Bad engineering isn't their problem? You seem to lack a basic understanding of computers yourself and shouldn't be operating the one you are on. I hereby revoke your license.

Yeah but I need to start trying out WebGL (which works in all major browser EXCEPT IE) and need a decent debugger which IE has never really had. That may have changed recently and they may have an improved debugger but they still don't support WebGL and I still prefer Firebug so *shrug*. They're still playing catchup from the days they decided that they could sit on their monopolized asses.

Actually that's incorrect on a technicality. That's the goal of a CORPORATION... not a COMPANY. A corporation's goal is to raise it's stock price. A company's goal is to make money.

yep have to admit when all the mortgage things happened, the credit unions remained unscathed. My wife and I asked our credit union about that and they said they don't report to a board but only report to their members so they are not under alot of pressure to make giant risky investments; they are only their for their members. And while other banks were being taken over left and right, you didn't see hardly any credit unions being taken over.

The best way to preserve privacy is to pollute databases. Data miners now use a variety of sources to 'confirm' information (whether you are male, married, income, political affiliation etc) and the more often you can pollute those databases, the better. If they cannot get a greater than %60 accuracy on your data, you are not a good lead for them.

Technically you would be right. But Factually you are wrong.

You're right, testing the HTML5 canvas tag for support of 3D should not be allowed. What was I thinking?

Well you got me on a technicality; it's supported through the canvas tag (part of the HTML5 spec) and WebGL is an open standard with it's own spec and is supported by all browsers... except IE. Making it the lone hold out and a throwback. This is SVG and CSS all over again. Where other browsers advance, IE stands back and waits and as a result, gets lapped by progress.

So those who use HTML5 and want 3D applications will just all be converting to Chrome, Safari or Firefox as a result. No harm done.

I don't know how IE has an HTML5 advantage since they have to do a WebGL conversion to DirectX which causes all renders to take 3X as long. You can hear it talked about in this demo from Fractallab(http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/07/tom-subblue-reddard.html#comments) an online fractal generator built in HTML5 using WebGL.

Why would you want to remember every post and every tweet and every picture? Its a DAMN good things that there is data loss at least for the mundane. I don't want people seeing everything I first posted when I from my first websites and my first forays into the web. LET IT DIE ALREADY YOU FRIGGIN INTERNET VAMPIRES!

Also... this should be obvious but I should point out that such a model could NOT work on a subscription basis of charging a monthly/yearly fee or per license fee up front until AFTER a large enough knowledge base was created first. Then they could change models. This will of course anger alot of people as changing access/charge models like this always does anger people but having created this knowledge base and created the relationship with people who use this as a source of revenue, this will be the number one place for support for large open source applications (aside from the projects themselves).

Additionally, you could even charge people a nominal yearly fee for access as what you would be creating is an online knowledge base for support and trouble shooting of just about every open source project in the world. This would be WORTH a monthly/yearly fee and most companies would gladly pay a small 'per license fee' or one lump sum fee just for the support.

Considering the route Canonical is going, you could easily work out an agreement with them more than likely (as long as they got THEIR cut) and eventually expand into phone support allowing those with most accurate records to be called via a voip number which would be routed through a web interface (thus allowing logging of times and handling of availability).

Better. Supply open source support for sourceforge/open source projects.

Allow people to signup (with valid paypal account) and they go into a support pool for open source projects. People who answer questions correctly (or get most points) get most pay while fewer points get a smaller percentage of pay for that question.

People who wish to pay for support can sign up for an unlimited number of questions or pay per question asked. The amount would be based on each project and the popularity and number of downloads of said project (or something like that). Percentage of pay could also go to maintainers of project.

Its ok... your a PHP developer. People don't expect much of you. (see thats how you deliver it... and thats what your mom said)

Better design helps with a more flexible codebase. Having to code around Drupal rather than just placing controller/model/view in their appropriate directories and allowing the container to manager plugins for ACLs/etc, can create a spaghetti coded nightmare in the longrun. Sure you can whip up code samples quickly but is it a longterm, maintainable and extensible code structure? No because it lacks structure. This is something that a framework provides.

Go GROOVY/GRAILS!! (my plug)