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...predicts. According to that rough rule, we should be at about 8.5% unemployment today, not slipping toward 10%. Something new and possibly strange seems to be happening in this recession. Something unpredicted by the experts. "I don't think," Summers told the Peterson Institute crowd - deviating again from his text - "that anyone fully understands this phenomenon." And that raises some worrying questions. Will creating jobs be that much slower too? Will double-digit unemployment persist even after we emerge from this recession? Has the idea of full employment rather suddenly become antiquated? Is there something fundamentally broken in the heart...
...presented a detailed analysis of all the expenses that carriers incur in handling SMS messages. He showed that the wireless channels contribute about a tenth of a cent to a carrier's cost, that accounting charges might be twice that and that other costs basically round to zero because texting requires so little of a mobile network's infrastructure. Summing up, Keshav found that a text message doesn't cost providers more than 0.3 cent. (Read "When Fingers Do the Flirting...
Cost analyses will stay flexible because SMS isn't constrained by capacity, says Collins. He draws an analogy to amusement parks: "Once you build the park (or wireless network), the marginal cost of each customer (or text message) is minimal...
...What (of Me) Can Only Be Seen by Others.” Its creator, Jacob R. Ireland, used a portrait of the occultist Sylvan Muldoon as a guide for three large faces drawn faintly in graphite on the white walls. In the center of the space, Ireland placed a text which melds the words of Muldoon, Marcel Proust, and Roland Barthes. It has attracted diverse crowds—artists with cuffed pants having conversations on lucid dreaming, wandering children, a man who looked at the seemingly blank walls and inquired when the gallery was going to install the exhibit...
...there, Quad residents -- Shuttleboy, your much needed travel companion, now has a talking version available for call. Of course, those of you who have mastered text messaging may not want to try the slightly more time-consuming phone call. However, since Shuttleboy's text messages have been dishing out error messages instead of shuttle times of late, you might want to pay attention...