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.

It can be done without functional programming, see D's immutable keyword and thread-local instead of global variables by default. It seems the results of this research would fit very well in D rules.

You may want to give Netvibes (http://www.netvibes.com/) a try.

The general public in the world doesn't give much thought to anyone having that information.

But changing your name can make you lose some good reputation/respect you've built under the old name.