*whoosh*

No, but they pay taxes on their income which supports the share price.

Open any Office 2007/2010 document in LibreOffice?

We run a mixed shop with some employees using OO/LO and others using actual Office. The docs prepared in Office get suitably and consistently mangled in OO; to the point of unusability (e.g. bulleted lists dissapearing, tables vanishing, etc.).

I don't know. I don't think Zynga would actually take it to a suit. They'd try a C&D first, but I can't see them encouraging any precedents being set that'd work against them later.

Yeah now - but look at the original time and budget estimates.

"And of course, it needs to be free. Because our budget for this plan is of zero euros."

Yep.

Can't see this blowing up in anyones face. (See: the ongoing ordeal and budget overruns of the Munich conversion)

Does it have to be a either-or suggestion?

I could see this being useful as an accelerator - in the same way that GPUs can accellerate vector operations. E.g. memory that can calculate a hash table index by itself. Stuffed in as a component of a larger system it could be a really clever breakthrough for incremental performance improvements.

Keep in mind charting any commodity versus the US dollar - the US dollar has depreciated in value fairly substantially since 2008. So that big spike isn't a rise in Copper (although it may be a contributing factor), it's the lowering of the US dollar.

That's because Mobile Internet is half-decent in most places in Japan. You don't bother with public WiFi.

This is also called 'conflict of interest' and is generally illegal and frowned upon when you are inevitably caught.