How much of the openoffice code was created by sun employees?

Can libreoffice stay relevant without coorperate backing?

No flames please. I ask because I want to know.

I wish I had mod points to mod you up, but i spend them all on the grub2 story.

BTW. Students should also learn to find information on the internet, and they should learn what sources they can trust.

The top rotor provides a constant torque but the flying car in the picture doesn't have a tail rotor.

How will the engineers avoid that the car it starts spinning in the air?

Terrorism could be a touchy subject for some of the students, and the teacher has to respect that. I would never give my class an assigment like this.

I don't work for Foursquare. I just thought that the slashdot summary was inadequate, so I decided to provide the missing information..

Foursquare is a mobile application that makes cities easier to use and more interesting to explore. It is a friend-finder, a social city guide and a game that challenges users to experience new things, and rewards them for doing so. Foursquare lets users "check in" to a place when they're there, tell friends where they are and track the history of where they've been and who they've been there with. For more information on how foursquare works, see our searchable FAQ. http://foursquare.com/about

Here is a html5-demo that does the same. It works well on Chrome, but no so well in Mozilla Iceweasel 3.5.11 http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/DeepZoom/Default.html

I think that the html5 designers wanted to avoid malicious websites that look like a login screens and steal passwords. Therefore they have introduced keyboard limitations so you cannot use your keyboard in full screen mode, and they have made it difficult for websites to go full screen without user interaction.

In Denmark they plan to introduce battery switch stations, where you replace your depleted battery recharged one. The batteries are owned by the recharging company, and they are charged at night when electricity is cheap. I believe that an electric car can drive aroung 60 kilometers on a battery, so a day will require a series of battery switches. http://www.betterplace.com/the-solution

They opensourced the engine, but not the data. Unless somebody creates alternative data, then this is a non-story. http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/06/Aquaria-goes-open-source#disqus_thread

They probably tested the same criminal case with several choices of accompanying picture. That allowed them to examine if the suggested punishment for a given case was independent of the accompanying picture.

I think that the article describes which language that students learn during their first year of study. They can learn C afterwards.