At a Technology conference in Lake Tahoe, Bill Gates made a prediction that the best education will come from the web in 5 years. Nicholas Negroponte also said that the physical book will be obsolete in 5 years. He compared paper books transition to their digital counterparts to the music and film industry of a few decades ago.

The reason for FIFA World Cup matches starting at the same time is due to historic scandals that have occurred in famous matches. Having multiple matches begin at the same time eliminates the problem where the final matches outcome can be manipulated to force a specific outcome within a group.

This will work for Windows and Mac. Linux has many options to do this and it’s even easier to do so I won’t even bother covering Linux for once.

Tomorrow is the final day of the Eve Online Alliance Tournament. From dragged out tank-fests to bomber squadrons obliterating machariels and bhaalgorns, there have been quite a number of great matches thus far. If you’re looking to see how different ships work together, this is a great place to brush up on your knowledge.

This practice gives select traders advance notice of changing market conditions. Flash orders are available to anyone for a fee, but can only be capitalized upon with the use of extremely high performance supercomputers. While an order is in a flash window, it is completely unavailable to the public. This practice essentially gives an elite few an unfair advantage over all other traders.

If you’ve been thinking about trying out Ubuntu for a server, now would be a good time. If you’re accustomed to living inside the limited world of Windows, perhaps Ubuntu Server Edition would be your best bet for getting your feet wet with a real OS. The LTS releases are supported for a longer duration and there’s training and consulting readily available to support your needs as an organization.

These excerpts are by an anonymous Chinese labor rights activist. When coming and going from dormitories 1, 2 or 3 or housing outside the factory, employees are forbidden from speaking, smoking or eating with workers from other facilities. Using the company phone, talking, eating snacks and doing things unrelated to work are all forbidden while on a regular shift or working overtime. Workers are not allowed to bring outsiders inside to view the factory area. When the manager arranges overtime, employees are not allowed secretly or openly to avoid overtime if they do not have permission. After 10:30 p.m., workers must go to the dorm to sleep.

BanThePhoneBook dot org has set up a petition for an opt-in program for receiving the White Pages Phone Book. Your first instinct may be to think that the WhitePages is desperately trying to hold onto their old ways, but they’re not Murdocking at all. If you take a look at the WhitePages’ own blog you’ll see news about their mobile apps and tools for online searches. It’s good to see them embracing the future.

Interesting story lines, chilling realism, humorous dialog, wicked interfaces, re-playability, the list goes on and on. Add them all up and they’re quickly being outpaced by the importance of profit, profit, profit. It’s sad but true. Reading this story about the executive level restructuring at blizzard only reinforces my thoughts. There’s nothing on the surface that screams we need more money from these people!, but the writing is on the wall. Support the developers. Break free from the big box companies’ strangle hold and support the industry from the right end. Check out all the goodness available out there and vote with your dollar because sadly, nothing else really matters.

So it’s delayed, it’s not that big of a deal. Features found in the Nexus phone that are missing will be a nice addition, but the big news is flash support is coming. But flash is client side, so I wonder how well that will work on the droid hardware? Even if it renders just fine, is flash the right direction?