The important thing, boyd points out, is to give the kid the ability to handle choices, assess risks, and take what she calls “strategic” risks, or calculated risks. You want, in other words, to create the kid who can handle the Internet without you. And how can they become that kid if you are watching them all the time, if you are always hovering right there next to them? She says, “You don't just throw a 5-year-old out on the streets and tell her to figure it all out. The same is true online. But, equivalently, you can't expect to put under surveillance and control every action a child makes until she's 18 and then magically assume she'll be fine off at college when she hasn't had any experience managing her own decisions.”
The point, according to boyd, is not to create a safe world, but a safer world. Of course this is very fraught emotional territory, since it engages with the crucial and impossible fantasy that we can protect our children, that there is some way to seal them off from awful or painful or frightening things. Here I think of a line from one of boyd’s papers: “Our fears are amplified when they intersect with our insecurities and challenge our ability to be in control. Nowhere is this more palpable than when it comes a parent’s desire to protect their children.”

Grecolaborativo is a full-family collaboration, a couple creating with their young daughter and son. Our plush art and costumes, created under the name Lizette Greco, are based on the children's drawings and made using mostly thrifted and recycled materials. We also accept commissions for pieces using drawings from other children. Our aim is to create artwork that celebrates a child's perspective of the world and that will hopefully be passed from generation to generation.

For further information about our life in art, see our full profile. A more detailed explanation of how we work together can be found with the squids. We always have several projects brewing, and our family is very involved in the field of education — unschooling at home (one example) and through Rob's work at a progressive school. You can keep track of us with the following links:

According to German researcher Till Roenneberg, the disconnect between our social calendars and our biological clocks is creating a kind of jet lag — he's dubbed it "social jet lag."

And the consequence? Expanding waistlines. "The larger the discrepancy between social time and what your biological clock tells you to do, the more likely it is you are [overweight or obese],"

In the New York Times Magazine this weekend, Jennifer Kahn took a hard look at a mental disorder so disturbing that dealing with it honestly is incredibly rare: psychopathy. Many people probably aren't even aware that "psychopath" isn't just a term for someone with a crappy personality, but is a disorder that's believed to be biological in origin, where the sufferer just basically can't feel empathy. Kahn focused on the parents of fledgling psychopaths, parents whose situation should cause extreme sympathy, since attempts to treat this condition have largely been fruitless. from comments: "...have you ever met a psychopath? I'm betting that you have, you just didn't know it at the time. They can be very good at "playing human".

For the past 10 years, Waschbusch has been studying “callous-unemotional” children — those who exhibit a distinctive lack of affect, remorse or empathy — and who are considered at risk of becoming psychopaths as adults. To evaluate Michael, Waschbusch used a combination of psychological exams and teacher- and family-rating scales, including the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits, the Child Psychopathy Scale and a modified version of the Antisocial Process Screening Device — all tools designed to measure the cold, predatory conduct most closely associated with adult psychopathy. (The terms “sociopath” and “psychopath” are essentially identical.) A research assistant interviewed Michael’s parents and teachers about his behavior at home and in school. When all the exams and reports were tabulated, Michael was almost two standard deviations outside the normal range for callous-unemotional behavior, which placed him on the severe end of the spectrum.

Currently, there is no standard test for psychopathy in children, but a growing number of psychologists believe that psychopathy, like autism, is a distinct neurological condition — one that can be identified in children as young as 5. Crucial to this diagnosis are callous-unemotional traits, which most researchers now believe distinguish “fledgling psychopaths” from children with ordinary conduct disorder, who are also impulsive and hard to control and exhibit hostile or violent behavior.

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Команда исследователей под руководством Йельского профессора биологии Вальтера Йетца запускает «Карту жизни» – онлайн-каталог, куда попадут все животные и растения на планете, пишет The Verge. Бета-версия уже включает в себя более 25 000 видов. С помощью приложения для браузера пользователи смогут находить растение или животное по названию – либо просто кликать на любое место на карте и видеть список тех, кто обитает в пределах заданного радиуса.

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What is a Key Performance Indicator (KPI)?

Set the time period for measuring the KPI. You can choose between a repeating time period, a rolling time period or a fixed time period. A repeating time period takes place at intervals over a one-year period. For example, the KPI may be measured on a daily, weekly or monthly time interval over the course of the one-year period. A rolling time period measures over any continuous amount of time; for example, a snapshot of any 30-day period. A fixed time period is specific dates such as February 1 through February 28.

