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Vladik

Re:5 million Dropboxes on Tuesday February 16, 2010 @08:47PM (#1130558)
Wow, 5 million is impressive. More impressive, that the US is not even 1/3rd of their user base. Talk about global adoption!
Re:Toshiba Develops 1TB SSD That Fits On A Postage Stamp on Sunday February 14, 2010 @09:13PM (#1125725)
So how much longer before we can get a few of these hardwired into our brains? Carrying things around is sooo late 20th century.

Somewhere Ray Kurzweil is getting very excited.

Re:Business School is a Joke on Sunday February 14, 2010 @09:10PM (#1125720)
Yes he did. Medicine, law, engineering, mathematics, etc., most people will need to go to college and graduate programs. Tough to self-educate in those areas.
Re:Business School is a Joke on Sunday February 14, 2010 @03:12PM (#1125172)
An undergraduate degree in this country teaches you how to become a worker bee. If you like being a worker bee, getting a decent(?) salary, taking 2 weeks and then later in life maybe 6 weeks vacation, by all means study business, marketing, etc. Otherwise, get educated.

"Self education is, I firmly believe, the only kid of education there is." -Isaac Asimov

If only we could have a few more people every year become free thinkers and creators.

Re:Disabling Google Buzz: How to purge your profile on Sunday February 14, 2010 @03:30AM (#1124319)
None really. Problem is that some are close friends who I love having discussions with online and wanted Google Buzz to be that forum style of discussion with friends. Becomes difficult when I see everything else they do already a 2nd, 3rd or 4th time.
Re:Disabling Google Buzz: How to purge your profile on Friday February 12, 2010 @03:29PM (#1121685)
As a Google fan boy, this pains me to say this. I had to turn it off :( After everyone connected their twitter, blog, google reader feeds it became the same useless jargon as everywhere else. I'll come back around to it after they change things up.
Re:Let’s not communicate. Let’s live. on Thursday February 11, 2010 @12:52PM (#1118189)
The question is will it go to the bathroom for you as well? I could easily save a lot of time in the day by outsourcing that.