On Monday, Apple managed to make a bit of news by not announcing any. For the first time, the iPhone maker didn’t reveal how many preorders were made on its new line of smartphones. The silence on orders for the iPhone 5C — a week after it was announced — has investors down on the [...]
Archive for September, 2013
September 17th, 2013 - 4:38 am § in Misc.
Right Wing University Prez on Howard Zinn in Indiana
As governor, Mitch Daniels waged war on Howard Zinn. Indiana Prof says ““Mitch knows the faculty control the curriculum and I am pretty sure he respects it.” According to emails obtained last summer by the s Associated Press: Mitch Daniels, now the president of Purdue University, as go[...]
September 16th, 2013 - 2:39 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Gates Foundations Spends 5 billion on redesign of higher education
The low-cost, self-paced education lacks courses and traditional professors. Instead, students progress by showing mastery of 120 “competencies,” such as “can use logic, reasoning, and analysis to address a business problem.” http://chronicle.com/article/The-Gates-Effect/1403[...]
September 16th, 2013 - 9:56 am § in The Ave Scene
BREAKING NEWS: Seattle Mayor … Race or Rout?
State Sen. Ed Murray (D-43, Capitol Hill) leads incumbent Mayor Mike McGinn 52-30 in a KING 5/Survey USA mayor’s race poll released this morning.[...]
September 16th, 2013 - 8:23 am § in The Ave Scene
Is Mulally the new Microsoft CEO?
From AUTOCAR http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/early-departure-rumoured-ford-ceo-alan-mulally Ford CEO Alan Mulally may step down earlier than expected, according to reports from Reuters this morning. Mulally was originally expected to remain as Ford Chief Executive unt[...]
A Message from Einstein For My Brother:
Are you a Jew? Hugh, You wrote a pretty nasty email about Jewish atheists. You were especially mean spirited by attacking my role when Havi and Hillel, my own children, were first called to read the Jewish law, the Torah,. Your daughter will, as I understand, do the same thing next month.�[...]
September 15th, 2013 - 3:48 pm § in Misc.
PRESIDENT ROMNEY: “Governments can not choose winners”
The President expressed frustration today with the commitment of China to buy the US biotech industry and move it to China. His frustration arose after the Chinese government announced that it aims to double the share of GDP that the sector’s value-added output accounts for by 2015 from th[...]
September 15th, 2013 - 12:54 pm § in Misc.
Sunday Revelations: Mrs Pope?
(from Talking Points Memo) The Vatican’s secretary of state suggested that the Catholic Church could be open to allowing priests to get married, NBC News reported Wednesday. In a response to a question during an interview with a Venezuelan newspaper, Archbishop Pietro Parolin asserted that cl[...]
Berkeley Blog: Can the US spread democracy and should it do so?
The trap of ‘democratization’ as ‘wishful thinking’: The state of the art in the Arab world[...]
Balmer’s Blunders, ctd
Now that Microsoft has bought out Nokia, Balmer’s company is trying to convince the world that the Windows Phones will win by somehow doing better marketing. The critics doubt this. Chris Silva, an analyst with the Altimeter Group, argues that “The app ecosystem is the least likely to be[...]