The user base is significant (and the private information that comes with it) but I agree that there's a tech bubble many times bigger than the 98's. I wonder how much will the big investors get out of it before it bursts.

I hope no one hits CTRL+C

I'm not Christian, but the place looks pretty cool :D

Was it a poem? :D Well, on a serious note, it's kind of what Microsoft did back in the day (and still does somehow), or even Borland. It's a good strategy. In my company, we use CentOS for testing purposes, but in actual deployments we recommend our customers to get RHEL and buy support from the original developers of all the other open source components we use, if it applies.

They're free whatever they want. I don't care. I'm off, that's all.

Can't you find a second-hand sliders? Even the good old Nokia 8110 is still for sale somewhere.

But then I got tired of seeing people tweeting/chatting/posting-single-stupid-detail-of-their-lives everywhere: restaurants, buses, parks, and I was becoming like them, and it was sad. So I downgraded it to an even fancier Nokia 1100. Can't be happier.

15 years ago, it was [kind of] cool to play around with config files, compile kernels and install different Linux distros the way women change their purses. Now we have other priorities in life, kids, pets, mortgages. We just want to get the job done. Sometimes I enjoy hacking some config files for fun, but it's not anymore something I'd do on a Friday night.

He he, you reminded me of this .

As if the internet wasn't polluted enough with bogus information, we will have now people posting how much did they sweat walking two blocks or how tight their underwear is. Although "wearable" technology can bring us many benefits, this will be used for stupid purposes. That, or I'm just becoming a grumpy old man.

Tell that to Julian Assange

Yep, and that will void the warranty (won't it?). And another thing (and this is purely out of ignorance), doesn't the car owner need a [paid] data plan to send this information back to Ford?

When the Chinese realize that the US and Europe are slowing down by their own choice and they don't need to do anything to catch up, they will stop this "race" and settle for keeping a nice, well armed army.

I refuse to think that RH is into it, but to my paranoid mind, this sounds like a weird variant of the well known MS strategy. I really hope I'm wrong.

Linda wants to know: do you want to be able to see hardcore pornography? How about information on illegal drugs? Or gay sex, or abortion? Your call may be recorded for training and monitoring purposes. How about obscene and tasteless material? Would you like to see that? Speak up, Linda can't hear you

I suddenly felt like if I was reading a Chuck Palahniuk's book