I don't understand why these things take so long? W3C and HTML5, IEEE and 802.11N... You think with this much "hype", these guys might get the HTML5 standard out the fucking door ASAP.

This will, by no doubt, be the greatest give to charity for the entire human race. Intel has bought McAfee, so it can finally be killed!

HARK INTEL!!!

This is what happens when you have a bloated government; lack of respect for people's rights and responsibility. It's also about the people who cock-up elections, because they believe they have a say in your life.

FUCK YOU!

I'm not just sick and tired of hearing about this kind of crap; I'm discouraged and insulted by it. Government isn't evil, but our friends in government who believe they know better than the parents in charge are inherently taking away the freedom of parents to raise their own children.

There was a comment above yours that I did respond to and I figure your post deserved a response as well.

Thinking about it, I am bias in my remarks. No sham in saying so, very few of us are ever truly objective, but just an opinion I've formed over the years. However, in regards to what you're saying, let me tack-on some clarification. I have worked with some very good CS grads, whom I've had this conversation with before. What we all tend to agree on is that, in general, a person with working-experience in their field is always preferred to one without.

Now, with that being said, I'm looking at Kagen and another appointee, Harriet Myers who was nominated by Bush. I thought to myself then the very thing I'm thinking now: why isn't our CoC finding more qualified individuals with actual experience? Regardless of politics, wouldn't it be beneficial to find someone who actually tried a case?

To me, I think there are many judges who have been trying cases for decades that are more qualified for the position than Kagen. Thinking about nominating an individual for the Supreme Court, I might have looked there rather than finding an individual that can easily be argued a judicial activist.

But, Obama's President and I'm not. You get what you vote for...

I guess we agree to disagree.

But I guess I do carry some bias towards those who are self-taugh, so I will admit to that. However, it seems to me that a self-made-man in America is a wrong thing these days, since their fucking knowledge isn't endorsed by an accrediting council. Personally, I'm looking forward to being done with my CS program. Figure I'd play the game, get my credential and get paid more money for doing the same thing.

If you wish to politik that's fine, but don't be an ignoramus.

Where are the dems standing up to Obama? Where were the repubs standing up to Bush?

Turns out that the Congress is one big fucking social club, where you're ostracized if you don't "play-along". If you hate that, then start standing up to your representatives and tell them what you want! They represent YOU!

And if they lack a fucking backbone, vote them out!

I believe the argument there is theory versus implementation. You can be a great scholar of law, but that doesn't make you a great lawyer.

As a self-taught software developer without a CS degree, I've come to recognize that the better and more efficient developers are those that are self-taught, with real-world experience. I've worked with CS grads with their bachelors degrees that cannot stand toe-to-toe with some guy lacking equal credentials, doing their job equal to the time that grad spent in the classroom.

Kagen may be a great law professor and a great dean, but I've learned to remain skeptical of a person's ability until they actually do the job. I believe one senator stated that the Supreme Court is not a place to gain on-the-job-training and I would have to agree with that.

Even though there are no requirements to sit on the court, we shouldn't be stupid enough to put people on the court that lack experience arguing cases. Let's stay away from the bare minimum and look for better. Obama could have found someone better than Kagen.

We may want to hold off on using words like "major" in response to this victory. I'm not sure how major it was and I'm not feelin' like I should ranting and raving about victory. Is it really a "major victory" to beat-up on something that is already dead?

Winning a case against Samsung would be a major victory.

I hope more math departments start picking up on this trend:

http://linear.ups.edu/opentexts.html

Thank you for saying this, because I was getting ready to.

It's ridiculous to list all these things Microsoft is supposedly conspiring to do, to keep users hamstrung in developing applications. In case you haven't noticed, there are tons of programming languages and applications that you can use, instead of Microsoft's flavors. But, you have to acknowledge there are a lot of developers out there who enjoy programming under .NET and find that it does things a lot better than Java, PHP and Perl. I'm one of those developers...

Sure, .NET and C# aren't the best tool for every job, but when it comes to desktop programming, I enjoy all the tools Microsoft gives me through visual studio. I'm not a fan of UI design with Swing and Java. I'm not going to try to wire together PHP and GTK and I'm sure as hell not going to try and get Perl and GTK to work together and why should I? VS does this for me and does it well!

This goes to say that Microsoft can take their tools and go fuck themselves when it comes to database programming on the web. As far as I'm concerned, the best tool I've ever used is CakePHP! I'm not as fast with Ruby and PHP is already setup on just about every web server my clients use.

Leave your zealotry at the door. If you believe that you can solve a problem for your client with X language, then make sure you're justified and not just spewing out bullshit.

Pick the best tool for the job and leave your zealotry at the door.

I get it. Trolling Microsoft is instant karma bucks on /. But seriously, you're talking out of your ass if you believe "C# / .NET" is just about tying developers into Windows. It's about getting shit done for your client!

Matt has every right to bang his tiny little fists on the table about license violations and as a user, I can say fuck you and switch.

Don't be a dick Matt. You've earned cred by creating a great blogging platform. Let the themes and plugins be covered under the LGPL!

+ fucking 1 my friend.