Step 4
Schedule the measurement process. Add the dates you need to assess your goal to your calendar. Total up the sales or other goal amount for the period you are measuring and fill in the tracking system you have chosen with the updated progress.

This page shows a sample of the synchronoptic World History Chart and links to the award-winning HyperHistory Online thus combining digital with printed media.

The World History Chart - a companion to HyperHistory Online - contributes to a better understanding of the historical forces that shape today's global affairs - from the Middle East to China, India, Afghanistan, Europe and America.

Numerous studies have found that people who are natural extroverts tend to be happier than shyer types, but introverts can get a hedonic boost simply by faking it, it appears. And there doesn’t seem to be a downside.

After determining participants’ dispositions through questionnaires, psychologists assigned 117 people to three-person teams and gave them two make-work tasks (ranking the usefulness of tools after a wintertime plane crash, and planning a group day trip). Some participants were assigned to act boldly and assertively; others to be reserved and passive; still others (the control group) received no advice about how to act. Queried later, group members confirmed that people did, in fact, act as they were told to.

Whatever their innate tendencies, the people who acted like extroverts enjoyed the task the most, according self-reports, and they also seemed to be enjoying themselves, according to participants. The researchers had thought that acting against type would cause mental strain, but a subsequent test of concentration and cognition found no cost to introverts pretending to be gregarious knee slappers.

According to European data protection law every individual has the right to get a copy of all personal data a company holds about him (right to access). This law is applicable to Facebook too. Every user with a residence outside of the US and Canada has a contract with “Facebook Ireland Limited”, based in Dublin, Ireland and has a right to access therefore.
(Again: Anyone outside of the US or Canada has a right to access!)

By sending an access request you get an idea about the use of your personal data by Facebook. It also shows Facebook that users care about their data and privacy.

 

Any company based in the EU is obliged to give users all data it holds on them if requested. Google's EU-based subsidiaries don't process any user data, and so avoid this requirement, but for anyone outside the US and Canada, Facebook's Irish office holds masses of data.

This process is slow – people have reported getting a response as taking months – but will get the most complete response. The key issue is to write to Facebook at Facebook Ireland Ltd, Hanover Reach, 5-7 Hanover Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland, including proof of identity and a short letter saying what information you'd like.

US users of the sites are out of luck: there's no legal right under US law to ask a company to hand over all the information it holds on you. Users do have some say in how much companies are allowed to take, usually contained in the terms of service. But EU citizens are in a better position – under Europe-wide data protection rules, anyone can send a written request for their full data and, for a small fee, the company has to ship it out, usually within 40 days.

How all these issues are resolved will determine the shape of the digital publishing and reading experience, but only for a short time, if the recent past is a valid guide. As the use of devices increases and their multiple functions evolve, new problems in the commercial and technical arenas are bound to emerge -- that is the pattern of progress -- and new ways of dealing with them will have to be found.

1. “Bullies” usually aren’t the source of the problem: They’re often a symptom of the problem. / 2. Not all meanness and cruelty is bullying: Bullying refers to repeated psychological, social and physical aggression propagated by those who are more physically or socially powerful. Addressing the role of power is critical to combating bullying. / 3. “Cyberbullying” has become an unnecessary distraction: Students consistently report that school bullying is still more common—and that it has a greater negative impact—than what happens online. / 4. When a child has been hurt, people want someone—or something—to blame, but rushing to prosecute purported bullies only undermines society’s ability to curb bullying. Teen suicides should prompt us to act. But enacting flawed legislation in memory or prosecuting teens’ peers shifts the onus of responsibility away from society onto individuals. / 5. Most anti-bullying assemblies are ineffective, and the messages of well-meaning advocates tend to fall on deaf ears. Teens don’t recognize most of the meanness and cruelty they witness or experience as bullying; they see it as drama, teasing or pranking.

Envisioning emerging technology
for 2012 and beyond (by Michell Zappa)

If you look around the world, you see many other nations facing demographic headwinds. If the 20th century was the century of the population explosion, the 21st century, as Eberstadt notes, is looking like the century of the fertility implosion.

