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Which city in Canada is the best for internet startups, considering abundance of talent, a startup culture...?

Edit: Thanks to all those who gave in input.

Hi,

I am a novice programmer, currently self-learning, would really like to understand Object Oriented Programming well. Can anyone suggest some books that are good at explaning OOP for beginners?

Thanks for the help in advance.

Windows beat Apple to market share by involving a whole bunch of customers,licensing out the product, involving a whole bunch of potential partners in the development process.

Isn't the same thing happening with the Iphone and Android? Apple is still bessotted with control, and Android is riding on the shoulders of a half a dozen equipment partners.

Whom do you think will be ahead 5 years down?

Or is it a unified term that we like to use for a concept with lot more factors at work than we care to acknowledge? say like the way we use the word "God" to explain anything that we can't explain, don't know yet or not ready to examine further in depth?

Could it be actually the curiosity gene that researchers should look for instead of intelligence gene? or is it the impatience gene?

Without curiosity, what would be the chance of one accumulating enough knowledge that one can connect as a complex idea to 'show intelligence'?

Or is it the obseessive observation gene? without that tendency to look at things longer and deeper than the average looker, would one be able to observe things beyond the superficial that most people seem satisfied with?

It is said that intelligent people get easily bored, could it be the other way round? Could it be that bored people can tend to keep digging deeper or keep digging around more, keep discovering more knowledge/information that way, which they can connect later? And the more connections they make or hold in their brains and present them to the world, the more intelligent they are percieved?

Or is it an adventurouse gene? the readiness to break traditions and look at things in a way different than what is considered the 'norm'? the readiness to connect thigns in a way different than the norm and see how the result looks?

Any thoughts?

(Edit: in a way can't adventurousness be called being curious? the curiousity to see what happens when one tries something that they have never tried, whether in terms of beliefs, trains of thoughts, ideas, food, places, actions or whatever?)

An idea has been stirring in my grey mash for a while, got no way I can follow it up. But, I was wondering what you would think of it:

A large monitor(extension) for a small laptop.

This was a an issue I wrestled when I bought my last laptop. I loved the small laptops but hated their small monitor size. I like the low weight, but am addicted to screen space. Not having enough monitor space just brings down my productivity and its just so tiring toggling between windows.

So, I thought, why can't be there be a light and thin portable monitor? something that has a monitor cable for getting the display info and a usb cable for the power supply. Something that can be either just clipped over the original laptop monitor or be propped up to the side of the laptop, to enable the use of both monitors at the same time.

I don't think its impossible to make a 15" portable monitor that is not more than 5mm to 8 mm thick, with a stiff enough case to safely carry it around.

But, the big question - would there be a market for such a product?

Any thoughts?