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Him and the rest of our society.

Edit: Not to seem too negative, but I have just run into this attitude in most people that aren't introverts. There are advantages and disadvantages to both sides of that coin, but I feel like the introvert side gets labeled as the bad one.

I don't necessarily want to start a flame war, but it is inaccurate to say "God said so in that holy book." People have added up the number of years that are mentioned in the Bible and claimed that the earth is only that old. A decent amount of Genesis can be looked at not as literal history, but a summary. This is done even by some very conservative scholars who believe that God is the creator and also believe that the earth really is as old as science says it is.

> Having access to that code allows me to tightly integrate it with Excel, so much so, that I can use Excel functions (built-in functions, VBA user-defined functions and 3rd party add-in functions) directly from SQLite’s SQL; and vice-versa, access SQL functionality via Excel "formula" calls.

This sounds really cool and is available here: http://blog.gobansaor.com/projects/xlite/

But the point isn't that String#titlecase can't do the right thing here. I assume there is an implementation of titlecase that will work with ß. But I can't think of an Array#sum that will work for [1, "two"].

Of course your :) might have meant you were being funny, then I just totally missed your point and explained something you already know.

I don't see this as new/news. When my sister was about 12 (1990ish) and had a lazy eye, the doctor gave her an eye patch and told her to play an hour of video games every other day. I assume this wasn't just his thoughts on treatment and that there were studies at that time that pointed him toward this treatment.

To be fair, the study talks about improved recognition of shades of gray rather than curing a lazy eye, but I still don't think that playing video games to improve eye function is a new thing.

The business model of "We are going to create X for Y", where X is a service like YouTube, never works. After viewing the intro video I saw that you can do things like create private communities and invite people to join, and I thought that this is the same way I share photos with the family on flickr. But wait, doesn't flickr also support video? And so does Facebook, and I am sure there are others.

Maybe I am just misunderstanding their business model, but I don't see the value of this service.

I think the interesting bit here is whether the technology in the Kindle is actually infringing on the audio rights. It is a legal question that is going to need to define if the software generated voice is the same thing as an audio recording and therefore requires the same rights to distribute. I would think not as an audio recording exists when outside of software, and I assume the Kindle does this on the fly. But I am not a lawyer and all that, so who knows how this will play out.

If you were not going to get paid would you drive your truck to market or milk your cows?

I believe that this form submits to a process on a server that could limit the number of characters that are allowed in the textarea.

This post reminded me of an JoS post here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/01/22.html

At the time I wanted to see where I could apply the 5 why's, but never got around to it.

I'm curious about the carb limitation - what is wrong with sugars?

I find the introduction of a hybrid polling/interrupt driven network interface really interesting. Mainly because we did the same work in 2003 on NetBSD for a wireless router that never made it to market. We were at the opposite end of the spectrum. Basically, we were running on a 100 MHz 486 and spent too much time on interrupts with all the network traffic. It's funny that it is the same situation for them on the latest systems out there (of course for some of the same, but some different reasons as well).