Yeah, that's my reaction too. China can say whatever they want, but that doesn't make it true.

You forgot the cost of electricity for charging!

Who the fuck is Eminem?

> What FOSS advocates never seem to get is there is a reason why companies like MSFT get these contracts,

Hookers and blow, is what I've heard.

Ain't that the truth. They won't need to declare war -- they'll just need to stop selling us shit.

I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

Why should pulling out cost anything at all? Crappy coders and incomprehensible phone monkeys abound all over the world -- India has no monopoly. Buy your commodity services elsewhere.

Yeah, I tried this: for the bankofamErcia example, I see http://www.xn--bankofamrcia-lra14ee268a.com/ which is very cool!

+1 Funny

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This isn't a "code review" -- it's a short monograph (with Quicktime movies!) that talks about how Id got DOOM working well on the iPhone. A "code review" is, well, a critique of code, and the style, correctness, and efficiency, thereof.
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It's funny you mention science and the Washington Post. They recently revamped their weekly science/health section, and in all honesty, it's really great stuff now. There is a wide range of well-reported articles; I don't recall ever seeing anything like it in a newspaper before.

I'm not about to even TRY to defend that circumcision bloke. That prick deserves whatever he gets.

Bada-BOOM!

An astonishing fraction of research "results" from China are just plain made up. No wonder they're so prolific! I don't doubt that they will eventually make significant scientific contributions as a nation -- they're 20% of the world's population, after all -- but they're going to have to clean up their act before the global scientific community starts to take them seriously.

Hey, did you see a man with a briefcase?

That's my reaction, too; I appreciate the concern, but I think your opinion of your own uniqueness might be a tad overblown.