Unfortunately Linode bills for the whole month and refunds you the proration, so you're still stuck with that amount as credit. If you have a full-time VM running and spin one up for a little bit this is fine, but if I really need something short-term I just use EC2 due to hourly billing.

Was it that hard to read the blog?

Maybe if they /had/ the money to sink down the drain we wouldn't be having this problem..

Yeah, back when you had to register for an API key I could have sworn they already had this requirement. And of course everyone here is blowing it out of proportion.

Motorola just claimed with the new 'RAZR' that it was specifically Verizon that is causing the bootloader to be locked, on Verizon's version of the phone.

There already is a map editor, it's called Hammer. The title is misleading, it should read Portal 2 getting In-Game Map Editor.

I'm sure the engineers would like to open source Maps and whatnot too. It's management/sales/lawyers that stop that kind of stuff from happening.

It's pretty much a fact Google sees the value in it, because their (perfectly valid and legal) initial decision to tell Cyanogenmod to stop bundling Google's apps (Maps, Market, etc.) soon turned into a "you know what, just download the bundle from us and it'll be fine"

There was no 2.0 official release? What the heck did my original Droid come with then? It was API level 5, and was quickly replaced with 2.0.1 (API level 6). 2.0 came out in November 2009, 2.1 didn't come out till January 2010. 2.0 doesn't have a dessert name as far as I can tell, though.

Enjoy not having your site visited.

This was changed in Honeycomb, and therefore ICS. The UI is done in the GPU now, like it should be. They were also discussing a new emulator that's much faster due to using hardware GPU rendering instead of in software.

I really miss LINQ (especially LINQ-to-objects) when I write in other languages.

You are most certainly not stuck (unless you're using query syntax, instead of method syntax) because all LINQ methods are just extension methods. A LINQ provider could easily add new ones.

Not to mention power over copyright.

They've been selling opened games as new for a long time. I've heard plenty of stories of employees 'borrowing' new games.