Apple arenâ(TM)t leaching off OSM; they pay TomTom plenty for maps.

Or do what my schools did: ban them in the classroom and give plenty of pop quizzes. If you can't do the work on your own successfully in class with nothing but your pencil, paper, and brain, you fail. Period. Today's entitled mommies will scream, but fuck 'em.

Maybe it's a case of the experienced developers have retired or been replaced for being too expensive, and the new generation doesn't have the knowledge or experience and are having to learn it all again the hard way.

I remember well when the original Halo was released and the hype around it. I grew up on Wolf3D, Doom, Doom II, Quake II and Quake III. I completed Halo in under a week when it was first released and was just left thinking: WTF was that? Waste of money. Each to their own, eh?

I don't know what era you grew up in, but when I was a child, Sears and Pennys were direct competitors. Sears just had a better catalog and automotive section. People going to malls would go to both to see who had the better deal on competing items. Especially for clothing. Montgomery Ward was a competitor, but they were the Chrysler to Sears/Penney's GM and Ford, the third wheel that no one went to first.

Sears fate was sealed the moment Amazon was created. The "vulture capitalist" just squeezed what value he could from the dying remains. With their catalogue business, and being "America's general store", they were in the perfect position to move from paper catalog to Internet based ordering. They adapted too late. Malls and physical department stores are never coming back at a level necessary for a Sears to thrive. It's Amazon and everyone else now.

Why would you drink cider if you want sparkling wine? If your criteria is that you want a yellow drink with bubbles, fine, but that also doesnâ(TM)t sound like your average champagne drinker either.

Itâ(TM)s like expecting somebody who wants a BMW will be happy with a Ford instead. Theyâ(TM)re more likely to just delay the purchase of the Beamer until they can afford it, and also have less money to spend in the local economy.

Inevitable. LOL.

The EU will break up before it truly bans ICE engines. It's not going to happen in our lifetime. Brussels may impose a penalty of some kind on member states that don't comply, but it'll be fairly cheap. Some tax or another will be imposed, everyone will claim victory, and ICE vehicles will continue to roll off production lines on the Continent.

Most people are not "deeply stupid". But that post was deeply arrogant.

Self-hosted Atlassian products seem to be just fine.

As for what "they said", they also said this cloud shit would be cheaper. It isn't.

I'm on a Mac you insensitive clod!

I suspect Steve Jobs refusing to let Flash on iPhones and iPad was a bigger stumbling block for most people than all the security concerns (although he too cited abysmal security). The loss of a huge chunk of the mobile market made Flash untenable.

Steve Jobs' thoughts on Flash:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

This is just the modern equivalent of those shitty "funny" emails that were forwarded around by at least one person in every office in the 90s. It's just become easier, more accessible and the tools more powerful.

You mean: Ukraine was defending itself in the Donbas after Russia supplied weapons and manpower to the separatist militias and agitated the situation? Asking for Russian peacekeepers to help was just part of the little man in the Kremlin's disinformation and subterfuge campaign.

Ukraine wasn't threatening their neighbours. Ukraine hadn't invaded or attacked their neighbours. Ukraine hasn't fought a 10 year war with one of its neighbours. Ukraine hasn't fired the equivalent of Scud missiles at an innocent third country like Iraq did with Israel. Ukraine hasn't used WMD against ethnic groups of its own population. Unlike Iraq, Ukraine wasn't developing WMD and in fact, voluntarily gave them up. Ukraine was on a peaceful path towards EU membership. The US lead invasion of Iraq was in a response to all of this and stop them threatening and attacking everybody, and then left, which is the opposite of Putin's aim which is genocide and the extinguishing of a separate culture and sovereign nation. You simply can't compare the two.