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One additional issue is certain countries (eg: India) require a photographic ID, etc before they issue a SIM. This is becoming a larger issue in Europe and elsewhere.

Well done, thanks for sharing!

This reminds me of something I could not do. How do you load test a nodejs - socket.io installation? Is there a tool like apache bench to load test websockets?

What stock should I buy now?

I haven't used IIS web server in a while. Does IIS support URL rewriting yet?

The demo works well on the iPhone4 http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/resources/

> Sad. But I have to say - climbing Everest when your wife is due to give birth - not cool.

I believe this is exactly why he is the CEO of a popular company and others like me are not. He takes risks most of us avoid for various reasons!

Probably nothing related to mathematics but Ramanujan's hand writing is awesome! Not something I would expect in a notebook.

Well, obviously you've been using horrible developers (you can find them in your home country too).

IIT's are not your average university. Digest this: 34% employees at Microsoft, 28% at IBM, 17% at Intel and 13% at Xerox are of Indian origin.

Gates warned US congress on H1B visas, "U.S. companies simply will not have the talent they need to innovate and compete," and all those Indian students receiving their education at U.S. universities will have to leave, to the detriment of US high tech companies

What many people probably don't know is that Nokia started as a company manufacturing paper in 1868, it moved into electricity generation, footwear, etc before creating the first phone in 1960s (100 years after it started). It is hard to find a company that survived this long in business.

I wish they do well, but the MS path does not seem right.

Well, it is increasingly becoming a world where we rely on 3rd party servers like Facebook, app approval process from Apple, etc. I wonder how much more complex things are going to get in future

Are there any forks yet? Is it harder or easier to fork a project like MySQL?

In the UK, A few companies like Google and BT have come together to solve this problem. http://www.gbbo.co.uk/ They offer a free service (until 2011) for businesses to create their own websites managed by Google Sites, integrating with Google maps, places, etc.

I think in future Facebook pages will also play an important role in getting small businesses online.

Revenue per employee makes no sense. What makes sense is profit per employee. Vizio outsources stuff and pays loads to other companies, their profits have a lower ration that 10 million per employee

Edit: AmTran sometimes swallows shipping costs and pushes component suppliers to ensure Vizio's products are high quality and on time. AmTran now gets about 80% of its revenue from Vizio. In turn, Vizio sources as many as 85% of its TVs from AmTran, according to research firm DisplaySearch.

I agree with this and what I find more interesting is that he also brought us Pixar. He is definitely not a one trick pony and definitely has something great in him!

As of march 2010, Steve jobs owns

5.426 million shares of Apple valued at $1.2bn

138 million shares of Disney valued at 4.45bn

I was surprised to learn today that the majority of Steve jobs wealth comes from Disney although he is known the most for his work at Apple!

In the past, Apple feared IBM, sided with Microsoft and Microsoft beat it.

Recently, Apple feared Microsoft, sided with Google and Google beat it.

Good question.. I am also eager to find out..

Bing does not change its title for airbnb http://www.bing.com/search?q=airbnb

Cool trick!

The only interesting thing with the article is that it comes from msnbc, a company owned in part by microsoft!

What would happen when they get hacked?

That's about $75,000. I am sure a lot of people pay that. Its nice to see that it also buys you better insurance, pretty good. That's the way it should be! In the UK all you get is the same kind of health care irrespective of your contribution.

It also does not matter if yesterday's score was 0-10 and you are down by 10. Don't get depressed, try scoring one today!

On a lighter note, what is the physics behind a bird hitting and breaking through concrete walls and ice barriers?

Is this all done in HTML5?

I don't understand technology behind app approval, code review, etc. But, would this happen in the iOS app store? Given their more stringent approval process?

I don't understand why Microsoft Excel removes leading Zeros if a column in "0058"? In open office the column is correctly displayed as 0058! This is without having CSV data changed to +"0058".

contenteditable="" is that all?

The southern state of India is where Rajanikanth fans are the craziest. His movie roles are larger than life and often defy gravity and logic. Here is a link to a video that might give you an idea of what you can expect in his movies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86g1sI3q1Fs

That is because they use iframes. To scroll an iframe use two fingers at once. This will also help if you use Google Reader, etc.

Have fun!