Already, nearly half the world’s population lives in countries with birthrates below the replacement level. According to the Census Bureau, the total increase in global manpower between 2010 and 2030 will be just half the increase we experienced in the two decades that just ended. At the same time, according to work by the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, the growth in educational attainment around the world is slowing.

This leads to what the writer Philip Longman has called the gray tsunami — a situation in which huge shares of the population are over 60 and small shares are under 30.

The Report goes on to make some predictions about the future of small business, including:


Large businesses will tap smaller businesses as a source of innovation
Lightweight technologies such as online software, allow small businesses to manage growth with less time, money and technical skills
The family-room factory emerges, as advances in production technologies allow entrepreneurs to develop a wave of innovative products
Almost half of small businesses will be involved in global commerce in 10 years
Large corporations recognize small businesses not only as customers, but as suppliers and partners
Immigrants who bring foreign market knowledge and unique cultural perspectives will be better equipped to identify and customize products for niche markets

Large businesses will tap smaller businesses as a source of innovation
Lightweight technologies such as online software, allow small businesses to manage growth with less time, money and technical skills
The family-room factory emerges, as advances in production technologies allow entrepreneurs to develop a wave of innovative products
Almost half of small businesses will be involved in global commerce in 10 years
Large corporations recognize small businesses not only as customers, but as suppliers and partners
Immigrants who bring foreign market knowledge and unique cultural perspectives will be better equipped to identify and customize products for niche markets

But mistakes are learning opportunities. And in thinking about Star Wars, let’s leave the prequels behind and focus on the original trilogy. It occurs to me that the Star Wars films have a lot to teach us about leadership styles.

A company like Pixar, who undoubtedly produces some of the most beloved and polished experiences in the world, ultimately still cannot produce an outcome where everyone on the team thinks it is the best. And after thinking about why, the reason is obvious and simple – to have the foresight and the skill to refine something to the point of making it great also requires the ability to be hugely critical. More critical, I think, than your ability to even improve or resolve the design problems fast enough. And because design all comes to making a whole series of tradeoffs, ultimately you don’t end up having what you want.

The lesson: You’ll always be unhappy
What I took away from this conversation is that many of us working to make our products great will never be satisfied. A great man once said, your product is shit – and maybe you will always think it is. Yet at the same time, it is our creative struggle with what we do that ultimately makes our creations better and better. And one day, even if you still think your product stinks, you’ll watch a customer use it and become delighted.

Als schönstes Renaissanceschloss nördlich der Alpen thront die Schallaburg im Herzen des Mostviertels. In ihrer einzigartigen Kombination einer gut erhaltenen Wohnburg aus dem Mittelalter und einem kunstvollen Herrensitz mit seinen einmaligen Terrakotta-Arkaden zählt die Schallaburg zu den bedeutendsten Kulturjuwelen Niederösterreichs.
Nicht nur die alljährlichen hochkarätigen Ausstellungen machen hier Geschichte zum Erlebnis. Wer die Schallaburg betritt, taucht gleichzeitig in die faszinierende und wechselhafte Geschichte des Renaissanceschlosses ein. Viel wurde über die Geschichte der Burg schon geforscht. Gleichzeitig warten auch auf die BesucherInnen noch viele Geheimnisse darauf, gelüftet zu werden.

Ну вот и в Гвардиан появилась заметка о медитации уже в качестве одного из инструментов родительского арсенала. В этом арсенале, как правило, присутствуют: активное слушанье, некоторые представления об этапах развития ребенка, и многое другое. Теперь вот медитация.

Похоже, что для современного родителя - находящегося в постоянном стрессе; бегущего вместе со всеми в безумном марафоне по достижению успеха и развитию себя и своего ребенка; работающего и в состоянии постоянной готовности ко всему - медитация это дешевый, надежный и практичный навык.

Работа с психологами и психиатрами, а так же поиск правильно подобранных медикаментов - путь долгий, непростой и не гарантирующий результатов здесь и сейчас.

Ребенок с которым можно будет обговорить поведение, последствия поведения и донести доводы разума и который вообще будет что-либо слушать и прислушиваться - должен прежде вырасти в зрелую самостоятельную личность. До этой поры еще дожить надо.

С другой стороны, совать лекарства (лучше, конечно, в родителя) при любом неудобном поведении ребенка можно, что собственно многие и делают (не пытаясь даже выяснить, а есть ли для этого объективные показания), но это не наш путь.

