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Astounding indeed. But, sorry to say, I personally also find them scary, considering the recession/crisis period we're in...

"You need to log in to read this article"... :(

You are giving them a cut partly because your application will contain parts of their source code. I think it's not a good/exact comparison.

I think the ownership is about the output format, not the contents itself, so it could be better compared to InstallShield, for example. It is used to package and easily distribute/install your Windows programs.

If it was free but they'd requested similar conditions to those in the iBooks EULA (that you can only distribute it in their own channels, that they might reject your program if they don't like it, etc.), would you still consider them for distribution?

I was wondering if it takes the "No, this place is ..." clicks into account at some point? That would be a way to refine the database without much effort.

Uhm, for some reason it didn't even cross my mind such possibility. Instantly thought it was someone quitting GMaps for some other tool, and that's what it was.

Afterwards I did ponder why it was showing google.com domain, and yes, I can understand it can be misleading.

Interesting. I always thought I'm quite the child (although I can act mature when needed). I never thought of it as a permanent thing, though.

And I don't live in the past and I think partly is because of this childish point of view to life I have. I would think older types tend to look back more?

Funny. However, it's a sad reality that a lot of people lie on their interviews. HR processes sometimes fail to catch these and well... Here we have it.

13.72km/s - 49392km/h

Source: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php (scroll to the bottom for Earth approaching objects)

7/9... I thought I'd score worse, since they say women have trouble with spatial problems.

A pity the test didn't say which ones I failed, though.

Thanks a lot! :)

Hello, could I please have kitten.ww.com to www.kittenlabs.com? Or arien.ww.com if the previous one is taken?

Thank you for the service by the way, much appreciated :)

It's just much easier to have someone specific to blame than just concepts (like hunger, poverty, war, etc). Specifically when these concepts tend to be far away from developed countries. Much easier to feel a direct threat if your enemy has a name or a face and invades/attacks your space. And for that reason governments can get away with these agendas you mention :/

The Subversion re-education bit is great to understand the differences between Mercurial and SVN, thanks for the link :)

Furthermore, they have people programming. This is the biggest security hole and every company suffers/will suffer from it.

But sometimes you want the right kind of attention. People who look at your content, not the wrapping around it.

It's actually a pretty cute game, and addicting if you're into sim games. Micropayments for games are nothing new, though, and thankfully optional (although always tempting).

You can snap out of the addiction though, if you stop for a minute and count how many clicks are required every time you have to harvest - plow - plant a big sized field in a 20x20 (or more) farm. RSI, anyone?

RIP :(

They only donate if you upgrade from IE6 to IE8 (or so said the site). People who are still using IE6 probably don't even know what's Firefox or Chrome (I know plenty of people that fits in here).

I don't think it's about the marketshare, they are targetting their own users. It's probably more about getting rid of the dinosaur that is IE6 and moving forward (about time).

We might be rising into positions of power, but how many years did we spend without being able to vote or to even being allowed into universities, etc? In certain cultures or countries women have been always well considered, but in others it's not so clear.

Housewives being inferior? No way. Being a housewife requires a lot of skill, energy and certain sacrifices that most modern women (me included) don't want to make. Managing a house is like managing your own little company. Except you cover 90% of the job positions at once. And generally cannot fire your "employees". Housewives really deserve a lot of respect. And a honor spot in the entrepreneur comunity :)

Anyway, that's the issue, precisely. We have on one side, a lifetime job, where you will most likely have to depend on someone to provide enough money to run it properly. On the other side, you can be independent by getting a job you might change whenever you feel like. Wouldn't you prefer traveling, have different job experiences, etc. while you're still young? We women actually can now make this choice between committing early to family or wait some more years (I think sooner or later our genetic code will push us to want a family). It's more or less what the article says.

Personally, I believe that it has to do with the role of women in the current society, not exactly with the race. I don't live in America, but I think the trend is present in most western countries anyway. We're jumping from the "dependant housewive" to the "independent worker". I remember my mom used to say when I was a kid that I had to find a good husband. But now I have my own house and a good job... I don't need to marry a man to provide myself.

It sounds cruel, but I don't think people married in the past just because they loved each other so much. As said in the article, it was a necessity, but such thing is ceasing to exist, so the disposition of people for marriage is decreasing.

That's like, totally irrelevant to what the article is about. The author points out the fact that it's strange that the marriage rate was higher during slavery than in present times. It's just an observation, not a whine.

The article overall is very interesting (from a woman's point of view, at least) and IMO applies to most modern women nowadays, not just black women. But the title smells of linkbait.

RIP :(

Well, what makes you think a lava tube is safer? :P I think they'd have to be conditioned and sealed and that might be just as problematic.

But what I said before applies here, too. With enough focus and budget we can advance in pretty much any technology we want. The question is, the ones that can make it happen (investors, governments), do they really want to do it? Does it pay for them?

Well, if you put it like that it sure sounds awful. Why do you assume they will die?

I sincerely doubt they'd send anyone to their deaths nor that anyone would accept it, that would be absurd (tho accidents can happen). Consider the amount of effort, time and money such a trip would take. With the right focus, in 50 years we could have the technology to sustain life in space. However, the right focus probably means "if we have something to gain from it". I guess that's why he thinks of a "Big Brother in Space" program that would cover part of the costs. I see the idea has some logic, even if I don't agree completely with it.

On a side note, I always heard that Biodomes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_ecological_system) would be the answer to living on Mars or other planets in the initial phases. Not sure if I'd want to live in lava tubes.

The CEO username and password work for me. I've checked the obvious stuff and they have that covered, so it won't be an easy $10,000. But I'm sure no system is 100% infallible :)

>> If Microsoft adds a few features and they prove popular, how long precisely will it take Google to mirror or even leapfrog those features?

Is that a bad thing? I don't think so. Competition is the key to progression and innovation, which results in good things for us, the end users.

If you didn't read the book(s) yet, they are highly recommended.

Hehe, that same graphic is the reason why I find the touch phones annoying. Small keyboards, hard to press for people with long nails like me (I'm a girl, in case you're wondering :P). I prefer stylus.

That doesn't mean there aren't instances where precision isn't an issue and we can happily use a touch interface without problems. I would say it's more than a cute trick.

It adds the story to the list of your favorite Google Code apps, although as "Product" instead of "Project".

You should probably check on the usual suspects: what apps do you want to make, who are you making apps for, what kind of mobiles does your target market usually have AND (maybe more important) what influences their decisions on acquiring phones (trends, utility/job, available apps..). Studying what your future users do is the way to know what they want. And of course, watch the competition in each platform, how many there are and how well are they doing.

But do you really have to focus in one single platform? Making apps in different formats could be a good move.

And, I don't own any of these super cool phones of late, so I don't know if any "cross-platform" apps exist, but I think it would be awesome if I could play with my Nokia against someone who has a shiny HTC or an iPhone :)