You do know that he makes zero money from the foundation? He's on the board of trustees and it's unpaid. I don't think you could cut everyones salaries to zero and still have any staff at all.

Lets be honest. Google has spoiled us with a masterful search. Every other search that isn't google... sucks (Have you tried Thunderbird's search?)

Any forward thinking group worth it's weight will have enough money in reserves so they can run for a decent amount of time without any income. In this case, I believe the amount on hand is about 6 months worth which isn't bad. If the foundation kept too much more than that on hand - the contributors wouldn't be happy because their money wouldn't be going anywhere.

I'm not a hardcore programmer (PHP/Perl... lite stuff), but I thought it would be fun to try out mobile app development. I happened to have an iPhone, mac, etc... so I started there. Even with the books and intro material, I found it very difficult to get into. My C and similar is very rusty, so that was part of the problem. For the heck of it, I tried android and that was MUCH easier to get into. My Java was never great, but better than my C - which again - helped. All in all, I much more enjoyed the experience of working on the Android platform because it tended to have lower barriers to entry (less hardware, less software, etc), be easier (Java _is_ a simpler language) and be fun.

Though get a good book for android. Last I checked, the official docs online from Google were for like 1.0-1.5 and we're on 2.2. In short, horribly out of date (usable in some cases, but out of date).

I'd have to agree with this. The cost to take the ham test is $15, and the basic exam is not rocket science (Do you understand what electricity is? Congrats, you're halfway there). You can get el cheapo chinese knock off raidos (not that I recommend it, but you could) for less than $100 that'll run 5W on a single band. I've got a Yaesu VX-8R also and while it costs $400, it is very rugged (water resistant) and runs on 4 bands. I've used it up in Tahoe (North lake) to hit repeaters in South Lake, 30+ miles away, while in a building. No problem at all. Of course the repeater 1 mile away I can barely hit because I'm in the shadow of the Mountain... but thems the breaks.

If you get the license, get a used radio that'll do 5W on the at least single band (which ever there are repeaters for in your area)... it wont cost you much. You program it, pack it with some long lasting batteries, toss it in your bag, and forget about it. It's there if you need it. Plus, who knows, you might even try taking it out and testing it on a trip when there isn't an emergency. Worse comes to worse you find it doesn't work what so ever, and you re-sell the used radio. Net loss? Maybe $20-30?

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Depends on your clients. If you're talking about a mostly technical crowd? No, probably don't need IE6. If you're talking about a site for corporate users, yea, you need IE6. There are many major companies out there still running IE6 on XP. It sucks, they should all switch to Firefox (Or Chrome, or Opera, or anything but IE), but unfortunately most don't have a choice in the matter. Oh and if you're trying to sell people something, then most likely yet again.

Of course it all depends on what your usage stats/analytic say. Personally, I've not supported IE6 for a long time, but then on most of my sites Firefox is more than 50% of the market.

I am writing this post on an Eee PC 1000 that arrived yesterday. It is running Jaunty Netbook Remix. Everything (for me) worked "out of the box" in Jaunty, even web cam and wireless. Just because it is in Alpha doesnt mean it cant be used. The one down side is that it is the i386 build and no LPIA, but I can live with that till it goes live in April.