Apple's Mac OS is a steady eddy. Compared with it, other UNIX siblings, such as Ubuntu, aren't as user-friendly.

How can people bear with the wry fact that China, whose GDP per capita is merely about one sixth of that of the U.S., is the single nation who holds the most American government bonds?

How come the capitalism system wrings people's hearts and makes them on their nerves from time to time, its efficiency and effectiveness aside?

Anyways, it's a grand game.

Given Canadians' easy mobility into the U.S., why haven't the talents drained in Canada after so many years?

Wow. I didn't know that Somalia, the country which is currently suffering the big famine, is very largely Muslim.

Does that fact have something to do with the historical influences of the Umayyad Caliphate, a huge ancient Arab empire? Or with those of some other Persian or Arab empire(s)?

The U.S. has been thrashing some Arab nations all these decades, why exactly?

Almost everyone is an armchair CEO. They can dress down companies' acts and management.

Unfortunately, I suspect I'm one of them too. :-)

They backed out of the deal. And everyone just moved on.

From a company's perspective, how to avoid jading its software developers?

In the current economic climate, if something happens to the economies of the so-called BRIC nations, will the world go into a long-standing funk?

That would be tough.

Well, I don't know how galled many middle-aged and old-aged Canadians are with lay-offs. Some of them must be fairly galled.

You iterate, you recur. Over time, you develop.

I don't know. The value of many people's lifetime work just goes astray time and time again in the highly volatile securities markets in which the pension funds and pensioners themselves heavily invest into. Has the value vaporized or been turned into the hands of speculators, market middlemen, or some other party?

How will the possible eventual dismantlement of RIM look like? Anyway, what a loss for Canada as a nation.

It's been reported that beside the presence of an Apple store knockoff in China, there's also a knavish Ikea store copycat in China. Gee.

I want to study orbs and orbits, from the mathematical perspective.

Are those termed as "spheres" in Mathematics? I did my high school in China, so I don't know the exact English names of those mathematical objects.

Pic - Tellus (a.k.a. Terra)

(By ortygia / http://www.flickr.com/photos/roger_ulrich/4187205643/ / CC)

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Ara Pacis: Tellus Relief

From the east side of the Augustan altar of Peace (Ara Pacis) in Rome. Roman marble relief of "Tellus" (the identification is controversial). A velate female holds two babies; personifications of winds (aurai) flank her.

Date: 13-9 B.C. Set up in honor of Augustus.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/roger_ulrich/4187205643/

In Roman mythology, Tellus, a.k.a. Terra, is a goddess personifying the Earth.

By the way, I suspect that the Telus Corporation, one of the few big telecom carriers in Canada, is named after the ancient Roman goddess Tellus.

Old age comes anon. That for sure will be how I'll feel.

I'm especially intrigued by the notion of the dissipation of economic rents in Economics. That must be positively related to competition in the marketplace.

In addition, the economies of scope also somewhat intrigues me.

It's been said that lots of people experienced glee when they saw Murdoch is in trouble due to the scandal of his News of the World paper.