Oh no please! imagine a successful mutation of these people!

Maybe you need a process in order to detect and fire those bad programmers.

> If C and C++ were to vanish overnight we'd be back in the stone age.

If COBOL were to vanish overnight, C programmers wouldn't get their paychecks; that's stone age...

I think Agile is useful for shops that develop new software with internal requirements (dictated by their own internal marketing, the artists or even the programmers) and when the objective is the software experience per se... but (in general terms) is inconvenient for standard business software where you must satisfy (or comply) external/client's business, political and contractual requirements, and where the software exists basically to help/control some other core operation...

I'm not using NB now, but OpenJDK is the standard in current Ubuntu (at least since 10.04.) The SUN JDK does require adding a non standard apt source.

The time it takes to read the first 1% of those great WS-* specs is enough to build a full featured rest-styled system.

> mainly it's available on ALL UNIX systems

Mainly it doesn't matter since this book is about LINUX shell scripting.

Besides Bash, a lot of tricks and utilities are only available if you assume a Linux environment.

3- turn on, wait 1 sec, and start programming in BASIC (P [SHIFT] + [O] 53281,0 , etc...)

> hell, can always revert to Gnome 2 or KDE

In theory, yes. In practice, most users will get a brand new DE with their next Ubuntu/Fedora/X-distro upgrade and will not have the time/patience/expertise to switch to a past version. Past versions will not be in the official repository, and for sure will break several GUI apps.

But why not use its own Virtualbox? I find it a lot more usable than Xen. Well, anything is easier to use than Xen.

Nop. Han Solo was and interesting + flamebait character at the same time....

Yoda was a troll and funny monster but also an insightful teacher...

R2D2 was an interesting machine...

C3PO was an informative translator...

Leia was underrated and Ewoks were overrated...

Yesterday my host provider (a big one) failed (again!) to renew the shared server host certificate so I couldn't access their Cpanel via HTTPS, so had to open a ticket.

That happened in 2008, 2009, 2010, and now, so I'm expecting the same situation by march 2012, 2013, etc...

BTW, they sell me a signed certificate for my domain. Alas, they don't track its expiration (nor me, of course!) so by some time in the year I'll have to open a ticket asking them to renew it (no big deal since I'm not doing e-business or similar.)

Obviously these aren't good practices, but I see a design failure in the scheme. The security should degrade in a better way.

Before Schliemann nobody knew for sure about the reality of Troy and the whole Homer opus with its mix of men and gods. Atlantis is a different case, where a very modern tale is fabricated from twisted interpretations of old passages, and that fabrication is very well documented as a hoax. Atlantis is in the same category as Chariots_of_gods for example.

"If you wish to converse with me," said Voltaire, "define your terms."

For a lot of people (readers of the design patterns ideas) a framework is a set of whatever things that help/enforce a well proved design, so you don't have to invent a new design for a lot of well known requirements presented on most applications. That's a bit different (but not much!) from a library or toolbox that helps to implement whatever design.

Of course, people may assign another definition or concept to the term...

Yes that kind of problem is very real and annoying. But in the Java case is mostly an implementation problem, not the result of a conscious decision to break everything. Also, IMO that issue was less frequent in recent years, at least with the mayor JVM implementations.