I bought a droid X2 not too long ago and it's been a terrible experience. The phone is very sluggish despite having a dual core processor. Starting the camera takes so long that I often don't even try cause it's faster to ask my wife for her iphone and use it. It's also taken them a long time to push out Android updates and I have no idea if they'll ever push out ice cream sandwich for it. This last bit isn't motorola's fault, but the UI is terrible on android.

You're moving the goal posts. Shale oil is not the drilling you were talking about before, and yes we can estimate how much oil is there. How do you think oil companies decide where to drill? Do you think they drill in random places then see how much oil is there? Regarding shale, it's more expensive to extract and more destructive. Whether we make that trade off or not is a different question, but it has nothing to do with your original argument.

that's not true. The amount of oil there won't change that curve. If you think otherwise please show some numbers for the amount of oil there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Oil_Production_and_Imports_1920_to_2005.png Our own oil is running out, and the competition for international oil is rising rapidly. We can't sit on our laurels.

I bought a YUI book from Packt and it wasn't very good either. Never bought another book from them.

my editor shows me if someone fucked up python indenting. begin/end is even easier. I really don't understand the complaint.

scala and clojure requires you to include their jar in order to run. This has a negative impact in some circumstances. Mirah compiles to pure java bytecode and requires to additional libraries to run.

Did you watch the video? He said that you can easily switch to gnome.

I'll bet money there is a correlation between google trends and install base, and google trends is much easier to measure than install base.

It's still more work that gui dev because you have to marshal state between the server and the app, but it's gotten a lot better.

libraries like jquery have been solving this problem for a while.

"I left out one more trait: they don't quit trying even after initial success is achieved." haha, so true. I've known some that lose their money because of this.