Because Linux is much easier to develop with.

Some Windows technologies (WPF, .NET, C#) are well designed, as are many Linux technologies. Seeing the benefits of one platform isn't mutually exclusive with seeing the benefits of another platform.

However, what is mutually exclusive is a tribal mindset and the ability to see two sides of the situation.

From the article:

According to the article, the .NET Native runtime is a (not yet complete) implementation of .NET. This means that Wine + .NET Native = a Microsoft-built .NET runtime on Linux. This is good news because this may be a way to take those .NET technologies missing from Mono, such as WPF, and still use them on Linux.

Another reason this is good news is, we're one step closer to being able to develop Windows installers in .NET. Lately I've been using NSIS and it is the most stupid, idiotic language I've ever used. It's been described as a mixture of PHP and assembly.

Another thought: the article doesn't seem to mention it, but judging by the design, the .NET Native compiler may be able to compile any .NET DLLs and EXEs, not just C# ones.

Only partly relevant to the article, but I just had a thought: I wonder if it would be efficient to have smaller aircraft that fly in V formation.

This would mean fewer empty seats, more reliable problem reports (because there would be eyewitnesses to any crashes), and still it would have some airflow efficiency--at least better efficiency than aircraft flying the same direction but not in a V formation.

Any thoughts?

Oh, and I should have said: locating your business based on your beliefs about right and wrong, is discrimination. Also, Apple isn't just deciding to locate their business elsewhere, they're trying to use their ability to do so as leverage to prevent Arizona from allowing Apple's type of behavior. I hope that's clear enough.

What do you think the basis for Apple's free will decision is? It's Apple's sense of right and wrong. (And by Apple, I mean the people in charge of Apple.)

The hypocrisy of protesting by doing the thing you're protesting is quite obvious--if you can think critically, without regard to whether or not you have a horse in the race.

So Apple is going to withhold business from Arizona because Apple thinks the bill is wrong? The bill merely gives a company the right to withhold business from a customer based on one's sense of right and wrong (i.e., religion). This is a picture-perfect example of hypocrisy.

This article is NOT recommending competition from the government. Instead, it's recommending that the government get out of the way of the ISPs so that they can lay cable cheaply. The biggest expense in laying cable isn't the actual construction, it's paying off the municipality (who has a monopoly on the digging rights that are required to lay cable).

Basically, when a city is approached by Google as a candidate for new fiber, the city has two choices:

1. Allow a new ISP to enter the market--one that will NOT pay a lot of kickbacks to the city government, one that most people will end up using
2. Keep the current ISP, which is paying the city off handsomely for the right to provide internet to the populace.

Obviously there is still greed on the part of the ISPs. But that doesn't mean that city governments are innocent in this matter.

Not only that, but DNA varies from ape to ape just as much as from ape to humans. So unless they use a hash function like you specify, it would be impossible to tell if you're looking at the hashed-DNA of two members of the same species or two members of different species.

IMO if they're trying to use hashes to provide a unique identifier for species, they probably don't care about the ability to measure the similarity between species. It would probably be difficult to write a hash function that would have few collisions and still guarantee that similar numbers result in similar hashes. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Foreign aid does not go to poor people. It goes to their oppressive governments. Foreign aid builds and sustains third-world style governments and economies--and for what? So you can have a clean conscience?!

If you are actually interested in helping poor people, look up the works of Peter Bauer. Do research. Check out the Wikipedia article on Aid. Here's an interesting quote:

People who like foreign aid are blocking the progress of third-world countries. They are ignorant, self-righteous hypocrites. And by all appearances, you are one as well.