Third-year law students have been lamenting the unfortunate timing of their entry into the job market. Now they have some cold, hard numbers to quantify their woes.
The median number of offers by U.S. law firms for 2010 summer associate positions was seven, according to statistics released Tuesday by the National Association for Law Placement. That was down from 10 offers in 2008 and 15 offers in 2007.
In fact, the offer rate was the lowest NALP has reported since the organization began gathering offer statistics some 17 years ago.
I'm not too sure if this will be branded as the Eee Reader but it does look like a very sleek device indeed. Asus announced this 9" eBook reader that bundles in some WiFi and 3G love and a long-lasting battery capable of displaying 10,000 pages in one charge. That's like 12 novels long, more than enough for a vacation overseas.
The mock up also features a very friendly interface which will likely be 1024 x 768 in resolution, 4GB of flash storage. There's also hopefully going to be a headphone jack for ambient music, podcasts or audiobooks and support for all the popular text formats.
This looks like one product Asus will score a win in once they ship it out.
Looks like another killer of the Plastic Logic Que. More on this here. Plus more photos.
Amazon better up the ante on the Kindle soon or they may find themselves outclassed by the competition. On the other hand, Bezos has said several times he aims to sell Kindle books on multiple platforms. It seems like a great move if Amazon were to partner with a company like Asus. It looks like Amazon and Microsoft are already sharing patents with one another.
Regardless of which companies emerge as industry leaders in these fields, it looks like the tablet and eReader markets are really heating up. That can only mean great things ahead for consumers.
Americans, as well as citizens of many other advanced nations, now spend about twice as many years in retirement as they did a generation or two ago. During that time, they expect the government to provide them with income support and healthcare. Is it any wonder that we face serious fiscal problems?
I hope the president's fiscal commission makes raising the age of eligibility for these programs one of its main recommendations.
I do too. A simple change in retirement age could go a long way toward reducing the federal budget. A lot of people will likely complain that it’s not fair because they don’t get the same benefits as those in the past. However, as the chart above clearly shows, its the people in the past who only got a fraction of the benefits of retirees today.
Just as many government programs are now indexed to inflation, perhaps age of eligibility for these programs should be indexed to average life expectancy?
If economics is a science, it is more like biology than physics. Biologists try to understand the relationships in a complex system. That’s hard enough. But they can’t tell you what will happen with any precision to the population of a particular species of frog if rainfall goes up this year in a particular rain forest. They might not even be able to count the number of frogs right now with any exactness.
We have the same problems in economics. The economy is a complex system, our data are imperfect and our models inevitably fail to account for all the interactions.
The bottom line is that we should expect less of economists. Economics is a powerful tool, a lens for organizing one’s thinking about the complexity of the world around us. That should be enough. We should be honest about what we know, what we don’t know and what we may never know. Admitting that publicly is the first step toward respectability.
I’ve read a lot of photography advice that recommends against lightweight tripods, but I can’t help but finding something about the ZipShot Tripod to be be awesome.
Here’s a “carry around” tripod for your carry around lens and camera: The ZipShot is a “compact, ultra-light tripod” by Tamrac that has aluminum-alloy legs that resemble the collapsible poles used in tents. While it’s not very useful in windy situations, or with heavy professional gear, it might suffice for most ordinary uses and lighter cameras (supposedly it can hold up to 3lb). The biggest benefits are obviously weight (11oz) and setup time. Here’s a video showing how quickly you can set the thing up:
Simple and quick. I wonder how sturdy it would be for holding up a Nikon D40 and a small lens? I saw the ZipShot at a camera store in DC this weekend and while I might be a little hesitant to place my DSLR on it, this would be great for a smaller camera like Canon’s S90, G11, or any pocket camera.
You can purchase the ZipShot for $49.95 on Amazon.
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