Athletes degrade somewhat more than programmers do by the age of 40. :-)

I juggle C, Perl, PHP, Java, Fortran, assembly, and a few macro languages most Slashdotters have never heard of in my current position, sometimes in the same day. You need it, I'll code it. If it's something new, I'll learn it and stick it in the toolkit with the other few dozen other languages I've learned on the job over the years...

In the programming world I've been a part of for almost 23 years, "programmer" has actually meant designer, developer, unit and system tester, tech writer, system implementer, and application/system support person as well as level 3 help desk and several other roles.

If you think I'd have been happy being a simple code monkey for two decades, you need help. :-)

There are advantages in having one person able to do the work of a half-dozen others, and someone who does it well can get the job done without having to stretch the work week to unreasonable lengths.

It sounds like some folks simply haven't found a (relatively) sane shop in which to hang their hat, or have never really worked with a good experienced programmer.

I will enthusiastically second Lord of Light. One of my all-time favorites!

Would leading zeros be acceptable? :-)

Wasn't support for older or dying platforms supposed to be one of the advantages of open source?

Do Open Source projects really want to put themselves in the position of being the reason people move to the latest version of the popular proprietary platform?

The internet is accessible to all kinds of machines and operating systems. Just because you're using the latest and greatest popular platform doesn't mean everyone else is. I sometimes use XP, Win2K, Win95OSR2, various flavors of Linux, and even old classics like BeOS 5 from time to time. Why should that concern you?

Luddite. Piffle. Good multithreaded GUI software used to run in 1MB of RAM. I would rather be a luddite than dependent in the horsecrap that substitutes for good software these days. :-)

Not very intuitive for GUI-centric users, which would be a sizable percentage of Ubuntu's target audience.

What spyware is installed on an iPhone out of the box, pray tell?

Unlike most of the Atlanta metro, I have the advantage of NOT having to deal with Georgia Power. :-)

Greystone Power uses a seasonal system (summer and winter), and three tiers for residential power for each season.

For wintertime (which is now), they charge USD 0.074/kWh for the first 650, 0.072/kWh for the next 350, and 0.0637/kWh for anything over 1000 kWh.

For summertime, they charge USD 0.074/kWh for the first 650, 0.097/kWh for the next 350, and then 0.108/kWh for anything over 1000 kWh.

There's also a generic $11.75 service charge every month.

If if compare the usability experience of the 1993 WPS on OS/2 and *any* modern Desktop Environment in terms of consistency, accessibility and general performance, WPS beats them all.

You know it. I know it. Sadly, the folks doing interface design for these projects don't know it. :-(

No, some format shifting is explicitly legal. The Philips 765 CD burner that I own, for example, is explicitly intended to convert analog audio from other stereo components into digital and record it on CD, or make digital copies of existing CDs, but it (a) will only burn to CD-R discs which are marked "Digital Music" (making sure the music industry gets a cut of the CD price), and has certain copyright features(SCMS) in place to limit making multi-generation copies.

The Audio Home Audio Recording Act of1992 explicitly allows for such format shifting as long as authorized equipment is used.

Translation: I already have mine. I don't have to care.

I used PROFS/VM (and OV/VM) for a decade, and I've used Notes for almost seven years.

I preferred PROFS by a mile. It had space issues, sure, but at least it would send e-mail reliably and tell you when new messages were in your mailbox in a timely manner. Notes here is terrible ... there is sometimes a 10-15 minute delay between an internal mail being sent and being received, the "new mail" indicator triggers but I have to manually refresh to see the actual messages, etc.

Worst e-mail client I've ever used. I even liked the old "NITS" MAPPER interface to SperryLink better...

Some companies offer a technical track in parallel with the management track so senior employees who wish to advance and remain technical can do so. And even someone who is a "manager" can still keep their hands dirty in some organizations ... my manager just celebrated his 30th anniversary with our company (which wasn't his first programming gig), and he still writes code almost every day. Good code for the most part.

A lot depends on the company you work for and perhaps also the specific area.

Early in 2011, right? Am I gonna have to buy a Roku to do what my 360 can not?