I recently ditched my iPhone for a Nexus S; which was purely because I was so fed up with my old carrier that I was willing to "downgrade" my phone to switch companies.

I was shocked to find that Android is just a better system. Sure there are things that iPhone wins on, but overall Android takes the cake.

Consumers don't give a **** if it's open, or about the business strategy. Android is winning because it's better.

Maybe you haven't tried 2.3... it's leaps and bounds ahead of 2.1.

Going to http://www.startpage.com/ redirects you to the https version.

As an interesting aside, this is from the FAQ page:

On July 14th 2008 Ixquick received the first European Privacy Seal from European Data Protection Supervisor Mr. Peter Hustinx. The Seal officially confirms the privacy promises we make to our users. It makes Ixquick the first and only EU-approved search engine. Both EU Commissioner Viviane Reding and Dr.Thilo Weichert, German Privacy Commissioner complemented Ixquick on its privacy achievements. You can find the press release here.

So... the EU wants privacy, but also wants to monitor everything you do? What a strange place.

- It has been in development for almost 5 years, the team is completely different than Champions
- Character animation looks pretty good to me, but what a minor thing to complain about. It'll get better over time too. I could personally care less if it uses ASCII graphics, as long as the gameplay is solid
- Klingon faction is currently mostly PVP -- they want to add more content later. Big deal! In fact, some players will like this.
- There's a lot more going on than just tank / healer / etc. You can equip modules in any way you want to give your ship a versatile configuration. Seam with team members for away missions. It may not be the most revolutionary game around but, it does do something different. I for one look forward to trying out the strategic space combat.
- It's only microtransaction in the same way that WoW is. You can buy items that don't really affect the gameplay.
- Initial reviews and impressions are much more positive than with Cryptic's previous offerings.
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Who knows, maybe it will suck, maybe it won't. We don't know yet.

You can not, with C++, add functions to classes at runtime like you can with Objective-C. You can not, with C++, change the access properties of a particular class instantiation (ie change a method from public to private) at runtime like you can with Java.

You're clearly a C++-centric programmer who fails to understand that the more tools in your belt, the better. Every language has its use. C++ is an awesome language, for specific purposes, just like Java is (for specific purposes), same with Python, and Ruby, and many other languages.

No language is without its faults either.

That doesn't mean anything. Neither is Java. And neither is obj-c. Yet they're both languages that can be compiled to machine code, are dynamically bound, and are capable of providing runtime reflection. It's all about how it's implemented and the runtime.

Your queue class is of no relation to Gochannels whatsoever. You're omitting the Goroutines, which you simply can not ignore. They do not equate to simple threads. Take a look at the Go channel source and you'll understand better what they're actually doing.

Runtime reflection, true closures (something not offered any very many other compiled languages), array slices, and a built in parallel programming paradigm certainly justify at least giving it a thought for a very select category of problems.

I'm up for considering anything if it will save time / money / hassle. If it doesn't, oh well, move on to the next tool. Whatever fits!

I should also mention that I'm no Google or Go fanboy. I'm actually a C++ compiler developer by trade so I've no beef with C++ either. In fact I love C++. I love many languages. My thesis was written in D, for example. I've also written commercial applications in Python, Ruby, Erlang, etc, etc.

For me, the jury is still out on Go. I'm not convinced the world needs YAL (yet another language), but I'm open to the idea. If they find a niche for it, great.