No kidding! Nothing says "non-stop action entertainment" quite like 8th-century tree rings, dude...

The more significant argument for developing on iOS is that Apple users spend more money on apps.

Regarding the comments about Android's painfully slow (or nonexistent) upgrade schedule for existing devices, Google is obviously trying to address this problem by making it easier for hardware manufacturers to port new Android versions for their platform using the new PDK.

However, I suspect that the Android hardware manufacturers are torn about upgrading. Their current model (except for the Nexus series) is that people have to buy a new device in order to get a new Android version. As a consumer, it sucks. As a manufacturer, it's a dangerous, game, as it tempts people to abandon Android for Apple, where new OS versions are rolled out (pretty much) across all the hardware.

Let's define terms here: Lying means intentionally making statements to lead people to believe something that the liar knows isn't true.

Speak for yourself.

False example. In common parlance, "Good morning" is a short form of something like "I wish you a good morning", not a statement that it is, or has been, a good morning.

It looks as if part of your point is that because many people in our society lie in order to advance their desires (as in your example of contract negotiation), lying is therefore required and therefore acceptable.

Lying is NOT necessary. However, many people fear that the consequence of being truthful may be greater than the consequence of lying.
The rationale for lying not being against the law most of the time is that it would be nearly impossible to enforce, the most obviously damaging instances of lying are already illegal (fraud, slander, libel, etc), and people presume that most lies are not harmful, because the negative effects are not immediately visible.

Perhaps because his philanthropic work is focused in part on education, and understanding which kinds of philanthropic investment produces positive results.

I'm with you. Although, in 50 years, Bill Gates will be remembered for his work as a philanthropist, not as a software tycoon. And in that light, I feel pretty good about Bill Gates these days.

Consider the intent of Facebook's email service: To remove people's need or desire to use Google services (Gmail, in this case). The big picture goal is that Facebook effectively becomes the Internet for people, the way AOL used to be.

For the spammer, the value of Facebook email is not clear, but Google's spam filtering isn't doing spammers any favors. It's possible that Facebook's spam filters will be as effective (or more? who knows) as Google's.

More to the point: The surviving animals are the ones who are better suited to (or adapt more easily to) their environment than their competitors.

Remember that next time you clean the dinosaur feces off your car.

More specifically, religion. A press release is marketing, after all.

The "stuttering" effect you are accustomed to seeing when you watch movies at home is an effect of the movies frame rate not being accurately reproduced by your TV. A 120Hz TV solves this problem for 24 fps movies.

Unfortunately, 48fps will require me to get a 240Hz display to solve the same problem.

What are you talking about?

Home video was traditionally 24 or fewer frames per second. (Unless by "traditionally" you mean the past few years when you could record digital video at more than 30 frames per second.)

Interesting choice. Your collection of O'Reilly pics will look much more lifelike on a retina display.

Seriously, cite your source if you're going to say stuff like this.
Have chimps and bonobos interbred and produced fertile offspring? Yes, there have been bonobo/chimp matings that produced live offspring, but were the offspring fertile? (None of the information I found appears to answer that question).

Nah, it's just that humans don't live long enough. :-)

Nah. It's just confusing because the summary is more informative than the typical Slashdot summary.

Interesting question, but there are numerous architects, and this would be protected as "fair use" for a number of reasons. See Google Maps, Google Earth, etc for similar representation of copyright-protected architecture.