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Why bankers aren't worth it

Some of the most arresting analysis of the causes and consequences of the financial crisis is being made by Andrew Haldane, the executive director of what the Bank of England calls - with no hint of irony - "financial stability".

His latest speech, "Small Lessons from a Big Crisis" [pdf link], is grist for those who believe top bankers are being paid far too much (although this is not a conclusion he draws himself).

Workers in the City First, Haldane looks at the returns generated by UK banks and financial institutions since 1900, to see whether shares in the financial sector have performed better than the market in general.

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Conversion Thursday BCN - Julio 2009

¡Llegó Julio!  Y por las calles ya se nota ambiente de vacaciones…  Esto de vivir en una ciudad con mar es muy malo porque sales a la calle y todo lo que ves te recuerda que el mundo ya está de vacaciones y tu no.  Pero ¡aquí llega el Conversion Thursday para aliviarte!  ¿Eres de los que estan a punto de desaparecer un mes entero y buscas alguna idea para darle vueltas mientras intentas ignorar al de la toalla de al lado?  ¿Eres de los que van a disfrutar de un mes en la oficina con menos gente, y vas a aprovechar para hacer todas esas cosas que necesitas hacer pero que los jefes nunca te dejan porque te dan tareas sin sentido?  Pues no puedes dejar escapar esta oportunidad de conversar con nuestro panel de expertos para llevarte unas cuantas ideas novedosas, frescas e imaginativas de cómo optimizar tus landing pages.

¿Cuando?  El próximo jueves 9 de Julio, a partir de las 19h.

¿Donde? En el Xalet de Golferichs, Gran Via 491 de Barcelona.

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Alternativa para los nombres largos en FAT

Hace un tiempo se hizo pública la demanda de Microsoft a la empresa TomTom por el uso de ésta última (sin previo pago) de una patente propiedad de Microsoft que permite el uso de nombres de archivo largos (de más de 8 caracteres) en sistemas FAT. Ni que decir que Microsoft, aunque ahora lo niegue, podría [...]

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Panasonic TX-L37V10 HD TV

Review  The first manufacturer to launch TV sets with integrated Freesat, Panasonic moves things on again with its 2009 Viera range. On paper, the TX-L37V10 is appears to be everything you’ll need for living room viewing – a satellite and terrestrial TV with a network media player, and access to Internet services such as YouTube. For many, it looks like the ultimate all-in-one solution.…

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Factoria Crossmedia lleva Twitter a la televisión

Rubén Sánchez de Lost in TV me avisa de la realización por parte de la empresa Factoria Crossmedia de un experimiento para llevar Twitter a la televisión o mejor dicho para usar este sistema de microblogging dentro de un programa de televisión convencional.

160 usuarios de twitter participaron enviando 300 mensajes con la palabra #nickdutnik de los cuales el 30% se publicaron en pantalla durante los 25 minutos de duración del programa ETB3. El objetivo era dar voz a los usuarios de Twitter para participar en el programa. Parece que es la primera experiencia de este tipo que se realiza en la televisión en España, es una utilidad que ya hemos visto en algunos eventos como Evento Blog que parece pueden tener bastante sentido también para llevarlo a Televisión usado como backchannel.

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Mixed results for green IT goals

A majority of tech workers in the public sector do not know about the emission reduction targets they face, says a survey.

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Dell Vostro 1220, nuevo portátil de 12 pulgadas

Dell Vostro 1220

El éxito de los modelos ultraportátiles en el mercado ha producido un cambio de mentalidad en los fabricantes, que empiezan a darse cuenta de que el tamaño sí importa y que los usuarios profesionales prestan mucha atención a éste, al igual que al peso de los equipos que adquieren. Poco a poco han ido aumentando el tamaño de las pantallas hasta llegar a dimensiones más aptas para trabajar y aprovechando el tirón para reducir las de equipos tradicionales, más potentes pero también más voluminosos y pesados. Es el caso de un nuevo modelo profesional de Dell, el Vostro 1220, un portátil de 12’1” que podríamos definir como equilibrado.

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How to be the Best Designer in the World?

Have you ever wondered how you could be the best designer in the world? How to be that money making Design Virtuoso? I know I have. What about you?

I sort of knew what it took, but I never really knew what it took, until today. According to Chris Guillebeau, the man behind The Art of Nonconformity, if you want to a virtuoso, or just be really good with anything (music, sport, design etc.), you will need to invest approximately 14,600 hours of practice or training to get there.

The time cost of becoming a virtuoso—which I’m defining here simply as a measure of extremely high expertise—is about 10 years of consistent training for at least several hours a day. This is the consensus view from a wide scientific literature on virtuosos from various disciplines.

