Google's social networking features remain marginal for the same reason all of the other social networking sites remain marginal: the value of a social networking application is proportional to the number of people who are already using it. And Facebook hit critical mass first, which means that anyone who wants to "socialize" online with all of their buddies is going to want to do that on Facebook, because that's where all of their buddies are to be found online.

Asking people to also sign up for a second social-networking service is a losing proposition, because it inconveniences them (now they have to check two sites every day) without providing any compensating benefit (why talk to their friends on site B when they could already do that on site A?).

that the author is pointing out is that it'll be incredibly profitable to run these sorts of "schools". Sure, they won't work. But who cares so long as the money keeps flowing in. And what alternative will you have? Unless you're rich there won't be any. Sure, some of the /. crowd might realize that's morally wrong, but the rest of America will continue to blame themselves. It's something we do a lot of and goes back to that whole puritanical self flagellation thing that's been buries in our skulls.

An Apple II was more portable than e.g. a Kaypro 4 because there was a TV you could use as a monitor pretty much anywhere and it was half the weight to carry around... subjectively, I haven't compared numbers.

The same is true of 68k-family cores, which are also still being used in pretty much the same places as Z80s.

Stay tuned to find out.

You said, in many ways she's asking for what she's getting. But the fact is that what she's getting includes responses which are not appropriate for any kind of behavior. There's no way in which she's asking for the fullness of what she's getting. If you want your sentence to mean what you want it to mean, then you should say she's asking for much of what she's getting. That's still victim-blaming bullshit, because there's a lot of what she's getting which is inappropriate which lies outside the realm of rape and death threats.

If you want to call a narcissistic egomaniac what they are, more power to you. But then what you do after you've pointed that out is ignore them. You don't go on to make personal attacks. I note that's what she's doing, but you only become a hypocrite when you complain about personal attacks and then engage in them.

You sound like the insecure dumb kids back in junior high school. If my crime is sounding smarter than you're comfortable with, mission accomplished.

Just like how AT&T eventually succeeded in buying T-Mobile, right?

Wheeler is 69 years old. I would imagine his next post will be retirement. That may play a factor in his willingness to rock the boat.

That's because you're ignorant. Try more Linuxes so that you can be exposed to more things.

Who can afford to dick around becoming a better human? There's no money in that.

Isn't there? They seem to want to be treated like human beings. (The nerve.)

It was good enough for Elvis.

Last I heard, Microsoft's IDE was still broadly considered to be one of the best in the business, if not the best. Granted, their revision control system is one of the worst, so they're not all winners.

I was using the word 'disingenuous' on Slashdot before Hacker News existed.

False. We discussed the death of peasants yesterday. Today, a whole day later, we're discussing the death of a googler. You're either disingenuous, a dipshit, or both. But then, you didn't log in, so we knew that.