Plenty of jobs for all those united technologies layoffs.

If U don't expect to be employed in the future, you need to make your own work. In 1980, 1991, & 2001, we expected future jobs. Not any more. There's still programming, but it's more focused on making money.

So when it starts reproducing itself, how long will it take to stop it?

U voted for the governer & state congress, so U get what U vote for. The people want more taxes.

It's only a matter of time before The Goog aggregates all pictures of the sky in realtime to find killer asteroids & make weather forecasts.

and buy treasury notes to fund ballard power

Is it fully compliant with the Android spec? How do you get a product certified to show the Android logo?

Guess you better have enough pieces of flare if you want to keep your anti matter rocket engine project alive.

It'll never happen, but there will be tax credits for large banks that use open source.

If rabbit ears ever come back, don't be surprised if it's delayed forever. Any plan which allows individuals to bypass cable providers is a conflict with the broadband tax credit, which explicitely requires you to pay a subscription plan for 5 megabit internet access to a major corporation, mainly Time Warner & Comcast.

Why give money to Time Warner if you're just going to let individuals suck it away with rabbit ear TV?

Check out diydrones.com. He sells a super cheap circuit board that interoperates with stuff most of his customers already have. What's another $30 when you've already invested $300? He gives away the source code & plans, but puts a ton of effort in publicity doing odd projects like the blimp autopilot, posting frequent firmware updates, & growing a social network around the product.

Effects aren't caused by free will. People don't have broadband because their leaders don't provide it, not because of free will. When are you humans going to learn your place?

Don't forget the iPhone influence. Those "apps" have to be written in objective C & people wrote zillions of those. Even Android buyers are bypassing the Java frameworks & just running native programs on their phones. This is still mostly a grassroots effect. Corporate investment is still focused on using the Android frameworks & standards based programming.

For C to die is like saying algebraic notation is going to die. Suspect if it wasn't for the need to eat, we would all program C & figure out ways to get the same features of our day job languages in C.

Startups need to compete with t-bills for money. Expect most of the technology money to go into t-bills to fund government economic plans. The economic plans are so far focused on housing & social services.