So Finland can beat the Russians in WWII twice, but their captial of Oslo runs out of garbage today. Those Finns aren't so smart as they claim.

Your forgot the one part though: the hilarity that they are paying you to do what they tell you. Even though their "orders" are insane and you would spend a week writing up a list of why it won't work out. But you shut up and do it anyways. This does not mean you are not entitled to laugh. What else can you do?

Here is a short list of how you have done it better next time: DON'T TELL THEM.

A. It's funnier

B. It's comedy gold.

C. It's more fun than pulling legs off a spider (I can't say I encourage that behavior, btw).

Sounds like you are embellishing corporate wisdom. Most corporations thrive solely on having a fixed-location on the ants to report the ant-hill in the morning, and little else.

So if your phone gets stolen, then wat? Can they charge the TSA with corporate espionage?

Ha ha ha ... I post a intellectually based critique of the open source business model (based on both economics and natural selection) and got modded into oblivion so much I couldn't even reply to those that demanded I reply to explain my reasoning in detail.

That was tough endure, even for Trollston!

I thought in the past, Blackberry's primary market was government and corporate contracts. They don't need the smaller market, they just need to persuade gray-haired government officials to sign some papers in a meeting or grease some politicians.

But the Blackberry is slightly heavier so if you set it on some papers, the wind can't blow them away as easily.

Plus the phone itself is more serious about business and frowns upon distractions.

Surely you jest ... I'm getting a Blackberry for the games and the Facebook integration.

This is an experimental technology.

Steep obstacles: comfort, perception that you will be a privacy-invader, eye health, battery life .. these have an uphill battle.

Look, I was once a GPL diehard. I fell off that bandwagon because I saw that freedom also means "freedom to ignore the needs of the user". You and I would find kinship in the ultimate correctness of free and open source software, I just have seen that the model in place will never get us there. I long pondered the questions before coming to a conclusion though ...

Don't try to promote boost. It won't work. Every neck-beard gnuknows that Boost is a C++ library which is the evil seed of a corrupted C++ utopia ideals corrupted by $MS. Nice try tho ...

Ah yes ... switch away from Windows. Sure, sure. Windows sucks. They should switch to OS X, clearly. Linux has had over a decade to try to iron-out an environment as a mainstream alternative to Windows ... and have fallen flat on their faces so many times it is difficult for even a Windows-hater like myself to recommend Linux as an alternative. OS X is the Unix that "works" out of the box.

A Linux neck-beard and a Windowz guy fighting it out. I used to GNUknow which one to root for ...

PHP and MySQL aren't "true" GPL. They are GPL with "exceptions" or inherent exceptions "i.e. run it as a server and the GPL claouse of distrubtion doesn't apply".