The critical part of "see the light outside" is marketing. Universities were never supposed to be corporations with a marketing department. now, i'm sadly aware, that many universities are changing in that regard ("office of technology transfer" by any other name) but historically there's your explanation. That being mumbled, if you were to start with every major software package "outside" and faithfully trace it back to its origins, i'd say you'd nearly always discover yourself in a university setting. ("why that's mere sophistry, sir! because computers themselves can all be tied back to university professors and the like!" ...yep)

No no no... stay away from Seattle. nothing to see here. it rains all the time!. this is not the city you seek. you want...Portland, yeah! Portland is much more friendly and bike-centric and mellow. Seattlites are all hyper-liberal coffee-drinking zombies... save yourself! stay away! ....aaaaieeeee..... [end of transmission]

(incandescent) so... we've finally found a reason not to use CFLs? ;)

"1334 votes" eh? no chance this was a hacked-up result...? nah that's just crazy talk, that is.

though made mention of in the article; i think it would be generally instructive to visualize where on the planet are the populations rising significantly. it's overly optimistic, i'm sure, but it might help to drive some international efforts to promote basic birth control measures.

and in the end, (which, of course, is a "new beginning") what was the browser will want to be able to run a new and shiny alternative browser...

If i had moderation points, you would get them, Thank you for the highly cogent, and link-less, summary ((s'funny, i used to have moderation points too where did they go?))

I've now read it 3.7 times and it still makes no sense. I think the key to understanding would be either to doggedly follow the links (which somehow i feel it's a fail if i have to follow the links to begin to understand a posting of "News") or if i was in on the necessary "darmok/his arms wide" patois. Anyway, i'm not the target customer, apparently. So... nothing to see here move along...

Is this posting a sign that Slashdot has been hacked? Or perhaps it is sending apparently random information to sleeper cells? Letsee... if i try every third word... nope. hmh.

So far you have got the closest to make some sense of this for me (and, mind-ya, i blames myself) but "hardware which is essentially written"? software is 'written'. So (trying to interpret this) you're saying that in Hardware virtualization the virtual hardware is actually software, yes? So how may we distinguish between virtual hardware and virtual anything else if it remains a software construct? It seems that *all* virtualization is is just a fib to an operating system that here is something that appears to be a familiar service and is actually an emulation of that service. Note that it's ...probably... the terminology that i'm having difficulty with; not what may be done with some dell cluster hardware. thankee.

Isn't Hardware _realization_? and/or if the hardware is virtualized then isn't it done with software? not "real hardware"? ...ok, i admit it, i'm lost. someone smarter than me, -you there-, some examples please. (which need not necessarily involve automobiles)

I realize at 1300 pages that it's already swollen and that they're not part of The Standard Library, but -some- mention of often used, substantial, and useful packages like Twisted or BeautifulSoup, and their relation to The Standard Library would've been nice to see.

This is the one and only most critical RandomA-vs-RandomB film that cries out to be made!: http://boingboing.net/2007/07/31/zeppelin-vs-pterodac.html

Jürgen Prochnow as the prussian sabre scarred Zeppelin captain with a vast history and one last battle to prove! ...and i dunno...uh, John Malkovich as the psionically mentally linked Pterodactyl master - who, unlikely enough, has a past that overlaps Prochnow's ...yeah.