Many of the early adopters out there are Google Apps users, and yet we still can't use our Google Apps accounts with Google+. I've heard many good things about Google+ but am still waiting for Google to allow me to use it.

And I'm not interested in managing yet another account just to try out Google+.

The front-facing cameras on the Google Nexus S, iPhone 4, and N900 are all 640x480.

Try it with a fresh profile.

If that fixes it then it obviously has something do with your extensions or something else in the profile.

If that does not fix it then try turning off hardware acceleration and see if that helps (options->advanced->general). I'm not sure what else to suggest right now, as I just started playing with it. It's certainly quicker on my system, and all the reviews indicate that it should be significantly faster.

Your analogy would make more sense if you said you didn't want to fly in a plane unless it was built by a physicist, as that's a closer analogy when comparing computer science to programming.

Software engineers learn how to built software, and aerospace engineers learn how to built airplanes.

You appear to be making many assumptions:
You assume that people who do not complete a CS or math degree are not smart and do not learn things quickly. I need not comment on this one.
You assume that people in a software engineering program are spending four years programming. I hope that's not what they're doing in your universities.
You assume that a CS or Math grad is more likely to be able to "do" Lisp or ML than someone from a software engineering program. I think this unlikely, but again it depends on the curriculums at your universities.

Software engineering programs tend to have a few course in business. They will also tend to cover security, data and database admin, software quality and reliability engineering, and software architecture--all of which are usually not covered in a CS degree. Neither of the major universities near me have any courses on security within their CS faculties, which is obviously important these days.

I'm not sure what "MIS" means to you, but that acronym isn't used here to describe anything that's similar to software engineering.

Maybe the software engineering programs in your area just aren't very good or maybe there aren't any?

I started a Bachelor's in computer science and switched to an applied software engineering program. It's much less math, and the average course is far more useful in the real world. All the employers I've talked to so far have said that they prefer hiring out of the applied program because the students are ready to start working and have a broader range of skills.

As many have already pointed out, computer science != programming.

What we need is more schools that offer applied programming programs for those who want to become programmers and not computer scientists. And more students need to learn the differences between them and which one they want.

They would need to do many more trips to gain any statistical significance.

Magic Carpet is one of my all time favourite games and, to my knowledge, no game since it's release back in 1994 has similar gameplay.

The game is very much an FPS at its core, and, like a good FPS, there is a lot of strategy in it. You fly around on a carpet trying to build your castle while you fight off enemy wizards, which are either controlled by AI or other players. Killing monsters drops balls of mana which you cast a possession spell on so that balloons from your castle will go out and pickup the mana. Enemy wizards can re-possess the mana for their own balloons, so it's a constant fight over trying to get the mana to your castle. When you have enough mana you can increase the size of your castle, and you usually have to get a certain amount of total mana to win. As a wizard you have possibly the coolest arsenal of spells I've ever seen in any game, and these are detailed fairly well in the Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Carpet_%28video_game%29#Spells).

Nothing gives me a better feeling of power then having just gained a volcano spell and rushing over to my enemies castles to cast a big f’ing volcano on it, followed by some storm lightning and meteors. As the enemy castle is destroyed, bit by bit, it releases mana which you try to possess for your own castle. Of course, just like fresh blood attracts sharks, there will be other wizards there fighting for the released mana. The game is very fun to play even today.

Many years ago I pleaded with them to open source it, but was denied. I see they’ve recently ported it to the Playstation network 16 years after the game came out, which I thought was surprising.

There are some gameplay videos on YouTube such as this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnHRiHCxtOE

Magic Carpet 1 is awesome and MC2 sucks. MC2 was easy and boring--it just didn't have the same wizard-vs-wizard battles and cool levels as the first one. So if you give it a shot just make sure you play the first one.

Linux will likely have the majority of the smartphone market soon now that Nokia is switching to MeeGo. Since smartphones are the future, Linux's future is looking very bright.
Android - Linux
MeeGo - Linux
webOS - Linux
iOS - Not Linux
Win Phone 7 - Not Linux
BlackBerry OS - Not Linux

That sort of information is redacted by Wikileaks. This is the main reason it takes them so long to release information after it has been given to them.

That mentality is a slippery slope. Do you believe in sterilization of mentally challenged people? How about sterilization of dumb people, which I might add was still done in North America up until the 70s? How about government efforts to promote the dissemination of DNA in those individuals deemed "stronger"? Take these ideas further and you end up with the Holocaust.

Oh really? They didn't seem to learn anything from an oil spill in 1979 that was very similar other than the depth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHmhxpQEGPo

It's not that simple. You're ignoring statistics. You'd need a certain number of monkeys and some of them would have to be controls. If the effect is predicted to be small you may need thousands of monkeys. Animal rights groups would have a fit over this.

The monkeys would also have to experience the cellphone radiation in a similar way that humans would. The radiation would have to be emitted as if a cellphone were pressed up against their ear, and it would have to be intermittent as to simulate a human taking calls throughout the day.

Different cellphone systems run on different frequencies. If there was strong evidence to suggest that one caused cancer we couldn't necessarily assume that they all do, including future networks running on different frequencies. The same could be said about the power of the transmitter--different phones transmit at different levels of power, and future phones may be very different.

Some researchers believe that some cancers may take much longer than 10 years to show, so a thorough experiment may need to last 30 years or more. By the time good data is collected the cellphone networks would probably be using different frequencies and possibly lower power transmitters.

I'm sure there are other factors that I'm not even thinking about. Setting up a bulletproof experiment of this nature and getting solid results in a reasonable period of time is at least difficult and maybe impossible.

What this article should say is that new lower-power dual-core Atoms are about to be released.

Allowing people to make words in any direction (up, down, left, right, but not diagonally) is what I do to add another dimension to the gameplay. This doesn't change the game much but adds another level of strategy.

Give it a shot.