It's probably 'standard' in the same sort of sense that the 'World Series' Baseball championship means nothing to anyone outside the 100-mile Fourth Amendment Exclusion Perimeter

Quite interesting that some comments on here relate to _your_ ability to profit from someone else's work (ie to resell with no profit share, or to reduce your tax liability, disguised as charitable donating). These were unmanaged side-effects of traditional publishing, due to a book's physical nature, but something which they'd have to reinvent as a managed competency, to keep you happy, in the digital realm.

Images of abuse are as bad as sharing movies and tunes.

Didn't Apple just disable Flash again? Coincidence? Knew they should have turned off remote updating on the Rover's Mac Mini.

A desire to solve problems is a must, and there might be safer waters to try before you get to all the stumbling blocks and white space sensitivity that certain text editor programming languages will gleefully hurl in the way. There must be other means of analysing and describing attractive problems first, and to drive a thirst for solution-finding, before selecting a tool to go further on the journey.
I'd want to go at it from the angle of kindling a need to build or fix something, rather than assuming that learning a particular paradigm, at any age, will be of much intrinsic value. I'd like more creators and inventors than career programmers ;-)

Or their "too"s

Shudder to think what will become of this hulk when the masses move on to the next thing and the investors look a little silly. Will its red giant / downward spiral business strategy be based on firing patent suits at anyone who ever thought of adding social concepts to their projects?

Just goes to show you shouldn't have bet the farm on Zynga stock

I kid you not, when I opened /. this story read:

"Read the 666 comments"

An omen?

Do you know what kind of berm it was?

Movie Patents Eat Google's-Lying Ass

Traditional handset manufacturers have that old mindset that it's better for them if they keep you in the "shiny new handset and contract term" cycle, because that's how they make money and compete with each other. Combined with the idea that the destiny of the OS isnt directly in their hands from a trade competition point of view, so matching device R&D up with whatever Google do next is probably no mean feat. Given the strides taken in the OS in terms of performance requirements, manufacturers surely would have had to invest in a handset platform with such latent capabilities that the costs, if planning hardware takes at least a year or two, would have had too much risk associated with them within their traditional product development cycles. So one result has been that some manufacturers are guilty of squeezing old Android versions on stuff out of the parts bin, and if you buy that you're stuck.

Many of these tablets are just those MID-based far east iPad knock-offs; they're in abundance in the UK from electrical outlets like Maplin. They're not a serious competitor to anything, in the way that knock-off Bentleys aren't. Some of these are just so laughably poor that a decent Honeycomb implementation shouldn't have to worry about a paternal suit.

He's apparently hoarded 30 of the latest RED cameras down there on the bottom of the planet http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/28/peter-jackson-nabs-thirty-red-epic-cameras-to-film-the-hobbit-t/ So fear the worst...

Hu 'chaired' the meeting? Was it Ballmer?