Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Fed Cuts Rate, Signals Pause Ahead



 
 

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The Fed lowered its key interest rate by one-quarter percentage point to 2% but also signaled the seven-month easing cycle may be coming to an end. Two voters dissented, preferring no change. (Statement)


 
 

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Monday, April 28, 2008

Elite Korean Schools, Forging Ivy League Skills



 
 

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via NYT > NYTimes.com Home on 4/26/08

Two rigorous South Korean prep schools have achieved a spectacular record of admission to U.S. colleges.

 
 

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Четверть православных россиян не знают ни одной из десяти заповедей



 
 

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Среди последователей православия в России более четверти не знают ни одной из десяти библейских заповедей. Общее количество россиян, незнакомых с заповедями, составляет 33 процента. Наиболее известными заповедями оказались "не убий" и "не укради", которые вспомнили более половины участников всероссийского опроса.

 
 

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Физики вычислили коэффициент бесполезности для руководящих организаций



 
 

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Сотрудники Группы по изучению сложных систем Венского медицинского университета нашли эмпирическое подтверждение одному из полушуточных "законов Паркинсона" – коэффициенту бесполезности. Эффективность руководящих организаций резко падает, если в их состав входит более 20 членов.

 
 

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Friday, April 25, 2008

Government Releases Images of Syrian Reactor



 
 

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via NYT > NYTimes.com Home on 4/25/08

The photographic images were released to support the assertion that the building in Syria that Israel destroyed in an airstrike last year was a nuclear reactor constructed with help from North Korea.

 
 

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Quiz: Do You Understand Financial Jargon?



 
 

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via U.S. News on 4/22/08

Five questions to test what you know.

 
 

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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Chernobyl Victims Struggle With Consequences of Radiation Exposure



 
 

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via U.S. News on 4/24/08

Former workers say the Russian government adds to their suffering.

 
 

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Microsoft обнадежила пользователей XP



 
 

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Генеральный директор Microsoft Стив Балмер заявил, что корпорация может пересмотреть решение о прекращении продаж Windows XP в июне 2008 года. Он отметил, что большинство все равно покупает компьютеры со следующей версией Windows, Vista. Изначально Microsoft планировала прекратить продажи XP в начале 2008 года.

 
 

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Молодой дизайнер скрестил клавиатуру с джинсами



 
 

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Дизайнер Эрик Де Нийс соединил джинсы с клавиатурой. Свое творение он назвал "Beauty and the Geek". Помимо клавиатуры, джинсы оборудованы двумя динамиками, мышкой и джойстиком. С компьютером все это соединятся при помощи беспроводного интерфейса. Информация о том, поступят ли такие джинсы в продажу, отсутствует.

 
 

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

How I got here: Diverse path leads to CIO job



 
 

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Name a department at Wells Fargo, and it's likely that Avid Modjtabai has held a senior position in it. From online personal finance services to human resources and consumer deposits, Modjtabai has been there and done that in her 14-year tenure at the company.


 
 

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Gas Reaches $3.50, With Little Hope for Relief



 
 

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via NYT > NYTimes.com Home on 4/21/08

Gasoline prices surpassed $3.50 a gallon nationwide for the first time and oil jumped to a record on Monday as the long rise of energy prices showed little signs of abating.

 
 

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Monday, April 21, 2008

Oil and Gasoline Prices Continue Their Climb



 
 

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via NYT > NYTimes.com Home on 4/21/08

Oil jumped to a record, and gasoline prices rose above $3.50 a gallon for the first time across the nation.

 
 

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Sunday, April 20, 2008

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

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Родитель! Выбирая музыкальный инструмент для ребёнка, помни: после двадцати лет игры на скрипке человек автоматически становится евреем.

Экзаменов не будет, все билеты проданы.

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Saturday, April 19, 2008

thought of the week

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care . . . about them.

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Friday, April 18, 2008

eBay может продать Skype



 
 

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Оналйн-аукцион eBay может продать сервис IP-телефонии Skype. Произойдет это в том случае, если компании так и не удастся интегрировать Skype в основной бизнес. eBay купил Skype в сентябре 2005 года за 2,6 миллиарда долларов. Общее количество пользователей Skype превышает 300 миллионов человек.

 
 

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Defenseless on the Net



 
 

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With all the cyber spies and state-sponsored hackers on the Internet, is there any way to defend ourselves? Critics say not completely


 
 

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Google Earth 4.3 Adds New Navigation and Street View



 
 

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The latest version of Google Earth brings a lot of interface changes and new features. There's a redesigned and improved navigation control that lets you change the perspective much faster. Here's the description from Google Earth's help center:

"1. Click the north up button to reset the view so that north is at the top of the screen. Click and drag the ring to rotate your view.
2. Use the Look joystick to look around from a single vantage point, as if you were turning your head. Click an arrow to look in that direction or continue to press down on the mouse button to change your view. After clicking an arrow, move the mouse around on the joystick to change the direction of motion.
3. Use the Move joystick to move your position from one place to another. Click an arrow to look in that direction or continue to press down on the mouse button to change your view. After clicking an arrow, move the mouse around on the joystick to change the direction of motion.
4. Use the zoom slider to zoom in or out (+ to zoom in, - to zoom out) or click the icons at the end of the slider. As you move closer to the ground, Google Earth swoops (tilts) to change your viewing angle to be parallel to the Earth's surface. You can turn off this automatic tilt (Tools > Options > Navigation > Navigation controls; Mac: Google Earth > Preferences > Navigation > Navigation controls)."

