What happens if you put Bill Gates & Steve Jobs in a conference !!!!

I actually missed seeing this conference (due to my memorial day weekend plans) and was happy to find the entire conference and its transcript and its video on wall street journal.



Here is the entire video of the chat,


The video starts with a video from the past (bill gates is so young) and then has several parts of the new D5 conference.
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Following is a transcript of the interview Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg conducted with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the D5 conference on May 30, 2007,
The transcript of this entire show is provided on,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118063909956120356.html

$800,000 to repair a pothole on I-95 in Hampton

All the tax payer bills are going down the drain. I could not believe my ears when i heard this in today's news. The state had nearly approved an estimate of $800,000 to fix a pot hole near a manhole near interstate 95 along hampton (when you drive to the hampton beach right in front of the liquor shop across the NH-MA border).

Here is the breakdown of the estimate,

$16,000 to pay to the state trooper for eight days,
$97,000 for inflation (what ?????),
$71,000 for consultant fees (I thought only lawyers, doctors, state troopers got paid well)
and several other line items which add up to $800,000

Here is the news from WMUR channel, (if you dont believe me still).
http://www.wmur.com/news/13368898/detail.html

When the person who prepared this was questioned here was his reply, "It is just an estimate actual figures can change and be lower too" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (They showed him on TV)

No it was not a typo in the estimate. lol

If there are several pot holes like this many countries would even go bankrupt.

Huge merger proposal: US Airways with Delta

I was working out at the gym and was surprised to see all the channels air this news. It is a very big happening in the airline industry.

http://www.usairways.com/awa/content/operations/merger/general/pressrelease.aspx

I still remember prof posner's words, it is very easy to see how south west performs, how wallmart succeeds and makes profit, but the secret to the success is so clear but another company cannot blindly follow the secret to achieve success.

It has to run in the culture of the organization.