Наш путь - медитация.
Как говорится: горячо рекомендую.

Вот только комментарии к заметке какие-то унылые. Кто-то, заламывая руки, плачет о том, что навыки воспитания уходят в прошлое. Кто-то говорит, что лучший способ реагирования на поведение ребенка это полный игнор этого самого поведения. Кто-то пишет, что не медитация нужна, а медикаменты. Некоторые к этому добавляют: и запить лекарства хрошим виски. Эти все люди говорят о чем-то своем и не по теме.

Меня это уже не трогает. Я медитирую.

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In sum, says Schleicher, “knowledge and skills have become the global currency of 21st-century economies, but there is no central bank that prints this currency. Everyone has to decide on their own how much they will print.” Sure, it’s great to have oil, gas and diamonds; they can buy jobs. But they’ll weaken your society in the long run unless they’re used to build schools and a culture of lifelong learning. “The thing that will keep you moving forward,” says Schleicher, is always “what you bring to the table yourself.”

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So the next time you are in need of insight, avoid caffeine and concentration. Don’t chain yourself to your desk. Instead, set the alarm a few minutes early and wallow in your groggy thoughts. And if that doesn’t work, chug a beer.

Moody, who works at Australia’s national research agency, and Nogrady, a science journalist, argue that, since the industrial revolution, we’ve seen five long waves of innovation — from water power to steam to electrification to mass production and right up to information and communications technologies. They argue the sixth wave will be resource efficiency — because rising populations, with growing appetites, will lead to both increasing scarcity of resources and dangerously high pollution, waste and climate change.

The Magic Work Cycle is a powerful productivity technique. It's very simple. Work for thirty minutes, giving all of your attention to whatever project you are working on. After thirty minutes, take a break for thirty minutes. You can do anything you want to take your mind off of your work. Then repeat again with thirty minutes of work.

Любой выпускающий редактор получает ежедневно от пяти и до бесконечного количества пресс-релизов. Мизерная часть идет в публикацию, остальные отправляются в мусорку, часто до того, как адресат их прочтет до конца. И обиднее всего бывает то, что действительно нужная и интересная читателю информация не издается исключительно из-за того, что редактор не хочет (и тут он в своем праве) выполнять работу за пресс-секретаря, получающего за публикации зарплату.

Пресс-секретарям важен процент опубликованных релизов из разосланных, но для меня уже много лет остается загадкой тот факт, что авторы рассылок ничуть не стремятся повысить этот процент. Ребят, Ильф и Петров издевались, когда рассказывали о бездари, готовом поставлять газете "процент плохих публикаций". Не стоило принимать этот пример за ролевую модель.

I talked to Fridlund about the paper this week as he was driving to work. “Our minds just kept getting blown as we started discovering more, and more things started falling into place,” he told me. Fridlund said he’s arrived at the “nearly inescapable conclusion that [Watson] knew of Albert’s condition and intentionally misrepresented it.”

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In the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average lifestyle. But, today, average is officially over. Being average just won’t earn you what it used to. It can’t when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor, cheap robotics, cheap software, cheap automation and cheap genius. Therefore, everyone needs to find their extra — their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment. Average is over.

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К антидепрессантам всегда было много вопросов. Все лекарства как лекарства, а с этими,- умом не понять, надо просто верить. Например, все антидепрессанты разворачивают действие только ко 2й неделе приема. Традиционно руководства объясняют это тем, что «за это время лекарство накапливается». Какого черта, что значит «накапливается», молекулы внутри нейрона в стопочки складываются, или как?

овторюсь. У человека нет никакого инстинкта самосохранения, это умозрительная физиологическая модель, объективно страха смерти не существует. Про смерть вы узнаёте, когда становитесь способны понимать абстрактные концепции, а бояться умеете с первых же секунд жизни. Смерть это условное обозначение для опасностей высшей категории. Смерти нет, это то, что случается с другими, а у вас есть только страх. И он нужен. Люди, напрочь лишенные страха (ровно как и люди без болевой чувствительности), долго не протянут даже в современном безопасном мире. Аффект нужен, чтобы учить нас чему-нибудь хорошему (ну, или плохому). Это универсальный способ организовать пластичное и разнообразное поведение. Не только страх, любой аффект. Но страх удобен. Боль еще более эффективна, но там меньше пространства для маневра. Конечно, можно обучать Сусанина спортивному ориентированию через отрезание ног, но после второго занятия у него кончатся ноги. А пугать можно бесконечно.

