Funnily enough I was going to mention Forth in favour of using a single language. It's very easy to write domain specific sub-languages in Forth, and you can easily switch between them or even use more than one at once. In this way it's possible to have the best of both worlds. It's a shame that in the real world things are a bit more complicated and Forth probably isn't the best choice in many instances.

ePub? Is that like an internet cafe?

Why not? You dismiss this out-of-hand, but you don't explain the reason for dismissing it.

I was expressing my opinion, perhaps I should have qualified my statement with 'It seems to me' or 'I think'. I am not a scientist, but google can point you to the same idea being promoted by people who are. Me, I'm just drawing on my own personal experience which can be dismissed as anecdotal.

It must be Rain Man that's the problem.

Phew, I was beginning to think it was me.

While it's looking more and more like autism isn't caused by the MMR vaccine it does seem that something that is integral to our modern way of life does cause it. Before I saw Rain Man I had never heard of Autism, now I have an autistic son, my ex has another autistic son, one of my best childhood friends has an autistic son, my GF has a son with asperger's, and there are others I am aware of within my community. This can't be explained by increased diagnosis and I didn't meet any of these people as a result of the condition. There is something that has entered our environment within the past half century or so that is causing an alarming rise in the incidence of autistic spectrum disorders. I don't know what it is, perhaps it's the foam padding in our furniture, or household cleaners, or chlorinated water supplies, or TV, or microwaves, or food additives. Perhaps it is vaccines and the pharmaceutical corporations are covering it up. I simply don't know.

No, I'm making the assumption that the /. editors are capable of spotting "glaring grammatical errors" in user submissions. I see your fail and raise you a RTFC ;)

Please edit submissions that contain glaring grammatical errors.

From TFA:

"If I can take this to the next step, I think think it is going to be good for our country," Pederson said.

Quite apart from the fact the country isn't explicitly mentioned in TFA (I assume it's the USA), why would someone say this? Not good for humanity, or for the communications or IT industries, but good for a specific country? Strange.

Just look at the guy doing their IT. "Sometimes I just switch it off and on again, heh heh." Sounds like Windows to me.

There's more going on here than a simple drop in sales due to the current economic climate. The last desktop PC I bought (just over a year ago) was the last PC I will buy. There was a time when a computer was a thing that filled a room, then it filled a single rack, then a desktop box. We are (over)due for the next paradigm shift which will be to small mobile devices. My next computing device will be a Pandora, coupled with a head mounted display. Finally we will be free of the Wintel stranglehold that has been dominant for the past couple of decades.

School is as much about teaching our kids to obey and conform as it is about teaching our kids how to read and write.

Not in this case. The song database on recent ipods is encrypted to prevent 3rd party apps from interfacing with them.

I'll never buy anything from Apple again after the hassle I had getting my daughter's ipod working with linux. Compatibility problems I can understand, but paying good money for something with compatibility problems intentionally engineered in angers me. It's s**t like this that made me abandon Windows a decade ago, I'd much rather use something that's designed to work than something that's designed not to work if [insert limitation on freedom here].

[blockquote]Seriously, what kind of ASSHOLE CHAUVINISTIC PIG would say that the person alleged of sexual assault should it not be true would be WORSE off than the victim were it true?[/blockquote] I knew someone who took his own life after being falsely accused of rape. He didn't seem to be to be particularly mentally fragile but he lived in a small community which turned against him and after a year or so he couldn't take any more. I think this is a rare example of what you are saying isn't true, and I don't consider myself an asshole, chauvinistic or a pig for saying it.