...is about the only thing that might turn me into an Apple user.

I mean, we always want to blame our failures on something...

When I first read this headline I panicked. I thought, "I'm 34! I'm at the top of my game, I've never been this good at software development and I'm hitting my shelf life in a year?!?!" That was a terrifying thought!

What I *love* is the art and craft of software design and implementation, and I sure as hell don't want to be a manager. After reading your responses I now know that I won't have to give up what I love just to stay employed. *phew*

Just like electricity you sometimes need common sense to ground a room full of geniuses. Unfortunately if geniuses are all you hire, you get some whacky results...

We're the insensitive clods :-(. I find this so embarrassing - SOPA has like 15% public support and we're pushing it on other countries? *sigh* The worst part is that even though we can vote in new politicians, our electorate is completely broken; and I have no idea how to fix that...

It's a tremendously stupid waste of resources. If you want kids to learn about technology give them a crappy low power device (like a Pentium 1 equivalent) running a low end unix variant. This way, you can give them access to wifi, but the laptop can't do a heck of a lot more than check email and slowly load simple articles. The Internet at large combined with modern distractions is too enticing when you're supposed to be learning geometry. While there are myriad distractions in any learning environment, they'll at least have to learn something to get to 'em.

Heck, the whole reason I learned to program is because I only had access to an older computer no one was writing software for anymore.

Specifically, what I'm saying is that it's very easy to discredit a group of people if they lose control of their own narrative. This is just one place where I don't agree with the approach anonymous is taking (if this is even "officially" them). I'm glad someone is standing up to the banks, but the banks have bullying and stealing down to a science already. Ghandi made a far far bigger difference than someone like Robin Hood could have. I mean, RH was a fictional character, no? So, if he stole money from the rich and gave it to the poor I don't see how on earth they would be able to spend it. I mean, this was a time when trial by water was considered a wholly accurate system of justice. I think OWS was pretty effective at changing the narrative of the entire nation, and all of the terrible things that have happened to the protesters is just making that narrative stronger (and the injustice more pronounced). However, whoever is doing this, just looks like they didn't do their homework - which doesn't strike me as legitimate.

is that pretty much anyone can pretend to represent you...

'Just saying, these are very useful tools - but lack some of the elegance that makes OOP work (misuse of multiple inheritance aside). Some of the design principles that make OOP so great just aren't as readily applicable in functional languages, so while I think they're cool - I'd just assume something more robust mature out of them over time before I adopt them full time.