the enterprise accountants aren't interested, so NO ONE is buying.

I maintained that the proper and fitting punishment for Microsoft's losses at their various antitrust trials was to nail their ass to the desktop.

History is proving that I was right.

Microsoft couldn't sell a damn thing to anyone NOT a PC manufacturer.

ENTERPRISE doesn't acknowledge them except as an expense, CONSUMERS have had quite enough of their shoddy products.

There are various diseases, dysmorphia, accidents and disorders that affect how one perceives one's gender and which affect how other's perceive one's gender.

If we want an accurate Object definition for Class>>Gender it has to be implemented to have a pair of small integers as attributes and presented/interacted with as a pair of Sliders.

George Carlin's take on the marketing of unreliable contraception.

I still miss that man's sense of humor...

I'm a fuckin' sadist.

What?

Did ya think I meant my 'nads?

Nah ... Yours ...

I can not imagine any greater waste of bandwidth or disk space than wasting my life with this shit.

"vi" is the thinking person's editor.

make them disappear faster.

FOSS fundamentally negates the need for a BSA.

There have been incidents here of NYCs finast shooting some poor schmucks who were guilty of just answering the front door "while being mexican or of driving a car "while being tipsy and black" and getting themselves shot dead.

"Quis custodiet ipso custodes" indeed.

Does this work for the locks on my house? The dial on my safe?

You're asking this of guys who'll kick down your door if you don't open it fast enough and run in with weapons blazing?

Seriously?

More likely, isn't going to let that stop an idiot like him.

But, whatever happened to Derle anyway?

Maybe he was forced to find honest work? (But his company, ME INC, doesn't even have a web site. :-)

Nahhhh. Never happen.

Microsoft buys you.

Farewell Nook, we hardly knew ya.

The sale of, uh, partnership agreement of the Nook should shore up B&N for a week or two.

Which is not going to stand you in good stead.

What if you only have an iPhone or an Android phone?

it's not really clear how they could be effectively instructed

That's actually a failure of your imagination, not the students'.

Your attitude would have kept me hauling boxes at Standard Brands, instead of traveling on both sides of the pond doing object-oriented programming and writing articles.

these days it's increasingly eccentric to live that deep in the bush.

And how do you force where your student's parents might have had circumstances force them to live.

Genius has bugger all to do with geography.

You have very little to teach me, and it doesnt sound like you're anything but a negative example.

I'm sorry, for you.

the exciting revenue possibilities of distance learning? (And distance billing?)

As an academic, you do realize that your department can be restructured, your job can be re-evaluated, and the face-to-face Socratic teaching model you seem so fond of is going the way of the Tasmanian tiger.*

What you "feel" is not as important as what you "know."

Your teaching method of letting learning happen by "rubbing up against a problem" is extremely expensive in terms of time and resources.

In a country as vast and as spottily populated as Australia, where even the doctors sometimes have to fly to their next patient, telepresence is so much more efficient.