TomTom will recalculate its route. Hopefully NASA payed for the updated maps.

Could you hire one of the developers on the open source project as a contractor to implement a feature? It could be a modest feature at a generous hourly rate. It could be a feature the developer already had planned and perhaps could consider the feature to have been sponsored by your company, generating good will and a positive public image, in addition to enjoying a needed feature.

Yes! Exactly! Glow in the dark cows -- go big or go home!

A favorite book of mine is "Refactoring - Improving the design of existing code" by Martin Fowler. It's probably best read after you've written code for a little while.

You might find "Head First - Servlets and JSP" kind of fun if you're interested in programming web applications. I'd save JSP for later and focus on servlets if you're just starting out.

I wonder if their Bankruptcy game will be realistic.

Not to quibble, but clerics devoting themselves to a concepts/philosophy was possible in any version of D&D. It may not have been specifically mentioned in the rule book, but it was quite common. Some folks even let any/all of the "divine" casters claim they were really just tapping into a different form of "arcane" energy that for all intents and purposes acted like "divine" spells. It's really just a matter of separating the "special effects" of the game from the "mechanics."

Well done. Pretty cool, really.

Now make an analogy using a cow, 5 bags of salt, and the Pacific Ocean. :)

You're right, plus the article doesn't make any sense. Asteroids just pass through one another.

How about putting it on static display in front of your house? Maybe you could park it in the back yard and let the kids play on it.

I always thought it would be cool to bury a WW2 submarine in the back yard as if it were running on the surface.

Maybe I'm missing the obvious, but the story seems to be trying to sensationalize things. Look at the numbers they cite. You can see the following changes from Dec 08 to Dec 09.

Bing +2.4%
Google +2.2%

Yahoo -3.3%
AOL -1.2%
Ask -0.2%

So it looks to me like Bing and Google are just gobbling up market share from the weak. Google grew at approximately the same rate as Bing. Yet the article seized on relative growth, which of course is going to favor growing new services.

Quote: he was surprised DirecTV refused to change its business practices voluntarily

Apparently he has never been a DirecTV customer.

Your vision somehow reminds me of The Matrix.

Oh phew. I'm glad you didn't say most software developers aren't human.

Quote: There might be a few polar bears left if more people wanted one for breakfast.

I'd certainly be willing to try a bear steak. I just have a feeling that on the other end of the supply chain folks aren't that crazy about raising and harvesting the polar bears.

Quote: "fire a payload of golf balls"

Do you yell "fire" or "four" before you trigger this weapon?