It goes unchallenged that attending the entrance examination of Master’s degree is the usual choice for the majority undergraduates in modern China.
There’s an undoubted fact that our country still haven’t provided enough jobs for those postgraduates, much less to a large number of undergraduates. Therefore, plenty of undergraduates focus too much energy on their study, not on the basis of improving their all-round capabilities so as to commit themselves well to our society, but on the basis of blind faith in getting high scores in any examination. Thus, the abilities which students should pay the most attention to, are neglected and pushed to the fringes in their lives.
This phenomenon is extremely prevail at present in China, and indeed leaves open essential questions to both experts and we average students. That is “what impacts does education have on students”?
Philip Rosedale took the MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) concept and spun it into the Web’s most talked-about virtual destination: Second Life. But don’t call it just a game. For more and more “residents,” Second Life has become a first life, where they can do everything in the virtual world from getting married to launching businesses that exclusively within the site’s confines. Many real-world businesses have opened Second Life branches, too. In fact, Second Life has become so popular that the inevitable backlash has begun: Nick Denton’s Valleywag (see #45) has compared the game’s economy to a pyramid schemeJon Lech JohansenCreator, Better known as DVD-Jon, Jon Lech Johansen is the Norwegian hacker who broke the encryption system used on DVD movies, thereby allowing them to be copied. He released the DeCSS decryption program in 2002 and was promptly prosecuted in his homeland. Eventually acquitted, Johansen went on to crack Apple’s iTunes DRM (repeatedly) while working as a software developer in the United States. Beaten to the punch in cracking high-definition DVD formats by the still-anonymous muslix64, who created “backup” programs for HD DVD late last year and for Blu-ray Disc in January, Johansen nonetheless remains the renegade that big media fears most.. Jerry Yang, David Filo, and Terry SemelExecutives, Yahoo
Google’s product innovations and its blockbuster purchase of YouTube for $1.65 billion may have pushed Yahoo out of the limelight, but the Web giant led by founders Yang and Filo and CEO Terry Semel are fighting back. In the past two years, Yahoo has acquired online photo-sharing site Flickr and social bookmarking site Del.icio.us. It also continues to launch new properties such as Yahoo Food and Yahoo Pipes (for creating custom data feeds). Yahoo’s recent switch to the Panama advertising platform represents another attempt to recapture ad revenue from Google. (Full disclosure: The author of this story writes a blog hosted at tech.yahoo.com.)
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For the past 30 years, newspaper industry analyst John Morton and his influential newsletter have been something of an oracle for the world of newsprint – covering where the industry is and where it’s headed. Now, having decided to end the newsletter’s long run, he has ominous words—mixed with a few suggestions—about the future.
“I’m usually a glass half-empty kind of guy,” Morton said in a phone interview with PEJ. “I think the newspaper industry will have a tough next decade – tougher than the previous 10 years. If newspapers keep cutting staff and their news hole, I’m pessimistic.”
“But if they decide they still gather something important to people, something valuable that people want,” he added, “I’m more optimistic.”
On March 20 Morton and economist Miles Groves, the other half of the Morton-Groves Newspaper Newsletter, announced they would cease publishing their monthly analysis that has long-been a must-read for owners, publishers and investors. Morton says a combination of factors, but particularly a diminishing subscribers base, led him to that decision.
“What we were getting out of it simply wasn’t worth what we were putting into it,” he said, with a chuckle. “We decided the hell with it.”
That doesn’t mean Morton will be abandoning any of his deeply-held views about newspaper publishing. He sees two key missions for the nation’s dailies in the next few years. They need to invest in news gathering to make themselves more vital resources in their communities. And they need to convert more of their operations online as quickly as possible in order to reduce the burdensome costs of newsprint, printing, and delivery.
Morton also offered some context for the economic woes afflicting a business that has witnessed the breakup of some of its major publicly owned chains.
“This is still a profitable industry,” he told PEJ. “Publicly reporting companies last year showed profit margins of almost 18%. There are some industries that can only dream of delivering a profit margin like that.”
Analyzing the health of the newspaper industry has been John Morton’s line of work since 1971. But he’s been involved in the journalism business since 1960, when he began as a general assignment reporter for the Binghamton Press in New York State.
After stints at other papers and a brief foray on the broadcast side, he fell into newspaper industry analysis by happenstance. Morton, who had been working at Washington public television station WETA on its local “Newsroom” program, found himself in need of a job when the station ended the show’s run.
He got a call and a proposition from Lee Dirks, who had become one of the nation’s first newspaper stock analysts in the late-1960s as newspaper companies began trading publicly.
“Lee told me all these companies are going public and no one knows anything about them. Let’s cover them and offer analysis and charge them. I figured I try it for a few months,” Morton said.
“It wasn’t just a strong industry – it’s still a strong industry today – it was a growing industry. One of Gannett’s phrases back then was ‘never a down quarter.’”
Morton stayed on Wall Street for more than 20 years working as a registered representative of several big firms before finally leaving in the mid-90’s to continue his work as an independent analyst – removing the official affiliation his company had with any big brokerage house.
Morton said the stock market’s attitude toward newspapers has changed dramatically since he began his career—and in fact, helped drive him away.
Business software manufacturer Oracle has declared it will pay its first dividend to shareholders after its results beat analysts’ forecasts.
It said its quarterly net income fell 1% from a year earlier to $1.3bn (£0.9bn). Software revenues rose 5%.
Oracle said its profits would have grown 11% if the US dollar had not strengthened so much.
A strong dollar means that the company’s deals overseas are not worth as much.
Oracle said it would pay a dividend of 5 US cents per share, or 20 cents annually, its first such payment to shareholders since the company went public in March 1986.
“This is a tremendous achievement in the face of the serious slowdown in the world economy,” said Oracle boss Larry Ellison.
Shares in Oracle rose 7% in after-hours trading on the news.
Many companies have been cutting or scrapping their dividends to conserve cash to weather the economic downturn.
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