So, if market domination is based on creating a product with more convenience to the consumer, the e-book just does not have what it takes to supplant the printed book.

For me, at least, going on vacation with an e-reader loaded with a few hundred books is more convenient than carrying a trunk full of them. YMMV

Go on, conspirators! Give me your best shot!

Bang!
You asked for it...

Most people go into police work because they get a kick from the artificial power and authority and because they don't have any real power or authority.

Followed by this signature:

I like your black & white world; mine has too many shades of gray.

Is very rich irony. But okay, I'll play too:

Most people who hate cops do so because they are immoral people who frequently break the law knowingly, and resent the fact that police make them nervous.

See? I can generalize like an asshole too!

Curiously fitting that I'm just back from one leg of a tour of a modern dance piece using Ableton, MaxMSP, Arduino, Python and Lasers.

Pix: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cassiel-com/sets/72157622557842760/

The physics engine (Newton) is also missing since it's non-free software. One of the devs says that implementing bullet shouldn't be too hard, though.

If the government funded NASA like they fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we would be just outside of Alpha Centauri by now. We bail out the asshole banksters, incompetent automakers, coke driven wall streeters and yet, we nickel and dime the nations only foothold on the high frontier.
There is no long term national initiative. If you want to go into space, learn Chinese and hope your genetic makeup is acceptable; or you could pay millions of dollars/ Euros/ pounds of gold and fly Russian. There is money to be made in space and IF you can't see that, XIE XIE and Dos Svydanya.

I was myself the "victim" of a similar case, that is a magazine that says you can't copy their articles without at least attribution, then fully copied one of mine... without attribution, of course. When I said "you should replace the full text with an abstract and link to source" they simply removed the whole page :-|

i figure they tow the car the same way they tow many types of automatic vehicles. lift the engine connected wheels of the ground, and let the non-powered wheels spin. however, you do make a good point, that a mechanical disconnect from the motor is still needed, at least for potential maintenance and service reasons.

You can declare an integer and the compiler will enforce the type.

Integers are not Objective-C objects. You have to manipulate them at the C level, which is statically typed. If you use a first-class Objective-C object, like NSNumber, the compiler most certainly does not enforce the type.

Most windows GUI apps are written in statically typed languages like, C++, C#, Java etc.

As I mentioned, one of the most popular toolkits for writing Windows GUIs is Qt, which uses dynamically typed C++. If you choose a statically typed language to build your GUI it is not impossible to do, but you are probably using the wrong tool for the job.

the torque of the motor on the control shaft is of no consequence. watch it again. all it has to do is turn the gear, which effects the way the other gears turn against each-other, it is not like you put two motors torquing against each-other. watch it again.

He links to a Flash Software Evangelist's website as "proof", claims Apple is "just as bad" as Flash in terms of security and performance, says anybody working with HTML5 is "foolish at best"... He is a flash loving Apple hating blogger that doesn't say anything new and uses (imo worse) similar "misleading" and "bad form" tactics that he derides in Jobs.
I think the best part though was right in the middle, where I stopped reading. He showed very clearly that he is completely missing the core of what Jobs is trying to do. Jobs is trying to ensure that the end users of the iPad/iPhone/iPod have the best experience possible. Yes, that makes the lives of developers a little more difficult at the start because they have to change a bit. He even agrees with jobs that Adobe's goal is not the same as Apple's:

But that is NOT what the USERS want.

No, Steve is trying to justify a million dollar home. See, the fridge is shiny and cold, foundation solid, rooms large, and its energy efficient. To make sure it is all of the things he thinks the buyer wants, he doesn't let the builders use asbestos. Cancer doesn't sell houses. Crashing, unblockable popups, and buggy interfaces don't sell iPads.