Let's be serious. Google/Motorola is not innocent: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17825580 The atmosphere in mobile patents is terrible. Apple, Google/Motorola, and Microsoft are going to fight over this for years to come. Until there is some sanity and these companies start cross-licensing for reasonable costs this is going to continue, and it's pretty silly to claim that one of these companies is just the victim. They all have large enough legal departments to know how this game works.

$0 for not having an Xbox 360 at all. That's the option I'm going for.

You're assuming they're using particles to represent atoms / quarks / whatever, in which case they'd be way short of simulating a speck of dust.

They're using a particle to represent a galaxy, which is a slightly lower resolution but still a valid simulation.

See this discussion of the same paper on In the Pipeline, a blog devoted to organic chemistry and drug discovery. http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/03/29/sloppy_science.php

Vic Gundotra would be giving out Mercedes-Benz S-Classes: http://www.autoblog.com/2011/09/09/google-exec-praises-magical-software-working-in-his-mercedes-b/

Also, windows phone runs really really well on middling hardware. The Nokia 710 is sold periodically by T-mobile for as little at $250 without a contract, and it is a vastly superior phone to most andriod phones in the same price range. Windows Phone is not a perfect OS but a generation of MS hate has really clouded people's ability to look at their products objectively. And lets be honest, Nokia wasn't going to survive by going the way they were going. They made a bet that they could team up with MS and produce phones people wanted to buy because if they hadn't they'd still be on the RIM path. This is very clearly visible in the bets that Nokia is making on inexpensive phones (Lumia 610) for developing markets. Not everyone wants to pay $800 for a phone off-contract.

I'd like to see if Dr Fill manages these two:

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Now all we need is an open editable resource for chronicling all of history, in the same way that OpenStreetMap does for geography.

What, this one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581_g

All sorts of data and predictions, mixed in with a large dose of "it's probably not there"...

The  is "cubed", of course.