RIP Richie and many thanks for C, the language that enabled UNIX to come to life!

True, Microsoft is coded in C too. Android no, but the Linux Kernel and Android VM yes.

He can work in the FSF as VP of travel and evangelization. The President should be a new person. Someone fresh and young, with vision.
Using the hate as a way to force people to think like you is not good.

Also, a person with fresh memory will too. RMS forgot that the most used browser in mobile is webkit, an Apple product.

gcc -pedantic rms.c -o - > /dev/null

Without Steve the future of consumer technologies may be delayed. No matter if you use Windows o Android, everyone uses a technology based on Steve's Company: Apple. Thats why Steve was important.
RIP Steve, and many thanks for all your good work!

What does this news have to do with "News for nerds" ???

A whole week? Thats just insane! Anyway, stop the Apple bashing. I miss CmdrTaco editorial ...

Many thanks Rob!

I registered to the site while on a 28kbps modem, Netscape 2 on Linux 1.3. Since then I have read the site every day, seriously. Sometimes many times per hour. I always recommend the site to people. If I meet someone and he read /., then he may know something about Tech/IT/Science, its a catalyst for finding real nerds.

The best poll was that about toilet paper, if you put the end at the top or the bottom. At the top is the right answer ;)

I'm proud that you accepted a few submission of mine, I'm really are. Don't know why but that makes me happy.

I wish the best luck in your new future, you made history, Godspeed and thanks again!

Count me in, he changed the world! Thanks

I don't know who "idiots" are you talking about.
People protested and they do to make a point. If Monsanto loses some PR, that is not a back step for science.

lol, you're right. But you get the point right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato#Growth_and_cultivation

We humans are not perfect, so we still can not separate those 2 topics.