Padraig

That a couple of scientists said some dumb stuff in private emails does not call into question the entire peer review system.

> Obviously there's a massive body of work out there when it comes to climate science and it would be ludicrous to dismiss it all, but surely it's time to agree that we need a lot more skepticism especially when these claims are being used to advocate policies that will at least cost hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars.

The problem is that more skepticism means less action, and it's obviously very important to act soon. None of these news stories call into doubt the fundamental science (global warming is real, man made and has dire consequences) and we've been doing nothing but debate these established facts for the last 20 years.

George Bush (Senior) knew it in 1989 http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=17765 well before those emails were ever written...

Indeed. Here's an example of it:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/feb/02/frontpagen...

>Whether or not global warming is a real and man-made phenomenon

Well, hang on, the article identifies an an erroneous prediction about the impact of man made climate change. It's a bit of a jump you're making from there to "global warming isn't real" or "the tons of carbon we're emitting aren't what's causing the raise in temperature we're seeing".

Summary: Too much information is bad for you because someone might use it to do something bad.

Bizarre! I guess it could be tempting for long time Cocoa developers who don't already know Rails or PHP? Though if they're building a basic website, rudimentary PHP would be less hassle, and if they're building a web app and want familiar territory, Cappuccino would be a better choice.

The trend in web apps is to do more of the work client side through Javascript (see GWT, SproutCore and Cappuccino) so a new server side framework seems a bit late to the party.

Performance as a result of compiled code seems to be the only real selling point, and in my experience, server-side code performance is not a widespread problem...

I don't begrudge someone hacking together something new for the fun of it, but this comes across as a real company trying to make a profit.

Who's going to actually use this?

The scene you are referring to is pretty blunt alright, but you're twisting it.

The train enters the tunnel at hands of the 'baddies' (the irresponsible incompetents). And the passengers are not 'people critical of aspects of capitalism' (Though we are led to believe that they weren't entirely innocent)

This is different to the 'people critical of aspects of capitalism are sent by train into a tunnel and killed.'

These issues are from Oct 08. I don't know when they were fixed, but touch events and orientation detection work fine in Hahlo (an iPhone web app).

Wilful ignorance indeed!

You don't need a native web app to present content without a network connection. You just need to use the HTML 5 offline application cache thats been in Mobile Safari since iPhone OS 2.1

Offline works perfectly on Mobile Safari.

http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/iPho...