Is there any clone manufacturer out there still selling them? That sounds pretty damn awesome.

We still do. We have so many scientists that they can't find academic work, and industry isn't hiring. The "skills gap" you hear companies bitching about exists only because they refuse to provide training. They expect their workers to emerge from Zeus's head fully formed and armored like Athena. This works when only a few companies are doing it, but it breaks down when everybody does it.

We didn't get hit over the head with a gigantic rock and lose every engineer we had. China just created more. That's called progress, and I thought /. was all for better science in the world?

Split view should be part of the window manager, not the application. A tiling WM or even "aero snap" with a browser on one side and your editor on the other works just fine.

It's because it's much, MUCH easier to tell someone "type this sequence of characters and press enter" than pantomiming how to grope your way through some GUI that might be completely different after the next release in six months.

As a Canadian, you should care very much about buying American. Our countries have each other's biggest trade relationship by a significant margin, so buying American (or for me, buying Canadian) keeps money in the loop instead of it being squirreled away in China.

What the fuck are you smoking? Those are some pretty extraordinary claims, but I don't see any extraordinary evidence.

Seriously, I live in New Hampshire, and I emailed RMS about this bill last year. He said that if the bill called it Free Software instead of Open Source, he'd get behind it.

Oh... that's right.

Don't forget Enzo, the webOS framework that supposedly works cross-platform, since it's all HTML and JS. Oh, and it's open source now.

The wheel weaves as the wheel wills. You caught me halfway through The Great Hunt.

There's a chance, however slight, that this will lead a bigger push for keeping modules in the kernel tree.

BEGIN STEREOTYPE REINFORCING She could always be a man-hating lesbian married to your female best friend. You didn't provide sufficient context for us to get that. END STEREOTYPE REINFORCING

Maybe this is what happened with GNOME 3.0?

The people who think that climate change is a socialist plot are convinced that climate scientists are making claims about global climate change because it fits well with the people clamoring for renewable power, emissions control, and energy saving, and not the other way around. These people are what we like to call "wrong."

The anti-vaxxers won, didn't they? RISC is everywhere, from ARM chips in smartphones to Watson running on POWER to SunOracle's SPARC-powered database systems.