You do realise the poll is about non-technical books right?
Is searching really that important when you are reading Alice in Wonderland for example?
Ok, I've come to the end of the thread. Opinions have been varied, many suggestions have been made. People have defended the importance of marketing/business skills in people like Gates and Jobs. But nobody has mentioned Steve Ballmer, in over 400 comments
I guess that says something.
I'm wearing a 1977 model. Yes, it is older than me, but not by much.
I think it has been calibrated for an older person though, as when I wear it, it gains 5 minutes a fortnight.
You'll note I said should.
Perhaps you should delve into the history of law if you don't know the answer to that question though. The idea that good laws have their foundations in bad morals is very old.
I've been on the phone with an ISP tech person who assumed I was an idiot or lying to them.
After informing them that, 'yes, in fact a telecommunications electrician has checked the phone line, but I don't see how that could be the problem,' and then having them tell me, "Mr. [X], you mustn't have done something, we will have to go through the procedure again." This would have been the 3rd time, I'd been on the phone for over an hour.
My response. "No, we've done it twice over the phone, I already did the same thing 3 times myself. And actually it's Dr. [X]." That stopped him dead. He stopped hassling me and passed on the problem to someone higher up.
We got a call back the next day. Turns out there was a bug in the ISP's code.
Moral to the story: best use for a doctorate, correcting tech support people who thing you're stupid.
Yes, but if you can't communicate your results, what good are they to the rest of us?
I voted for communication because the state of science journalism compelled me to.
According to all the latest reports, there was no truth in any of the earlier reports.