While this is an interesting read, a lot of the above comments talks about this as it is a general slow down of light. It is not. A light beam emerging from a flashlight still has the same velocity as always. Light travelling in a straight line isn't affected. Only light on a curve is affected.

Newsflash! The farmers can now make more on growing cocoa instead of opium because the price of chocolate has risen, whilst the price on drugs is declining. The war on drugs is won by market trends and not with guns.

"When you see that we're literally just letting it float into the air, and then out into space inside those helium balloons, it's just hugely frustrating". Well, it's a good thing we're not burning fossil fuel by letting cars run around in a circular track, round and round, just for the heck of it.

This functionality is available to several other gaming networks, and it would be more newsworthy if they didn't bring one for playstation.

I'm impressed that Apple's server isn't even sweating while serving hordes of slashdotters eager to take a first look. My initial thoughts after watching the trailer: Wow - very nice visual appearance.

The title of the album says it all. Only - I always thought they were criticizing the Chinese Democracy.

I never get used to the MM/DD way of typing dates. If it wasn't for the sarcastic remark (3/14, get it?) I wouldn't have caught it. Unfortunately, we will never get a Pi day over here, as 3/14 doesn't exist. A sad day for the European lovers of Pi (a secret fraternity of which we do not speak)

First, why are you assuming he can't hire home grown consultants?

I don't assume anything - I just reflect on his statement: " Geography is not a problem as we are used to working in a distributed manner." . He doesn't say which country his company is in, but if it's in the US or Europe, then coders from India is definitely cheaper.

Second, you can usually get the same consultants back for maintenance work. And if you can't because they are busy, there are other consultants, often with the same firm.

Agree, but that's not what he's asking for.

Hiring lots of permanent employees is not the only way to go.

I agree. But again - he explicitely asks for a self contained agile team and not a group of consultants from a large company. IF he want to go for consultants, I'd advice him to use a company and not assemble one on the fly. Alternatively, hire his own group of programmers. My point is, that assembling a team on your own is very risky. Use a firm or hire.