william42

It's the developers who flood with angry complaints. And yes, they did. It's called Netscape.

Apple doesn't control the Internet, and while HTML5 has its own limitations, you could still probably port Logo to it, especially since Logo isn't all that complicated.

Given that unelected judges often seem to have more respect for liberty than elected Congressmen, I'm not so sure.

But that's because there weren't full-length feature films for Mac+.

Monsanto is one of the biggest pushers for and beneficiaries of corn subsidies, and corn subsidies are one of the biggest examples of corporate welfare in existence.

Does Microsoft still run their sites on Akamai? I know Facebook does.

In theory, it is, but in practice, the Green Revolution hybrid(very carefully cross-bred) seeds required you to get new seeds every year, because the seeds you'd get from your harvest would be cross-pollinated improperly. GMO could possibly bridge this gap, but you don't want GM crops cross-pollinating with everyone else's, if only because if it cross-pollinates with an organic farmer's crops, the latter can lose their organic certification. The solution to this is the terminator gene, that makes it impossible for such a situation to happen.

I'm not going to support Monsanto's IP actions here, but they aren't pure evil the way, say, De Beers is.

Actually, Monsanto also sells most "conventional"(non-GMO) seeds. It's very difficult not to deal with them, as they have a near-monopoly. If you're going to look for evil, look there.

But heavy usage of robots and large-scale food growing are exactly what conventional agriculture is about, and small-scale, local, human labor-based growing is the goal of the organic movement.

Not saying that undercutting Monsanto is impossible, but any startup will have an uphill battle to win over "organic" supporters.

If I have to choose between "plant one seed, save some of the harvest, and replant the seeds for next year" and saving the lives of a billion(10^9) people from starvation, I'm picking the latter.

this is what the Green Revolution did.

Which boxes does it actually check?

Yeah, it'd be much better to plunge the economy back into the apartheid-era embargo days* and let AIDS ravage the country even more.

*It was "cowardice" in the face of economic reprisal that was responsible for the end of apartheid, I might add.

I wonder what their response would be if you kept calling in each month to get the free month...

Isn't Erlang the oldest language out of the ones we're talking about?

Apple's internal design was a mess pre-OSX though. Still kind of is. Apple's praised for end-user interface design.

It strikes me as unfortunate that someone would have to force payment on their users just to be compensated for their work developing an application.

Would you bother to donate? Or are you only willing to give money to musicians in the form of buying music?

Who here has seen the webcomic world? Quite a few webcomic artists make enough money to support themselves through donations and the selling of merchandise.

But Jobs took credit for the work of others(Wozniak) too.

I think he means that the design of the site is better if you have a not-so-good connection, as HN is much lighter in the HTML department.

You're missing the fact that it's about music piracy.

I want the federal government to fund the school system; I'm neutral towards federal standards, although we already have those in the form of NCLB.

The current system ensures that the people who need the most help get the least.

The answer is to stop funding schools locally. Until that's done, nothing we do education-wise matters.

Can you elaborate more on the circumstances in which it happened?

Flashblock is a wonderful thing.

Chromium is open-source just like Firefox is.

It screams "Gradius" to me.

Seems buggy to me; it doesn't register my like and unlike very well.

I dislike this. It gives me no actual information.

That sort of amortization is how the publishing industry for books works, IIRC; most books lose money, but the few successful ones make up for it.