Creationism dismissed as ‘a kind of paganism’ by Vatican’s astronomer: Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at the end of the day is a kind of paganism – it’s turning God into a nature god. And science needs religion in … Read more
There May Be an End-run for Apple Around Windows After All: A souped-up OS X kernel with native Windows API support and the prospect of mixing and matching Windows and Mac applications would be, for many users, the best of both worlds. There would be no copy of Windows XP to buy, no large overhead … Read more
How Piracy Opens Doors for Windows: The proliferation of pirated copies nevertheless establishes Microsoft products — particularly Windows and Office — as the software standard. I could not agree more — this is exactly what I have been seeing in Russia, and it really is annoying. One would think that a country that is (used … Read more