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There is no "free". There's pay now, and pay later. Given American consumerist tendencies to _have_ now and worry about paying later... it all actually seems like a pretty much done deal actually.

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One Hole to rule them all, One Hole to find them,
One Hole to bring them all and in the blackness bind them
Before the Big Bang where the Shadows lie.

You're doing it wrong.

Them: "Are we there yet?"
Me: "10 minutes"
Them: "Are we there yet?"
Me: "10 minutes"
Them: "Are we there yet?"
Me: "20 minutes"
Them: "Are we there yet?"
Me: "30 minutes"
Them: "Are we there yet?"
Me: "50 minutes"
Them: "Are we there yet?"
Me: "80 minutes" ...

Eventually, they get the idea. And it makes it more engaging because you have to remember where you were last time, as well get to enjoy using a different series each time. Fib is one of my favorite.

When it comes to a private university, sure. Let them do what they want. But a "State" University derives much of its operation from tax dollars collected from the citizens of the states. They exist for the same reason that the public K-12 education system does, for the betterment of society and its individuals. Since a state university is really just the next step beyond High School, but where they make you pay some money to make sure you are serious, I struggle with your comment that they are businesses. If they ARE businesses and are going to run like businesses, please remove them from my tax burden.

"You A students, you'll be back soon teaching here with me.
You B students, you'll actually go on to be real engineers.
You C students, you'll go into management and tell the A and B students what to do."

The larger issue, that all of these comments circle around to me, is the continued decay of trust. I don't trust management. They don't trust me. What a surprise that at some point, I'd decide "if you can't beat them, might as well become one of them and get paid like one."

You hear about the zeal for progressive freedoms in the Scandinavian countries from time to time it seems to me. Things like the Pirate party in Sweden. And Iceland wanting to make a free press safehouse out of its country. And DVD Jon in Norway. I was kinda shocked that none of Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, or Finland was in this report. Kind of a stupid report IMO.

Here's what I don't get. When there's an article like this, it's the iphone/ipad (Apple products) that are killing their network. Yet when I go into either of the local AT&T stores here, it's all about 'Droid. From the sales people to the shelf space. So what is it? Is it that:

a) iPhone/iPad refer to specific products, but at the same time have become a synonymous moniker for all like products (kind like "Walkman" in the old days was both a specific product, but also the generic name for any portable tape player)?

or

b) Despite all of the 'Droid push from AT&T, there's a larger iPhone base within the AT&T network than the explosive Droid devices?

or

c) People who buy 'Droids don't like to use the net near as much?

or

d) Droid phones suck at doing net apps relative to iPhones?

or

e) something else?

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That's what Google's business is. If Google owned the music industry, music artists might go the same way of the bloggers, news sites, and other media entity. Artists could get promoted more if they mention certain products. Listeners would get free music, if you're willing to watch targeted ads.

Kind of like letting a convict out of prison at the end of his life to enjoy his last few years, at this point.

OpenOffice was an unprovable experiment in its old state. It's like a FOSS program that wasn't. It did the FOSS thing, but it had a chunk of staff being paid to work on it, when it wasn't really

The open source community can now prove whether they can write a large program of this type when not underwritten by a dying company. For some things, FOSS is great, and the community accomplishes alot, and for types of software, I've begun to believe that the open source model we're familiar with just doesn't work well. I'm not sure what needs to exist in that case.

And if someone wants to make money making a commercial version, they can even try that, because it's out of Oracle/Sun hands now.

Am I the only one reading this and remembering Quiz Show? Exact same sort of thing (imo).

I definitely do not miss FrameMaker

Even trickier to get cities flying on the moon.

I think this misses the larger point in part. I'm a geek, and a coder, and a Mormon too. There is a much more fundamental philosophy held by the Mormons, for which the practice of proxy baptisms, is easily the most sensational lightning rod of amusement/ridicule/fillin-your-adjective here.

The philosophy is founded in a belief/concern regarding Malachi 4:6.

"And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse."

It plays very prominently, repeatedly, in the original Joseph Smith experience. You may disagree with them on the details, but the ultimate goal is to get families, across generations coupled more tightly. It plays out in their emphasis on strong families, emphasis on cross-generation relationships, doctrine about life-after-death, various ordinances/rites which reinforce. Genealogy is far from just "get your dead relatives dunked", it's really about getting to know your forefathers, getting to appreciate them.

Well put. I've held for awhile, that software production has more to do with movie production than it does with engineering. Sure, there are tricks and techniques ("algorithms" and "patterns") that are very mathematic in nature and cross well with engineering domains, but there's that whole communication/creative/style side that is so often undersold and misunderstood.