Fuck, this post made my day. About a year ago, I quit at a job after years of political tyranny, bullying and self serving crap of the higher echelons. I was at the end of my rope and the noose was getting tight. Like you say everyones was on the verge of hanging themselves including those that perpetuated the political agenda to aggrandize their positions and get a 1UP on the ladder. I left just in time. 3 months afterwards everything blew up in their faces and either left by themselves for fear of being exposed or they were exposed and were fired by the board. I had the same thoughts of being a quitter, but the day I left, doors started opening. The grass isn't always greener, but sometimes you have to get of the lawn altogether.

Interesting. Played a little with it. Most of my life used to be tied up in a text file in a folder called stuff. Then I got it in my head to be a little more organized so I moved a lot of it to TiddlyWiki
I felt all fuzzy and warm since that day.

Never did a CS degree, but I thought they were mostly about a subset of Mathematics called Discrete Mathematics? At least to a large degree anyway. It's all about boolean logic, boolean algebra, data structures and algorithms. The "Programming Language" is largely immaterial. Most people who consider taking a CS degree, think, ah "computers and programming" where as they would be closer if they just thought, mathematics (perhaps a bit of philosophy ;) )

I do tons of research before I start buying components for a new rig, especially gfx cards. Last time I checked, their erm, pretty expensive. It might be valuable to hear what the ./ crowd has to say about the new shiny x y or z before making final decisions. I read slashdot for the comments mostly anyway. In my opinion this is "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters".

Bring on a 12 core PS4 with raytracing games.

It looks like this:

Agreed. My manager sits right fucking behind me. Fastest I've EVER closed a window.

Damn how I wish I had more mod points left. On the face of it you sound like a hippy or possibly a conspiracy nut, but nothing could be closer to the truth. The world is broken and one day I'll have to stand before my children with just the shards of it all and try to explain to them what the whole use to look like.

Ah give it a rest allready. Sheesh, when will the US learn that not everyone dances to their tune.

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But does it catch Vista?

Just some clever media sensationalism. See, people bears and other animals live in caves, coupled that to the renewed excitement in the media lately with the search for life on Mars and suddenly, almost subconsciously your mind makes some interesting connections when reading the clever headline. "7th Graders Find Large Hole On Mars" on the other hand sounds quite dull (Depending on your depth in the gutter...) .

From TFA: >> People’s names are almost globally unique. Hi my name is 2E9ADBC9-D87F-485e-9608-02251B68ECC6. Please to meet you.

What you say about postage sized textures and bandwidth intensity is true. Also you make a good point about convincing people to wait for the plug in to download and all, BUT... I can think of one browser plug in based game that has had fantastic success so far. Take QuakeLive for instance. The only other thing to be said for QL maybe is that Quake was already a popular game to begin with. Will unknown games that are unproven but run with similar plug ins have similar success? Maybe Id Software will sell the plug in architecture in the same way that they license their 3D engines. Maybe they'll open source it altogether. Just a thought.