Infrastructure. Infrastructure. Infrastructure.

ummm... what happened to just watching baseball on TV or at the ballpark normally? Or do people started watching all sports games at work? I barely have enough time catching up on /., twittering, connecting on FB, chatting, checking out Reader and dozens RSS feeds, blogging, and downloading songs... Who has time for proprietary plug-ins that make people who should not be designing web sites think they can design?

After the Watchmen blockbuster results at the box office, WB realized they must generate some kind of buzz to ensure another big budget investment not fall into the black hole.

As an old-time comic book fan already tired of the umpteen "origins" of Wolverine that Marvel put out regularly for quick profit, I would not watch the movie even if somebody dropped a free DVD on my lap. Doesn't the FBI have better things to do - like finding real terrorists - or at least those who continue to destroy the economy by rehashing old trash instead of inventing the future?

Is this like open sourcing Rails but not Ruby, Django but not Python? Kind of like Struts before Sun open sourced Java?

What about the additional $80/year anti-virus tax for running Windows? I'm sure in a month when Lauren's PC start running like molasses she'll install Linux. Then she'll freak out in a panic 'cause she didn't think she was cool enough to speak that other PC OS.

No software program has ever been proven to be able to understand a drunken Scot.

Real FOSS nerds would just build a catapult, a flying car, or teleporter to get across. Green engineers would have demanded that 2 UNDER-passes be built, one for humans to bicycle across, and another for critters that live in the woods to have corridors connecting their shrinking landscape. Apple or Google would plan on building light rails or trams that will eventually connect all their campuses and stores. IBM would just hire only illegal Mexican workers skilled at running across highways. Obviously Seattle isn't the most innovative regional planners they purport to be. Wimps.

Guess that keyboard-less touchscreen trend isn't so stupid after all.

I can see what you're typing by video taping the movement of your fingers from a distance anyhow.

I paid $200 for my XO in the G1G1 deal. 6 months later I paid $200 for my iPhone 3G. The iPhone has 8 times the capacity, Wifi so easy a kid can configure it, and is hands down a better 'computer' than the XO in my opinion. Sure, it doesn't have Python, but coding on the tiny keyboard was a pain anyhow.

Apple has been making computers for education long before Negroponte. I wouldn't be surprised if it comes ahead again. Think of all the educational apps that can be built with the iPhone SDK and distribute for free. Never, EVER, spurn Apple while Jobs is still alive. He'll make you eat your words.

When did OS started to think? A browser that thinks like an OS? Sounds like day after day the fallout recognized by Andressen and Gates were right. But we all know MSFT puts its IE engine in every piece of its software, so whether a separate browser client exists doesn't matter. Even if the new engine is called Gazelle it doesn't mean the browser cannot be called IE still (Gecko/Firefox, WebKit/Safari).

One problem has persisted from desktop programming to web programming is that just because you can code doesn't mean you can make good design. Just as most Windows software are ugly as heck, I find most CMS all so cookie-cutter dreadful and difficult to enhance. What these new web programming frameworks all lack is some good designers on their team.

Dreamweaver was great if you want to code ColdFusion, Flash, and Flex. For a full IDE it beats Visual Studio in many features. Eclipse and other free "IDE" don't come close in terms of responsiveness and user friendliness. The problem is CF/Flex is a small percentage of the web compared to PHP, ASP.NET, Java, and a host of new platforms and frameworks (Django, ROR, etc.). Now with the advent of open source CMS and wiki systems, even for .NET, plus free plug-ins for Eclipse to code just about anything, along with shrinking IT budget, WHY would anyone pay the equivalent for full VS for it? The Server + IDE has been Adobe's bread and butter for years, that's why it's critical for Adobe to keep pushing for AIR/Flash. The only way to make DW popular again I can see is embrace open source languages and new frameworks, and lower the price.

Al Qaeda also invests in the stock market to make money for fund their activities. Should we shut down the stock market or encourage Ponzi schemes to foil them? I'm waiting for them to say they use Windows to find the target in a browser, therefore we should ban all PCs, right?

The party of Lincoln is now the party of Limbaugh - that is the truly sad part.

or Kumo or whatever R&D into how or whoever is going to change our lives. I'll settled for just decent help documentation and semi-usable help search, from any software vendor. Please.

Think Google already does that with their Chrome, Desktop, and Updater apps on your machine. Problem I have is how the author dismiss MOST of the issues and purpose off hand with an over-simplified sentence: "Aside from storing and distributing the data the most expensive part of any job is the CPU time..." (my emphasis). The LHC project would've given us a chance to test the capability of one of the world's biggest Grid infrastructure - if it ever run in production. P2P does not a Super-Computer/Search Engine make.

Most popular mature application has a scripting interface. Like it or not, if MSFT cannot kill JavaScript, it is here to stay. But to condamn JS straight away is like saying no language - C/C++/C#/Java/etc. - can and ever should evolve. Might as well belittle Ruby/Perl too since they cannot even render a web page without HTML/CSS. So is proprietary plug-in like Adobe Flash/Flex your preference? Just get rid of browsers altogether and implemnet custom HTTP interface in each app?