what exactly is the problem with 16GB of RAM? it's about the same as subscribing in the apple developer program for a year..
(sure i never cared about building android, so no idea which parts require 16 GB of ram to compile, or why i can't use swap space.. but anyway .. i guess when i'm investing tons of time playing around with a platform, i could afford the 100 USD upgrade.. i guess gamers spend more so they can buy yet another game - i know i did)

I have used the original iphone and iphone 3gs for years and then switched to nexus one and finally nexus s - i love android and develop for it, but there is still definitively some touch lag - you experience it most when scrolling or panning/zooming images - i'm not sure if this lag is a hardware (touch pannel) or software issue - but there is a lag - maybe just 50ms, it's noticable, that it's not there on the iphone- since the first version - it has always been there on the google devices i've played with - it's just very subtle, and it gets better .. and its "good enough" but it's not just imagination :-)

well, somehow google thinks javascript IS bytecode :) they compile java to javascript (GWT) and (until it's supported in any browser) their own language http://www.dartlang.org/ (dartc) .. so the missing part is not the browser-bytecode.. simply write your compiler to output javascript instead of bytecode ;)

If you want to remind your friends try out http://tabsplit.net/ :-P sorry for this spam, but i couldn't resist, sorry ;-) i will never do it again, it just came over me
(Just to give a bit more than self advertisement you could certainly also use other tools like billmonk, ioweyou, or hundred others)

Well.. i can't pay my utility bills with USD, i can't pay my mortgage with USD, i can't pay my taxes in USD.... sure.. i would be happy to receive a million USD, but just because i know that someone will probably trade them for EUR.. so this is the only thing which counts to me.. although i doubt the bitcoin market is big enough for a million bitcoin exchange right now

i just don't get it .. he should just choose one package management and do a sudo port install emacs .. i'm using emacs all the time on snow leopard..
and about package management.. i mean.. there are enough different non-compatible package managements available for linux (apt, emerge, yum, ...) - and he was able to choose between those.. (he even chose a distribution going with it).. he is just complaining that he has not that much clue about a system he just started working with than a system he used to work with for years.. wtf

hmm.. we could simply follow your suggestion by defining the kilogram by using US pounds.. which would make some pretty recursive definition and all scales would instantly explode..

i really doubt that.. applications always request specific permissions - since they weren't able to previously request the user_address and user_mobile_phone permissions the application will have to request these permissions also from existing users.

... it seems i'm too dumb for this discussion .. 3rd party applications can access your phone number and home address if you explicitly give this one application permission to do so... what is the big deal? the applications can't access those informations from friends of the users or from existing users.. just from users who give them permissions

the real question is if you have a bigger market when writing mobile applications for Android or for iOS. you will obviously write for both right now, but when you need to decide with which platform to start this might still be relevant (although you probably still want to evaluate deeper and check which OS version is used mostly or what your target audience uses - if you target Mac users, you can probably assume that more of them use recent iphones than android based phones) .. for me the most interesting thing is how WP7 develops - as someone who has no desire to develop for WP7 i would love to see it fail. (It's really enough to develop for 2 OSes - and i don't think any cross plattform development solution feels "native" enough right now.)

my point beeing .. just because a statistic doesn't show who is "better" it might still be relevant..

the whole web is unfiltered (or should be), so why would anyone need a disclaimer for every site anyway..

(if parents want to "protect" their children - it probably makes sense up till a certain age, simply white-list the pages you want them to see.. that's the only way it can possibly work..)

i'm pretty sure your floppy only supports version 1.44

i still don't get why people think auto-generated code is easier to maintain than hand-written one.. (i think there was some saying that code should be optimized for reading?)

if things can be auto-generated by an IDE, why not auto-generate it during run-time? (obviously only the first time to avoid performance impact). don't get me wrong.. i like java.. but compared to the web frameworks available in other languages (e.g. python with django) all java frameworks are just a pain (struts 2, wicket, JSF, ...) which are barely bearable with the right IDE.. (yes, if you are developing your next online banking application or million hits per second online store it might be necessary..) -- that beeing said, i still prefer the next best java project over some php kiddie-project.. at least i can find my way around getters and setters, there is no way i stay sane trying to figure out where some weird global variable come from... (speaking from experience.. which means i've probably already lost my sanity anyway, so feel free to ignore me ;) )

umm.. isn't that the whole point of being insured in the first place - everybody pays an "equal" amount of money, most people will be happy if they don't need it.. but for the off chance that you need it, there is enough money available to be paid out.

if only those who *need* it would pay into an insurance.. there is no need for an insurance anyway .. so why the hell are you insured, since you are one of the lucky guys, who will never need it.