It's way easier to use --- I hate signing up for stuff, and it doesn't do any annoying spamy stuff like instapaper does. Check it: http://www.rekindle.it/

Seriously. However cool it may be, humans weren't meant to live this way... All packed on top of each other, so tightly that moving around one another is no longer possible to do with just a human brain... It's just badness, all the way down. In nature, overpopulation is naturally corrected for. Humans, ever so smart, are always finding ways to stick yet another finger in the proverbial dam. It's a beautiful piece of art in that it is totally, and utterly terrifying.

Books are totally awesome but have one fatal design flaw: they tend to burn. Burning of the library of alexandria anyone?

Let's face it. If the shit goes down we're f*cked either way. As someone else pointed out -- something like a book is useless when you're freezing your ass off. And it will most likely end up being used to start fires. Why not enjoy the life we have?

What do you think they store the source of the dictionary on? I doubt they retype the while dictionary when they do a new edition.

You have a file that's 10 years old but copy it from hard drive to hard drive? No backups? Way to walk on the razor's edge ;)

The FDA approves drugs. The FCC approves electronics. Point is that widespread utilities like this should go through some sort of validation process. I'm not saying it should be apple, but it should be SOMEONE.

Running any application on your phone from untrusted sources produces unexpected results. Clip at 11.

Why I drive drunk so well? I'm an ultra-mega-super tasker!

Yes, except we are glossing over the part where you use a tool to "create" the application. Flash is a format AND an authoring tool. Unless Flash starts somehow exporting HTML 5, I don't really see this happening.

Come on. It's bad enough that we can't get simple block elements to render consistently in all browsers, and how we're going to try to build RIAs in "pure HTML?" Sure, it'll work for video content. Anything more complicated? Let me know how that turns out.

Flash's biggest strength is that the Flash player is responsible for running it and therefore is consistent across all platforms. If you ask me, this is a huge clusterfuck waiting to happen.

Or at least download a copy of Linux. There. Problem solved. Time for lunch.

Couldn't agree more. The most valuable skill in a programmer is really the ability to quickly master new things---and to think creatively about them. Technology changes so far, fundamentals are very important, but not at the cost of not being able to adapt.

Dtrace? Terminal? The reality is that you can do SO MUCH MORE tinkering in OSX than you ever could. Ever used OS9? Black box magic. OSX, by comparison, is like a playground....

Jesus, my LAST project was ~150k. Over a million is nothing assuming you've been working for a while. Over a decade (which is about how long I've been professionally coding) you can rack up a million in no time...