M.U.L.E., for all its descendants in the simulation genre, chief among them Civilization. Not that M.U.L.E. was the very very first, since Burten had written an economic simulation game prior to that, but it certainly popularized the genre.

Ultima III also comes to mind, for CRPGs. Best I'm aware, it was the first with a modern, graphical interface.

Hasn't Samsung learned its lesson when it copied Apple and got fined a billion dollars for doing so?

Apple has been clear from the start on this: "Don't like the App store's policies? Make an html5 app!" In fact, it was the only way to build apps for the original iPhone -- with Apple's blessing, at that. (And it still is how unwelcome vendors, e.g. porn operators, build iOS apps.)

Excuse me for asking, but... How is "products that pass certain internal milestones" (aka Steve Job's early scrutiny) in any way related or comparable to "9 products out of 10, even if a product was about to ship"?

May I ask how many of those cards you actually use in practice? Think hard: how often have you built a deck that used that white 1/1 banding creature card (I forgot its name...)? It's not limited to uninteresting common cards, either. When I looked into selling my shoebox full of cards, I got told that players seldom fielded Serra Angels or Thunder Spirits anymore because there were better white creatures -- whereas back when I played, you'd find a few of either or both in nearly every white deck.

Back when I played, there were (give or take) a half dozen cards per extension that players (bar beginners) cared to use in practice. You'd be looking into perhaps two or three hundred cards when building your decks. Even less (though admittedly from a slightly different set) when building a highly themed deck -- those were the only reason you'd keep cards like Goblin Bombs in your shoebox. With a few hundred cards, you've more than enough to build a deck around pretty much every theme you want.

Go dancing, really... As a bonus, you'll socialize and get to hang out with cute chicks, for potentially more interesting physical activity.

And walk there, if possible.

And if email was away as well, we could probably solve our economic crisis.

Keep China's high population, the latter's geographical repartition (mostly to the east), its economy's high growth rates by western standards, and the fact that it's a developing country (still under-equipped) all in mind. Not to mention its government's authoritarianism. In that light, 40 million connected households in two years is not unrealistic imho.

Nah, the brainfuck version is a mere google away: :-)

Given enough time, a monkey banging at random on a keyboard will produce the complete works of Shakespeare. Does that mean that writing is not out of reach of the average monkey?

They're called rare earth metals not so much because they're rare, since they're a bit all over the place, but because they're not concentrated enough to mine efficiently. This makes it highly polluting to extract them.

The US a couple more countries used to extract them, until China came along with no pollution standards, and priced everyone out of the market. Trouble is, you can't "just restart" such a mine. It's a decade long process to do so -- and it's in progress insofar as I've been following, because China decided to keep these strategic minerals for itself so as to keep high tech manufacturing at home.

Gl stands for Glycemic load. Barium is a rare earth metal. No idea how the test works exactly.

Mining rare earth metals is very polluting. In the past two decades or so, most countries stopped producing rare earth metals, because China was producing enough and at a lower cost than they did. (It helped to have no pollution standards.) recently, China decided to keep its rare earth metals for itself to keep electronics manufacturing at home, and sharply cut exports. At the same time, its local population is increasingly vocal about pollution.

And agreed... TFS sucks and the question it concludes on is absolutely ludicrous.

There's a part he gets slightly wrong, though, if he's hounding pussy. In that case, it's much more ideal to immediately offer to have a coffee in a public place, so as to get to know each other. A surprising number of chicks will accept -- likely more, in fact, than after a lengthy conversation.

Consider the number of young readers who live at their parent's place. Or the number of more seasoned readers who might be divorced, or still single, and aren't going as much as they should.

You forgot a few:

- php sucks: 47 million.
- ruby sucks: 6.3 million
- python sucks: 3.7 million
- JavaScript sucks: 26.5 million

And even though they're not Turing complete:

- HTML sucks: 76.2 million
- CSS sucks: 4.3 million