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Except that marketers are already calling an iPhone with good sensor apps, a tricorder.

More users with Linux boxen of any flavor, means the margin of geeky tinkerers will rise accordingly (perhaps higher than before, since gamers tend to be notoriously savvy). Add to that the urge toward fame and you have a recipe for new blood in the open source world.

You meant to say during.

It's impossible for a UI framework to stay relevant for more than a few years, unless it's based around a slow-moving standard too big for corporate interests or bottom-lines to affect.

Your choice to use something other than HTML5 because HTML5 wasn't ready yet, was good. However, you probably should have used something HTML4 related at that time.

As someone who's been predicting Qt's demise ever since he learned Nokia had bought it, I can only shrug and wish I'd been there to tell you so.

Do not rely on corporate frameworks, ESPECIALLY open source ones. Corporations treat open source projects as hot potatoes the second money gets tight. They only keep them on board to reduce costs and gain a little PR magic with the less-cynical geeks. As soon as it starts costing resources to improve and especially if the non-paying user base gets uppity (which, as a monied stakeholder, you can't control), out the window it goes.

Since corporations get their fingers into everything they rely on, your rule of thumb should be the ratio of unattached volunteers (those working on the project in their spare time regardless of who they work for -- meaning their employer had no influence on their choice to volunteer with that project). If total project brain drain is just one cost-cutting decision away, that framework is dead code walking.

Seems to me that Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox has always tried to position itself as the enterprise alternative. From that POV, this move makes sense to me.

But then again, I disable Java in my browsers manually.

This still won't make me update past Firefox 14 or use it for more than a very limited utility... someone wake me up when they restore plaintext+links dragdrop of tabular data.

This.

Force editors to follow their own rules about notability. Sanction editors very, very harshly when they let their content preferences get in the way.

If one editor's personal views prevent 200 other editors from choosing to contribute, the importance of one embedded editor falls into proper perspective.

Until then, they can have my clicks and $5 every couple years, and that's it.

If I go through these comments and find anybody is surprised by this, I will spend the ENTIRE DAY LAUGHING.

College education is a complete waste of time for most IT jobs. You come out of it with zero relevant training and typically no more skilled in the fundamentals than when you went in.

Unless, that is, you grew up lacking a passion for tech. If you weren't into tech growing up, you might need oh wait nevermind, there are internets and libraries. And they don't waste your time forcing you to drive for 90 minutes of lowest-common-denominator pacing.

College - it's going the way of paper news.

The real question: if you have a problem with wearable computers, are you automatically a luddite with an irrelevant opinion?

Yes. Yes, those people will soon be living in the past. Congrats, everyone who has the word "glasshole" in their vocabulary, you are now old, crotchety, and a problem in the eyes of progress.

I recommend everyone just use their devices to find better people to be around. If a harmless worn object (whether it's a computer or a mullet) causes you to be ostracized, you live in the presence of harmful heels who should be relegated to their own fire-fearing circles.

I got picked on for being a nerd in school too, and I still hold grudges about it and always will, but I'm not going to take it out on people just because I'm envious that I can't afford a Glass. And I'm certainly not going to disguise choking-on-my-twisted-panties as some kind of argument against progress.

Insert exasperated, immature language here.

Speaking of FUD, I point a finger at everyone who's gone around trashing the ASF's reputation in order to keep Libre from losing programmers. Or whatever boneheaded reason they thought they had for doing M$'s job for them.

Yeah, posted almost immediately before this story, no less.

At least since the Java API case which was ...not all that long ago.

As a freelance tech, I deal with losers who attack other providers as their primary marketing tactic, every day.

Oracle - you're just another moronic, failed bully with an internet account. But keep providing the comedy :)

That's precisely why so little outrage. We're all having the reaction of knowing the kid stole the entire cookie jar but is now bald-faced telling us he stole one cookie.

Why in the thirty-eight squarish fucks did this get +'d?

Debian 6.