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?
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.