Wouldn't it be nice to be living in a universe that doesn't require a big bang or heat death?

This is the way.

The premise of the article is ludicrous, just because this professor has photos from 2014 of a "seafood market" that aligned to data that could have been manufactured evidence should certainly not be considered "pinpointing the origin to within metres". What worries me most is why articles like this are even considered or published, and more specifically what is going on behind the scenes justifying it? In the absense of reliable evidence, occams razor probably provides a most likely answer. IMHO, the origin is a moot point, what we should be focusing on is the (in)action taken after the virus was detected and ensuring that humanity never has to deal with something like this again. Otherwise... you have the balancing to zero factor of the drake equation staring you in the face.

The words themselves are not the problem, it is the association with some derogatory contextual meaning that matters. Those people who are suggesting the usage of these terms was originally or even unintentionally meant to be racist or offensive are themselves perpetuating negativity by assigning meaning that was never there.

Wasn't Larry Ellison a good friend of Steve Jobs? Is it possible that the whole Oracle Java thing is simply 'Steve Job's going thermonuclear' on Google/Android?

Apparently it cost around 150million to develop the first iPhone... In a strange irony, Microsoft funded it! hahaha

Simple, they had a big pair of blinkers on... and for some reason thought C# is the best thing since sliced bread for all circumstances. I said from day one as a biased C++ Windows CE programmer, they had a major brain fart when they decided not to support C++ on WP7. I really think it was simply "lets force developers to use C# that will differentiate us, because our dev tools are world-class", which is true in some respect but they missed the bigger picture which the last 3 parent posts hit hammer to nail on.

Look at all the videos of the sub-standard games on WP7, they are extremely laggy and due to the nature of .NET CF, I am sure developers have very little scope for optimisation.

This stems from what seems to be a deep cultural problem in their organisation. I personally think they hit rock bottom when a myriad of windows mobile/ce developer blogs were silenced all of a sudden. It was like the dev teams were trying desperately to interact and build a community, when some executive realised that their shit stunk so bad they had shut-up avoid further embarrassment. So even if the fish's head is rotten at the top, they are swimming in their own filth and can't do much about it.

Actually 3 is more like 'Customer picked "mashed Peter Cottontail" and 5 "Microsoft learns that when a customer is asking for breakfast, also show "mashed Peter CottonTail" as well. This is downright unfair - I hope Microsoft get sued... at the very least we all know 'imitation is the sincerest form or flattery'...

Yep, 9.999999999% with +/- 500% tolerance.

He/she's not talking about the hardware, its about the software! The O/S is junk, people are in a state of denial. Try and enter a URL in landscape mode in IE, I mean COME ON!!! Also, dotNET lockin is one of the most stupid things they could have done, even iOS and Android understand the value of C/C++ (opengl) to game developers.

Not only that, they didn't have the tenacity to turn the touchscreen off during a call with a 2cent light sensor. I used to love guessing which application will launch during a call with my.

Of course they share something, they're all rooted and I mean rooted in glorious COW... Character Oriented Windows... The precursor to Win16/Win32/WinCE and NT which is running on Xbox.