem cell transplant in order for you to survive.

You can't clearly define emotional or financial harm.

Emotional harm can be caused by posting something embarrassing on Facebook. Financial harm can be caused from buying an app.

Open Source works better for some types of software more than others.

Audio software requires using audio engineers and guys who know a lot if math if you want to produce something that can be used professionally. This isn't the type of tasks that the average programmer can tackle.

Everyone talks about Pandora, but it is Youtube is a major streaming service that you can listen to any music on demand. Why buy the song, when you listen to it for free as many times as you want? It's not perfect, but it is a big factor in young listeners music consuming habits.

Instead of doing the impossible tasks of charging people for seeds in developing countries, they should just accept the loss and focus on making a profit on selling them RoundUp.

In Sub-Sahara Africa, the Christians and Muslims usually get along fine and respect each other. Governments will usually cater to both religions and the brand of Islam is more moderate compared to the Middle East.

If you design your tools and infrastructure to prevent those with bad intent, it can also prevent those with good intent from using your system.

There is no magical solution that will solve our security needs. In reality, everything will require tradeoffs which developers have to balance out according to what they are trying to do.

Two sodas is twice as expensive so less people would buy it.

The only problem I have now is that a medium size sodas at fast food restaurants are now ridiculously huge. A medium soda used to be between 16 and 20 ounces, but now it is closer to 32.

There should be some standard that specifies that specifies the size of what a medium soda should be so drinking 32 ounces of sugary soda isn't considered the new normal. If someone wants a bigger soda, let them order a large or super sized but a medium should be a average sized portion for a healthy person.

Learn some communication skills and call it a Wireless Access Point instead of AP.

I was thinking that AP was some crazy obscure technology that I never heard about until I read the comments.

The video game industry has always been about maximizing profits. Nintendo games weren't that cheap back in the day and people would waste money on crap all the time.

Amazon is committed to developing for future devices so they can sell more books in the future.

The only way Amazon decides to stop developing it's Kindle reader if they decide to get out of the book business.

I don't think he implies that every pirate copy represents a loss sale. It is just as unreasonable to assume that none of the 22,000 who pirated the book would have bought it. There is likely a percentage of the pirates who would have bought the book if there was no free copy available.

If only 10% of the people who have downloaded the book for free would have bought it, then the author would have almost doubled their sales.

Amazon knows what they are doing.

When you are looking at earbuds, what you see in "customers who bought this item also bought" is more earbuds.