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Curious to see the impact it has for Shareholders given the Verizon deal...

100% agree. I think you're right. When it comes to anyone, from any background or person they need to be able to work in a social environment. My manager is super sharp/super smart, can teach me to save his life. But tough love I feel isn't always needed. Yeah the shock will stay with them but there are also more effective ways. I don't think stick on hand techniques are the way to go (metaphor here) and generally societies and communities are evolving passed that. Granted, sometimes there really is no other choice!

I went through phases in school, partially driven I believe by the fact I was suffering from dyslexia but didn't know it (given I made it to graduation with good enough grades from a very decent uni, I wasn't diagnosed until 25. Sadly late diagnoses is a bit more common then you think) However as some people may appreciate, particularly during exam times, I became extremely introverted. Friends noticed a difference in my attitude and some felt I had issues with them so stopped talking to me. This is was not the case from my side and I tried to explain. Teachers thought I was "slacking" in class as I wouldn't participate as much given we were asked to do quite a bit of reading and it meant that in group work, whilst I was vocal, my work was slow. From these experiences I learnt something. The way I look at the world and interpret situations and experiences when I went through months and sometimes a good year of being like this was extremely different to when I was confident and out going. Fair enough mine personality drift was triggered by my dyslexia, different people can have different triggers. The outcome is similar.

Introverts are extremely affective influencers in chaotic scenarios, they are known, particularly in Asia due to their more low key and effective nurturing techniques to be powerful leaders. They have been on the receiving end of criticism more than most people and have learnt in hindsight what could have made them tick and let's be honest, in this day and age of everyone being encouraged to speak their mind, people stand out from the crowd if they have a knack for building up others and are committed to listening instead of talking. This idea is a strength of an introvert. However, these strengths take a while to come into play as to be able to recognise them as strengths within yourself requires confidence and that takes a ridiculous amount of time to attain yourself for someone who is introverted. One is only really taught to appreciate and how to harness the strengths of different personalities at business school or the working environment through various negotiation/project management or graduate workshops. The school system lacks high quality teachers who can bring these strengths out of their introverted students at younger age. Fact is, there is no doubt a negative correlation between the more students who are built up and those who become depressed or bullied. Group work could be even more better with their input and a lot of the time so would group dynamic. Sharing my two pennies worth...

Cheers for the insight. How does the request for data on users differ between China and India? Am curious.

"Our IT Act, often in conjunction with our blasphemy and defamation laws, has repeatedly been used to silence citizens who dared to voice their opinions on the Internet. Let us please not be blind consumers of "curated" news tweets. Let us also fight for a right to create content, without being censored, on the Free Web." - Indeed. The media, SV, India and the states are backing Modi's campaign as you've said. I was surprised reading the article below (although not super surprised given the Indian-SV relationship being so strong at the moment) that these more concerning points you touch on haven't been highlighted. Whilst from a technology perspective, this is no doubt a triumph for modi and his team, the true benefit for Indians in India will only be seen when laws are reformed to mirror the freedom the campaign stresses comes out of technology. This is a start, more needs to be done. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-34376984

Agreed, I switched to using the browser and now that's to in-cognito mode also On doing so, a few friends followed . Whilst privacy intrusion does irritate me, completely correct that visual instrusiveness as you put it, especially adds appearing very close to where I'm trying to click and then I end up clicking on them. I did use adblocker for a while but it wasn't 100% affective hence the switch over

I was looking at this from more of an 'efficiency' perspective actually. Text-based protocols have a bit of an overhead as they require sending more data to transmit the same amount of information. So what benefits outweigh this?

After a bit of digging, it does appear my question itself was incorrectly phrased. But it seems to be that the majority of internet traffic use text based protocols. There are many more binary protocols than text but more text traffic than binary. Thus most of the successful protocols on the internet are text based. Except for a small number of applications (bittorrent is one example) binary protocols tend to die.

text-based vs binary. So most of the characters used in the IP are between 0x20 (space) and 0x7E (~), opposed to transmitting binary over the connection.