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My Interview With Antitrust Expert Gary Reback: Google’s Looming Antitrust Issues

On Wednesday I spoke with antitrust attorney Gary Reback, the man who spearheaded the push to break up Microsoft in the nineties. The event was hosted by HBSTech at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley.

If anyone in the world can make antitrust law interesting, it’s Reback.

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Futuristic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Designer Adam vows that he never looked to any specific design while conceptualizing the City Vehicle, but I think if we were to re-do the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car for the future urbanites then this would be it. Hosting all eco factors like solar technology on the surface of the roof, regenerative braking, electric motor and capabilities of harnessing wind power as well, this concept car is meant only for city commute. To keep the vehicle light and easy all high-tech gadgetry has been ditched and only the bare essentials incorporated.

The car is meant to seat 2 people in a 1+1 in line seating arrangement, or 1 person with luggage. This is coz Adam believes that mostly people commute alone in the city (say to work) and rest of the space in the car is wasted.

Practical, viable or simply OTT; I reserve my judgment on that, but I kinda like the cozy appeal that it has.

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Plate, Spoon And Glass, All In One Hand

Dinner parties and official gatherings are a time to mingle and do some serious networking. In such situations many of us (greedy/hungry) people have to give the yummy hors d’oeuvres and appetizers a miss, so that we don’t come across as awkward and messy. You know the scene: glass of wine in one hand and a plate full of goodies in the other! Mantara is the ideal solution for such social situations. It looks stylish and has a groove to hold your wine glass, a niche to secure the spoon/fork and the dish holds the appropriate proportion of food. Keep it all in one hand and let the other do the flirting!

Designer: Gabriel Contino

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3.7.39.

Warmer, sunny most of day.
Planted pumpkin (somewhat too late, & in a too shady position). Earthed up north[1] side of the maincrop potatoes. No gaps, but some very immature. Lifted tulip bulbs. One early potato withered up – trust not disease. Turnips (28.6.39) are showing. One pullet limping.
15 eggs.

[1] Circled by Orwell; ‘west’ written by him on facing page. Peter Davison

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El iPhone como navegador GPS para profesionales

Navigon para el iPhone

Uno de los elementos que se ha convertido casi en imprescindible para muchos trabajadores es el navegador GPS. Comerciales, repartidores y profesionales móviles en general lo utilizan como guía “infalible” (al menos casi siempre) en la que apoyarse para llegar a destinos que no conocen. La entrada en liza de los teléfonos de última generación y la incorporación de funcionalidades GPS en muchos de ellos los ha convertido en sustitutos más que interesantes de los tradicionales aparatos para el coche, y un caso especial al que prestar atención es el del iPhone, teléfono para el que dos de las grandes compañías en esto de la navegación han desarrollado aplicaciones.

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Oracle despedirá al 1% de su plantilla laboral

Los efectos de una economía en recesión siguen afectando a empresas grandes y parece que nadie se está salvando. Oracle, quien presume de ser la segunda empresa de software solo después de Microsoft, tiene planeado prescindir de mil personas en Europa, lo que representa un 1% de su plantilla laboral. Actualmente trabajan para Oracle alrededor de 86 mil personas. Estos recortes se dieron a conocer internamente en la compañía desde el pasado lunes.

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Does Anybody Still Use Second Life? And If So, How Much Is It Worth Today?

Analyst firm Next Up Research has published an extensive report on Linden Lab, the San Francisco company behind virtual world Second Life. The research is based on aggregate data and is available on SharesPost, a site set up to trade shares of privately held companies (if you register, you can download the report for free from that page, or you can find other valuation reports on companies like Facebook and LinkedIn). The report goes rather deep into the valuation of the Linden Lab, which it pegs at somewhere between $658 million and 700 million.

More on that later.

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IBM Releases Open Source Machine Learning Compiler

sheepweevil writes "IBM just released Milepost GCC, 'the world's first open source machine learning compiler.' The compiler analyses the software and determines which code optimizations will be most effective during compilation using machine learning techniques. Experiments carried out with the compiler achieved an average 18% performance improvement. The compiler is expected to significantly reduce time-to-market of new software, because lengthy manual optimization can now be carried out by the compiler. A new code tuning website has been launched to coincide with the compiler release. The website features collaborative performance tuning and sharing of interesting optimization cases."

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Crea una rutina de comienzo del día

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Ponerse en marcha cuando uno está en casa o fuera de una oficina “normal” puede ser una de las cosas más difíciles que hay. Se necesita mucha fuerza de voluntad para que el tiempo de primera hora del día no se nos pase sin apenas darnos cuenta.

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Time and Thyme Again with Marieke Staps’ Soil Clock

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Dutch designer Marieke Staps has figured out a way to grow time, instead of killing it. Her soil-powered biological clock, showcased at Dutch Design Week in 2008 and most recently at Dwell on Design’s Kitchen Ecology Show last week, keeps time by plugging into mud.