I contribute to different charities.

I don't think we need to be able to better treat diseases to counteract aging. Aging happens to us from the day we're born for 90-100 years max. Slowing down that process so that it takes 300 years to do the same thing, seems achievable without messing with heart disease or cancer. It's no guarantee anyone will live that long, and in fact, the further out we extend it the more likely accidents, or heart disease, or cancer will pay a role, and less likely anyone will be able to achieve max lifespan - but at least it's a possibility.

Yeah, it's because of their simple computer line-up that was on the brink of bankruptcy just a few years ago - nothing to do with practically inventing 3 product categories: mp3 players, smartphones, smarttablets - and riding that wave back to the shore of their computer lineup.

Flamebait?? That's a funny well placed reference. What kind of draconian moderating is that? Someone with mods fix it. (I'm not the poster, just a good samaritan)

Why is the pistol broken! It was a great utility weapon and a sad day when I found out how much they crippled it in the sequels...

I'm pretty sure you haven't actually - oh yeah I forgot, it's cool to randomly trash Microsoft.

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I'm not pro-war, but I sure as hell will be happy that war allowed us to developed the nuclear bomb when aliens invade. So I say release it - knowledge is impossible to contain - we are better off adapting to it early.

Thank god these forces weren't around when Curt Cobain was weighing the cost/benefit of pursuing his MBA or being a heroine-addicted iconic rock star...

Listen to child

I'm an openly rabid pirater and I still go to the movies for the social experience, the quality and mainly the popcorn :) Studios are realizing this, and innovating accordingly with more movies in 3D, more movies in imax, and theaters that actually serve dinner during the movie (great experience by the way). Movies routinely make hundreds of millions of dollars more than their cost in boxoffice dollars alone. The incentive to make big budget movies will be there for a long time to come.

Interesting, citation pls.

You're 100% right - luckily it's anonymous...

That's not necessarily true in the cloud. Consider a site that processes 100 requests per second, and on every request the site needs the same 100 row recordset. If you had a traditional, fixed-cost, non-cloud environment, and the site was performing nicely, it wouldn't matter whether that recordset was being pulled from the db on every request or from cache or wherever.

In a cloud environment like Amazon's, however, you are charged for all transfer and requests in and out of the db. So even if your site is fast, there may be a very compelling monetary argument to optimize that process by having it come from ram rather than hit the database.

At 100 requests/second and if the data were only updated monthly, you could be paying many orders of magnitude more money by not spending that tiny bit of developer time.

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The cloud is nothing more than a datacenter, only as much as twitter is nothing more than updating your finger file

If you are talking pure theory, and have infinite resources, I believe it is technically possible to perfectly duplicate the windows API (not sure about legal challenges). But if you had anything less than infinite resources, there will always be at least one obscure incompatibility because of the infinite ways all the pieces can interconnect. Just my opinion, no sources.