You've posted another opinion, unsupported by ANYTHING as if it were FACTS. Have newer data that disproves mine - post it. Have citations that support you positions - post them. Until you do, you're just making it up...

As I mentioned, you are entitled to your opinions, but you are NOT entitled to your own facts. Coal usage in the EU is decreasing, renewable use (not fossil fuel generation) is increasing:
http://theenergycollective.com...
http://www.renewableenergyworl...
(older data) http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-...
While the price per kWh in Germany is high, it's not even the highest in the EU and certainly not the highest in the world. That statement is just plain WRONG. The price in Germany is not even that far out of line with the rest of the EU where prices are generally at least double the US rates:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

Wow, one comment that Obama is a socialist and one that the Christian Democrats in Germany are a facist dictatorship.

These must be comments from the US, the home of the NSA and the largest domestic spying program in the world.

In the US, as in Germany, you are entitled to your own opinion, however only in the US is there a clear belief that ignorance makes your opinion more worthwhile. Here's a clue, it doesn't. Study some facts, get information from places other than FOX news and come back when you actually know something about, well, anything really, but you could start with geography and the poltics of countries in Europe. Here's a hint, Ted Cruz is not electable (even on the crackpot fringe) and Obama is center-right anywhere outside the US.

Yep, just like Germany which, one day last month generated 50% of their electrical power from solar and is planning to phase out all coal-burning generation (they've already eliminated nuclear after Fukushima). Oh, wait, they have one of the strongest industrial economies in the world. Or Estonia with close to 100% Internet connectivity and a network of EV charging stations nationwide.

But, but, but...

What happens if we clean up the environment and it not the cause of global warming. All we'd have then is no smog, non-polluting power and clean water.

Or there's the English expression:

A bird in a taxi's worth two on a bus.

Yet, when the MPAA/RIAA come to the door, they figure out a whole scheme that goes beyond the DCMA to block, or put ads on, material that their secret algorithm finds to be infringing on copyright.

So, they've already demonstrated that they CAN filter content. I see lots of repercussions to this ruling, but I'm not at all sympathetic to Google's plight - they already demonstrated that they have the technology and have used it for evil purposes.

You have to be kidding. Are you seriously suggesting that Internet usage in Europe is significantly different from patterns in the US? Just becuase the US services are missing doesn't mean less streaming. One obvious one is the BBC in the UK, I'm sure most other language groups have similar.

I think that the difference is that, just like the US, they dumped money into expanding broadband, but, unlike the US, they got value from it instead of companies like Verizon saying "thanks for the cash, BTW how about if we just provide wireless, and then only if people pay and we'll just pocket the money instead of doing what we said we'd do".

The only problem with that theory is that most Europeans have faster, uncapped service at a lower price.

That just means that you never used PC Write. No one went back to WordStar after using PC Write. No one. There was even a way to get it to pause (now I've long forgotten how) so you could change the daisy wheel to get symbols.

IIRC the story is that Bob Wallace (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Wallace) would always carry the one-and-only source code floppy with him at all times. He kept it on the passenger seat when driving. Supposedly at some point the floppy failed and he wrote the code to read/write raw floppy disk sectors to recover the source code. That feature was subsequently a part of PC Write.

You've got to be kidding me, WordStar. PC Write (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-Write) is MUCH better even if you don't ever want to edit disk sectors directly.

From 1999? Is this a new low in late new on /.? If there's reason to believe that there's an advance that makes it relevant in 2014 it's not obvious from the summary. May I'll wait another 15 years and then read the article.

Maybe, but most of the applications, as many others have pointed out in this thread, are of the "take this data from the database and show it on a web page". Just because specialized applications do exist doesn't mean that there isn't value in a pool of people who can create the simple, repetitive and more common applications - especailly applications that have been spec'd and architected by others.

I think that comes under the category of "requirements capture". Unless you're an expert in every possible field, the person who generated the data will need significant input into how that data is displayed.

What? No. The front-end displays the calculations that the back-end has calculated. Presumably the back-end is engineered by engineers, mathematicians or statistician, not web-designers. You don't need to understand the significance of the data to plot it on a chart with the right axes names. While a grounding in math, statistics, etc. etc. is not wasted, experts in these fields would not be my first choice of UI designers.