You've completely missed the point.

An open stack for social networking would allow anyone to use any social networking tool to interact with all the others. Can't find the game you like on anything but Facebook? Stick with Facebook, but you'll also be able to interact with people who don't want Facebook accounts, because they don't care about games.

An open stack allows all the services to interact, exchange events, status updates, pictures, etc.

It's Android. The UI's already built.

What a ridiculous policy.

Ever heard of a tagout bill?

--- Navy Chief ET

You shut off that functionality as soon as the screen timeout is reached, and the screen shuts off. Then you simply update the widgets again when the screen is activated -- that way you're not continually updating the widgets when nobody's looking at them.

Crazy talk!

The point is to get hobby devs (like me) who are stuck on older hardware up to developing for 2.0 and 2.1.

Do NOT attempt to transport a gun through any NY airport. You WILL be arrested. NY and MA both ignore FOPA 86. They don't care a whit about the federal laws that govern transport of weapons, and unless you've got tons of money to fight it in federal court, you'll lose that battle.

Theories are generally illustrated with code, in class or in lecture notes.

Knowledge of those theories is generally tested by proving ability to write code that uses them. At least that has been my experience in undergraduate CS.

Maybe it's different in grad school -- but I doubt it. My point was that it's assumed a CS professor can code -- it's pointless to discuss theories you don't know how to use.

I take it you're pretending to be dense.

CS is a branch of mathematics, it is not the sum total of all math.

There are mathematicians who don't work in the branch of mathematics we call Computer Science.

Any mathematician should be able to learn to program.

I would never take a CS course from a professor who couldn't code.

LOL

There aren't a whole lot of people out there like the two you refer to.

The poster I was replying to didn't understand what CS is. It's a common misunderstanding among people who haven't been taught -- they can write programs all day long, but don't understand what they're doing or how it works. Or why math is so important.

And "effete" doesn't mean what you think it means.

Go back and hide under your bridge.