Yes, this. Punishment designed to correct, not a reaction based on anger.

Kids like this are not the ones you want to filter out of the system.

You mean we're not supposed to still be doing that?

Anyone who doesn't have a sculpture of pivoting 10base2 connectors, and know how to turn them into a replica USS Enterprise, is insufficiently senior to talk to.

Entangled Object Oriented language? Certainly you'd need parameter overloading.

I think that's a pretty Ploor effort.

By that time, we should have the ability to move the planet back to a more favourable orbit, if we so desire.

Or, perhaps, combine it with our farming planets into a Klemperer Rosette, and flee.

Sintered ceramic teeth -- dentures and bridges, faster and more accessible dentistry.

I think Mr. Markram is one lab accident away from a supervillain.

Well, we had to have a look at W8 because we have a few thousand users who buy their own PC's. We have a say in what we can support, though, and that carries a lot of weight.

After our ISD team had a look at it, and after we stopped laughing, our chief decision-maker said: "Well, we skipped Vista..."

Major change fear isn't just a Luddite thing, it's a major cost for us. We're talking $millions if we were to move to W8 in training cost, and that doesn't include the rather expensive productivity dip as we cycle customers through a training program, for which we would have to bear the cost. There is no way we could avoid substantial training, as our users just simply aren't that adept and would completely freeze at a new interface.

You can take that back to your boss at Microsoft, Geekoid, and tell them that W8 sucks because it would cost us too goddamn much money to implement.

Nailed it, GIT. You win the Internet.

Kill that thought. Kill it with a heated spoon.

Or a third -- they become software salesmen. I've never met an enterprise-level software salesman who didn't mention that he used to write in Assembler once.

Most of the 3GLs and a fair number of 2GLs, the entire lineage of databases and indexed file systems.

The whole experience of learning new languages came to a stop when I found I couldn't learn Hindi.

How many of you immediately thought of Slaver Sunflowers?

(Ref: Larry Niven "Known Space" series. If you haven't read it, do...)

You don't get out much, do you?

Quite a number of people on the Indian subcontinent die every year from cobra strikes. Snakes are an object of horror -- if you're trapped in a pile of rubble, a snake may not be the thing they want to see.

Other than that, I think it's a great idea.