Die Kirche zum heiligen Leopold - besser bekannt unter "Kirche am Steinhof" oder "Otto-Wagner-Kirche" - wurde auf Wunsch Kaiser Franz Josephs auf dem 144 ha Areal der Heilanstalt für Nerven- und Geisteskranke am Steinhof (14. Bezirk) für die dortigen Patienten errichtet. Die Kirche ist dem hl. Leopold geweiht. Sie wurde in den Jahren 1904 -1907 nach Plänen von Otto Wagner erbaut.

Почему-то традиционно в нашем культурном пространстве очень много внимания уделяется детству, отрочеству, юности, колоссальное количество внимания уделяется кризису среднего возраста. Но авторов, которые брались за тему ухода - а это долгий период, он может составлять половину жизни – по пальцам пересчитать можно. И мне очень интересно разглядеть вот эти этапы отмирания страхов, появление и отмирание каких-то надежд, это омертвение, которое противоречит жизнелюбию моего персонажа.
Вы считаете это омертвением, а не освобождением?
А тут нет противоречия. Когда у тебя исчезают какие-то функции, которые до этого тебя держали в мире и делали тебя таким, какой ты есть, создавали твою личность, - когда они становятся невозможными (ты не можешь бегать, прыгать, как раньше, не можешь так забавлять женщин, как забавлял прежде, столько выпить уже не можешь), вот это физическое омертвение может привести к некому углублению и освобождению. А может и не привести.

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I think it’s extremely important to understand the basic strengths and weaknesses of this up-and-coming technology and when to choose one system over another. I never envision myself programming in them, but I do hope that one day I can make strategic decisions regarding a company’s NoSQL implementation. Regardless if you are a programmer or a manager, hopefully my high-level overview of NoSQL and the major players below will be helpful.

Frequently Asked Questions is a good section to have in your website. They give users a chance to figure out things by themselves instead of wasting resources (both yours and theirs) with a 1-to-1 conversation (chat, Skype, messenger and so on).

But FAQ’s are a different type of content. Just like search and sitemap, it has its own particularities and things that you can do to improve user experience. You have to keep in mind, for instance, that users don’t go to FAQ pages, you have to lead them there.

Here we’ll see a couple of thoughts about it, good practices, inspiration and tools.

We thought Daddy was going to die in 2001. He was staggering around the house in his underwear, gasping in pain, his eyes hollow, his face slashed from shaving with an old-fashioned safety razor. He was eighty-two years old. We took him to a doctor, who said his spine was deteriorating, gave him pills, and suggested he pray. A few days later, Daddy fell at the mailbox, bounced his head on the pavement, and crawled up the driveway, scraping the skin off his knees before collapsing on the front steps. Mama sat in her recliner in front of the TV, worried and clueless, until a neighbor called an ambulance. The EMTs got Daddy propped up in his recliner. He refused to go with them. When I arrived, Daddy was gulping down whiskey. I called the ambulance back, and they took him to DeKalb Medical. Doctors found prostate cancer and operated. My sister and I cried, sure Daddy was in his last days.

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That was eleven years ago. Since then, Daddy’s long goodbye has drained his retirement income and life savings of more than $300,000.

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In a 2008 paper on neuroeconomics, economist George Loewenstein said: “Whereas psychologists tend to view humans as fallible and sometime even self-destructive, economists tend to view people as efficient maximisers of self-interest who make mistakes only when imperfectly informed about the consequences of their actions.”

When including hard figures, advertisers need to remember to keep them current. “One thing you have to be careful with is to have the ability to revise your creative because prevalence numbers can change,” Conlon said, “as we have seen with autism.”

The KT06 kit contains 6 Cubelets that can be snapped together to make a variety of robots with no programming and no wires. You can build robots that drive around on a tabletop, respond to light and other objects, and have surprisingly lifelike behavior. But instead of programming that behavior, you snap the cubelets together and watch the behavior emerge like with a flock of birds or a swarm of bees.
Which cubelets are in the KT06 kit?
Action Blocks: 1 Drive, 1 Flashlight
Sense Blocks: 1 Brightness, 1 Distance
Think/Utility Blocks: 1 Battery, 1 Passive
The KT06 kit comes with batteries, but not with a charger.
Cubelets are designed for people age 8 and older.

