More than that: after the OOXML ECMA debacle, no one takes ECMA seriously anymore. Submitting a standard to EMCA now is like announcing that your blue-chip company is selling penny stocks.

I think you've just confirmed the reasons why so many people see broadcast TV as "old-school", and those who flagellate themselves in front of it as slightly north of insane.

I wish I could mod you higher than +5. The title of this article could be accurately rewritten as, "45% of All the Server purchasers are complete, unmitigated, fucking morons."

Yet the NSA still lets them run the House, Senate, and White House. Talk about sleeping at the wheel.

I agree, which is why I dumped Microsoft in 1999 and switched to Linux. Even back when Linux was "hard" to use, it still worked better than any version of Windows -- then and now. I don't see that changing any time soon.

I started reading the article linked to in, "start counting at zero", and stopped halfway through. I feel sorry for anyone who reads that article, but isn't a programmer (hell, even if they are programmers), as it is self-contradictory crap:

From the article:

Then the father of zero-index arrays said:

He then goes on to admit that zero-index arrays are the most efficient means of calculating memory addresses, and brushes aside his self-contradictions by saying that the "why" is more important than the "how".

Which means, as should be obvious to everyone, that zero indices are the most natural way to express pointer arithmetic; internally to your language runtime if your language doesn't support pointers, or externally if pointers are programmer-facing.

The author of this article needs to brush up on computer fundamentals before self-publishing his absurd opinion pieces on computer fundamentals. Zero-index arrays are "conventional programming wisdom" because they have always been the easiest way to calculate memory addresses.

Obligatory: You must be new here.

If I could moderate you above 5, I would. I bought a cheap color laser printer (Samsung CLP 550N) several years ago, (eight, I think) and printed many pages on the starter cartridges that came with the printer. My printing was sporadic, though, so the starter cartridges lasted me for years before I had to replace them.

Color laser is the way to go. Ink jets need to be trashed.

Don't forget to add a rider that says, "...and mandatory life imprisonment for torturing babies and/or kittens." Then, when the bill fails, you can call out all those who voted no as being pro baby and kitten torture.

I run Windows as a guest on a Kubuntu host, and USB works fine for printers and USB drives.

Before you let anyone into your standards committee, make sure they don't work for Microsoft or a Microsoft affiliate. And if they do, make sure Microsoft isn't trying to push through a competing "standard".

Be sure you learn the ISO's lessons regarding Microsoft and its henchmen stuffing standards bodies.

While true, Apple still carries a large amount of responsibility for locking people into its marketplace prison. If sideloading were an option, people could still get by without Apple's (or the Chinese Government's) consent.

That being said, I find it really, really hard to sympathize with Apple customers when they get burned over and over again without learning their lesson. It's like Homer (or was it Bart?) Simpson touching the hot stove: "doh!"..."doh!"..."doh!"....

That's an excellent visual, and highly accurate. Everyone can safely ignore this article, as it comes from fosspatents (Florian's anti-FOSS website). You can safely assume that nothing in the article is even remotely true; except, perhaps, that Samsung, Nokia, and Apple are real companies.

While your comment was humorous, it isn't what made me laugh. That honor went to the realization that there were Slashdot moderators who thought, "Wow, that's useful information; I'm going to mark that as informative!" What's even funnier than that is that there was more than one moderator who had the same thought.

The only thing I can say to those moderators is, "Here's your sign."

His consistent accuracy in predicting the consequences of disregarding Freedom is a great example of why you should listen to him.