Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
At this point I doubt there is any new information available that would dissuade people from the notion that Vista was one very screwed up launch, so I guess Microsoft’s PR strategy momentarily shifted to stating the obvious. The answers we got during this mid-June background conversation were brutally honest: Our source, a high-ranking Windows [...]
Interesting look at the economics of movie star paychecks. I was rather surprised to read that Nicole Kidman generated a measly $1 in gross income for every dollar she was paid, making her the most overpaid movie star in the business… but then again I can’t remember the last time I saw a movie that [...]
Don’t you love how the proponents are telling us how much the ticket will cost even though this thing is two decades away from being completed, should the voters be duped into passing this measure. Sure, let’s add another $50 billion in debt that has a payoff price tag of $100 billion to the State’s [...]
Quick, how much is $2.7 trillion? Answer, the entire annual U.S. Federal government budget. The reason why I’m skeptical of these plans is that they feel a lot like “have your cake and eat it too” plans. For example, Schmidt suggests that his plan costs will be recovered in savings and from half a million [...]