This is no joke, people everywhere are affected by unknowningly overdosing on DHMO. Please check with your local GP if you're experiencing these symptoms:

http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html#SYMPTOMS

Obligatory MTV awards video where Jim Carrey says the same thing (towards the end.. but the entire thing is hilarious): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7c4PDvBVoY

Yeah we are here.. I'm a developer here too who rarely posts. The thing is, I come here for the sometimes interesting, informative and well-vetted news article summaries, but it's the informed comments from other devs that I stay for. UnknownSoldier is dead on about the facts and speculation.. it's easier to speculate than to talk truth, and reading nothing but spec gets old, fast.

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Thanks a lot for submitting this, it was awesome to see!

I can't believe there were only 721 games for SNES. I would have guessed that it was... OVER 9000

Or more interesting projects, or a change of scenery, or a different culture, or etc? No one but Guido and probably the people close to him can know exactly why he went to Dropbox from Google. People changes jobs all the time for a variety of reasons. I don't think we can assume it is just because of perks.

Just curious, are you talking about this quote?:

"And how are monopolies lost? Think about it. Some very good product people invent some very good products, and the company achieves a monopoly. But after that, the product people aren't the ones that drive the company forward anymore. It's the marketing guys or the ones who expand the business into Latin America or whatever. Because what's the point of focusing on making the product even better when the only company you can take business from is yourself? So a different group of people start to move up. And who usually ends up running the show? The sales guy. John Akers at IBM is the consummate example. Then one day, the monopoly expires for whatever reason. But by then the best product people have left, or they're no longer listened to. And so the company goes through this tumultuous time, and it either survives or it doesn't. Look at Microsoft — who's running Microsoft? (interviewer: Steve Ballmer.) Right, the sales guy. Case closed. And that's what happened at Apple, as well."

Citation: http://allaboutstevejobs.com/sayings/stevejobsquotes.php

You missed a post a few parents up.. Yes, there wouldn't be any non-manufacturer dealerships for the manufacturers to compete with. Instead, they would be competing with other manufacturers.

Very interesting article.. For those that didn't read the article, I really like how Moon emphasizes the difference between what has been done before and what he has done. What was accomplished earlier was the construction of gates, circuits and complex systems from non-living material, silicon... But what he has accomplished is the intellectual breakdown of an already living system, and the use of that knowledge to manipulate and prove that he can control it by reproducing the gates and circuits we use for modern technology. I say it while biting my cheek, but hopefully this will also lead eventually to complex, controlled biological systems. Looks like there are still hurdles to go over, but definitely bravo so far.

Kind of raises a pretty important question, though: if and when complex systems start growing, and if AI and robots are created from them.. Will they still be just robots, or will they be living organisms? Man what I wouldn't give to hear Isaac Asimov talk about that for 5 minutes.

Space is a vast desert? I can see your point of view, but I think it is too easy to point to somewhere we've never been and say, "Yeah, there's nothing we need/want over there". Think about what world we would be living in if we closed down Bell Labs for practical or promised short term payoffs for the investor. I can't really speak for you, but I like what our technological advancements have done for us.. sure there has been bad, but there has also been a lot of really, really good. Healthcare. Faster, safer airplanes. More reliable, faster cars. The internet. Telephones. I would have had 2 less years with my mom if it weren't for all those advances. I think we need to look beyond the tools we have at our disposal and keep allowing ourselves to dream and discover. Money is, and hopefully will remain, a tool, not an end in life.

You're saying religion isn't? I'd like to hear what the current presidental nominees have to say about that.

No way.. I think pretty much ANYONE would be more productive working a 35 hour week spread over 5 days than a 25 - 40 hour split up over 2 or 3 days.. maybe a few might be able to squeak some marginal improvement over 4. I think you are underestimating rest and order of operations. I know at the very least I start feeling the hurt after 8 hours of programming, and I REALLY start dragging ass at 12.

Who said I thought the Bill of Rights grants rights? I was pointing out a flaw in what I see as the mindset driving the OPs statement, and now the responses to my post. I think you, and many of the responses here to this article, are just assuming we have these things that don't exist until questioned. I believe the same thing as the person in the post above about the Wright brothers and their right to fly without a permit.. before a permit for flying was even thought up We don't know if we have a right to something until that right is questioned in court, and then deemed necessary to be controlled by law. If it is determined that it is a right, then that court case and its result is the only thing standing as future testament to it being a right (though it can be challenged.. where as a law has more weight, and is more difficult to challenge). I think it's foolish to assume everything not explicitly stated/limited is a right.. the truth is: it MAY be a right, but won't truly be until it has stood up to the scrutiny of the courts and/or lobbyists.