One of my favorite problems was from my Dynamics class:
Given a VTOL aircraft of weight W that is carrying G gallons of fuel (with weight of X kg/gallon), burning Z gallons per second from two engines that provide Y thrust each, and are angled A from the vertical. Where is the plane after 3 seconds? 7 Seconds?

Isn't that just word problems? I've always enjoyed them, but I knew most of my classmates dreaded them.

So where are the non-free apps that don't ask for permission to everything on the phone? I don't see them out there either.

Google needs to allow you to authorize specific permissions for apps, not their current 'all or nothing' system. This way you could say "Yes, you can have my position because I believe a GPS mapping system needs that, but no you can't have my address book, since a GPS system doesn't need that". Sure it would screw advertisers over, but I don't care about them. Not everything in the world needs to have advertising on it.

whoosh

Since I wear polarized lenses already, I only get to see 1/2 the movie. I should get a discount.

How are the thousands of defendants supposed to do anything when they don't know who they are yet? Who was the opposing lawyer? Was there even one at all?

No, you use Sharp Develop, MySql, Apache, Linux and Mono. None of which have license fees. Again, .NET has no licensing fee. If you choose to use products that do, that has *nothing* to do with having to license .NET.

He is completely unable to understand that it runs only on Windows and produces applications that only run on Windows. Both of which carry a license fee.

Mono.

Again, there is no fee to use .NET. You don't have to use Visual Studio, you don't have to use SQL Server. You don't have to use Windows. Look, no licensing fees at all.

As for "why .NET": because it's a tool that lets us get our job done faster, with less bugs, and higher maintainability. And like any tool, sometimes it's the right tool, and sometimes it isn't.

There is no licensing to use .NET. You can even get Visual Studio for free (Express editions) which have no restrictions on developing business applications.

Hmm, when I type in "toy story 3" google suggests that I'm looking for "toy story 3 dvd", "toy story 3 download", "toy story 3 download free"."toy story 3 dolls". Seems Google is suggesting that I might want to download it.

You underestimate my OCD :)

I'll agree about lipitor vs beef intake, they haven't gone that far.

Really? Then how come every month they start offering me coupons for 'feminine hygiene products' around my wife's 'special time'? There are several types of products I buy with some regularity and invariably I get offered coupons at the checkout station a few days beforehand for competitors products. They do track what I buy, they know about when I'm going to buy certain things, and they use this to market other products.

We are talking about apples and oranges here. You are referring to high velocity neutrons vs. slow velocity neutrons while I'm talking about fast release neutrons vs. slow release neutrons.

Did you mean wait until 2011?