Darwin code is under APSL, not BSD. It is incompatible with the GPL.

women are in fact just as shallow as men: they always choose the taller men, and excuse character shortcomings if the guy is tall

That's interesting, actually. In most US presidential elections, the taller candidate wins. Now, if we break the votes down by the voter's gender, do female voters prefer the taller candidate more, or are both genders equally biased in preferring the taller candidate?

If anything the reasons a woman has a baby has nothing to do with her looks and everything to do with her sense of well being, security along with cultural beliefs.

Everything else being equal, a better-looking woman has more chance of securing a more prosperous male, and therefore has a better sense of well being and end up having more kids, no?

The Haskell School of Expression by Paul Hudak actually is surprisingly multimedia-oriented. The only problem is its price.

I'll have to respectfully disagree there. Having TA-ed a programming class that used Alice and Python, my experience is that students find 3D a distraction: they spend too much time tweaking their objects' positioning and not enough on actually writing code.

Plus, Alice's lack of physics modeling makes it rather unintuitive to use at times. I'd rather recommend MIT Scratch -- it's 2D, object-oriented, with a visual drag-and-drop approach that makes it really hard to make syntax errors.

Free software advocates tend to be more likely to prefer the entire stack to be free, though. FSF's Richard Stallman, for instance, does not even consider Fedora to be free enough.

That was a succint overview of the difference between open source and free software, though to be fair, even pragmatic free software supporters would find this new contribution by Microsoft as a positive thing.

Not sure why Palm does not bundle Salling's <a href="http://www.salling.com/MediaSync/mac/">MediaSync</a>, which allows syncing of multiple smartphones with iTunes (without pretending that the device synced is an iPod).

Maybe they could license a version that only sync the Pre, or pay Salling to create a version that performs fast sync on the Pre but not on other devices (if you download directly from Salling, the free version does basic sync; paying gives you a faster experience).

Interesting looking game. How does the gameplay compare to Oolite, which is open-source and cross-platform? Graphically, it looks superior to the default Oolite graphics -- which can be customized, and Oolite uses fixed maps, but it's hard to tell before playing it.

Ironic that of the three main desktop platforms, the Mac is now the only one without this feature (Linux has Pulseaudio)

Or get the sources straight from <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_Fedora_CVS">CVS</a> -- the downside is you won't know whether a particular revision results in a successful build or not, without checking Koji.

Doesn't matter either way to IBM, since they designed the Cell CPU as well, and it's also POWER-based.

Cell is potentially much more powerful, it's just harder to program (trust Sony to pick such designs, recall the PS2's Emotion Engine?)

F-15 has the radar profile of a barn, and is inferior to the Eurofighter in maneuverability, and worse, the current batch of Russian fighters (Su-30 and derivatives) that are being sold for $30m a pop to anyone with money to buy them.

The only country I can think of still purchasing F-15s is South Korea (custom-made F-15Ks) but the decision was widely believed to be political. And it's not as if North Korea could afford to operate many modern planes; their pilot training is supposed to be barely sufficient due to lack of avgas.

I'm quite sure not all the pilots shot down by MiG-21s over Vietnam managed to bail out. Unless pilots don't count as soldiers...

Unless you're German...