DrSprout

Also I have bad knees that make even the mile I walked to the job I just quit a little difficult. I doubt they will ever heal enough that running is a good idea.

I suspect there are lots of nonprofits like this. Or smaller nonprofits that simply don't have websites. Soup kitchens and stuff might not be into the 21st century.

I suspect there are lots of nonprofits like this.

So given that Posterous happily lets Google collect stats about all their users and their business, your hypothesis is patently absurd.

Half of them are carrying video recorders in their pockets. Sure, it's very low-fi stuff, but you're remarkably out of touch if you think that teenagers don't record themselves performing and upload it to YouTube and Facebook.

You know, even with online-play only I might have been compelled to buy SC2, eventually after the price comes down.

But without international play I will have no choice but to schedule when I play around when other people are playing. I stopped gaming regularly when I entered college, and now it's something I do every once in a while, when I need to disappear from life for a while - it's not scheduled, and I don't want to have to worry about scheduling unless I'm scheduling a LAN party. - also an impossibility.

So no dice. I'd rather hack on 0 A.D. http://www.wildfiregames.com/0ad/

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-22-2004/crash-at...

The only thing they are pre-packaging is a link. Yes, it displays the content, but it's no different from any other piece of client software in that regard. They do not pre-package any NYT content, which was what I mean when I said it's only a link.

The ad material is the only place where the NYT might have a case, but it seems pretty clear that was not their issue, or they would have objected to the ad, not the software.

And as for it being at normal data rates on 3G, I'll believe it when I see it. (It can't be free.)

You can't make statements like that until you have a Nexus One running Froyo side-by-side with the new iPhone. Google just introduced a newly optimized Dalvik Virtual Machine, and I expect it will be quite competitive.

Of course, this is on desktop Ubuntu. On my Droid I guess I just use Chrome...

Simply making the declarations that poor people don't want to work, and poor people are generally fat, even if true, ignore sizable quantities of people for whom exercise and healthy eating are not feasible.

Poverty level for a 4-person household (which a single mother with three children would be) is $22,050/year. 3-person is $18,310.

50 hours a week @ $7.25/hr (federal minimum wage) * 52 weeks/year = $18824.

Although, good luck finding 50 hours a week of work in this economy.

And that only applies to US citizens. Never mind undocumented immigrants. (Though many do earn minimum wage and pay taxes.) Restaurants will often split low-income workers to avoid either restaurant giving them more than 40 hours a week, so they can avoid overtime and benefits.

But many of the people you're insulting do not have the luxury of eating healthy meals and going for 30 minute runs every other day.

The big risk though is that depending on how good your understanding of the geology is, this could increase your risk.

Though I suppose it's possible that was a bug in the service management stuff...

I'm filling out a job application that is a Word Document that absolutely vomits when read in OpenOffice. If there were fewer people using Word, they wouldn't be able to get away with that. There's a part of me that doesn't want to work in that sort of shop, but I'm only a year out of college, and if I have to do C# to get a developer position, I'll take that, C# isn't a bad language.

That said, I can't get away with using Linux because of the potential users problem. Now I guess you could call the .doc format an API flexibility problem, but no API is sufficiently flexible that it runs anywhere without testing. There has to be enough of a userbase to justify testing.

The browser is completely inadequate to the task. I don't even think Webkit has the audio input features implemented yet, and if they exist they're completely useless for any real-world applications, especially on a phone.

Telling people to use APIs that don't exist yet is nonsense.

We're quickly getting to the stage where we want these devices talking directly to printers. All of the companies involved want to make sure that as much as possible, printing companies can write one driver and have it work anywhere. Better still would be if no custom driver were needed.

There's also the current issues with upgrading existing devices to newer Android releases. If they can streamline the low-level stuff to get updates out quickly on Google's heels, it will add considerable value to their products.

So there's definitely a lot of motivation for them to clean up the embedded Linux ecosystem.