How do you know its a "few developers"? Have you any hard numbers to prove you claim that almost everyone is happy? Just claiming something does not make it true.

I do not have hard numbers, but a number of my friends actually have applications in the App Store, and I have heard quite often that the approval process is pretty terrible. But I would never claim this as the objective truth, it could be sampling bias.

Careful who you attack. I've been an engineer for 20 years and have programmed more hardware and languages than you probably can imagine, so don't piss on my leg.

But *I* am sick and tired of people who don't show even the most basic politeness in forums like this and behave like complete assholes while they (probably) are just some total loosers in real life.

All the self proclaimed gurus who hide their inability to communicate with normal people in a polite manner behind a facade of elitism. Which isn't often so elitist at all if you take a minute to look behind it.

IBM Marketing wanted to be new and hip.

For the AS/400, they wanted to get away from the images "5250 terminal", "Greenscreen", "oldish", "punchcards"...

In the end, they totally fu**ed up the naming.

"System i" is a bitch to google.

...stunned silence.... ... wow. What the hell ?

You are the official elitist-asshole-of-the-day.

It plays alone in the dark:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/6/23/

damn, I was too late... :-)

thousands of slashdotters racking their brains right now...

Jesus, that is such a cynical calculation. The righteousness of it makes me gag.

The U.S. was effectively hidden behind an ocean. No enemy soldier ever entered U.S. soil. No enemy bomb ever fell on any of your cities.

Had the Axis ever invaded the U.S. - or Great Britain, for that matter - the death toll would have been far higher.

Also, the Americans and Brits didn't give shit about *enemy* civilians, carpet bombing german cities to stone age.

You might have a moral high point in respect to the Germans, but not to Soviet Russia.

BTW, I'm a German. From what I learned and heard from our grandfathers, the Russian war effort was what toppled the Nazis, not the western front. This might be wrong, but at least I do not have any reason to be biased to either side.

The wealth of the first world is based to quite some extend on exploiting the third.

Of course not exclusively. We also have democracy, liberal rights, free trade, private property... But to some extend we owe them for the cheap resources, for the cheap labor and for the fact that they buy all our nice weapon systems.

You also can read this another way.

The proclaimed issues of the PP were important enough for two percent of the population to actually vote for a small party, well knowing that PP probably does not make it into the government and their votes would be lost, somewhat.

But the actual percentage of population being p**d off at the german government for these reasons is probably far higher, otherwise FDP and green party both would not have gained so much votes.

I disagree,

the people I know who voted for the Pirate Party voted for other reasons.

Internet censorship, surveillance, freedom of speech - the fact that the current german government does not care a rats ass for any civil rights. This brought far more people onto the streets than pirating music; reducing them to that does them injustice. .. oh, I got it. You were just trolling, were you?

... stopped reading after the headline...

Just a pity that the OS sucks so much.

Honestly, I have done quite some windows programming and always thought it better than its reputation. But I always hated developing for Windows Mobile. It felt to me like the most neglected corner of Windows Development. Confusing and contradicting documentation, a toolchain that was a pain, a totally over engineered syncing process (ActiveSync). Part of the .NET toolchain does not work... I could go on and on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Pirate_Party

This may not sound much, but it is actually pretty good for a new and totally unknown party with a scary name. Hopefully the aims of the party (internet Censorship, civil rights etc) will now get some public attention.

If it comes thinly disguised as a news article at slashdot, it annoys me.