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Content that was once primarily accessed by consumers on their PCs, is shifting to mobile devices.... The top two activities that consumers are shifting from their PCs to their tablets and smartphones are web browsing and Facebook. Among tablet owners, 27 percent say they are using their PC less frequently for accessing the Internet and 20 percent say they are using their PC less frequently for accessing Facebook.

Books and games tie for third place.

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This decision supposedly came right from the top of the company, with Bill Gates himself even chipping in. Despite initial reservations, Kempin claims that Gates always had qualms that the living room computer would, at some stage, metamorphosise into an alternative PC that could threaten Microsoft's dominance of the traditional market. As a result, it was eventually felt the company had to try and tackle Sony head-on. While with hindsight we can see this worked out for the best, a huge amount of teething issues were encountered along the way.

Looking for a Halo product while fighting a Bastion of consumer products.

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LEGO sets are not cheap toys. They are made to the highest standards and have the price to go along with it. However, in the past couple decades it seems that the price of LEGO sets has become outrageous. New sets can sell for up to $500 retail and old sets can sell for twice that in a secondary market. This is a children’s toy, right? There is no way LEGO sets have always been this expensive; it is just molded plastic. Let’s take a look at the history of LEGO pricing and try to figure out what is going on.

LEGO is not a cheap toy and has never been.

Luckily, I get to play with LEGOs for three hours a week without buying them..and they call it a "lab" (for my Intro to Robotics class...I almost said I get to play with them for free but then I remembered tuition...)
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The Lego Robotics curriculum resources are fantastic. We've been working on it with my daughter and it's fun. They do a great job introducing both mechanical and programming elements. Well worth the investment. Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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I LOVE Legos! I have approx. 30 lbs of them in a large bin, and about another 20 lbs in other storage containers. Yes, I have around 50 lbs of Legos. Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net. 2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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Many who received their first LEGO set in the early 1990’s are now adults looking forward to buying a LEGO set for their first child or for themselves. When we are younger, we do not fully understand how money works. We do not realize that a large LEGO set can require hours of work to earn. We only know what we want. I would wager that it isn’t until our first jobs that we can fully appreciate the value of money. We all wanted the large sets as kids and we didn’t realize how hard our parents had to work for them.

Most of the big lego sets I got between ~8 and 12 years old I paid for myself from a 'job' that paid maybe 50c/hour on a good day (for the few years after that I spent most of my pocket money on shareware cds and used pc games). At the time my dad was an auto mechanic and hauled all the worn/broken parts for scrap. Most of it was just iron and went strait from the garage to the recycling center; but anything with copper/aluminum was set aside because the pure metals sold for ~10x the price for mixed. Anything I was able to tear apart was mine to sell at the higher rate.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

Now you can just e-mail in your support[^] for open source projects -------------- TTFN - Kent
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A good mentor relationship lasts long after your job at a single company. The relationship will change and grow over time. Your first job at a successful company will launch your career. A great mentor will help you stay on the fast track.

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130206181727-56725-the-importance-of-mentors-to-build-a-successful-career[^]

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream. Discover.

Surface Pro is so good that it could drive Windows 8 adoption with enough force to make people reconsider Microsoft’s odd new OS. Microsoft bet the farm on a new paradigm and it needs a champion. Surface Pro is the right hardware for the job.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/05/microsoft-surface-pro-review/[^]

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream. Discover.

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