Эта страничка для самых маленьких, но очень любознательных, пытливых, глазастых "почемучек", у которых в школе еще нет уроков физики, а может быть, они и в школу-то еще не ходят.

Кстати, эти анимированные "азы физики" интересны и взрослым, так что не стесняйтесь, присоединяйтесь!

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When I told people at ConCarolinas that I'd gone from writing 2k to 10k per day, I got a huge response. Everyone wanted to know how I'd done it, and I finally got so sick of telling the same story over and over again that I decided to write it down here.

So, once and for all, here's the story of how I went from writing 500 words an hour to over 1500, and (hopefully) how you can too:

DIGITAL text is ushering in an era of perpetual revision and updating, for better and for worse

Community Manager is a title that emerged from the evolutionary tar pits of social media, but has its definition varies from company to company, person to person. Tumblr’s community manager/editorial director/dinosaur aficionado, Christopher Price (Topherchris), has become something of a cult hero among the Tumblr user-base, infusing his abstract design and love of experimentation into his wildly popular Tumblr blog.

He says he’s not sure what it means to be a community manager, only that he “knows how to do it the Tumblr way.” The Tumblr way is one of the reasons the site continues to grow.

Seit einem halben Jahrtausend prägt der Wiener Stephansdom mit seinem unverwechselbaren Profil die Silhouette der Stadt. Wie ein Pfeil strebt sein einsamer Turm zum Himmel - der "schönste Turmgedanke der Gotik", das von Sagen und Legenden umwobene Wahrzeichen Wiens. Das mächtige Steildach und die hochaufragende Westfassade mit den sogenannten Heidentürmen tun ein übriges, um diese Domkirche aus der großen Zahl gotischer Kathedralen herauszuheben und ihr eine Sonderstellung zu geben. Nicht nur das Äußere des Kirchenbaus, sondern auch die besondere Auffassung ihres Innenraumes macht die Stephanskirche zu einem immer wieder faszinierenden Erlebnis.

the Morran Book Project, 160 pages

1 dog, 236 illustrations by illustrators from all over the world - 160 pages

1)We know Pinterest is driving truly massive traffic to retail sites, by some accounts more than YouTube, LinkedIn, and Google+ combined. It is, after all, a platform that's perfect for shopping!
2) We know Pinterest used SkimLinks to add affiliate links.
3) Affiliate links generate revenue.

Should this add up to chump change? Let's do the math just to get an order of magnitude estimate.

Commissions on sales for affiliate links vary widely, but they average around 5 percent. After SkimLinks cut, that'd be 3.75 percent (although SkimLinks says they can sometimes negotiate deals that would keep the percentage closer to the original number).

So, Pinterest has 10 million users. Let's say that the average across all of them is that they buy items valued at $10 in a month through affiliate links on Pinterest. That's $100,000,000 of sales for which Pinterest would get credit. That's $3.75 million in monthly revenue, or $45 million of annual revenue.

Да, нелегкая это работа: формулировать свои ответы интервьюерам так, чтобы тебя поняли правильно. Попробую еще раз. Кратко. Скупо. Назывными предложениями. Оптимизм мой не утрачен ни в какой степени. Человечеству предстоят еще века и века эволюции. Мир Полудня, видимо, недостижим — просто потому, что почти никому не нужен. Это — неприятно (обидно до слез: детскую мечту отобрали!), но ничего по-настоящему трагичного при этом не происходит. Наиболее вероятным для человечества становится Мир потребления (он же — Мир хищных вещей века). Это мир вовсе не «славный и добрый», он, безусловно, грязноват, местами даже гниловат, и он заселен людьми, как правило, отнюдь не являющимися образцами для подражания. Но главное: этот мир свободен! Жителям этого мира до такой степени наплевать друг на друга, что знаменитый слоган «Каждому — свое» превращается в образ жизни. И каждый волен выбрать свой путь: кто-то уязвляет себя слегом (наркотик, дающий иллюзорное ощущение счастья, из романа «Хищные вещи века». — Прим. ред.), а кто-то жизнь свою кладет на то, чтобы превратить этого слегача в человека. «Желающие странного» могут существовать в этом мире с пользой для себя и для других. Никаких ограничений для творчества не существует — кроме, разумеется, неуправляемых соблазнов, превращающих человека в наслаждающееся животное. Мир в чем-то убогий и поганый, но сохраняющий при этом творческий заряд, а значит, способный к развитию и к продолжению себя в новых формах.

