When I see names of this kind I know that the project is now dead.

You mean like how it [didn't] die when transitioning from "StarOffice" to "OpenOffice.org"?

In the thread he says his parents paid $40k (canadian I'd guess) and pay for the insurance, and he paid the rest.

Wouldn't it make more sense to just buy a piece of land near the sea and simply pump the ocean water around for cooling?

Not when the sea you want to be near is the San Francisco Bay, where real estate prices are insane.

Are you sure this guy agreed to and is bound by a licensing agreement? Do you have to enter into an agreement with apple to use one of their display models?

I'm going to use some of this superconductor in my perpetual motion machine that feeds the cold fusion reactor I'm planning.

Except, in this case, the newer version is also not any easier to use, and the old version isn't going to be dropped.

Because they backtraced it. And they called the cyber police.

You obviously aren't paid by the hour to write java code, or else you'd have come up with something like:

ThreadFactory.getInstance().setExecutionTarget(new Runnable(){ public void run (doWhatIWant() }).addExecutionObserver(ExcecutionItemObserverFactory.getInstance()).start()

Which is much more "enterprise ready" than yours.

Beer still takes a lot of work and equipment... Weed is virtually the only drug that requires no infrastructure

You can make beer by putting sugary water and yeast into a bucket. You'll certainly end up with a substandard product. The same goes for growing weed. You can put a seed in soil and it will probably grow. If you want better and or quicker results, you can invest a lot of effort and equipment.

They already have a school dedicated to such studies.

They're seriously comparing phones that lose signal with a standard grip to phones where hold the phone with both hands deliberately trying to cover the antenna and pretend the result is somehow meaningful?

Did you watch the video? They were also testing jelly doughnuts and papper bunnies. So I think that the seriousness might be up for debate.

And if we were still using the old version number format, and devfs had been removed in 2.7.13 or 2.8.0 rather than 2.6.13, you still would not be able to upgrade to that version or later until you'd removed your requirement for devfs.

Yes, but if the new features were going into 2.7.x instead of 2.6.x, you'd not need to worry as much about upgrading to 2.6.latest in order to get the latest bugfixes, as Hatta was asking about above.