I have spent the last four years championing an initiative within Google called the "Grok Project", one that will at some point burst beyond our big walled garden and into your world. The project's sole purpose in life is to bring toolchain feature parity to all languages, all clients, all build systems, and all platforms. (Some technical details follow; feel free to skip to the next section heading...) My project is accomplishing this lofty and almost insanely ambitious goal through the (A) normative, language-neutral, cross-language definitions of, and (B) subsequent standardization of, several distinct parts of the toolchain: (I) compiler and interpreter Intermediate Representations and metadata, (II) editor-client-to-server protocols, (III) source code indexing, analysis and query languages, and (IV) fine-grained dependency specifications at the level of build systems, source files, and code symbols.

There's a bit more, but that's the gist.

Or even worse, programmers who use the Visual Studio C# .NET WPF paradigm at work, and then use a Linux desktop coding open source at home. Probably so.

You found me.

We had a very, very successful recipe of what BlackBerry was all about. There were four main pillars: battery life; typing; security; and compression. Then there was a shift with LTE. With LTE it was important actually not to save network resources, it was important to load the networks, to sell data plans and sell data volume. We didn't miss on innovation. I think we missed on understanding, specifically in the U.S., that this trend was shifting, and that our positioning and our value proposition in the U.S. market was not following that trend shift.

So, according to the CEO of RIM, the reason that Blackberries don't sell is that carriers don't want to sell phones that don't require big data plans. It's a good thing I didn't try bringing my new Brick phone to market. I mean, okay, technically it's just a brick with a pretend touchscreen, but it requires to data plan AT ALL.

Very good to know: thank you!

Wow, are you likely to get an earful over this. Here's my perspective (not a neutral one):

The "individual mandate" part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires you to carry health care insurance. However, supporters claim that because the risk associated to insurers is now spread out over a much larger segment of the population (those who would normally decline health insurance are obviously less likely to need it), the cost to individuals in terms of premiums is likely to decline. In other words, they're betting that the cost of your insurance is likely to decline. Personally, I think that's likely... for insurers, anyway. Whether insurers pass these cost savings to individuals is a craps shoot. When Massachusetts (under, ahem, Governor Romney) passed a law with an individual mandate, premiums fell something like 40% at the same time that it was rising nationally.

Another big part of the bill is the "pre-existing condition" clause: basically, an insurer cannot deny you coverage because you already have a medical condition that they don't want to cover. There was some worry among ACA boosters that the court might strike down the "individual mandate" part without the "pre-existing condition" part, which would have been catastrophic to the risk pools: seven states have tried passing pre-existing condition laws without the individual mandate, and it went very badly for all of them. So if it turns out that you come down with some kind of chronic or severe condition, it can no longer be used as a reason for an insurer to deny you insurance.

I'm having trouble that nobody involved in the direction of this site is familiar with the term slash fiction, or that none of them made the connection between that term and the term "Bi-". This is just... weird.

I propose that this be used as in-flight viewing for long flights.

"And now , we can see just how intense the shear forces applied to the..."

"OH GOD LAND NOW OH GOD"

Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of 100m Dash?

They split up not too long after they changed their name to "Billy and the Boingers". Sad, really.

Too complicated for the average user?

Most of the time, those disk images come with a shortcut to the system applications folder. The folder background will have text saying something like, "To install, drag this (arrow pointing to the application package) to here (arrow pointing to the shortcut)." I have never seen anyone stymied by this.

I don't know - 2001 is sort of in a category of its own, in my opinion. Although , in the Best Picture category, it would have been up against The Lion in Winter. I'm not sure I'd want to go up against that.

(And even The Lion in Winter lost to Oliver! Meh.)

But anyway - Avatar? Seriously?

Look, I liked the special effects as much as the next guy, but for God's sake, it's just not even on the same playing field.

Disclosure: I work for (but do not speak for in any official capacity) a company which provides electronic health software of the type discussed in this article.

Even overlooking the use of pharmacy IT solutions, there is still a lot of room in clinical IT solutions generally to help combat PAEs. For example, software solutions can generate warnings to healthcare professionals when a patient is at a higher than usual risk for particular PAEs. For example, patients under heavy sedation or with loss of sensation are at greatly increased risk for pressure ulcers: a good workflow system can remind nurses to change the patient's position regularly to prevent them from forming.

It's no panacea, but there's still room in this space to do a lot of good. But I agree that the article is misleading as written.