I've always thought his article on this topic skipped over dealing with the fact that rarely, if ever, is code so perfect that it wasn't at least a little 'rusty' in the first place. There's only so far you can go with refactoring before it would just be more efficient to start from scratch.

Ah, but are they also telling you what language you absolutely must use to hit the .net framework?

I haven't heard Toyota calling for developers to come develop for their platform, nor have I seen them using developers to create the usefulness that justify the price a Prius commands. A Prius is worth its price out of the box. IMO, the iPhone and the iPad would be worth much less than they are if not for 3rd party developers. Apple quite often uses the work of these 3rd party developers as bullet points to why you should purchase one of their devices. Without them, you've just purchased an $800 combination Movie/Music player and internet browser.

The word "entitlement" is thrown around as a negative, but in this case - perhaps yes - developers are entitled some amount of consideration from Apple. Note - I said consideration. Thus far, it's only been Apple's way or the highway.

Given the number of people that use cell phones, if they do cause cancer often enough for it to be declared a problem I don't think we'll need a study to show it. I for one will continue to use my phone confident in the fact that it's still a net gain between the ways science artificially increases my otherwise natural lifespan versus the stupid decisions I tend to make that would act to decrease it. (not really referring to cell phone use there. more like that time I played the snowboarding video game and thought "psh, how hard can that be in real life. do you SEE that score?!")

I'm certainly not an expert at any of the respective areas of science this involves, but does anyone know if we could re-oxygenate the water even on a temporary basis? Jokes about bubbling skeleton pirate treasure chests aside, would it be possible to run tubing down to the floor of the affected areas and pump air in? I realize we're talking about a large area and this wouldn't be a small task but would that at least temporarily solve this particular part of the problem?

Isn't the issue of the respective companies keeping their IP handled by the fact that we're talking about official standards and not DeFacto ones? No one would have their IP ripped from their hands, they just couldn't reap the benefits of calling themselves an ISO standard in exchange for nothing. It seems to me that the whole point of having a standard is negated when it's at the mercy of an entity whose best interests are the monetization of it above other concerns.