Open letter

Microsoft is a company that has built its momentum by empowerment. According to the company’s CEO what is different about Microsoft is that they make things that help other people make things. They are well poised to ignite a new revolution in which digital technologies democratize access to people across economic strata, organizations of all sizes, entrepreneurs, researches and students everywhere. To successfully deliver that promise of empowerment, Microsoft focuses on the reinvention of productivity

Financially, it is more beneficial for districts to purchase tablets and online textbooks compared to traditional textbooks. In order to use school budgets most efficiently, it is vital that funds are directed towards the most resourceful items for the students. As the state funding for public schools decreases, this becomes a more prominent concern. Tablets provide a simple fix to the need of a modern, cost saving solution. According to one resource, the average textbook costs $70 each, verse

”Books will soon be obsolete in the schools...Scholars will soon be instructed through the eye. It is possible to touch every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture” (Thomas Edison). An idea that was destined for failure has now been made into the key source to get students and teachers more interacted while in a classroom setting. Tablets such as the iPad and the Microsoft surface have made this idea possible, showing students that there is another alternative to the traditional method

Helping Consumers It is safe to assume that the use of open data would effectively boost the strength of businesses. (Manyika, Chui, Farrell, Van Kuiken, Groves, & Almasi Doshi, 2013) And while this is true, the McKinsey Global Institute makes the bold claim that open data “benefits consumers even more than businesses.” (Manyika, Chui, Farrell, Van Kuiken, Groves, & Almasi Doshi, 2013) They go on to discuss the reasoning behind this, and it makes a lot of sense. While the data provided can be used

Textbooks are getting more expensive as the years go by, publishers add extra materials to raise prices, and new editions are published frequently, often with little to no real content change. These problems are even worse today, as the cost of books keeps rising to the point where some students will decline to take a class due to the cost of the material. A 2004 study by the California Student Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG) along with the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group

It all started with the development of a graphical software program that gave rise to the notion of "surfing" (Netscape 's). Netscape Communications can trace its roots to a group of science students working at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who turned a simply software program called 'Mosaic ', into a platform that enabled non-technical computer users to access and retrieve information that was becoming more and more available on the worldwide web. Founded in 1994, Netscape Communications

“The Open Boat” The relationship between man and nature Many stories talk about the idea of fate, the idea that no matter how much a person tries to survive, nature ultimately chooses the person’s path of life. The short story, “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane illustrates the relationship between nature and man and how nature’s indifference towards man’s effort for survival. In this account, the narrator, Stephen Crane explains to the readers that no matter how hard one tries to fight nature in

adventure stories and stories of survival. It is when the main character(s) of a story are in conflict with an animal or a force of nature. In Stephen Crane’s short story, “The Open Boat,” the man vs nature conflict is present throughout the entire course of the story. The end of the story presented a controversial topic left open for discussion; who was the victor of the conflict, man or nature? A normal read though of the story would leave one with the impression that man was the winner of the conflict

We, Humans are amazing creatures with outstanding ability to dream. Bringing life into that dream is an art which requires a unique tool. For me, the tool for adding life to my imaginations is Software Skills. It is the most comfortable medium I could find in the course of my life to portray my imaginations to the canvas of reality. I always felt that the Software skill is the magic wand from fairy tales that could create wonders from imagination. I am, an undergraduate in Computer Science

What is the meaning of life? This probing question is often debated by human beings, and people from all recesses of the world will answer this question differently. However, not a single individual has presented an answer to this question that the world universally accepts. Different factions of people adhere to different answers. Often times, individuals will follow religions or philosophies because its beliefs provide answers to the question. More recently, in the middle Nineteenth Century to