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The review also highlights what I think is the key distinction between the iPod and Zune; Steve Jobs.
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If ten million bucks is a difference of opinion, I’d really hate to see a full blown argument.
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our actions over the coming few decades could create risks of major disruption to economic and social activity, later in this century and in the next, on a scale similar to those associated with the great wars and the economic depression of the first half
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The name refers to a remark made by the physicist Richard Feynman, expressing a wish to memorise the digits of π as far as that point so that when reciting them, he would be able to end with “… nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, and so on.”
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In the newspaper De Morgen this weekend, there was a full page article about a successful Belgian internet entrepreneur: Cain Ransbottyn.
Cain is the founder and CEO of Realroot, hoster of a large collection of high-bandwidth, and often NSFW, websites - including Zattevrienden, Zattemadammen, Wijfzonderlijf, Gallerygalore and Thisislife. He is known for being a shrewd business man and not the most subtle of conversationalists. But the way he speaks about his pr0n-consuming users in this article sets a new high for self-confessed customer contempt.
Continue reading ‘Our customers are the perverts, not us’
The “Observatorium voor Gezondheid en Welzijn” institute of Brussels has just published a 160-page report full of statistics and Graphics about Brussels: The 2006 Atlas. It is full of interesting data about Brussels, its internal diversity and the differences with Flanders / Wallonia.
Some highlights:
Population
Take a good look at the northern white spot, that’s the Royal Palace of Laken: 58 hectare for a handful of royalty.
Housing
At your left: rent prices, at your right: comfort of housing (which indicates: private toilet, central heating, separate kitchen …). As one would expected, they correlate very well. Ukkel is a fancy neighbourhood, ain’t it, Bruno?
Continue reading ‘Brussels statistics: Atlas 2006′
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