It's not obfuscated, it's condensed to run faster. Also, it's a x86 emulator, it's pretty much obfuscated for 99.99999999999999999999999999% of humans.

You have to explain this, please. A vendor with a political incorrect logo? That guy should have an MBA at least!

Man, I had to touch a W7 machine for the first time because of this stupid malware. A coworker who doesn't use Linux at the office clicked on one of those pop-ups and she asked me the same thing. I told her to never click on anything because she doesn't have any firewall, antivirus, etc... oh! and to use Firefox.

I don't know about my grandma' but my 4 years old daughter is pretty proficient with lubuntu: play media (pocoyo and stuff) from a home NAS, browse her favorite (with marquee plug-in) children game sites, change the look&feel... all this in a pretty old Dell P4 box with 256MB, 20GB and Hello Kitty stickers that took me 30 minutes to clean (it had an old W2K install), install and configure. So yes, it's simpler, more intuitive and closer to people.

BTW, who runs gedit from the CLI? Damn Microsoft fan-boyz.

I also like how Groovy handles getters and setters. Much nicer than Java IMHO.

Software is not a final product and that's the problem many managers can't figure out. There should be an initial analysis and an architecture, but if you don't have code, how are the coders supposed to know what they have to do?
Give 6 months at least for each member to know about the business while they do their job: code. Let the application evolve and don't waste your first million on analysis and architecture, because it WILL change, not only because of requirements from the client, but also from other decisions (shall we use PHP or Java?) that can eventually come back and bite you in the ass.

And he doesn't seem to know about 'ls'. If I was sitting next to this guy, I would mash his head on the keyboard.

The thread will collapse to a CSS black hole.

Well, they broke the RSS, so comments don't show in GReader. But, on the other hand, I really like this new replying box and buttons.

I don't want to criticize on the US, but really, software patents are stupid as they are right now.

What pisses me off the most, is that as with pushing your so call "democracy" your government also tries to influence other countries into accepting this stupid IP laws (Fuck ACTA!), with the corporate giants kicking its ass into it. You have your laws, fine with it, leave other sovereign states handle their own and don't do the dirty job of your industry and for free.

Yeah, because most of those critical apps made for W2k and XP are going to work in W7. Oh! And those nifty documents you made in Office 2003, no luck either, they look like shit in Office 2007, and this has been the same with each new Office version.
At least with gnucalc and abi word you get consistency.

I just saw a show on the Discovery channel about this big coal plant, which using different methods managed to produce very low emissions and filtering a near by river's water. This plant produced the same amount of energy produced by thousands of cars with a very high efficiency.

COBOL?

Tell me, how is Scala supposed to work if, for some reason, some of the features it uses, go to the pay-to-use JVM?

I used MSIE8 the other day and after what, twenty years, this stupid piece of corporate crap doesn't even support SVG. Come on!