Well hell, why stop there? You can learn all about how to handle medical emergencies from WMD. If you're really nice, I'll even tell you how to open the debug console and set your score to 100.

The FSF doesn't need to change their message to "using Free Software is better for you than using proprietary" because that's been taken over by the OSI. I think the most admirable thing about the FSF is that they haven't changed their message at all despite many naysayers and have had great positive impact. They will probably always be a fringe group in some ways, but we need people willing to buck the system and challenge groupthink.

Although I don't agree with the FSF's most extreme views such as that developing proprietary software is inherently immoral, I do agree that society at large is better served by Free Software than proprietary. I think that's an inherently more durable position than the OSI's position that using Open Source is a business advantage, though I think the latter is also usually true.

How can you list nothing but Android-related points and then conclude that it's far friendlier? Just a wee bit biased, are we?

For the iPhone, you can develop in assembly if you want to. You can certainly use C or C++. You aren't tied to the horrible monstrosity that is Java.

There are only two downsides I know of to iPhone developement, in comparison to Android. One, it costs more money to get software onto a physical device, and two, you have a small chance of having your app rejected for sale on the App Store.

Then again, I have exactly one app for sale, with a niche target audience, and I still have managed to make more money than I've spent. I do have to admit that I already owned the Macbook I do development on, as well as the iPod Touch I wrote it for.

But in terms of friendliness, I don't see how Apple could be better. You get a free IDE, awesome documentation, an incredible set of frameworks (APIs) and a really great language. There is sample code for just about every topic and each revision of the OS adds more toys and more access to the physical device.

I know quite a few people who were 6 feet tall and pretty much done growing when they turned 14 or 15.

I guess it would also make some people cry, as they watched themselves balloon up to fatness.

ugh !!

i won't blame novell, i won't blame sco, i blame bell labs !

why don't they just open-source that thing in the beginning???

Well, hang on there.

How many crimes were committed per thousand cameras?

Surely some cameras failed to spot or solve crimes because no crimes occurred within their view.

Not to mention the fact that SCO might not survive long enough to persue the case against Novell. They're in Chapter 11 already and McBride & co have been kicked out in favor of a bankruptcy trustee who is likely to move SCO into Chapter 7. There it will be taken apart and the pieces sold off. Even if SCO avoided Chapter 7, the $3 million SCO payment to Novell was upheld. So SCO would have huge debts to pay off while fighting a legal battle against Novell. Even if they somehow survived that, IBM's Nazgul... I mean lawyers are waiting on the other side. The average Linux shop won't have anything to worry about from SCO for *years* even under SCO's best case scenario.

Wait, isn't the world supposed to end in 2012? I can see it now: SCO will win the trial and the resulting warping of reality will cause pigs to fly, hell to freeze over, Linus to switch to Windows, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

Oh gawd, no. Please. No. Make it stop. No, really. Make this damn circus stop. How have they manage to continue this charade for this long and why are people enabling them to continue? Gawd almighty, make it stop. Please. I beg of you...

Read groklaw people ful decision was not over turned..Dan McBride is somewhat wrong and liar to boot

Then if you plan on reselling the game, don't attach it to a battle.net account that you use for other Blizzard games you're not selling. Set up an account with only SC2 on it. Hell, when you sell it, you probably won't even have to send them the media, as they could probably download it from Blizzard themselves, like you can with WoW.

They are also missing the option for "Don't play blizzard games".

That would be incorrect. While it does display the token code all the time, the user needs to remember his PIN. Reading the code off of the keychain wouldn't do you any good.* *: depends on a proper SecurID setup.

Exactly how does appearing on Good Morning America constitute STFU?

I see your point, but at the moment they're equally tied to AT&T. This would make them truly carrier agnostic as well as being able to make a phone that uses a better service.

Phil Schiller was pretty irked at AT&T at the keynote this year.

I'm sure they'd love a way to stick it to them.