I have to assume this was sarcasm because even the relatively svelte google home page on a PC is 50K, not including external resources like images, scripts or CSS.

Granted a mobile specific page would be smaller but 160 bytes is pretty limited, and from my own experience, I do not think SMS message order is in any way guaranteed and in some rare cases I have had messages take several *hours* to get to their destination.

I guess you could try a secondary browser like Dolphin.

I guess you could try downloading the Kindle app and getting The Economist through that.

Or you could just sell your tablet on e-bay to someone who wants it and go buy your iPad

You have students, and you seem to think seeing more people writing in paper notebooks than using tablets in somehow a knock on tablets?

Do more people use pen and paper than netbooks in your classes? Does that damn netbooks to irrelevancy?

Five years ago far fewer people had smart phones, would a "I don't know anyone who has a smartphone" argument from back then seem prescient now?

Tablets will not be as common as smartphones, but they will be something you see more often. More often than netbooks, that is certain.

But maybe one of his neighbors is technically inclined and changed it as a gag?

And eating :)

I could be wrong, but that window on the Bel Air isn't breaking like I would expect an original to.

Funny, the "demo scene" link mentions how the old-timers are frustrated by the newcomers.

If you want to learn something to an extreme and have it be relevant 20 years later, become a carpenter or a stone mason, stay out of software.

And to be clear, I am not ripping on carpenters or stone masons, just that if you get into software, understand that 90% of what you know at any point in time is going to be useless 20 years later.

Take an expert in DOS interrupts, BIOS minutae, 80386 code optimization, utilizing EMS and XMS memory from 1991 and transport him through time to today. He could very well be immediately unemployed for a significant amount of time. And of course, if smart and adaptive that person can learn new things.

My point is, you can't stick a pole in the ground and say, "this is it, MASM, Visual C++ 1.5 and MFC, thats it! I don't have to learn anything else! Time to start memorizing the instruction set!"

Now I am not saying not to learn something to an extreme either, just don't expect relevancy 20 years hence.

Extremely Lazy Coding. And stop looking at .NET's ass.

If I write a web app in ASP.NET, I am really not that concerned about cross platform. My clients can be running IE, Safari, Firefox, Chrome. Opera, KDE Konqueror, whatever, I try and make sure they all work, and on smartphone/tablet browsers too. As long as the browser is a relatively modern version (say within last 4 years). So I can't run the web server on another OS, I am not concerned.

If I generate a report for example it is HTML or PDF, not XPS or XLS, again, trying to support many clients

As for running .NET apps *on the client*, most Microsoft developers I know have dropped that (or try too) if possible. Even then, if they just want to support Windows clients they should use Silverlight. The ease of upgrading web apps compared to client installs on myriad machines alone is enough to give up any extra ease of development a WPF or WinForms app may offer, but I don't think I am offering any insight there, this has been the mindset for several years now.

mint money instead of print it?

I bought "The Matrix" on DVD years ago, first DVD purchase I ever made. Recently I bought it on Blu-Ray just to get a clear feeling for what the "real world" difference is between the formats. Wow - what can I tell you, Fishburne is one pock-marked mofo. I mean, you knew that on the DVD version, but you get it in incredible detail on Blu-Ray.

Well thankfully, Google wasn't run by MBA graduates

"No one is better at anything than anyone (especially me). They were just lucky and in the right place at the right time. Anyone could have done it, really." Soon to be followed by the reasoning "It isn't fair, we should all have what they do, just luck I say, let us form a committee to redistribute the wealth"

There are multiple definitions for geek, in her case it would be "an enthusiast or expert" but not in technology. The "especially" clause does not limit that definition to technology.

The "peculiar and unlikeable" definition is when the word is intended as an insult. In my time, that was when it was yelled at someone on the school playground just before they got beaten up, but maybe times have changed. Probably not. Ok so I got beat up.

Yes Microsoft is embracing HTML5 and Javascript and JQuery, but does that mean the end of .NET? Those technologies are client side/browser technologies. .NET will still be used on the server side, just like it is today and has been. Yes Silverlight (as a WEB client) will be impacted but that is it. It does not mean .NET/C# is going away anymore than Javascript/HTML5 is going to make Java or PHP go away.