If they would've required typing there would've been a hell of a lot more people complaining about it than the few who can't handle a little developer freedom. Sometimes you just want to scaffold out some code. Then something starts messing up, go back and add some types and see how your data moves through your application. Or start entirely with typing, then as you run into some of the pitfalls of typing, remove some of that typing and boom, your code is smooth again. It's really the best of both worlds as it allows for both typing people and non-typing people to work together through typedefs and interfacing. Or you can live wholly in either world! You also have to keep in mind that (a) the code is probably going to be compiled down to JavaScript (for the time being) and (b) that the production dart engine doesn't typecheck at all and that's a part of how they get their performance (there is a checked production option though too). BTW, have you seen this?

Read it again because they are not saying speed of light is wrong. Even the headline isn't saying that but the headline is sensationalism anyways. As a previous commenter stated (and the OP), since the light as it travels periodically (potentially/probably might be better word choices here) changes into an electron-positron pair, those brief times as massed particles are affected by gravity (naturally) and it adds up to quite an impact at large distances.

Problem is, this affects Kickstarter's credibility as everyone who gets burned on this will think twice about supporting Kickstarter projects in the future. Services like Kickstarter seem to forget that even though their revenue is coming from the creators, their primary user-base is still those pledging and when you want people to plunk down large sums for (degrees of) unknowns, then you better have user trust as a primary company value.

The current method being expensive has no bearing on whether or not this method will prove futile or at least overly expensive. Especially because the costs are never-ending and many roads in the US are beyond their intended life. It's quite obvious that the hullabaloo over this idea is that it will mean maintenance costs are negligible (this is the idea at least) in comparison to current roads (where complete reconstruction is needed) and the roads themselves become energy capital! It's quite obvious to anyone aware of the costs and the process involved in road maintenance that our current method is not sustainable nor efficient. That's why some states use tolls and others just say "you deal with it" through adopt-a-highway programs.

More like high on image, low on ideology, and low on reason.

Agreed that the mind is capable of melding dream imagery with real world perceptions. Another simple example is how getting your leg caught or hearing knocking can manifest inside of dreams as your mind tries to make sense of it all.

Not sure how you reached many of these assertions or how this relates to the OP's point about subjectivity and science's lack of tools (or perhaps incompatibility) with regards to comprehending it.

To continue the OP's train, you can do some analysis of subjective experiences (though arguably just philosophical) by finding commonalities, discussing origins and evolutionary purpose, and searching for something objective that could be further studied. On this route, the most interesting question is why would this begin occurring as your brain shuts down? From an evolutionary psychology perspective, why would this be helpful to human beings?

I would argue two possibilities arise: to ease or to excite (with a possible third being your point of utter randomness). Personally, easing the dying mind seems to make sense but also feels like it would require intelligent design. To excite would be odd because an NDE usually involves dream imagery and thus would probably lower your chance of survival as your brain may be battling a centaur rather than the guy who just knifed you in the street. To be random is certainly plausible but I don't really understand why this would arise as your brain is beginning the shutdown process and (as noted in the original article) is even more active than waking state. The scientists even go as far as asserting that the brain is capable of "well-organized" thought. To me, the mere fact that your brain is creating a semi-sensible NDE puts a kibosh on the idea that this is random.

What I really want to know is what factors are preventing them from taking this route. They already have a site for HBO GO but it's only accessible to cable subscribers with HBO package. I'm wondering if the cable networks have HBO locked into a deal or maybe they are just threatening some kind of anti-compete lawsuit or something.

I think part of the reason for their heavy focus on reliability is that they are competing with the mature television industry and thus have a lot of concern for finicky customers that are considering cutting their cable/satellite plan.

Actually they just recently said they would be making the switch to HTML5 and thus becoming completely cross-platform. I really can't believe they stuck with silverlight this long.

I'd say it goes deeper than just policy makers, oil companies and car manufacturers. I'd say it's deeply institutionally related to free market capitalism.

Actually being "conservative" in America today is not necessarily the "right" either. conservative can be broken down into social conservative and fiscal conservative. Fiscal leans NOT towards personal freedom but freedom of capital. Social leans NOT towards personal freedom but for traditional christian values ('traditional' being up-in-the-air as to what that means really) To me both are terrible political ideals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_politics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_economics

Shay's Rebllion anyone? The riots during this time went right up to the houses of the rich and powerful. This is what led to the Philadelphia Convention. The rich wanted a stronger national government to do its bidding.

I'd say less corrupt and more institutionalized into terrible perspectives and ideas with little forethought or ethics.

So do you live in a non-fascist country? Let me know where that is!

Yeah like BigFootApe said, only on an egocentric level. They are definitely learning the skills of planning. The consequences and the general sense of moral framework are still missing though.