Nonsense. Marriage pre-dates religion. Google it if you want some arguments for and against that stance if you want.

This is my feeling on it too. These stories have long since passed the point of usefulness and any humour which was present has long since gone. Time to give it up.

It takes adjustment and patience - I've been doing it for 15 years now and there's no way I could possibly go back to a shared office.

My suggestions:

1. use chat clients, not email - they're more personal and frequently funnier
2. try to have a group chat channel for the whole team
3. have regular (daily) calls - we have daily scrum meetings these days, and that helps a lot to keep you in the loop
4. separate your work, hobbies and life as much as possible - you cannot possibly work if you're constantly being distracted

That's a bit silly - you can turn off location services you know. What if you really do want the delivery and you're away from home? Presumably all you'd need to do is turn on the service, and once you've got it, turn it back off again.

The current generation of kids do, just as the current generation of parents and grand parents do. This doesn't seem to me like a mix that will survive long - FB will eventually split into an adult only thing with the following generation gravitating to something else, and thus will eventually whither and die.

I think the article is generally right - a large group will eventually split into many groups, be it by age, common interests or as a reaction to a lack of privacy and against the 'establishment' in general.

Yes, it was the latter I was referring to.

And on the other end of the scale, you can't ship closed source products with GPL. This kind of "restricted freedom" isn't purely a google thing, and nor is it all bad.

Definitely agree with this. Commented out code can be a severe aggravation, and not just for source control - searches can also bring up false positives. Better to clean it out entirely at the earliest opportunity.

Because I would rather they supported Linux.

Indeed. I don't see the problem anyway - just because it's based on free software does not mean it's free to produce a good product. I'm in the market for a new laptop and may even consider this one - but if it too comes with bloatware/shovelware, I'll probably avoid it...

For me, google docs provides a different service to Office - cross platform collaborative editing. That alone gives it an edge.

If anything, I hope they don't try to compete feature for feature with Office - as it stands, there's such a short learning curve involved to use it which is a great equaliser when it comes to working with people with differing skill sets.

Yeah, this was my first thought too - z80/6502 emulation should be a lot simpler and faster than x86 and could be quite useful.

There's a good way for your eyes to bleed?

... considering only 7 countries are supported, not everyone I know in the EU has the option (including myself).

I'd guess that the hardware is subsidized by the increase in turn over from iTunes and the App Store - probably selling the iPad at close to cost price knowing that they'll make the money back through use.