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"Google is the Internet gig"

That's not really true. Google is trying to capture nearly everything, too. Enterprise (docs), phone, tablet, computer, search, advertising, social, ISP, wearable products (Glass), etc.


And cars and solar power


And how is bankruptcy going to prevent this from occurring again? Will future politicians still have the ability to grant crazy pensions knowing their term won't endure its negative effects? Not sure what the solution is but I don't think bankruptcy will solve it.


1) Those lofty retirement guarantees were much easier to bargain for before everyone realized that the days of heady growth in America were done.

2) The bankruptcies will dramatically weaken the public sector unions.


LOL, what public sector unions?


In 2009 the U.S. membership of public sector unions surpassed membership of private sector unions for the first time, at 7.9m and 7.4m respectively.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-sector_trade_union#cite_...

http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-troub...


From your second link "dramatic decline in overall union membership." which is what I meant to imply. Unions are fairly impotent today.


Unions in general are impotent, but the public unions (teachers, police, etc) are among the only ones that still have a lot of leverage.


Public-sector unions are the only unions left in the U.S. with much political zorch, more's the pity.


Why should unions have any political zorch? Why must collective bargaining require any amount of state intervention (besides, obviously, protecting individual liberty and property)?


I think the pattern has been established in cities which avoided bankruptcy, like San Jose - you hire a barebone skeleton of public employees, re-negotiate the contracts in light of macroeconomic conditions, and subcontract everything else - those employees are now eligible for 401k or IRA or other more exciting things.


Why was the title cropped here? If you're going to explicitly name companies don't you think all should be named? The title is implying other companies (i.e. Microsoft, Yahoo, Twitter, etc.) aren't a part of this. Maybe it should've been along the lines of "major tech companies including..."

Edit: The title has since been updated.


There are nearly 50 companies or organizations signing the letter. That would make for a pretty damn unwieldy headline.


The poster updated the title. I would agree with you but article's title named 5 companies and the poster's title named 3. Either copy the title in it's entirety or don't name any companies.


You can always use a headline like "Google, Apple, Facebook and 50 others like this"


Does this imply there will be a 64 bit VS? Or will it just take place entirely in an emulator?


x64 is one of the 'build platforms' for .NET projects in Visual Studio:

   With Visual Studio 2013 Preview, you can now use [Edit and Continue] with x64, 
   AnyCPU, and (of course) x86 projects.
See also: http://visualstudiohacks.com/articles/visual-studio-net-plat...


lostoptimist surely meant running visual studio itself as a 64 bit process to use more than 4 gb of ram


Awesome news. Comcast's monopoly on broadband in certain neighborhoods has produced nothing but sub-par internet access. This should greatly improve things.


Yeah, Broadstripe and Centurylink are even worse.


I just began using this today and I really enjoy. I wonder if you've considered the negation of a habit? i.e. I love eating donuts but need to cut back on them so I would only like to eat one a week. I've set this up as "Didn't eat a donut today" with this repeating 6 times a week. What about keeping track of "bad habits" and set maximums?


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