(See also this.)

I am sure it is very important and fulfilling for him. For him it is Stuff that Matters. However, it is not News for Nerds.

With that said, a Slashdot that didn't post irrelevant junk so we could complain about it would hardly be Slashdot anymore, so there is that.

Amazon should assign a junior engineer to personally be responsible to search/scrape the web for leaked keys, and privately contact the owners of those accounts. That would make for good PR.

How about feminist studies in universities. Is that narrow enough to be useful? Good grief.

Depends on which feminists you are talking about. Are you really unaware of the wide spectrum of activism that falls under the term "feminism"?

Uh...

That's it. I'm calling the police.

I've watched a bunch of videos online of this vehicle. I've seen it go in a straight line. Is there any video of it driving around a curve while traveling at a decent speed?

Motorcycles lean into a turn, lowering their center of gravity and maximizing traction/grip with the road. My guess (in the absence of seeing evidence otherwise) is that they've programmed this vehicle to stay bolt upright and just slide around a lot. Maybe it would be popular with drifters in Tokyo.

That's technically true, and you could raise the same objection if you hear someone talking about an "Android ARM tablet". I think my general point still holds despite my informal usage, no?

This is actually pretty funny, because it's true. And I wonder whether an unspoken reason they're walking away from WinRT is due to the sandboxed nature of the new subsystem, that actually rewards good behavior and punishes bad behavior in terms of memory management and CPU binding. To put it bluntly, maybe FF is too bloated to live inside WinRT without a huge rewrite.

Maybe a bit of confusion, but in my opinion not so bad. Windows RT ARM tablets are so named because you can only install WinRT targeting apps on them.

If Microsoft called the devices and software layer WinTouch or something, that might have helped a little, as a lot of people have been disappointed that a "Windows" computer can't run legacy mouse/keyboard Windows apps.

The idea some people got that all existing Windows apps were supposed to be rewritten as Modern Apps is certainly wrong.

However, the idea that the WinRT / Modern App platform needs to go away in a future Windows version is also misguided. What you refer to as "Metro" fills a useful function that isn't otherwise served on Windows, which is enabling touch screen use, and it does a very nice job of that. True, there aren't many Windows tablets or touch monitors out there, but the number of them is increasing every day, and it would be stupid of Microsoft to ditch the whole WinRT effort now.

If you want to make the case that keyboard and mouse users shouldn't have to look at the Modern UI if they don't want to... why then I will heartily agree.

Yeah, get rid of GIMP. It has an offensive name.

Krita, on the other hand, has a logo of a voluptuous female squirrel with a highly visible... vagina???? *facepalm*

O my apparent father, as you are a well-aged and wise AC, please enlighten the rest of us. When wcrowe said "You mean C#?", what was he talking about if it was not C#?

Yeah, I love that C# came out a decade after Java, and they had opportunity to see what Java did badly and change it.

That's cool.

[unnecessarily harsh]But of course nobody cares about your applets.[/unnecessarily harsh]

I don't really care which has aged better in the past. I care about mainstream adoption _today_, and about which language as it exists _today_ is more powerful, expressive, maintainable, etc. If I program Java today, I won't restrict myself to the language subset from 20 years ago, and similarly I am happy to use new C# features that kick Java's behind (like async, var keyword, and embarrassingly many others).

The big missing perspective from your rant is that software engineering is a forward looking discipline, not a backward looking one.

I know. It's almost as repugnant as musing about new agricultural opportunities in Siberia or Canada due to global warming. These Things Are Not Discussed.