Autopilot can always be over-ridden by the humans on-board. Otherwise what's the point of having a pilot?

I would think a few countries must be monitoring for heat signatures all over the world, just to detect ICBM launches. Couldn't those satellites be used to figure out where MH370 went? I think it's just USA playing dumb, and not being helpful just because they just can't be bothered over the lives of other countries' people. They could have tracked the fucking jet in realtime if they wanted to. Or maybe the US government was somehow involved in the disappearance. But that does not make much sense, from the perspective of a motive.

Is this some sort of a joke? Java has everything going for it except the execution speed. Show me one program written in Java that runs at acceptable speed on average hardware. Hell, Visual Studio compiled C# runs faster on a Raspberry Pi than Java.

The only language I have ever seen used in true embedded stuff is C. At max C++. Anything else is fringe, or not really embedded.

C# is probably the best documented language right now (apart from C/C++). Please pay a visit to MSDN.

you can set default workspace inside eclipse itself! No need for command line options and all.

If you actually use a kindle, you will realize that the 4 week claim is quite true. I do not know the fine print etc but I have been using one for several years and it still gives me a nice 3-4 weeks battery. I read about 2-3 hours daily.

Exactly this. Everyone needs to read up. Ant nests are no less self-conscious than you or I. There is no way to prove or disprove an internal experience of any intelligent entity. So the best thing to do is to focus on the displayed behavior and not try to second-guess the internal "thoughts" of an AI or an ant's nest, because that way lies madness.

lolwut?! I think you accidently inserted a 'not' in there.

Considering he sold out for $19B, there is not much left to be compromised.

How can something in the public domain NOT be open source? If the source is free to look at, it is open source.

But it did follow the same format Asimov's short stories usually took: Present the 3 laws as the pinnacle of perfection and show how broken they actually are. I loved it.

Finally! Someone who agrees with me!

yes it does. what's so confusing about it?

GNU is Not Unix Network Object Model Environment

I don't think Microsoft is half of what they used to be 10 years ago. They would try to fight it, but I guess Groupon wouldn't back down.