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Comment Not the best study. (Score 1) 561

by thejollyman on Monday April 05, 2010 @10:50AM (#31733822) Attached to: Young Men Who Smoke Have Lower IQs

I didn't read the entire article, but if this study only includes members of the Israeli military it's probably best not to draw conclusions from it. Some questions to ask: What is the average IQ of the sample group as a whole? Were civilians studied? Were Israel's conscripted forces studied, their volunteer force, or both? I could go on, but I think you see the idea. I'm not so sure that this study proves anything.

Top Tech Breakthroughs of 2008 116

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday December 26, 2008 @09:54AM from the r&d-still-hard-at-work dept.

As we approach the end of the year it's time once again for the never-ending stream of retrospectives and year-in-review discussions. Wired has their version of the best technology breakthroughs of 2008. From phones to shrinking laptops to flexible displays, there is no shortage of interesting advancements when looking back at this year. What other groundbreaking advancements were made this year, and what do we have to look forward to for 2009?

Google Apps Premier Edition Launches 261

Posted by kdawson on Thursday February 22, 2007 @10:54AM from the en-garde-Office dept.

prostoalex writes "Google Apps is adding a premium offering: a custom 10-GB Gmail box, Google Calendar, GTalk instant messenger, Writely, Google Pages, Google Custom home page iGoogle and Google SpreadSheets for $50 a year per employee. The NYTimes provides some details on competitive pricing: 'By comparison, businesses pay on average about $225 a person annually for Office and Exchange,... in addition to the costs of in-house management, customer support and hardware, according to the market research firm Gartner.' Boston.com quotes an analyst for Nucleus Research on Google's ease-of-use: '"What we see in the Google Apps is a real focus on making them easy to use and intuitive," she said. "And that's something that Microsoft has been unable to do in all of its years with Office."' But the same analyst is bearish on Google Apps' shortcomings relative to the mature Microsoft desktop products: 'Right now Google's going to give companies a better ability to negotiate with Microsoft.'"

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