Though I notice those cultures also tend to be short, too, as if malnourished. I'd rather look at whatever the Dutch are eating.

No, no, TSA = Transportation Security Administration, but security != safety. Consider: "the prisoners are secure" vs. "the prisoners are safe".

I think even those will be lost over a century. A hundred years from now "Star Wars" might be mentioned in some kind of documentary on film history, in a node far, far away in whatever hypermedium they live in then (who will care and be aware that they can access it?). Films will probably have been a quaint form of entertainment for those poor folks who lived a hundred years ago.

Gasp, you have to fix it in multiple places? Sorry, but compared to refactoring, that is much faster. Especially if you're programming professionally, you avoid refactoring and copy/paste like a WINNER! Refactoring is a waste of time on code that you're probably going to throw away anyway. Refactoring (except when necessary) is a best practice only for people who write books or blogs, not for real programmers. Refactor only after you copy/pasted at least 10 times and you're pretty sure that you'll have to do it many more times.

It's a bit of a strawman, since everybody wasn't stopping by the library every evening before the internet (laugh). Now a lot more people do, in a way, online; of course a lot more people also do the equivalent of going to pubs or other kinds of entertainment, but that's fine too.

I don't think it's a waste, anyway. Investment in information-age infrastructure. In the 50s, how expensive it was to build all those highways! Yeah, but look at how much easier it is to get (things) from here to there. Relative to the previous economy it was a huge cost, but then again you also boosted the economy. (Maybe "economy" has a bad connotation; I should say "productivity" or "power" (to do things).) Could've saved by riding around on horses, but then "lost" a lot more. The boost we get from the internet enables us to tackle problems we previously couldn't. I don't think we should be trying to save energy, instead we should be trying to figure out how to make more of it! (And how to get rid of the waste properly, too.)

Also why we have Wikileaks and Anonymous. Consent of the (governed) governing is not required or desirable.

I remember Emacs was going to switch to Guile back in, oh....around 2000? hmmm, around the same time Perl 6 was conceived. Millennium mania?

Of course.... this story has....nothing to do with....Code::Blocks. But we surely appreciate your zealous albeit irrelevant input, sergeant.

LOL. Oh, wasn't that meant to be funny?

Calling people idiots. He's young looking, maybe not so mature? Let's see, what has Jim Zemlin done... The about him from his blog. His staff page at the Linux foundation. Seems like... a manager in marketing? Aside from blabbing off, what are his contributions?

Well, personally I still hesitate when I see products beginning with 'i' because of integrated graphics cards like the i810.

Depends where the postage-stamp sized display is. People could wear goggles instead of monitors, or eventually retinal projectors attached to their glasses. You think it's funny, but I remember when people started talking on mobile phones how odd they seemed to be, talking to themselves. It'll seem weird at first when people are gesturing and manipulating things that aren't there, but people will get used to it.

I think you've hit on the next idea. Why even refer to it as Firefox? Just an unpronounceable symbol, The Application Formerly Known as Firefox. ("Application", because why call it a browser? (But is anything really being "applied"...?))

Yeah, coz the FBI don't lie.

Ahem, take your own advice?