Weird that this is the only comment so far that even mentions this part of the story. Can you imagine if Apple put this restriction in place with the next iPhone?

I wonder how long it will take for Comcast to suddenly decide to offer a very similar service in Provo.

Even if they provide equal or better, they've lost me. When you have absolute control and abuse your customers, why would they even entertain sticking with you when the playing field becomes level? You've already proven your customer service at that point.

Couldn't a god create a unicorn that is both invisible and pink? Are you saying that the power of a god is limited?

So, to return to the GP's example, do you think that agnostics would say: "Invisible pink unicorns have not yet been proven to exist, therefore I will act under the working assumption that they do not exist."

I see this atheism/agnosticism argument all the time and it really just seems to come down to semantics. An atheist is comfortable saying that they don't believe in something, whereas an agnostic (for some reason only in the case of a god argument) has to be super literal and state that anything (living teapots on Saturn) could exist. Face it, you don't believe that invisible pink unicorns exist. You don't believe that there are living teapots on Saturn.

Yes, which is why Google is testing the concept on slashdot...

That would be a very good point if the CPU was the only resource that had contention on the system. On that Win 7 box, how much RAM is being used?

Dislike of Apple and making fun of homosexuals seems to go hand in hand based on highly moderated posts on /.

Agreed. If the submitter is looking only to do very basic web pages and not more complex web applications, then, yeah, they probably don't need any further education. Just create a portfolio of content and shop it around.

However, if the submitter is looking to do advanced web applications, possibly for a large company, and get paid over $75K, I would suggest a CS degree. As the parent states, web development goes well beyond HTML and CSS. An understanding of CS concepts is very important for creating a large interactive web application.

Also, are you willing to bank that web development will stay as it is for your entire career? Having a background in a wide range of CS concepts can be very helpful as the sands shift in the future.

Lastly, I'll comment that 80% of people who label themselves as web developers and proficient with JS and CSS only have the most basic understandings of the capabilities. Often, I see people who have taken courses in Java, and then saw that JS looks syntacticly similar on the surface. They code JS as if it is Java, resulting in extremely bloated and error prone code. My favorite statement from one such developer was "If only JavaScript had the concept of a hashtable, this would be so much easier to do".

And plenty of people on /. will remind us frequently that they didn't invent it, but somehow leave out the detail that all of the existing devices shifted to the Apple form factor and user interface shortly after the Apple release.

This is not meant to nickpick

I know "US getting less sun than US" means "US getting less sunlight than US", but I still feel a little bit queasy when people substitute the word "Sun" for "Sunlight"

Not to nitpick, but no one said "US getting less sun than US". I feel a bit queasy when people substitute the word "Germany" for "US".

And its better hours, working conditions, and pay than their other options

And how dare someone choose a job based on those factors. Those sluts!

Brogramming is very different from cowboy coding. "Brogrammer" is a pejorative used to label developers that threaten one's ego by coming off as cool and social. In a development environment, many people aren't as focused on being "cool", so the term is necessary to raise yourself above those who do focus on that.

I'm shocked the submitter submitted a story to slashdot that even they thought wasn't newsworthy.

Well, actually....

But at any rate, it seems that Peter Jackson mainly does movies based on novels, at least based on his Tolkein works.

In other words, if you look only at the movies that Peter Jackson has done that are based on books, then it appears that he mainly does movies based on books.