I know it's mostly off-topic, but
"Google Chariman"
"where advertisers will more money"
"And as for more Android smartphones released more recently"
etc, etc. And that's just what I caught at a glance.

While I can see a larger business being able to support the personnel to have such an experienced/skilled in-house development team, the fact is that for most small and mid sized businesses such a setup just isn't worthwhile.

One of my previous jobs was the systems/network administrator for a 65 person company. The yearly IT budget for software licensing, hardware, etc was about $150k. The software we bought met the needs of the company admirably, with only a little bit of customization required. Myself and one of the other IT staff were reasonably skilled as DBAs and could customize reports from our databases (a mix of Oracle, MSSQL, and MySQL), and the other guy was decent at wrapping the GUI around those queries. There's just no way that the $150,000 of our yearly budget could be stretched into hiring programmers to make custom software for us. Nor was there a need to do so - our needs were small enough - and to be frank, generic enough - that existing enterprise software just plain did what we needed with a minimum of hassle. The benefit as compared to the cost of creating a development team just didn't make sense looking at the ROI. In fact, there was no ROI at all.

That said, I can see companies with unique needs and larger companies with more complex business processes needing a better solution. For them, it may well become worthwhile to consider custom solutions for more of their tricky items.

Actually, the way most religions see it, YOU are the only one who makes a decision on whether or not you go to Hell or the equivalent. That's why in Catholic/Christian dogma, sincere confession and remorse (even at the last moment) means you end up in purgatory rather than Hell. God will always try to come in and say hi - it's up to you whether or not you slam the door in his face. Really, most genuine religions have similar philosophical statements at one point or another. And yes, I realize I said "genuine religion." I'll defer to the pornography definition for those who want to debate that point - I may not be able to define it, but I know it when I see it. All that said, WBC are a bunch of idiots. Some of them really mean well, I'm sure, many others are just hateful people having their hatred verified by a bunch of like minded jerks.

You either need an invite from an existing member, or you get lucky during one of their open membership drives.

Probably not worth a whole lot once it gets close enough to Earth to destroy it (destroy Earth, that is). :)

Usually, panel rotation systems are finicky and require a fair amount of maintenance. Plus, they consume power, thus directly affecting the net gain. Depending on the specifics, it may be that this arrangement is more efficient. As for the additional panels, you can see my response above too.

Somehow I doubt that the American Museum of Natural History missed that, after reviewing him for a rather prestigious award for someone his age. There's most probably something we can't see from the picture alone, or the discrepancy was accounted for in the math.

About $130. The irony is, since this hit the news, they've gotten over $10k in online donations. Blessing in disguise I guess.

http://www.winrumors.com/man-upgrades-internet-explorer-1-0-to-9-0-video/

As someone who has had to deal with the financial numnut's visionary pet projects, I assure you that this doesn't help.

I'm in the US, and I actually have almost exactly that clause in my contract. Honestly, I'm perfectly OK with it. If they company fronts me the money for additional training, then I'm totally OK with having to pay for it if I leave voluntarily. On top of that, some specific training isn't even subject to this agreement - for example, we're getting some Oracle classes completely free of strings (to us, the employee) later on this year, simply because the cost analysis showed the beancounters that it would be cheaper for us to handle some of this stuff in house than to pay for a support call every week.