Because what you're really complaining about is that all the games act like they are the *same* game and playing different games simultaneously is somehow wrong.

If Steam knows which games you are playing, then what you want, is to be able to log in however many times you want, and play only _one_ instance of each game.

The problem of course, is that everything else associated with Steam (buddies, achievements, etc) is not set up to do that. Even with the proposed solution, how will messaging work? Accounts within accounts? This whole inconvenience is looked upon as a feature to software developers. See those 2-pack combo deals in the store?

Given how slow Valve operates (HL3 anyone) I would place the likelihood of this ever happening at zero. Go with whatever your Plan B is.

I think you're both using the word "advanced" where you mean "highly specialized"

I don't get where you put "advanced programming/development jobs" with ECE. Those guys learned less theory than the CS majors. Maybe the ones you know are "better at it" because of their engineering discipline. Do you think only OS level programming is the "advanced" stuff?

Economics? Did you throw that in for fun?

Also, not buying that knowing how to wreck a complex system > making a complex system.

Hence the desks that convert? Stand in the morning, get tired, sit for the afternoon.

http://www.geekdesk.com/

You pretty much nailed why they are pushing this, but they're not going to listen. That's why this simulator exists. It's to fix the problem that was created by solving the problem of "make this car cheaper."

The higher end cars have more features, and therefore even more switches. That's why iDrive came before MyFordTouch. It's also a crappier experience (more steps to do the same thing), but they're not going to back to more buttons, because that would ruin margins.

Developers leaving:
Postbox (in linked article)
Clipstart
TextExpander
and more he didn't list because he didn't think providing anything beyond Postbox was necessary if you've a small developer paying attention in this space. I think he listed some more on his podcast.

Customers being burnt:
Himself, and anyone else who bought Postbox from the Mac App Store

Sandboxing exclusions:
If you have to have these enumerated, then you aren't the target audience. This is a blog post for developers, not a persuasive news article. The audience will believe/not believe the article based on their own experiences which are not enumerated, but frequently exist ephemerally over twitter and buried small developer blog posts. If you need to have this "sold" to you, then don't worry about it. Solid enough facts for you will bear out in time. This is more prognostication based on developer perspectives.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkPt3jDW8Bs

It's just about as slow as a translated hack. DDJ reports that they draw all their UI elements from scratch, which would explain it.

Granted, the video could be choppy because their recording software is bad or they intentionally slowed it down, but I've had an iPhone 3G (the demo is a faster 3GS) and my apps aren't this slow.

>Free means never being at the mercy of someone else's business plan.

It just means being at the mercy of a bunch of random developers instead.

Nobody has enough time to maintain forks of everything they use, never mind the people who don't even have the knowhow.

If you get the phone for free maybe you expect to get the apps for free too, so then you go looking for them when confronted with a price.

No, not closely, but really, if you're not trying to hack around the licensing agreement, it's not that big a deal to use Java.

If you base it on Java and follow the license, you'll be ok.

If you make a Java ripoff and not be very diligent in your chinese wall cloning efforts, then you probably do have something to worry about.

Contaminated would be a better word, since the viruses have no way to spread or affect the computer.

"We can move your designs from algorithms to chips in as little as eight weeks"

That's enough hints to know what's going on here. If you can't be bothered to Google "SoC" and see the "chip" reference on the first page, or heck, even read TFA which has the definition in it how could you muster the typing to complain about it?

Sorry if Slashdot isn't "newbie friendly," but this isn't "news for new guys, stuff to help you understand." If you don't understand it, maybe it doesn't matter to you. If it bothers you, educate yourself... by reading the article.

Stil, a lot of money!