> Android apps will not run on Linux because there is no Android
> runtime environment for Linux.At some point I expect we'll see
> an open source "Android player", but nobody has done it yet

seeing how simple it is to set up the Android qemu/kvm based SDK in a virtual machine on Linux, I don't know if that itch is really very scratchy.

> Command line Linux apps will run on Android, but you will
> usually have to recompile them if nobody else has (you can
> cheat though, and say, run Debian in a chroot)

please tell us more about this debian chroot solution.the idea intrigues me and I wish to subscribe to the newsletter.

> I believe that LibreOffice will never

ponder the chronistic implication of the word "never" for a moment, and which direction on the time-axis it applies to.

> make it in the corporate world for one single reason: It doesn't
> include a program that can use MAPI to connect to Exchange.

now for a moment, ponder the tense of the word "doesn't", and which direction on the time-axis it applies to.

the magic word you are missing is "yet". (where in the sentence you place it depends on your view of split infinitives)

Proffitt is a financially motivated troll, raking up the mud to get page hits. Please stop posting his blog posts, they don't help improve our lives or our software.

thank you

I think that the grammar police should have their own theme music.
or maybe just cue the minor key.

(due props to "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka")

you forgot to include Enlightenment & Fluxbox, and if you are into that sort of thing instead of using the command line, the ROX-filer.

> You say that like it's a bad thing!

to all readers that think the author is MS bashing for MS bashing's sake (or an appeal to the /. groupthink), read this:

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

man this post has been up for 10 minutes already without some /.er correcting you on the correct use of the "question begs to be asked" .... you guys are slipping.

we once had 1,500' of fiber optic cable stolen by some really dull copper thieves ... I guess they had a rather amusing trip to the scrap metal yard but, I'd wished they'd have dumped it back on the side of the road somewhere as due to our fubared funding situation at the time it was years before that system was operational again (until the gear was completely obsolete and had to be entirely replaced anyway).

/. nitpick:

the word you are looking for is "founders" not "flounders"

(dict.org)

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

    Founder \Found"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Foundered; p. pr. &
          vb. n. Foundering.] [OF. fondrer to fall in, cf. F.
          s'effondrer, fr. fond bottom, L. fundus. See Found to
          establish.]
          1. (Naut.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.
                [1913 Webster]

          2. To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
                [1913 Webster]

                            For which his horse fear['e] gan to turn,
                            And leep aside, and foundrede as he leep. --Chaucer.
                [1913 Webster]

          3. To fail; to miscarry. "All his tricks founder." --Shak.
                [1913 Webster]

methane is a more potent ghg, but only really sticks around in the upper atm for 25 to 125 years before it breaks down to co2+h2o. co2 sticks around until the next epoch of mass vegetation.
cumulatively (if you integrate it wrt dt), co2 is still much worse, and methane is just delayed co2.

and yes, it is typically too diffuse to economically mine. but people are certainly willing to try.

the melting pt is around 4C, if the oceans at 1000m get up to that we hit the ghg positive feedback loop doomsday scenario.

fun times.

in this case I wonder if volcanic activity might be warming the earth below a patch.