Yes, the packaging sucked! The tabbed hinges on the case cover are fragile and break when dropped from any height. The only thing holding the product together was the shrink wrap, which was impenetrable. But the music industry cartel was so powerful, the packaging experience persisted unchanged for a quarter of a century! And then the industry died.

Elop wants developers to focus on Microsoft technologies.

The full board of Nokia Oy appointed Elop.

Got it?

> But now they got cash now.

$1B is not much cash considering Nokia employs 130,000 Finnish human beings. Do you know how much the payroll is per year for 130,000 Finnish human beings?

Rupert Murdoch doesn't own the New York Times. He owns the New York Post.

I heard they have fantastic statues by old masters of girls with fingers in each other.

It makes sense. Before TV and the printing press, the only way to create pornography was through artisans.

Robber baron's don't get guilt. Their "charity" is a sneaky form of hubris.

Theo Jansen does this with terrestrial animoids.

The brochure says "This bionic technology-bearer, which is inspired by the herring gull, can start, fly and land autonomously – with no additional drive mechanism".

That's one Touring test for birds.

Another would be for it to get married.

This bird is magnificent. The animation and the film on the web site show an elegant mechanism, beautifully implemented.

It looks as though it is behaving as a bird behaves. It looks like it is thinking like a bird. Push the wings. Look around. Choose a direction. Push the wings.

I'd love to see a pelican version, gliding in 20 knots by the beach.

Nokia's former CEO, a lawyer, failed to notice the product groups were in such disarray. How cool must his job have been? He got to fly around the world in his suit spending money, while his product guys are achieving nothing for years, and he didn't even notice!

Retroviruses can be endogenous or exogenous. But they aren't inherited if acquired exogenously unless acquired by a germ cell i.e. for e.g. an exogenous retrovirus that causes breast cancer won't be inherited.

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Of course not. That would be Lamarkism, like believing that if we cut off the cats tail, its future kittens will have no tail. That queery aside, what evidence is there for this conclusion about the complexity of combat?:

Even if their hypothesis is correct, that cancer involves the malfunctioning of a set of evolutionarily conserved genomic structures and processes, what evidence is there for concluding that combating cancer is not as going to be as complex as [something else we don't understand fully yet either]?

Who's to say that the unknown processes that cause genome modifications which sometimes result in cancer are not still evolving?

I would like to be able to disable the home button so the child with learning difficulties doesn't accidentally keep pressing it while I'm trying to get him to concentrate on the game unsupervised.

Apart from the fatal home button flaw (in this context), the iPad is a marvelous opportunity for teaching and rehabilitation.

Why not aim to learn both iOS and Android? You'll please more people and incur the wrath of less. If you pick just one, you have to deal with the tens of percents that can't run your apps, which is difficult.

Yes, it will take more time and effort to learn to environments, but not much more. Most of your time will be spent designing and testing the apps, not implementing code.