Most people when they're young are rather tribal about their musical tastes as they see it as significantly defining them, no only as who they are but as who they're not.

However once we grow up and become full rounded adults then music simply becomes another form of media entertainment and we no longer limit ourselves to metal/rap/r&b/whatever but listen to anything we like.

And thats a good thing.

So thats why he was so pissed off. His parents wanted him to be a good klingon lawyer but he ended up wearing cheap clothes and being the foil for a bunch of ungrateful mensch!

Quite. Its just the middle class wannabe version of a graffiti tag, with about the same amount of talent required and having the same level of intellectual gravitas.

It really is just an alphabet soup of acronyms with security systems. No wonder the average person just doesn't bother.

Nice try at some conflation there but no cigar. Sports and music are meant to be watched as well as played. Watching someone typing into a text editor has never been and never will be a recreational activity. The musical equivalent would be watching the composer write down the notes or for sport watching Roger Federer do practice shots over the net for 3 hours.

"and I can assure you it has several thousand viewers when it's on, so there's your proof that there is an audience for people writing code."

All that proves is there are thousands of people with absolutely no life, not that watching the activity itself has any merit. You can put any old shit online and some bunch of mugs will watch it.

.... is solving problems yourself and creating a working piece of code at the end along with a sense of achievement and self satisfaction.

The fun of coding is NOT the physical typing in of the code text along with edits, deletions what whatnots. So quite why anyone would want to watch someone *else* do it frankly is beyond me. If you want to learn to code in language XYZ go buy a book or look at some example code online then most importantly try it yourself.

"* manually indents his code"

To be fair, I find manually indenting code a lot less frustrating than auto indent because the number of times when I *don't* want auto indent to work but it does anyway and I have to manually undo it just makes it more hassle than its worth.

Agree with you on everything else though.

... that 4.0 really is a big step up from 3.19 or is it simply the same amount of new stuff that would have gone into a 3.20 release anyway? Not that it really matters, Linux version numbers make about as much sense as Firefox ones these days.

Unless the "winners" are completely stupid - but then this is reality TV so who knows - they'll probably notice the complete lack of G's at "take off" and the persistence of gravity once they're supposedly in space.

Personally I think 99.9% of the contestants know full well the whole thing is dubious but are going along with it simply to get the experience of astronaut training and have a bit of fun knowing the nearest they'll ever get to space is on the 747 on the way to the training centre.

Not really. Web "developers" don't have to understand TCP/IP to do their thing. I imagine this will be similar. There'll be a basic set of functionality that can be used by Mr Below Average coder to produce ok results.

In that case you *seriously* need to get a life.

" do not have a spare phone to revert to should I break the current one. "

So buy one then.

Anyway, if you need your phone for ALL of your work you really should get a better job since you're obviously tied to the office 24/7/365.

Don't worry - I'm sure feminists are pushing to widen the definition of rape so far it'll include having sex without getting written permission signed in triplicate beforehand and approved by a lawyer.

The term is so widely abused now its almost meaningless and does a disservice to women who have suffered real rape - not just had a change of mind the next morning after the beer goggles wore off and the guy wasn't as hot as they thought.

Art is a pastime like knitting or stamp collecting, not a fundamental part of an education to operate in the 21st century.

Hey, are you trying to confuse people with the truth?? You can knock that off right this minute my friend or we'll send the right-on thought police around!