"Automated unit tests"... I thought those were just a myth. Are you sure you're in the Real World?

And don't get me started on "enterprise" software. I've almost never seen "enterprise" software that was worth the disk space it took up. We can complain all day about how bad Windows or Office, etc., is but compared to "enterprise" software, those products are amazingly good and user-friendly.

I can assure you that when "Star Wars" was first shown in theaters, there was no mention of "Episode IV". That was a later addition.

Yes, because streaming music into your car sound system will instantly kill you.

You can say what you want about Abrams' ability to make exciting action set pieces. He's got a lot of technical and artistic skill in that area. I think there's a lot of good that can be defended about the casting and art direction of the new "Star Trek" movies (disclaimer: I've only seen clips of "Khan Lite"). I would even go so far as to praise some of the changes that came out of the "reboot" aspect of altering the timeline.

But the plots were absolutely and utterly incoherent. Then again, this is true for most action movies nowadays. I'm not talking about "Oh, there's a plot hole", but more along the lines of "Nothing that happens makes any sense, other than to be a thin substrate linking interchangeable action scenes."

That "Episode IV" stuff was put in after the fact. Years after the movie was first released.

4,294,967,296 Internets to you sir! That's all the internets!

You know, with IPv6, you get 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 internets.

Some things die so slowly it seems you have to literally wait for the actual users to die. IE6 is one of those things. Flash is another.

For too many software development companies, "alpha" now means, "Hop on board now because this is the next new hotness, and you can be one of the cool kids." "Beta" now means, "We're bored with this and have moved on to something else."

Nobody ever finishes anything any more.

But, wait, didn't Adobe develop... oh, yeah, that's awful. But what about...? No, you're right, it's a usability nightmare. But you have to admit... no, wait you don't.

I give up. You're right. Adobe has all of the arrogance and user-hostility of Microsoft, but without the smart people that you can actually find at Microsoft.

Oh, Dijkstra was right about BASIC, but a lot of us managed to recover.

A build a day isn't so bad when everything you are using is fully and truly documented (with source). Nowadays, a lot of debugging involves figuring out what the libraries (and sometimes the OS) are actually doing that isn't documented so you can work around them.

Or as a physic professor I had at Virginia Tech joked... you couldn't pull out a pen knife and edit your code while stuck at a traffic light.

I took a Fortran class at Virginia Tech in 1983 that used punch cards. And you couldn't run your own jobs, so it was literally the same as "one compile a day" described in the article. Drop off your deck and come back the next morning to find you had a syntax error on card 2...

It was especially depressing since I'd been writing BASIC on an Apple ][ for years. It was probably one of the last classes that used punch cards.

We won't get fooled again

Recent election results point to the contrary, unless I missed how Obama and the Democrats are really sticking it to big business.

True, but when it comes to markets where Microsoft's monopoly couldn't help so much, phones and tablets, they aren't doing so well. Those markets show what happens when there's a more level playing field and Microsoft's market share is negligible in the mobile market. It might not stay that way, but they are currently way behind Apple, Google and others. That could not have happened in the PC world in the last 20 years.