Re:Rag
by UbuntuDupe (970646)

nobody reads Business 2.0 anyway.

I wish. I wish people didn't read Time, either (the publisher), but they do. Time's writing style is the dumbed down, try-to-be-hip crap I wouldn't have gotten away with in sixth grade. Seriously. Like I said before [slashdot.org], to understand why its writing is like fingernails on a blackboard for me, consider how the same information would be conveyed by two sources:

8-year-old: "6 divided by 3 is 2."

Time magazine: "Okay, imagine you've got a half-dozen widgets, churned out of the ol' Widget Factory on Fifth and Main. Now, say you've gotta divvy 'em up into little chunklets -- a doable three, let's say -- and each chunklet has the same number that math professor Gregory Beckens at Overinflated Ego University calls a 'quotient'. The so-called 'quotient' in this case? Dos."

Based on how that post got modded, I'm not alone in this.