Warren East at ARM, António Horta-Osório at Lloyds. Dunno about the US, don't generally follow US stocks. I guess Ellison and Larry Page have overseen some good moves recently.

The UK has different freedoms from the US. You have freedom of speech, we have freedom from harassment. Your system hasn't been around long enough to tell which one is better.

That when you do the electronic equivalent of going up to the victims relatives and saying "Ha Ha, He raped and killed your daughter last week", you can expect the authorities to step in and put an end to your attempted breach of the peace.

Isnt fumbling about trying to find it supposed to be part of the experience?

He is not transcribing recorded testimony, as in converting the recorders recording into another form.

I'm currently playing Mass Effect 2 on wine on Linux, I've played plenty of other games with minimal problems.

I doubt it is in Mocrosoft's interest to kill the ecosystem. It will leave every MS dependant hardware or software vendor looking for a transition strategy to Apple/Linux/Nintendo/Sony/Android. I guess many will already have woken up and decided "No more purposefully buggy DSDT tables, no more half-hearted Linux support", though I guess Asus and Adobe will snooze a while longer.

Ive been there. The problem was a bug in the chipset causing USB ports to hang unexpectedly. The chipset vendor was refusing to fix their firmware. Solution was to put VIA on my do not buy list and move on. Your problem seems similar, USB works everywhere except your PC. Gotta suspect your PC, not the OS.

Linux damaged the Solaris market, and Intel x86 made Sparc a less compelling hardware platform.

Java kept Sun distracted as their core revenue streams were eroded.

As Sun tried to turn Java into a revenue stream, they diverted money, technical expertise and management attention from Solaris and Sparc. Java (particularly JavaEE) also made their acquisitions (Forte etc) difficult as Sun tried to shoehorn Java into products that didn't need it.

So I reassert that java helped kill Sun.

Its worth noting that Oracle are not overly distracted by Java. They are getting the jvm and core language sorted out without blowing billions doing it.

Yup, Java helped kill Sun. If Android knows whats good for it, it will drop Java in favour of better languages and native compilation, possibly Qt as the toolset and D or C++ as the compiler with javascript and python support too.

COBOL has older applications, and the only way to become an old application is to start with a sound architecture. So they are probably just looking at a survivorship bias issue than a language or programmer experience issue.

It would be nice to see application age and programmer experience controlled for.

Actually, economists predict crashes all of the time.

• Some are perma-bears, they always predict a crash. They do predict the crashes that happen, but they also predict loads that dont.
• Some are perma-bulls, they always predict a crash, but not just yet.
• And some try and give useful forecasts, but get it wrong most of the time because markets go through chaotic phases, and politicians make random moves.

For instance, right now there are some people predicting a UK housing market crash of about 20% in the next year. If theres no crash this year, they'll just move forwards to next year. Eventually they'll be right, and will parade their insight for all to see.

Something from a mirror site I guess.

Theres a few annoying quirks around the duck typing ( e.g. 01234 gets treated as an octal number, bloody stupid decision)

typeof is useless

The class system is a bit klunky, but I'd far prefer it to something like Java where OO mandatory and you soon end up abstractFactoryFactoryGetter'd up the wazoo.

There is no native include directive.

But most of the problems are with a certain browsers inconsistent use of the DOM, dodgy standards support and bizarre bugs that never get fixed.

I'm pretty sure someone on the team said something like "I wish we knew why this star is heavy element deficient"