Emacs is a great OS and it includes a browser too :)

OTOH, RMS would gladly be part of the "Westboro folks" to prove they have the right to picket in front of his funeral.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/10/stallman_glad_jobs_gone/

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Dear Sir, I am not sure you have understood the point behind RMS' argument. Over the years, Jobs went from being the rebel against the big brother to become to new big brother with sugar coating and lot of fluff. Many people like those fluff and I also see that his designs also had value for a vast majority of them, people who like things to work. But to me the point is simple, I like to do things my way, just as he wanted to do, I want my freedom. His clout and person changed a lot a people into voluntarily giving away that freedom and accepting his view as the whole truth and nothing but the truth. >The fact is, apart from the a few geeks, people in the real world really don't care about his views or what he is trying to promote. I don't care if if anybody cares or not, but that doesn't take away his right to be part of the world and have his freedom.

I am disappointed to report that, even though I feel this is a bad business move, Netflix stock has been up by $4.31 ( 2.8% ). Looks like stock holders and investors lack common sense now a days.

I know this thread is taking about C, but I agree to this comment on Java. I see that many framework in Java being unnecessarily deployed in java projects which doesn't solve the problem while compounding the complexity.

I am not sure its just Indian talk. Its more like lawyer talk. If you see some of patent applications, the wordings describing the patent and the practical sense of that patent are worlds apart.

Outsourcing is a emotional subject as many of us have been touched bu it in a very personal way. The two most common themes I have read so far is 1) Names being changed ( westernized ) 2) Most of the people answering the phones are too dumb and don't know what they are talking about. Well there are several reasons that I think may be behind them For Names: 1) Indian names are difficult to pronounce and to make the customers feel comfortable, they choose names that they are familiar with. The same practice is applied in EU also where call centers going to Bulgaria, Romania or other countries try to keep neutral names 2) Second many people get ticked off when they realized their calls are going to some place outside the US. many of these people have a wrong sense of patriotism or are being protectionists. The second part about most of them being dumb 1) Most of the call center employees are young freshers. They don't have too much experience and they are forced to learn and follow a script. 2) They may be providing adequate support for majority of the customers. If a very highly technical person say from /. where to be on the other side of the phone call, I can understand the frustration. 3) Finally the language of technology is universal even, if you happen to get hold of some support person who is technical enough and you would be able to converse setting aside all other differences. So says an Indian who goes by Rocky.

What about karaoke? By this definition even karaoke will be illegal.

I fail to understand why it has to be a race. If the Chinese want to go ahead we should let them. Why is it that we want to always stop others from doing something? Do we think that we can always be the dominant country in the world ?or for that matter any other country can continue to be the dominant country for ever ?

While you are at it Apple, why don't you just ban the damn alcohol ( OH )

I am a geek and thats just my *character*

Can we use BitConis on FarmVille. I understand many gaming sites also provide their own forms of currency how does that work? Does the congress allow that ?

I have had similar problem. I cant say its good or bad but I adpated myself to use batch programming but I heavily use Gnuwin32 ports and UnxUtils that give most of the Unix commands as exe http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils/ Happy Hacker