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> But there are noticeable differences in how schools are operated in Finland ("The Finnish philosophy with education is that everyone has something to contribute and those who struggle in certain subjects should not be left behind.") that should be looked at in trans-national comparisons.

Is that philosphy actually unique? (Since Finland is relatively small, I'm willing to believe that that philosophy is uniformly applied, but real scientists would check.)

> common characteristics in math textbooks across languages and common characteristics in elementary school classrooms. Those characteristics are very important to look at if they result in success across varied world cultures.

Yup. Also, one might want to look at what works in different cultures. (It may be that some things work in a lot of cultures, but not all. It may be that some things only work in certain cultures. And so on.)
^^^^^ As a parent you'd be amazed at how many people think their kid is special because they can do one thing that other babies at that age don't. Things like, "He walked before other babies","She started talking at a few months","She eats normal food and can hold a spoon". My wife fell into this trap when kids his age were walking or talking and he was just scooting along. I told her I'd worry about it if he's still crawling at 18.

As long as the pediatrician tells me he's healthy that's good enough for me.
There's also the Wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/F_Sharp_Programming
Your statement is glib and unproductive. Obviously there are advantages to homogeneous societies. There are advantages to heterogeneous societies, which the U.S. is a pretty good example of. The point is not which is "better", but what lessons can we take to improve the things in our society which are deficient?

Education in the U.S. is currently deficient, and we should look at why and how and try to find out what works. Unfortunately, it's tricky to run experiments in education, because of political considerations and largely because the result has real effects on people's lives, but it's what needs to be done to improve.
There are millions of people using Linux. A few percentage of desktop users worldwide is not an insignificant number.
Why is this useful? (I'm not a designer and I have no idea what problems are even in this space.)
Lowers risk of heart disease or stroke instead. Sounds good to me!
The sim is faster, by far.

The sim does oodles more video formats than the phone does

You can't test in-app purchase on the sim

You can't test accelerometer on the sim

You can't test notifications on the sim.
Could anyone give some examples of instructions which are easily implemented in F# and would be really hard to implement in C#? From what I see here, F# seems nice and clean, but does not add a lot of value compared to LINQ-powered C#.
The intro books by Smith ("programming F#", Oreilly) and Pickering (Beginning F#", Apress) are excellent, too. They were published last October and December, and cover what will be in VS 2010
It was ridiculous to ship Ubuntu with a default search engine that basically is or will be powered by windows when the superior alternative is powered by Linux, but I suppose the bluff worked.
You're actually the prime candidate for jailbreaking your phone. Then you can put your apps on your phone.