Berners-Lee famously created the first website in 1991. He also designed and built the first web browser, called simply WorldWideWeb (later renamed Nexus). Berners-Lee initially came up with the idea to join hypertext with the Internet while working at CERN in Europe and performed his work on a NeXT computer designed by Steve Jobs.

Are you a print designer, photographer, fine-artist, or general creative person? Do you have a shitty website that you slapped together yourself in Dreamweaver in that ONE web design class that you took in college? Do you not have a site at all because you’ve been waiting two years for your cousin to put it together for you? Well, we’re here to help. We know that you have little to no desire to do web design professionally, but that doesn’t mean that you want an ugly cookie-cutter site or to settle for one that hasn't been updated since Hackers was in theaters. Through short tutorial videos, you’ll learn how to take a basic wordpress blog and manipulate the css, html (and even some php!) to match your aesthetic. You’ll feel empowered rather than crippled by the internet and worst case scenario you’ll at least end up having a better idea of how professional web designers turn your design dreams into a reality on screen.

Несколько крупных американских книжных сетей устроили бойкот Amazon: им не нравится желание интернет-компании построить вертикальный холдинг и не только продавать, но и издавать книги.

Две крупные книжные сети — американская Books-A-Million (BAM!) и канадская Indigo — присоединились к Вarnes & Noble, которая недавно отказалась продавать в своих магазинах книги, изданные Amazon. Та начала издавать книги в прошлом году. Компания стала заключать прямые контракты с авторами на исключительное право публикации (в том числе и электронной) их произведений за высокий гонорар. Amazon анонсировала выпуск 122 книг под своим именем. Интернет-компания не скрывает желания выстроить вертикально-интегрированный холдинг и избавиться от посредников между своим бизнесом и читателями.

Действия Amazon возмутили издателей, которые не могли конкурировать с ценами за права, предложенными интернет-компанией. Ритейлеры же возмутились тем, что Amazon требует от авторов предоставлять ей эксклюзивные права на продажу электронных версий книг только в ее интернет-магазине.

Пытаясь обойти недовольство ритейлеров, Amazon договорилась с нью-йоркским издательством Houghton Mifflin Harcourt о совместном издании книг серии New Harvest. Крупнейшая книжная сеть США Barnes & Noble отказалась продавать книги этой серии и объявила Amazon бойкот.

Одна идея в книге показалась мне особенно важной: область психической и ментальной активности поддаётся тренировке по тем же правилам, что и мышцы. Для того, чтобы расти, нужно постоянно преодолевать себя, выходить из зоны комфорта, напрягать ментальные и психические «мышцы». И, что немаловажно, не забывать об отдыхе, который должен быть соразмерен приложенному усилию. За интенсивной работой должен следовать качественный отдых, периоды активности и отдыха обязательно должны чередоваться, иначе вместо роста мы рискуем получить срыв. Точно так же мы рискуем травмировать мышцы, которым не даём отдыха после непривычной для них нагрузки.

Google has been fined £415,000 by a French court for offering Google Maps to businesses as a free service.

Bottin Cartographes successfully sued for the damages after claiming Google was abusing its dominant position and stifling competition against companies that charged for the service.

Google France and its parent company Google Inc. must now pay €500,000 in damages and interest to the French mapping company, plus a €15,000 fine.

A Paris court upheld a claim that Google’s strategy is to undercut competitors by temporarily swallowing the full cost of its maps service until it gains control of the market.

Но секрет Китая даже не в общежитиях, которых можно в любой момент поднять и погнать на работу. В ситуации, где ни одна компания не контролирует компоненты от и до, а рассчитывает на сторонних поставщиков, производство этих самых компонентов, выпускающихся под марками американских, немецких, корейских и китайских производителей, зачастую находится через дорогу друг от друга в какой-то китайской деревне.

Story: The other half of the pricing formula is the story the price itself tells. A Prius at $40,000 or a Prius at $10,000 is the same car, but the price becomes a dominant part of the story. You can tell a story of value/cheapness/affordability, or a story of luxury. If you price your product or service near the median, you're telling no story at all with the price, giving you the chance to tell a story about some other element of what you sell.