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There is an article on NYTimes about how the age of Kindle or e-bookreaders is going to impact the old-fashioned books and the culture associated with book reading. Much of the article is devoted to the physical nature of books and the signals it sends to people around the person reading the book. For example [...]
No question about the fact that book reading is great. After completing college education, only way to grow further is by reading books. But reading a book also means time commitment. Typically a week to few weeks of reading every day. So it becomes necessary to select books with care. Though there is always the [...]
Livemint has become quite popular during the last year or two of its existence. But sometimes funny things happen on the first page. Example in case is the screenshot above taken on Nov 14th about 12:30pm IST. This image shows 4 different values of the BSE sensex index. Which one should I believe? While I [...]
There has been a visible shift towards design on Beta Thoughts in the past few months. If you are one of the 1.5 readers of this blog you might have noticed it. While I have always been interested in the design of things – but only after the google reader’s recommendation engine recommended “core77’s design [...]
When Dash Express, a GPS with internet connectivity and utilizing the collective knowledge about routes from its users was announced, it was quite an innovative concept. But it seems ants might have beaten them to it. Though a bit of rudimentary technology but it works from the Telegraph article (HT Marginal Revolution)
His team set up [...]
I have just started reading “Do you matter?” by Apple design guru Robert Brunner and Stewart Emery. In the very first chapter I came across a paragraph which is just too good to be read alone
The iPod is an iconic product of our time, a glorious example of design and business success. So close your [...]
I am sure you have heard the news of new MacBooks. As anything Apple these days you have to admire the industrial design and thought that has gone into building this. The “brick” design or unibody design is quite an innovation for notebooks. Do watch this video detailing the manufacturing and design process and see [...]
Here is a clue to Intel/AMD – with HD camcorders becoming a commodity a lot more consumers will be mucking around with HD movies at home. Just the playback of HD quality (1080p) movies in AVCHD format is a heart churning exercise for computer processors. I run some pretty heavy enterprise server applications on my [...]
In a NY Times article “The Wealth Trajectory” Greg Mankiw, a Harvard Professor and a famous economics blogger explains the differences in earnings for average workers and the super rich. I found the following statistics good on value of education
In 2005, each year of college yielded an additional 12.9 percent. The rate of return from [...]
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