Actually, they came out of east Africa

A "computer company" is one which makes something computer related for sale (hardware or software) as it's primary business.

And Uber does that.

Using computers extensively to provide your primary service (in this case, ride sharing/taxi service) does not make you a "computer company".

And Uber doesn't provide a taxi service. They own not a single car. Not a single driver is on their payroll. They provide a software service that connects riders and drivers. That's what they do. They're a software service company.

Uber is a software service company, since always. May I point out that they own no cars, but plenty of computers.

People are still playing CS?

Funny post from a man whose sig celebrates a band thirty years gone.

That, and Coherent didn't have anything like the hardware support Linux did even in the early stages. All text. No mouse support, even. No LAN support. Basic System 7 functionality, C compiler K&R, not ANSI. Linux did a lot more and it was free.

I'll believe Linux will disappear like Sun and DEC did when somebody answers the question, "How do you make it cheaper than free?"

Maybe somebody will. Maybe we'll all fall for letting the corp record all our transactions to pay for it all. But until someone definitively answers that question, Linux isn't going anywhere.

- Red Hat, Novell etc on the software front.

Backwards. Linux wasn't successful because Red Hat and Novell got behind it. Red Hat and Novell got behind Linux because it was successful. Red Hat was founded *after* the Linux kernel was first written and didn't become a big corporation until 8-10 years after Linux's first release. Linux grew Red Hat, not the other way around. Novell got seriously involved in pushing Linux even later.

Or as somebody once said, "The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's how the smart money bets."

Shows what you know! Those are the fresh Confederate cetacean recruits!

https://xkcd.com/1504/

He was a lot nicer to Spirit, which had a similarly impressive run:
https://xkcd.com/695/

In order for it to be truly bimodal, people have to start in either camp A or camp B and end in the same camp they started in. Because if you transition from one to another over time, any point in time will capture a group of people in between the modes.

Bimodal doesn't mean there is *nobody* between camp A and camp B. It means there are *very few* between camp A and camp B.

For example, conventional wisdom from authorities was that the Spitfire was completely impractical because... you had to turn the plane to aim it at the target, as there were no gun turrets.

Buh? At the time of the Spitfire's development, fixed forward firing guns were the *standard* on all fighter aircraft, that design feature having become universal fairly early on in World War One.

Crumple zones, collapsing steering wheels, airbags...they make a really huge difference.

Wow, I can get a wireless mouse that can be a wired mouse. Seems simpler and cheaper to me to just get the wired mouse to start out with.

Racist? Why? Sexist, maybe...