Not yet. For Skynet to become sentience it needs to infect the GiG and a sufficiently large number of machines.
The second part is ongoing (the botnet is growing), the first part is just waiting for the opportune moment!
While the handling of Vi or Emacs actually *is* breathtakingly bizar and unwieldy, what you're saying is not correct. If someone actually takes the time to learn to use Emacs and the extensions it offers for developement - which can take a few years - it can be the most powerfull and fast IDE out there
Well, you hit it! No reasonable developer (not to mention company) want's to spend a few years mastering a tool. In the case of coding for fun, I would like to start working on what I am interested in, not spending ages trying to figure out the editor.
In the case of companies, they just want to hire a developer and turn him into a productive contributor as soon as possible (usually a month or less)
I once work with one of them (don't remember if it was Vi or Emacs) and I couldn't figure out how to get out of it or how to open the help, so I had to restart the machine
They buy the equipment to record, sign up with Amazon/Apple/whoever to manufacture/distribute, and then sign up with Label A for promotion. Label A gets a cut of the sales, but doesn't own any rights to the music.
I see the future a bit different. I would like to pay to the promotion companies (labels?) a fee per service with a clear way to measure the effectiveness. I don't think they will get any where with a business case like: "Give me a fix part of your income and trust me, I am doing what is best for you."
... In a school project, its 2 weeks of trying to understand and clarify what the prof actually wants you to do, and 3 days of hacking together some minimal pile of garbage that just barely does it. In the real world, you actually care about overall architecture, design, methodologies for coordinating a team, maintainability, testability, etc.
This difference you mention is plain wrong! That makes me think you have not worked in any "real world" project. Most of the project have an ill-defined set of requirements and an unrealistic delivery date. So, you have to spend 2 months of trying to understand and clarify what the customer actually wants, and 3 weeks of hacking together some minimal pile of garbage that just barely does it.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
