... will be eventually written in JavaScript. ~ Atwood's Law (circa 2007)

Flash does not in particular have a very good history with respect to its own development either. Everybody on *nix has observed this so much that this has become a cult phenomenon.

Moreover, the problem does not lie completely with *nix developers themselves. Case in point, it takes them months to fix their broken calls to memcpy which were:

Full story here.

Relevant part of the conversation:

> Subject: Re: FP-5739 "Strange sound on mp3 flash website with Fedora 14 x86_64"
>
> Hi Shu,
>
> That's is great to hear. Would you guess it's a matter of days, weeks or
> months before this can get fixed?
> If it will take a long time for you to fix this, Fedora may need to look
> at some way to work around this bug.
>
> Best regards,
> Magnus
>

> Hi Magnus,
>
> Maybe months. Thanks.
>
> Best regards.

Most new additions to R project are highly academic works, many coming from BioInformatics research as well.

However, some of the modules which people find really useful are rewritten by the core team, so one could say that they were not an output of the PhD/Masters.

In the larger scheme of things, the solutions by academics remain solutions for academic only until they are widely adopted. Then they permeated textbooks, and become the standard solutions of a useful problem. For this, there will exist a software (probably a rewrite) which has optimized it to within an inch of its life.

So the ideas behind the software live on, while the actual lines of code might not.

If you are interested in statistical analysis applied to your love-life, you should care to look at OkTrends as well.

And perhaps you should know that it may not be the best idea all the time.

Don't be that so harsh on the First World people, they have their own share of problems.

While it is true that the device is prohibitively small, the article still suggests some possible uses, like:

Yes, one can.

The cost is $99.

I agree that it might very well end up in the junk bin a year later, but I believe that is the point behind the device. It is not an end product in itself; it is meant to be experimented with, . Developers and students are meant to start from here and make something else. ~ musically_ut

Here, I think, one can comment on how this business of science is changing markedly.

I think if this conjecture was proved a decade or so ago, we would know of it's existence, and of its proving and the surprisingly hard road to its proof in classrooms; just like we see the problem of findings median in linear time. But today, as we speak, we are in fact commenting on a blog entry which refers to the proof and are discussing the type of flaw it may have; even though we do in the end yield the matter to experts.

And this is not the only instance. The talk of Arsenic based life form, or, more recently, the hints of Higgs Boson at LHC among other things that I have come to know of on slashdot, which has enough readership to have an effect named after it. And slashdot is usually has a relay link to another blog.

Amazing.

A redditor to be more precise.

Sure, just tell everyone: "Kindly drop me an e-mail 24 hours before giving me a call on my mobile phone". Oh .. wait ...

You are not the only one thinking on those lines.

The article seems to be concentrating only on Law as a business which has been deeply affected by the revolution in searching documents.

Here one may take a leaf out of RIAA and the leading Music labels' book which has also seen the role of middle men being made largely obsolete by the advent of Internet.

The solution, hence, is simple: just sue the ... oh .. wait.

Someone doesn't think so.

However, the summary is misleading here:

Hotfiles allows for downloads (though at limited speeds) for non-premium accounts too.

Please stop giving them ideas.