As a mathematician, the price point of $0.99 baffles me. Like the summary notes, iTunes has a catalog of 26 million songs. This means you could buy the entire catalog of Universal, EMI, Warner, Sony, BMG and small labels for just $26 million. That's kind of neat, right?

Many Slashdotters don't know it, but ASP.NET and Visual Studio actually make it really easy to use controls, DOM and object-oriented programming. This makes web coding much more like form-based and MFC-based Windows programming, and it works great.

Not only that, but you can actually automate database design and queries. ASP.NET can create SQL queries and db design based on your classes and this makes programming really fast and easy while maintaining good object-oriented code and practicing safe programming.

I've personally fallen in love with Visual Studio. It's definitely the planets most feature-rich and capable IDE. It supports wide array of languages, has great debugging options and performs really well. The best thing is that Visual Studio Express is completely free.

It's also great to see Microsoft Research's latest offerings. They have always been the monolith research club of the industry. It's nice to see that Microsoft is really dedicated to support research.

That being said, I'm quite sure we will see the fruits of this research in an even better Visual Studio based product. Microsoft really cares about programmers and developers and helps all of them write efficient and clean code. Helping the debugging process is just second part of it.

I would, however, also love to see better support for debuggers like OllyDbg. It's basically assembler level debugger for programs that have been already compiled. It's binary code analysis is unmatched in the industry. Compiling these two will lead to synergies.

All in all, Microsoft Visual Studio keeps getting better!

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

One thing you have to praise EA for is how they have still tried to bring 'different' games to the market. Mass Effect, Mirrors Edge etc are great examples of these.

What's funny is that EA is actually Valve's publisher partner. They both compete in online space, but EA publishes and brings Valve's games to traditional stores.

Unless you're from US or South Korea, North Korean citizenship is quite easy to obtain.

Woohoo, for real? Woohoo. I can't believe this is true. I can be the next champion. I can be the next future maker. I can be the next Microsoft employee.