Yes it is, but "wget &" in a loop is more what they're going for... except they modify wget so that it does not also kill your machine...

There are many other "choices" (to be idiots too) that have been taken away proactively. (Like the smiley key! Surely you bemoan the loss of that one too?)

Nay, I say good riddance... people still have the choice to type in all uppercase... it's called "holding in the SHIFT key" (see what I did there?) :) -- smiley typed with ':' and ')' keys...

Or are they like 18 years old?

Work is work, .NET is just a word. It's not religion or a way of life. I hardly notice the difference between all the languages I flit between anymore.

But I guess you can choose what you want and try and find work in that. I just don't think that question is worthy of a topic here. Sounds like such a prima donna type attitude. I guess that's why I don't have trouble finding work.

I've just finished a few years of C++/C#.NET work and doing Objective C and ABAP now.

Languages are just a tool. It's like asking what genre novels to learn to write as long as you don't have to write it with a Logitech keyboard.

Frankly I only ever *used* X11 to run terminals.

Good riddance to X and Gnome... never liked either. They are the reason most people using Linux/etc. think GUIs are crap (they've never learned to use a proper GUI).

I love the command-line, but I can really get by pretty well navigating and working on either Windows or OS X GUIs. The closest I've had to a good consistent experience on Linux was KDE.

Linux has always been a very good server environment for me, and never, ever a great client. Ubuntu has come a long way to try and change that and I applaud any (albeit questionable) changes they make.

Nothing here is fact, only my personal experience as well as my experience trying to help several non-tech savvy family use Linux, Windows and OS X. For them I recommend OS X, whereas I use OS X and Windows clients.

About the family account; I thought about this and passing along all my books to my daughter one day, and I thought perhaps I shall open a Amazon account owned by my family trust. And just pass the trust on to my child one day.

Do you think one can do this?

Heh, actually I'm not even American. I was just making an observation. Seems like I hit a nerve... the same is possibly true for the masses of the opposition. Fortunately you just helped me make my real point.

Agreed! It's like taking the opinions of Glen Beck's collective multitude of followers as fact. #massstupidity

Also see Gary Kasparov vs. the world... (although it was still unfair that Gary could also read the opponent discussions)

would have been funnier if the joke was not already made in the article heading.

"from the citation-needed dept."

Yes, so it's higher than the eye can see, but that does not mean it's useless...

For one thing it may lead to advances in 3D displays without using 3D glasses. For this application it may be useful to be double the resolution, or even higher.

Either create a TrueCrypt or Encrypted DMG on a DropBox shared volume.

Free for up to 2Gb. (should be plenty)