Coding is not a pejorative. It is a perfectly fine verb describing the creation of code. Code Monkey uses the non pejorative "code" with the pejorative "monkey". You can add the word monkey to other nouns to creat other pejoratives. Grammer Monkey, Slashdot Monkey.

It isn't true that Universities don't focus on practical coding. In school I had to code many things. They had to work. Many students cheat. They have other people do their assignements. Or they do the assignments with a study group. Or they use google to find the solutions to problems. They get out of school and cannot program simple things. This is why internships are so important. Companies need to try out people before the commit to them. They need to work with for a few weeks to see if they are fakers.

mille passuum or 1000 paces was the Roman mile.

I would also argue that "Intelligent Design" isn't Christian. Arguing that God exists because the world is made the same way a human would make it isn't biblical. An all knowing God doesn't need reason to create anything. An all powerfull God does not care about efficiency. Human asthetics from human culture/biology isn't going to influance how God creates the world. Intelligent Design anthropomorphizes God into a man. You wind up with Zeus instead of a pillar of fire/burning bush/rock of ages.

well ok, on a cynical note there will be lots of people driving cars. But rich people who own these cars are going to be terrible drivers. So giving them manual controls won't help a great deal.

So what does that entail? Taking a road test every 5 years? Every year? 16 year old kids can pass the current tests. But they are not wonderful drivers. Now imagine those 16 year olds never getting any better at driving. Becoming 30 year olds who need to look in the manual to remember what lever is the turn signal.

That is very short term thinking. 15 years after driverless cars are released your going to have a whole generation of people who never learned to drive a car. People who get the license and then forget everything because they haven't touched the wheel in 10 years. There is not going to be anyone quilified to drive a car. You will just have millions of amatuers with a skill level of a 16 year old.

The laws will be rewritten once this gets closer to being a real thing. Google can continue to do what it wants on its test tracks.

Swing Copters has a poor rating because it has terrible controls. Getting past the hammers is pure luck. A copycat that actually makes it possible to control the copter would have a better rating.

Just reporting what I saw occur where I worked. They got rid of desk phones and gave everyone a flip phone as a replacement. Almost no one used them. They then got rid of the flip phones and gave everyone a headset. We use these.

What tends to happen is the company phone winds up in a drawer somewhere and is forgotten. Company pays yearly to keep line open and no minutes are used on phone. Employees are unreachable on those phone numbers once battery runs out.

That depends on where you live. In Europe you have

In the United States the issue is working its way through the courts. Basically some courts are willing to call a spade a spade. And know a sale when they see one.

and if you have 3 brothers and you want to split the albums between the 3 of you? And a judge and lawyers get involved over the Pink Floyd album?....

Chances are it was sold to them with a buy button and the description of the product was the product not the licence to the product. Chances are the payment was one time payment for permanent access to the copy. This is the definition of a sale. Calling a sale by another name does not change it from being a sale.

That is missing the point. At one time we lived in a world where people wondered when we would have personal communicators like in star trek. The fact that expensive cellphones existed that fit in brief case was not relavant. Pagers came closer to the dream. The dream was fufilled with those small flip phones. The artical could of easily been about why we don't have electric cars yet. Yes Tesla is building electric cars and yes electric car prototypes existed sinse the beginning of car design. But that is not the point. 99% of the worlds still uses fossil fuels. When do the masses get the electric car they were promissed in science fiction?