Apropos

So the summary implies that a nominal drop in power requires power plants to be shut down? I don't think that's how it works.

...than his terrible work. "Ender's Game" is basically one giant fascist apology, that is not only offensive on its face, but terrible written as well.

You seem to be making a grand effort to rationalize your own bigotry. Why not just come out and say what you really mean?

...when you let Finance and Marketing run your company.

From their FAQ:
"We have begun work on the user interface and software."
Begun? Wouldn't that come first? I mean, if you're going to run into legal issues, that's where it would be, right?

Ha ha ha!

Even funnier! You should do some stand-up!

Oops, are you being serious again? My bad.

Ha ha ha!

Wow, that's funny stuff right there! "Wisdom of the crowd", LOL!

Wait, you're being serious?

Uh...

I think the author could use a refresher in critical thinking. It seems to me that he's making an appeal to ignorance; I don't know of any big ideas, therefore they don't exist. These days it's easy to point at things like the rise of social media and the rapid dissemination of trivia, but that isn't evidence of a reduction of big ideas. It's just that the signal/noise ratio is particularly bad if you stick to the regular old internet.

Look deeper.

"Bonjour, je voudrais devenir un citoyen franÃais."

Just because NASA isn't launching anything in the next few years, doesn't mean that the US government isn't launching anything. The US space program continues.

What are you talking about? Have you ever built any web applications? It's a nightmare. There's no compelling browser standards. This misguided notion you have about how "when you're able to target the browser you don't have to deal with half a dozen completely different system interfaces anymore on the client side" is sheer nonsense.

"Mohamed Hassan, MSIA, CISSP, CISA is the founder of NetSec Consulting Corp, a firm that specializes in information security consulting services. He is a senior IT Security consultant and an adjunct professor of Information Systems in the School of Business at the University of Phoenix."

And is now the laughing-stock of the IT security world.

Nice job moron!

If Apple didn't want to have their bottom-line affected by the vagaries of an irrational stock market, they shouldn't have gone public. Simple as that. Public companies know the risks they take - it isn't all IPOs and piles of investor cash; sometimes investors are going to take advantage of your weaknesses.