Thanks, that will help. :-)

Even though I want to support Google in this case, we cannot be sure - unless we go through their whole set of comments.
Note that android code was not written by Google - it was by Android Inc - and so we cannot just discount it by saying why would google need to do that.
This will be a fun fight to watch though.

Indeed - especially considering the fact that one of the major class of solutions based on simulated annealing is actually a heuristics based solution. It really doesnt matter how you solve it at all - any way is welcome - as long as it reaches close to the optimal solution.

For a guy who lost both the arms, I think this motto is fine. This is a big deformity - and there will be a lot of bitterness in the soul against God and even to his fellow people. I do see some people overcoming that bitterness, but most people do not.

Think about it - being dependent on others for the whole life, everybody else showing pity on you - it is enough to make any one bitter - I know for sure that I would be. Especially a person who knows the joy of being independent till 18 - it will be especially hard for him.

Given the circumstances, I have no problem with that motto at all.

I was thinking that Windows Mobile 7 would be a big hit in the enterprise market.
Windows Mobile 7 will be a big danger not to Apple, rather to Blackberry.
They can go for the best Office/Documents/Outlook integration possible - and who would not love it?
I have not seen many phones which can properly format a moderately complex .docx file as of now - this is where Windows Mobile 7 can enter the market and capture it.

It need not be even their decision (eventhough here it is) - you create a product which is useful for the military, and say you try to patent it - for selling it - as per the official secrets act, the govt can take this idea/product and use it - and ask the implementor not to mention to anyone. From then on the guy cannot even publish it.
The govt does not give out proper compensation too. So it is not always voluntary.

Here is the algorithm
unlock_code = random.random()

Pretty difficult to break - eh!

I am not sure whether /. users appreciate the whole situation in India.
Terrorists using blackberry is an actual problem here. Also, the threat of terrorists here is a real one - unlike in most other countries - with many countries actually pouring money in to push terrorism to India.

Before the current home minister came in with somewhat tight security and controls, we used to have a lot of terrorist attacks in India. The current homeminister radically decreased the number of incidents by overall increasing the security - while not too much impinging on the privacy till now.

Most of the security was through surveillance, which was being hamstrung by the enemy using blackberry for communication. So by creating this hullaballoo and then RIM publicly accepting it, terrorist will stop using blackberry for communication, thus increasing the effectiveness of surveillance.

I do accept the view point of - those who gives up privacy for security deserves neither.
But terrorism is such a big actual problem here - with more than 800 sleeper cells currently, people are going to accept this - otherwise there is going to be daily bombings and deaths.

This is amongst the coolest things that I have seen in a long time. Unbelievably cool and useful. Microsoft, I bow to you - the table seems to be the future of computing - if not amongst the masses - atleast amongst planners and decision makers.
Although it makes me sad about my existence as a person though - doing a 9x5 job which is neither cool, nor very useful for humanity as a whole.

It indeed might be the reason that this got picked.
See - with this copy-pasted summary - there is much less chance of it being wrong - and thereby lesser chance of ridicule.
Any issues in the summary/article - the buck can be passed to the article in question - again the editor escapes censure.
This way, the editor does not need to think too much about the article, rather a non-thinking way of copy-paste can produce the maximum results with minimum effort and minimum pay for the editors.
A more cynical view could be that with a perfect summary, people reading the article will be lesser - thereby decreasing the ad revenue for the articles - even though I do not fully subscribe to it - as per Hanlon's razor

I read your summary - it is a perfect summary - it summarizes the main points of the article properly and in an ideal world - all summaries should be written that way.
But, the fact it was not picked seems shows the sad state of affairs in /. where quality is given scant recognition.

3M is another one.

With your other eye, of course...

The point might be that - your behaviour at 40 is the same as your behaviour at 5. The in between stages are not considered - since people do change a lot through the years. But in the end, you mostly reach your behaviour back at 5.

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