Seriously, if there's any chance this is a sinkhole or cave, post there -- I promise you will have legions of local cavers falling over themselves offering to come check it out.

Because, as it turns out, syntax matters, and the majority of programmers find C/Java style code to be easier to deal with than Lisp. (Myself included.)

...since one of my Adobe (former) co-workers just left for a gig at Pixar. Someone else left a while back for Google. And there are several ex-Apple folks on my team at Adobe.

What, HTML5 isn't good enough? </snark>

...as opposed to HTML5, which will work perfectly with all existing systems and won't require installing any new binaries at all.

Wait, what?

Bah. C&C Generals (2003) had the "Global Liberation Army", which was just a thinly veiled al Qaeda. (No, really... I was on the dev team, and it wasn't long after 9/11 that the previously-in-flux-bad-guy turned into Middle Eastern Terrorists. Sigh.)

(Fun fact: The GLA campaign originally had a mission in which your objective was to kill 200 *civilians* using the Toxin Tractors, which sprayed green biological weaponry, causing them to fall down and die in apparent agony. It was pulled from the game a couple of weeks prior to release, after EA Europe insisted that releasing the game that way would require the game be rated "Mature", which would have killed sales. The level was pulled, but if you watch the end-of-game video carefully, you can see a snippet from the cut mission...)

I don't care whether it's a huge chain. I care much more about whether the food is good. Hell Pizza: good food, at a worth-paying-a-bit-more-for price.

It's actually brilliant pizza -- easily the best pie I've ever had outside of the USA (or Italy). Inventive topping combinations and skillfully made. I wish they'd open a franchise here in California.

> Adobe's Flash Player for Android requires a minimum 1GHz processor

Actually, it doesn't, it just requires Froyo. It runs just fine on (e.g.) the MotoDroid, which is a ~600MHz ARM.

Of course, since Froyo isn't yet available for anything less than 1GHz...

The other thing that bothered me about this book was the author's persistent implication that it's *possible* to find "the deepest cave".

Until we come up with a universal earth-scanning technology that can reveal all subterranean openings (that are passable to humans), this title can't be granted with any certainty.

Krubera has the current title, but then, many other caves have held the title in the past. It's not like a mountain, where height is (reasonably) verifiable with current technology -- finding the deepest human-reachable location requires lots of effort and luck.

I read Blind Descent and had mixed feelings. While I have the utmost respect for the folks who enter caves of this nature (aka "supercaves", a term not used in the caving community), the author plays it for maximum drama.

The truth is that there is a long continuum of people who explore caves, and this book is just profiling the people at the highest of the high end, but at the end of the day, they want the same thing as most other techno-geeks: to be the first to find something really cool. (They just happen to have the physical, mental, and financial chops to actually have a shot at it. Not to mention luck, in large quantities.)

As a longtime caver, parent is correct: cave diving IS insane. (I'm glad some insane folk exist, as the knowledge they glean from this is valuable. Nevertheless, the risk is huge, and makes BASE jumping look safe by comparison...)

It's true (at least in the USA)... for whatever reason, avid cavers call themselves "cavers", and use "spelunkers" to refer to people who enter caves without the proper equipment or training. Thus, at caving conventions you see bumper stickers that read "Cavers Rescue Spelunkers"...

Yeah, cutting out that 1% or so of potential users will really crush their userbase....

(http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10)

...just imagine how much worse it would have been if those iPads had Flash installed...