I recommend Jerry Coyne's review of this book. It eviscerates it.

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/unscientific-unscientific-america-part-1/

SDK? Funny.

It's Linux. With Debian. You build .deb packages and install them. Really. That's it.

The UI, at this point, is still Gtk+ based. Hildon. They're changing it to Qt though.

So.. really. You just write normal Linux apps for it.

I think the claims of the Android being 'locked down' have absolutely nothing to do with your ability to write apps for it, just your principaled stand.

Are you going to be distributing apps that run as root?

The security model on Android is USEFUL: it keeps apps isolated from each other. if Maemo doesn't have this, there will be no third party market of any reasonable size. Soon as there is some dumb shit will release an app that takes over phones and makes them zombies.

Well, we know the components of glycine, and we can synthesize it. It's not unreasonable to imagine that it can form from reaction with other elements: on or off our planet.

Just so happens we found some off.

It's even STILL possible that terristerial glycine is responsible for us, and this is just some other source.

Man I don't get how people are so polarized about this. Look dudes. It's against the law to infringe copyrighted material. It's against the law to aid somebody else breaking the law. File sharing therefor is Against The Law. It is the Proper Decision for these people to be convicted. Anything else would make me think the judges were asleep at the wheel.

If you dislike that so much, don't focus on whether somebody wins or loses these cases. It is Proper that they lose. It would be Wrong if the law bent so much to allow what is clearly outlawed. Instead, seek to CHANGE the law. Donate to lobbyists. Become lobbyists yourself. Civil disobedience is fine, but don't expect to get off the hook for doing it until you change the law.

As a lawyer. Duh. The lawyer will probably tell you that copyright applies.

And when has this happened? Link please.

Wrong. Atheist. a-theist. Negating theist. Anybody who is not a theist is an atheist. Answering "I don't know" to "is there a god?" makes you an atheist.

This is silly. An atheist is somebody who does not believe in God. Period. Atheist. Not a theist. Theist with an a in front of it. It's not that hard. Is there a God? A) Yes. B) I don't know. C) No. A) is a theist. B) and C) are both not theists, therefor, atheists. Agnostic is a seperate and overlaying word. No knowledge. Most people without knowledge answer B). That makes them an atheist and agnostic, at the same time.

I'm just going to throw this out there. I'm evaluating upgrading out existing Office install from 2003 to 2007. The cost for this is around $400 per desktop, $650 if we do software assurance. That's $650 per machine in the office. Some of these machines we bought from dell for $400. That means Office costs more than the entire computer and Windows itself. But I suspect we're still going to do it. Why? Because We're talking $650 for basically 3 years of productivity software per individual. That's about a week of salary for an employee. In total it makes back WAY more than a week of an employee's time over 3 years. So it may feel like a huge amount of money up front. And it is. But it *is* worth it.

Because there is a finite amount of sperm. This is about allocation of sperm. Allocate more sperm to attractive females, where attractiveness is established by ability to care for offspring. Strong body. Upright posture. Features which hint at youth, etc. The genes which then cause you to do the allocation are promoted more strongly.

I have worked on far more .Net server-side code bases in the last few years than Java. Far more. I get Java offers too, but the .Net ones come in quite a bit more often. .Net web services are super easy to use (basically you just drop a file in a directory and it works). .Net remoting. And now WCF. And of course ASP.Net web sites, which is basically serverside code. It's been ages since I've had a serious project that used servlets come to light. Disclaimer: I work in the small business sector, which massively out numbers the large business sector in terms of number of applications. Maybe not size of individual applications, but certainly totals. Java in this realm is essentially disappearing (in the US).

I agree with the ruling. Seems retarded to remove the paper's free speech. Good job judge!

Oh. I was thinking our government will probably just lower the taxes... since you know, the company is the one with the bargaining power here.

Uh huh. So what's wrong with AD?