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“Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?” America’s misguided culture of overwork – Nonfiction – Salon.com

greader — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:05:50 +0000

Germany's workers have higher productivity, shorter hours and greater quality of life. How did we get it so wrong?

Is Freescale Going From RIP to IPO? – BusinessWeek

greader — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:05:42 +0000

The chipmaker wants to go public to help pay off its $8 billion in debt.

MIPS, ARM Wrestling In Wireless – Yahoo! Finance

greader — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:05:35 +0000

Interview with MIPS CEO, Sandeep Vij, on the competition with ARM. 'Vertical markets', 'compelling offering', 'aggressively engaging' - not convinced with the C class speak, hopefully their execution is better otherwise it'll continue to be a one horse race.

Shanghai gets the nod as China’s most popular city – Independent

greader — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:46:18 +0000

Shanghai gets the nod as China's most popular city
Independent
Shanghai is currently hosting World Expo and has recently undergone a multi-billion dollar facelift - similar to that seen in Beijing just before it hosted ...
Shanghai Companies Cashing In On World ExpoForbes (blog)
Shanghai tops list highlighting soft powerXinhua
Shanghai Expo Imagines Better CitiesIEEE Spectrum (blog)
UPI.com -Sify -China Digital Times
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Diagram Showing The Relationships Of Car Makers To One Another (Looks Incestuous)

greader — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:00:42 +0000

Note: Full resolution version available HERE for those of you without HD laser vision. Suckers! This is a diagram showing the incestuous relationships between the various car manufacturers. I found it pretty eye-opening. For example, did you know Honda is actually a wholly owned subsidiary of a Norwegian car manufacturer? Just kidding, I made that up because all the lines started hurting my eyes. Like when I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror. Which -- anybody seen a grocery bag lying around here? It has a face drawn on one side. Who Owns Who: An Automaker Family Tree [jalopnik] Thanks to Chris, who doesn't care who owns who just as long as his tires don't fall off on the highway.

Tom’s Hardware’s Summer Guide: 17 SSDs Rounded Up

greader — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Which SSD should you buy today? Seventeen flash-based drives battle across a benchmark suite that include throughput, I/O performance, consistency, power consumption, efficiency, and the best overall bang for the buck. The time is right to upgrade.

Solid-state drive - Performance and Capacity - Operating system - Benchmarking - History

In-car computing for the luxury set

greader — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:52:02 +0000

Something I've seen a lot of on my nocturnal Manhattan dogwalks: Idling ambulances and parked Lincoln Town Cars with the drivers in them, heads always inclined downwards at the same angle, eyes open, faces lit from a bluish-white source below. Get closer and you see they're on laptops, killing time while waiting for their next call to come in, and with their vehicle strategically parked near a building with good wi-fi.

As I used to drive an ambulance myself, I can tell you that these drivers are working-class guys for whom a laptop is a huge improvement over the dog-eared issue of the Daily News or El Diario that used to suffice as a time-killer. It's also a recent-enough phenomenon that having to wedge it between your lap and the steering wheel has probably not yet registered as a hassle.

But that's in the front seat. For wealthy passengers who ride in the backs of cars, that won't do. This, on the other hand, will:

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China’s nine-day traffic jam stretches 100km – Yahoo! News

greader — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:12:49 +0000

Shared by Frank wtf

Thousands of vehicles were bogged down Monday in a more than 100-kilometre (62-mile) traffic jam leading to Beijing that has lasted nine days and highlights China's growing road congestion woes.

Maz Jobrani: Did you hear the one about the Iranian-American? – Maz Jobrani (2010)

greader — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:29:00 +0000

A founding member of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, standup comic Maz Jobrani riffs on the challenges and conflicts of being Iranian-American -- "like, part of me thinks I should have a nuclear program; the other part thinks I can't be trusted ..."

China Passes Japan to Become No. 2 Economy – NYTimes.com

greader — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:03:30 +0000

Experts say that unseating Japan underscores China’s clout and bolsters forecasts that China will pass the U.S. as the world’s biggest economy as early as 2030.