You don't get to become a major player in the computer industry with a 23m headstart. Especially not in the mobile industry.

Ask HTC. And all the others who dropped out of Android because there was no money to be made. There are countless failed Motorolla, HTC, LG, Asus, Panasonic, Kyocera, Lenovo, HP, Sony, and then the asian brans we never hear of like ZTE and Huawei. Even Samsung has had a number of phenomenal failures until they managed to score a hit with the Galaxy.

The list is stupendous: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Android_devices

Apparently, helium is not yet so scarce that it's not available in balloons at the grocery store.

Depends where you look. Many outlets around the region of Montreal stopped selling helium balloons because of the scarcity. Some voluntarily due to local hospitals having difficulties keeping their MRIs runnings and some due to prices going up.

I made a scripting app and it's been on the App Store for a bit more than two years. Its not a mainstream scripting language but rather a forth/postscript -inspired stack based. Its got runloops, shallow inheritance, threads, imports, marginal UI and complete Objective-C bridge. It gets the job done so well the engine is at the core of two other Apps.

So, whats keeping you guys from making a Python App? Or whatever language you want to use.

Maybe you're too young to remember but... to put you back in context: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-203937.html

In essence, I made a funny.

Speaking of which, Steve Jobs must be laughing in his tomb. Dell should "re-embourse the shareholders and close the shop".

Actually a bit the reverse. The developers where building an engine to be sold much like Unreal when Eve decided to go their own way.

The developers of the engine which had limited resources ended up making a mock universe as a technology demonstration and it evolved into the game it is today.

So yes, low budget, and they suffered years long of having no graphic artists on board, with aging texture maps and ship designs.

I was an avid player years ago. Lots of RP being done there but the first-person shooter style got old fast. They are a small company and much of the universe is hard-coded. They do have programmable missions (including user-made ones) but it's essentially a huge arena with many bots and relatively few players.

Twitch-based combat was good and it was hard to become an ace in the game because it was actual skills, not level-based skills, that made you survive. I was a good Valkyrie jockey but not an ACE, yet still managed to have fun for a while.

No, its suppose to secure the BES server market which makes them more money than their phone.

...anyone else feels that Schmit's view on drone somewhat hypocritical?

News that matters.

The sad part is we had that in XCode years ago, called "Fix And Continue". But it was always a hit-or-miss thing. Could only tweak leaf functions and depending on link scenario didnt always work. They pulled it out a few releases back (XCode 3.5?) in order to concentrate work on LLDB.

That's actually quite funny. Imagine if they would have auto tuned all of the cables. Mpaa would have done all the work.

Well, he pleaded guilty to that but that's beside the point. Whatever the reasons that motivated him, be it human justice, human rights, Geneva Convention or else, he was still a military that doug into the system and copied data that was deemed state secrets. That, is treason. Whichever way you want to see it.

Confinement is another issue. And its clear the military wanted him to serve as an example to whomever might be thinking about doing this again. Gitmo comes to mind when it comes to wrongful incarceration. But that too, is off-topic to Manning pleading guilty.

Have fun: http://www.iraqbodycount.org/

Tell that to the hundred thousand civilian dead Iraqis, victims of an unjust, unfounded war that only the US public bought in their post 9/11 panic.

Pentagon already said no deaths or injuries occurred as a result of the document leak.

I still think Manning deserves what he got. He had no rights to commit this treason.

As for WIkileaks, the US has no rights to hunt them for publishing them. Its not like they paid for them.