Don't be silly. He's far too talented for that. Maybe if we gave him a frontal lobotomy first though...

But the point of a decent UI is that someone shouldn't have to post to /. to get a solution to a UI problem.

It's confusing to me when I read about students being taught how to use Word and Excel in computer classes. To me, that's just (very!) basic business computing literacy, not computer studies or science. I did an O-level, sitting the exam in 1985. My teacher (IIRC, a former COBOL programmer) taught us this: A high level language (BBC BASIC) A low level language (CESIL, supported by ICL) Flowcharting (yes, even had the stencil) * Inputs and expected outputs * Writing code on paper * * all done before going anywhere near a keyboard. Imagine that - 15 & 16 year olds learning the basics of UML, unit testing, and planning with high and low level languages. And now it's how to format documents and do mail merges on Word. This is why business should *never* get to dictate curricula.

Yeah, it's odd isn't it? Pirates of Silicon Valley ended up with a giant Bill Gates on a screen looking down on tiny Steve Jobs like he would an obediant, well-trained puppy.

And since then, Jobs went on to business mega-stardom and Bill Gates became a genuine hero by trying to rid the world of lots of nasties like Malaria and Polio.

And that the quality of content is what the readership comes for...

Which of course implies this: Crap comments - crap commentators - crap articles.

Actually the US had concentration camps when they invaded the Philippines many years before. It could also be argued that the Indian Reservations were an early prototype.

I'm thinking of getting a domain with GD just so I can dump them too ;-)

Yes, it's much better to work in the private sector where things are booming...

I can sell you a Babelfish if you'd like. It's not like those goddam Limeys don't not speak proper English nohow.

archive.org seems to have a reasonable selection of this kind of stuff. There's some surprisingly good movies there (some dross too but that's the same for the new market).