You can now display the sun by enabling View > Sun or clicking on the sun button from the toolbar. To create time-lapse views of sunsets and sunrises, click on the "play" button and watch the changes.

For some of the imagery, you can see at the bottom of the window an approximation of the date when it was taken. The Street View images from Google Maps are now available in a new Google Earth layer, which is not enabled by default.

Google Earth includes much more models in the 3D buildings layer for cities like: San Francisco, Boston, Orlando, Munich, Zurich. "Google has optimized the loading and performance of 3D buildings. When you first turn on the 3D Buildings layer near a city with models, you'll see simplistic versions of the buildings load up really fast, then they gradually get more solid and load more texture detail," explains the unofficial Google Earth Blog.


Google Earth 4.3 can be downloaded from earth.google.com. Windows users that don't want to install the application using Google Updater can try this direct link. You'll probably notice that the Windows setup is much smaller: the size has been reduced from 12.7 MB to 7.36 MB. Unfortunately, the new version seems to be less stable and it uses more resources, but it's still in beta.


 
 

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Foreigners Sustain New York’s Economy



 
 

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via NYT > NYTimes.com Home on 4/15/08

A rising tide of foreign visitors is providing New York City with a counterbalance against the economic downturn.

 
 

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

High Testosterone Means High Profits



 
 

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via TIME: Top Stories on 4/14/08

According to new research, the higher a trader's testosterone level, the more money he'll net before the close of business

 
 

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Monday, April 14, 2008

thought of the day

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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Sunday, April 13, 2008

The New Economics of Outsourcing



 
 

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Efforts to send IT work anywhere but Bangalore are taking on added urgency as costs of doing work in India rise and the dollar sinks


 
 

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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Swimming pool heated by data center's excess heat



 
 

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Because the data center generates so much heat, the Zurich-based owner negotiated with local government officials to pump heat to an indoor facility with several swimming pools.


 
 

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Microsoft makes C++ move, discontinues Visual Basic 6.0 support



 
 

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Using the Microsoft Foundation Class components in Visual C++, developers can create applications with the look and feel of Microsoft Office, Visual Studio and Internet Explorer.


 
 

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Monday, April 7, 2008

Bottom? What Bottom?



 
 

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Ben Bernanke was right in his testimony, but we still haven't plumbed the economy's multiple frailties.

 
 

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Sunday, April 6, 2008

"great posture, a heads-up look, a confident smile, and a direct gaze." It's the ideal image for somebody who's a Somebody.

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Абсурдное поведение всегда описывается подражанием тем, на кого мы не можем быть похожими.

Не старайтесь быть лучше, чем ваши современники или предшественники. Старайтесь быть лучше себя.

Нужно каждый день смотреть на мир, будто видишь его в первый раз

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Вопрос, который ставит меня в тупик: "Сумасшедший я или все остальные?"

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Credit crisis | Fixing finance | Economist.com

Credit crisis | Fixing finance | Economist.com

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Friday, April 4, 2008

What Bernanke Didn't Say



 
 

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In his first congressional appearance since intervening to prop up Bear Stearns, the Fed chief refused to call it a bailout—nor would he say there's a recession


 
 

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job interview

TEN MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
1. Tell me about yourself.
2. Run me through your resume.
3. What are your main strengths and weaknesses?
4. What's your biggest accomplishment? What's your biggest failure?
5. What are your career goals in five years?
6. Why are you interested in this job/in our company?
7. Why should I hire you (and not someone else)?
8. What other opportunities are you looking at?
9. What has been your toughest professional situation?
10. Describe a situation in which you exercised a leadership role.

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Investors Stalk the Wounded of Wall Street



 
 

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Market opportunists are buying up the mortgages of hard-pressed homeowners and companies.

 
 

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U.S. Economy Shed 80,000 Jobs in March



 
 

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Employers worried about recession slashed the most jobs in five years for the third consecutive month of losses.

 
 

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Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Google Finance Stock Screener



 
 

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Find the perfect stocks for your portfolio with the new stock screener from Google Finance. You can use criteria like: market capitalization, the P/E ratio, the most recently reported trade price, gross margin and select the values interactively.

Brain Lint notes that Google uses sparklines, "miniature graphs that go inline with text. In this case the graph is a histogram that indicates how much of the stock market falls into each part of the range - this will give one a quick preview how inclusive their search parameters are."

It looks much better than the stock screener from Yahoo Finance, which is anything but intuitive. Even if it looks outdated, Yahoo Finance has more features and content, so its user base won't migrate to Google Finance for the vivid charts and the clever integration of news headlines.


{ Spotted last month, when it was not functional. }

 
 

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There Is No Gas Shortage



 
 

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But Washington, Wall Street, and ethanol and oil and gas companies want you to think there is, says automotive expert Ed Wallace


 
 

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Bernanke Offers Bleaker View on U.S. Economy



 
 

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The chairman of the Federal Reserve warned a Congressional committee that economic growth is likely to stagnate over the first half of this year.

 
 

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Bernanke Offers Bleaker View on U.S. Economy



 
 

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The chairman of the Federal Reserve warned a Congressional committee that economic growth is likely to stagnate over the first half of this year.

 
 

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FCC to turn down Skype's plea for open mobile access



 
 

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The chair of the Federal Communications Commission said the agency will reject a request by Skype that existing cellular networks be open to virtually any application.


 
 

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