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The serpentine (Crinkle crankle) wall that can be seen in pictures seems quite out of place in a city from 3000 years ago.

yes -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_antenna

I wonder if you could use an air "force field" to capture the rocket. e.g. a circular arrangement of air turbines, dynamically adjusted to smoothly capture and land the rocket. Has something like this been tried?

Dumb question: why can't they land (drop) into a large pool filled with some inert liquid?

Oops. Fixed.

Their kitchen sink demo is really slow on my Touchpad with CM9 alpha0.6.

I wonder why Google didn't also bid on Novell's patents when they were up for sale. CPTN Holdings, a Microsoft-led group that includes Apple, EMC, and Oracle is currently in the process of buying 882 of Novell’s patents.

"We noticed over the last couple of years that the Java developer community — unlike the .NET developer community — was starting to experiment with dynamic languages."

What? He must have missed IronPython and IronRuby. IronPython's performance has been far superior to Jython primarily because of the dynamic language support in CLR. Unfortunately, MS seems to have abandoned these efforts.

This post is a great rebuttal to those who think that Google is becoming a lumbering giant. I wonder how long it would have taken Microsoft to respond to a similar situation.

EnterpriseDB is essentially an Oracle-compatible PostgreSQL. Unfortunately, however, its not open source. I guess Google can buy them and open source their software just to piss off Oracle.

Their original business was typewriters and tabulating equipment. They should have stuck with that :)

Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook. So, you do need to worry about who you disclose your ideas to.