And there in lies the problem with the whole online dating experience. They make it *far* too complicated to get from "identify person of interest" to "meet that person." Of course the probability of actually hitting it off once you do meet in person doesn't seen to be any better than any other method. Seriously, why should you need to be able to keep up an active online conversation for (possibly) weeks, when there will be a rejection/acceptance moment from one of you within the first 5 minutes of actually meeting in person?

This is the original article that the linked articles are attempting to paraphrase:
Israel vows to hit back after credit cards hacked

While it doesn't add too much information, it might have slightly better wording.

And if anyone actually was curious, the PlayBook Native SDK actually does run on Linux, and a lot of the F/OSS they've been porting to it is posted on Github.

http://blackberry.github.com/

And anyone who's stumbled across old DEC hardware knows that the round mouse long pre-dated the iMac.

Because those APIs are the reason people use Windows in the first place.

Just look at any market where Microsoft doesn't have a "legacy platform advantage," and see just how much more competition they face. In some of those markets, they may even have a trivial presence.

So, about the time that the enterprise world finally upgrades from Windows XP? :-)

Except when changes in economies of scale make the hobbyist-friendly stuff far more expensive and difficult to obtain than we're currently used to. Oh, and also far less accessible to the high school kid with techno-illiterate parents who only understand the appliance-like equipment. (A state many of us have all been in, at some point in our lives.)

Its not just a matter of what you can get. Its also a matter of what the market allows you to actually afford.

And as your codebase grows, I strongly recommend taking breaks to read books on design patterns, clean code, unit testing, etc. Without learning the various architectural techniques out there, any codebase will devolve into spaghetti the moment you try to implement any mildly interesting features. However, you won't see the obvious need for those techniques until your project reaches that point.

Qt is very cleanly written and well commented where it matters. Most F/OSS code tends to have no comments of any sort, for some reason.

Except if you look at a local map, "The West Bank" doesn't really exist as a marked-off territory. That seems to be a creation of US/western maps. First, the area is locally called "Judea and Samaria." Second, the highway system runs right through it as though it were just another part of the country.