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Submission + - Apple Overtakes Microsoft in Market Cap (wsj.com)

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Lawrence Person
Lawrence Person writes: "In one of the most remarkable turnarounds in business history, Apple has overtaken rival Microsoft as both the largest tech company in the world, and as the second largest company in the world in market capitalization, trailing only ExxonMobile. "As of Wednesday's close, Apple's market capitalization was $222.12 billion, slipping past Microsoft's $219.18 billion value." Also, observations that Microsoft is a far more profitable company than Apple are badly out of date: "Apple has almost caught up with Microsoft in terms of revenue. In fiscal 2000, Microsoft's revenue of $22.9 billion was roughly three times Apple's. This fiscal year, Microsoft is expected to generate revenue of $61.65 billion and Apple $59 billion." This reversal of Apple's fortunes under Steve Jobs must irk not only Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, but also pro-Microsoft tech pundits, many of whom have repeatedly predicted Apple's outright demise."
Movies

Submission + - The Science (or lack thereof) of Iron Man 2

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Nova Express
Nova Express writes: "Howard Waldrop and I reviewed Iron Man 2 over at Locus Online. Though we enjoyed the film, I spent a fair amount of time explaining how it not only strains scientific plausibility, but breaks it and stomps on the pieces until they're kindling. For example: the particle accelerator Tony Stark builds in his basement in about a day, which includes an optical prism to bend the beam, despite the fact prisms bend light, not streams of accelerated matter. I also go into more detail on the issue in my blog, where I talk about the inherently looser scientific underpinnings of comic book heroes, and how the "anything goes" ethos of something like the sprawling Marvel Universe strains credibility further. "If you’re watching a film about a man who can build a miniature fusion reactor the size of a smoke detector out of scrap metal, at what point can you really step off Mr. Toad’s Deeply Unlikely Ride?""
Sci-Fi

Submission + - Stross, Doctorow to pen sequel to Atlas Shrugged

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Nova Express
Nova Express writes: "Locus Online is reporting that Prometheus Award-winning SF writers Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow have been selected to write Atlas Rebound, an authorized sequel to Ayn Rand best-selling novel Atlas Shrugged. "Atlas Rebound features the teenage children of the founders of Galt's Gulch rebelling against their elders and traveling out into a world devastated by John Galt's strike, where they develop their own political philosophy with which to rebuild.""

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