To add, seems things are going in the right direction after all: http://refhubuk.wix.com/refhub

Oh wow, okay this I wasn't aware of. I think there are differences on the emphasis of P.E. and recess at the moment in different countries. I was a lazy little kid in school, especially in the winter. The thought of getting ready for P.E. would bore me. But once I'd get started, and as soon as I finished, I'd feel a massive difference over the next 24 hours. Oxbridge, two of the best universities in the world limit (from what I have heard) most lectures to 45-50 mins. If the world's elite are saying they need a break, surely children and young people's needs are clear. It's not what you do, it's how you do it at the end of the day. I'm sure that if final year exams has taught me one thing, it's cramming, without a break, no matter how much information I try to get into my mind, is pointless. The sad thing is I'm sure many of those attempting to raise the test scores have crammed for finals too ... they've just forgotten. Thanks a lot for the insight lawtguy.

I thought (and forgive me if I'm wrong, not a big area for me)... but Denard scaling fell apart cira 2004? Aah unless that's what you mean, about not able to scale oxide thickness / voltage etc

"teachers demanded, and won, guaranteed daily recess for all elementary school students — 30 minutes each day.." Am unsure if the circumstances are that different in the US vs the UK where I'm from, but surely recess of at least 30mins particularly at an elementary level is compulsory? Or is this dependent on the subjects the students are studying and their respective timetables?

Agree, Lidow's championing of gallium (along with many others) is far from going unnoticed. Some people are still however caught up on the cost aspect and feel the economies of scale silicon based chips have are too high to break. Frankly, this is just not true anymore...

Sure, I felt the article was very interesting, but was advised the title could be offensive. Fair enough

Yep, I can relate to that. As a "city worker", am still living at home with the parents. The rent here just doesn't make sense anymore and I am fortunate I have the luxury of being able to do so. Those few who are fortunate enough to drive up rent prices are 98% working in 1 of x industries ... everyone else who isn't, suffers

I don't know. I'd say London's 'Silicon Roundabout' and Medellin, Columbia have successfully given a crack at the startup scene and that's to name a few..

On your virtual city idea, I genuinely think with the success of second life, you're onto something here buddy .. I'd join

Completely agree. My boyfriend and I share all of our passwords. We are completely transparant with each others life and the trust is 100% there. He scrolls through my phone and I his and we're on each others fbk quite a bit to. But here's the difference. When I'm bored, I scroll through my phone to see what's new.. usually nothing. So I do the same on his ... it's simply just another source of entertainment (if you can even call it that, normally when there's jack sht on tv).

If I'm meeting up with him, he'll send me his location on when he's being super lazy just put on his tracker to make him easier to find. Sometimes .. he leaves it on forgetting to switch it off and I tell him to as it'll drain his battery. When you have trust, stuff like this doesn't come up in conversation at all. It's more of a 'what's mine is yours and do whatever...' BUT yes, tracking someone WITHOUT their consent, completely different story ... that's NOT right. Defo needs to be rephrased.

Not sure if it bothers you ... but no jvm needed

In a sentence ... price discrimination over the world wide web defeats the purpose of the world wide web ...

I think it can. I think if we are absolutely fine with sponsoring animals and finding them new homes etc .. why not apply a similar model for homeless people? An organisation can tailor a plan best fit to each individual and crowd funding can help get them on their feet .. states sponsorships/grants etc can surely be utilised here also for training schemes etc. So now it's not just about giving someone a roof over their head but a life back. Well, this is off the top of my head, could use some input obvs but allow the talking. Let's get started :)

zyxley, you took the words right out of my mouth .. Relative poverty is just not considered important enough in this world by some to do something about .. but then when that very person who could have been helped earlier on isn't, the media cry a river over their worsened condition and misfortune.