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> Which means nothing.

It means that the OPs implied assertion that I fit his (probable) stereotype of the ignorant gringo is obviously incorrect.

> the viewpoint of the MAJORITY of population of said countries

Not sure how you get that, or even what it means, really.

> You should live outside USA for a while

That's amusing, considering I was born in Mexico. Keep trying to 'school' me though, you're doing great.

To paraphrase Jamie Zawinski, all online conversations about geopolitics expand until the United States is at fault.

Even in Visual Studio that's not true, at least not for me. Just move the cursor to the symbol in question, hit the menu key and select the 'Go to definition' or whatever menu item. Or better yet, map it to something like Ctrl+] which I usually do.

You seem to come across as petulant rather than someone who is challenging an entrenched competitor with innovation or whatever. Less talking, more doing. Just a thought.

That was a shame. I'm still using Winamp 2.81 (from 2002, 10 years ago). As long as it continues to work on Windows, I'll never let it go. Never could get used to the later versions.

Go troll somewhere else.

You can say the same about just any other politician. They all made (and make) mistakes and stumble. The key is how history judges them. In the case of Reagan I think history is pretty clear about what he accomplished and what he didn't. Notice I said "I think" because that's just my opinion; everyone is entitled to one. Informed opinions are not embarrassing. Waving your arms and pushing your own absolutes on other people however can be quite so.

Conspiracy theories aside, WebGL is more a threat to the Adobe Flash monopoly than anything else.

> you will see WebGL games starting to take down PC games sales

More like Angry Birds and whatnot... we're a long way from running something like Skyrim or Call of Duty on a browser.

They'll simply report they haven't been able to implement the report, someone will get a slightly lower evaluation score and life.gov will go on as usual.

Strictly speaking, I would leave for two monitors rather than a big one. Productivity-wise I find that makes all the difference. But the point about the engineering culture is certainly valid.

That's a lot of jobs, even accounting for the fact that companies of that size often announce X number of positions eliminated to make investors happy but a lot of attrition ends up being "internal displacements" and accelerated retirements with chunky severance packages. Nearly 10% of a total workforce is nothing to sneeze at.

I typed "semen", "goat cheese" and "monkey wrench" expecting a serious answer. Not disappointed.

Good luck hitting a whitetail at 400 yards with one of those.

Actually prior to the dark ages most programming answers (for me at least) were to be found on the Deja USENET archives.

I'm not implying that nothing has changed with Linux, just with its situation in the desktop.

I stand corrected, thank you. I thought it was far higher.

> To apple's credit, they've provided a web standards based browser

If Microsoft did that with IE, would you then be OK with it? Or why give Apple a pass based on that?

> What monopoly do they have?

Do they not have what is essentially a monopoly on the tablet space? I'm not up to date on Android tablet market share, but it seems to me that there isn't so much a market for tablets as there is one for iPads. Everything else is pretty much nonexistent. I might be wrong about that, I guess.

Surely you must realize that this is the same argument people have been making for close to 15 years, and not much has changed. So that should answer your question about the OPs point.

"HackerNews isn't Reddit", until it is.

One of these days it's going to be for real and I wonder how many of his fans will be enraged when someone says something like "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone".

Just out of curiosity, how is that different than, say, Rob Weir's (IBM employee) opinion taken pretty much as fact by everyone on the ODF/OOXML conflict, or for that matter why do we accept Pamela Jones' analysis and opinions if she is so clearly biased against Microsoft?

I believe he cashed out quickly (before the stock tanked during the crash) unlike ESR who just wrote articles about how awesome it felt to be a millionaire and then watched his money disappear.

I remember at the time on Slashdot the comment du jour was that Torvalds dumping his RHT did not reflect well on the future of Linux as a product. Not a popular view, although obviously RedHat eventually came back with a vengeance. The problem was that the stock was incredibly inflated, so I was always of the opinion that it was the right thing to do for him.

Don't forget the eponymous "Under construction" animated gif. The halcyon days of web design.

The one I love is when I create a playlist, verify it has songs in it (on iTunes), sync my iPod and the playlist is empty. Completely empty.

Then the duplicate playlists that appear out of nowhere for whatever reason. But they're only duplicated on the device.

Then there's the need to use a third-party hack to detect and remove dead tracks, or add new ones when I'm not purchasing musing from iTunes. As far as Apple is concerned, I must purchase my music from them, not from Amazon. So something so mundane as a folder watch isn't needed.

It's unfortunate that we love the devices but have no choice but to put up with the horrid crap that is the software.

A few months ago I was about to buy a 80s compilation album in MP3 format from Amazon based on nothing more than the names of the songs, when I noticed one of the reviews (not even the top one) was complaining about how these were not the original artists. Sure enough I played a few of the samples and I realized that while the songs (and lyrics) were generally the same, not only the pitch was all wrong on some of them, but the voices and instruments were all kind of "off". Needless to say I ended up not buying the album.

I think Amazon needs to allow these things on their catalog but at the same time they need to be more clear about the fact that these are either not originals or (in the case of the books) that they're really rip-offs of popular media. It's fairly obvious that these are little more than scams, but the no-returns-allowed electronic format itself and the fact that the amounts involved are small probably plays a part in preventing people from complaining too much once they realize that they've fallen for it.

Not sure this is a valid analogy at all; PHP is a tool, not a type of problem (insert joke here), so rather it would be a choice between brands or types of screwdrivers.

A lot of enterprises use SiteMinder (aka ChannelSecure), which used to be Netegrity's before they got bought out by CA. It supports both Apache and IIS, although I'm not 100% sure what the policy servers run on, it might be Windows. But I have seen LAMP apps that integrate with it, for example. It really is just an intercept-and-forward system that functions as a module on the web server and puts a few things on the HTTP headers to allow apps to handle authorization by themselves.

Well, the content is definitely recycled.