The above referenced wikipedia article indicates that as of May 2013, the Play Store had somewhere in the realm of 48 billion downloads (up from 40 billion in April 2013). It would be relatively safe to assume that if the number of downloads went up by 8 billion in one month, that exceeding 50 billion by today's date (over a month later) would not be far fetched.

It never said he accepted it. He just said that is what was offered, not that he accepted the offer.

If i had mod points you would get them...


(P.S. It's spelled MEMENTO, but i still got the joke)

Sounds like he follows this saying:

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
-Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

wow, did I really just type "de-inflation"? my finance professor would have my head if he saw that...

de-inflation should be just deflation

False again. The value of the money didn't change, the purchasing power of the money changed. The paper is still worth $150,000 regardless of year. The purchasing power of $150,000 will go up or down as inflation and de-inflation change the purchasing power of the paper money.

Going back to when you grandfather was your age, that same $12 (assuming a $10 bill and 2 $1 bills) would still be worth $12 in todays economy. However, the purchasing power of $12 is vastly less today than it was 90 years ago.

Purchasing power is where we derive things like the CPI, so we can track how it changes over time.

I find it interesting that they categorize traditional business management roles in with computer science. Perhaps the university I went to was something of a novelty, but there were two distinctly different majors. One was Information Technology, and one was Computer Science. They were not even in the same college within the university. IT was more business (classes like managerial communications, data communications, and ITIL), while CS was programming.

The machines aren't meant to be serviced, they are disposable. Once you fill one up with crap, you wrap it up, toss it away, and get a nice clean one.

The article mentions specifically the iPod Touch.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isnt Apple suing HTC over, among other patents, multi-touch? Now Apple is being sued over the same thing?

So who actually owns this patent?

OMG THE MISSING STEP!!!

1. Collect Underpants
2. Sue makers of electronic underpants for patent infringement
3. Profit!

How could we all have been so blind... its the Underpants Gnomes Mafiaa

... spending more time in class is going to help the kids perform better?

How about we require them to actually pass the classes they do attend before letting them move on...

I have had to do this to people who weren't holding phones to their head... more times than I care to count... it happens whether people talk on a phone or not.

It's even worse when on my motorcycle.

If a driver isn't paying attention anyway, it doesn't matter if they are talking on the phone or not.