What about it? The next gen one has already been much talked about (Roslyn) and you can already get access to it.

Mono is actually very incomplete, and I'm not talking about the major components that people usually bring up like WinForms - its missing a lot of the lesser used method overloads in various places, so if your code uses one then you are SOL. You are encouraged to treat it as a bug and submit a report, but its still an issue when you have deadlines approaching.

They are integrating major parts of the development process into other, existing editors rather than porting VS (which would be a huuuuuuuge job) - for example, serious effort is being put into adding debugging and intellisense into SubLime Edit for .Net stuff.

I first read it in my teens when it first came out and was being raved about on here et al, and then I read it again a few years back as I thought my understanding of it might have changed, but it hadn't.

Why do people rate Cryptonomicon as worthy of being filmed? I've read it on two occasions and both times I've felt it to be preachy, naive and rambling - there are much better books out there begging to be made into films or tv series.

Isn't the publicly traded aspect of Google actually less than 50% of issued shareholdings? So it doesn't matter what the stockholders think, they still can't control the direction of the business because they are still a minority holding...

Plenty of packaged goods have "average contents X" written on them...

It depends on where you come from - its natural here in the UK to use "are" for the collection, eg "Microsoft are..." rather than "Microsoft is..."

We dont even use pens, we use pencils here in the UK - big, thick, chunky pencils.

GPS isn't a substitute for actually thinking about stuff as you do it.

Or the shooting down of airliners by Americans...

Or the Ukrainians - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

SS2 is a craft designed to carry passengers, paying passengers - that puts it under the purview of the NTSB front and centre.

When Americas Cup boats start carrying passengers rather than crew, then they fall under the same purview.

Because the NTSB is involved, there will be less scope for a company initiated cover up, findings being withheld and important information not being passed to everyone in the industry.

Look at the de Havilland Comet pressurisation issues in the early 1950s - no one knew what was going on, it took a full test with a new fuselage immersed in water and then run through hundreds of pressurisation cycles to determine that metal fatigue was to blame. The findings from that investigation was made available to everyone in the aviation industry in the 1950s, not just to the internal de Havilland design team, so Boeing, Douglas, Hawker, Lockheed et al didn't have to go through their own investigations of their own crashes to come to the same conclusions.

It also opened up a whole new area of science in metals.

Open investigations make sense, because they produce open results, which benefits you and I as the people who may one day travel on a craft which might have potentially been susceptible to the same issues.

Similar things was a big problem with a lot of aircraft the same age as the A300 design - Boeing 737s from that period had issues with rudder reversals for instance.

That's an opinion, not a fact that can be "missed". And its your opinion - don't assume anyone else holds the same opinion.

There already exists a means by which the complete rights to a work can be bought, eliminating re-occurring sales in the process - but typically that puts the work well outside the purchase ability of a normal person.