One button for 3 seconds. Details, details.

Shrug. I was put in charge of a project with 4 million lines of source my second year out of school. You carefully analyze the code paths that you need to work on at any given point in time, you write good thorough tests, you make your changes, you re-run your tests, and fix any regressions. The killer isn't the number of lines of source, its the interdependency between different modules (and the Linux kernel really doesn't have the best reputation in that department, though I don't know how much of its bad rap is deserved).

Not at all. A large portion of the OS X user space has been open sourced by Apple as well. Windows, not so much.

... and tens of thousands of bug fixes and performance improvements, all of which have been released back to the community, even though (for the most part) Apple had no obligation to do so.

I read it.

Not only is it open source, but even the FSF considers the APSLv2 to be a free software license:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/apsl.html

There's no call for rudeness, even on slashdot.

It absolutely is open source. It's not copyleft, and it's incompatible with the GPL, but even the FSF considers it to be a free software license.

Patent licensing is an orthogonal issue, and Microsoft is certainly no better in that regard, either.

Most likely this:

http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-1063/

Far more open than windows.

Awesome! Where do I go to download the Windows 7 kernel source?

Yes, though typically in some form of RSU rather than straight cash bonus.

Your point about average salary in Taiwan is spot on, though.

Ha! Mod parent informative.

Pi is interesting in that regard -- there are algorithms that can compute the Nth digit without needing to compute the intermediate digits. If you want to compute all digits from 0 to N, however, there are more efficient algorithms.

You're giving E.T. Bell's "Men of Mathematics" (almost undoubtedly your source) entirely too much credit. While a fun read, it is not a serious work of historical scholarship; rather it is targeted at a popular audience. Bell's sources on the subject of Cantor are mainly Cantor's own letters; with regard to Kronecker's alleged attacks on Cantor, much of those those letters are directly contradicted by published transcripts of Kronecker's lectures.

Certainly it is true that some of "the smart people" may have not understood Cantor's theory of transfinite numbers; Kronecker, however, surely did, and Poincare did as well. What they objected to was the use of "number" -- a term which at the time had a radically different precise mathematical meaning than it does today -- to describe such constructions.

O RLY? Where can I get me one of them?

That aside, this is a pretty decent description of what GCD is good for.

Puma was OS X 10.1.

Not really, no.