TSMC will have fabs in the US alright but cutting-edge technology will be kept in Taiwan still, so everyone will continue to be dependent on a small island for the foreseeable future unless someone actually manages to compete with them and Intel is very unlikely to be able to do that. You gotta find someone else to root for.

It seems this AI has the appropriate useless skills to get hired by Google.

No, they know western governments will do the same as China and are just sending a message that it'll be difficult for them to do so. The fight between governments and big corporations to see who has more power and control will continue as it always has.

It's not true that most countries in europe have service change included in the bill, quite the opposite actually.

Tips are not supposed to be given only to waiters but also to cooks, dish washers and everyone else who work at the restaurant. They should report it so that everyone gets their share.

OSGi is a mess, I'm glad we're not going to use a runtime solution for something best solved at build time such as modularity for Java.

Eclipse doesn't freeze for years for me and its performance is pretty ok for JavaEE development. I guess people are stuck with this "eclipse is slow" opinion just like some people still think java is slow.

Before all this, people didn't even think about creating a real competitor for Google or Amazon. Now we can expect some real options for these services soon. This is good news for everyone, thank you USA!

Amazon already has an availability zone in São Paulo, Brazil.

Does anyone know about any plans AMD might have to implement that unified memory model in next-gen consoles in desktop PCs?

A little bit off-topic, but worth mentioning, Chris Hadfield has been recording interesting short videos from the ISS about how's life over there: http://www.youtube.com/user/canadianspaceagency

It was fun and useful for me when I wrote some apps for my own use. Now it's useful to compare palm apps with android and iOS apps and see how things changed or didn't.

gog.com is still much better because you don't have to be connected to steam to validate your ownership of a game. You don't have to deal with buggy software and games that don't work correctly with it as bonus. Just double-click the executable and be happy.

Restriction on redistribution of parts of the SDK was already there, the critical section seems to be loading it onto mobile handsets.

I don't think so, they are targeting phonegap which is html, javascript and css only.