I had this argument days ago with a glass evangelist.

He, too, is a self-entitled man-child.

Here's the basic crux of why glass owners are megadouches: They want to act like glass is new, innovative, game-changing. Then they want to tell you that it's no different from a cellphone, so relax, guy! Take a load off! Well, that's fucking bullshit. Either it's transformative, and it is different, or it's just like a cellphone, and you're wearing a fucking ugly cellphone strapped to your head and you're an asshole. If it isn't different, then shut the fuck up already. But it is different, so stop pretending there's no new privacy implications.

If you're doing serious HPC you might well be using a language that Intel doesn't even have a compiler for.

If you take the time to read and understand my comment, when I say "without their registry entries" I'm clearly implying those which actually have registry entries. I didn't feel a need to make that statement, because it is already obvious to anyone with an interest.

Worked towards what goal? We've become more and more complacent, and I can't help but believe that a substantial portion of that is through the indoctrination received in the public education system, which is a series of lies — both outright, and through omission. You're told a bunch of rosy bullshit about how things are meant to be, but it's not explained to you how corporations get to write laws and decide which ones are passed. The general framework is described, and it's left for you to figure it out on your own, the subtext being that you're not supposed to actually figure it out. If you ask questions you become a nuisance and the teachers will deprecate you so that you are bullied in an effort to cause you to become withdrawn so they can do their job of pretending to educate the excessive number of students they've got.

It depends on the developers. Certainly here in the land of slashdot groupthink you can see that some of them have wised up to the relative ease of Open Source software development. People fix bugs for you in the best case, and at minimum you get to benefit from the work of others when you link OSS libraries or what have you.

It's notable though that OSS is only getting more popular in development tools. You're more and more likely to be using OSS compilers and even IDEs today when you do software development. And that has the effect of lowering the bar substantially; when I was a kid with a DOS PC and no money (we was po and I lived in Santa Cruz, which was an expensive place to live) I could either write assembler for free or I could pony up a whole bunch of money for a development suite. I did neither, I had no mentor. I've studied x86 ASM since and I don't think I would have enjoyed it at all :)

You were doing well until you mentioned the iPhone, which was not the first of anything in its class. The closest it gets is being the first commercial product to use a stripped-down version of the full OS on the phone; iOS is derived directly from OSX, but other examples like Windows CE are not. That's not innovative, though; it's evolutionary, and was bound to happen when the phones became powerful enough.

Unfortunately, you mentioned it in your second sentence, which means you went off the rails early.

You know what was an innovative product? Pong was innovative. You know what else was innovative? The goddamned electric turkey carver. But the iPhone was not. Innovation is not what Apple does these days, not since the original Mac really, maybe some of the software developments on the Newton. Apple Refines and Markets, those are their functions. It's not clear they'll be able to do the first of those without Steve Jobs...

There really isn't. There isn't because none of them are truly P2P. It's not an easy problem to solve, but in theory all the pieces are there. Even CMSs like Drupal or (shudder) WP have syndication modules. In theory you could make the system automatically syndicate the articles of your followers.

In practice, you'd want some kind of P2P filesharing system built into it, or you'd want to build it around one of those. But not torrent, because even the protocol is suspicious to some...

The really fancy expensive ones do pitch-shifting. Problem is, they've been the same price for ages. Some good ones are supposedly starting to come out of China but you're not going to find them at your local audiologist.

"Evena Sparrow is not available in the U.S., EU and many other developed nations" I presume because of licensing requirements. What undeveloped nation do I have to visit to get a pair of these, and how many camels will it cost?

You're half-right. It's computer-based art. Hey, you might think the message is stupid and shallow, but that doesn't make it not art even if you're right.

It's not performance art, though, it's just art. Playing it is appreciating the art. Coding it was analogue to painting.

They must have licensed that tech out to Rockstar for GTA Online. Once I passed level 100 I started getting kicked from about 4 out of 5 jobs I join. It's gotten so bad that some days I spend more time connecting to sessions than actually playing.

Some programs work fine without their registry entries. Some don't. The ones that do probably assume defaults, or load defaults into the registry on firstrun. I haven't done a survey. Either way, dependence on install-time registry values isn't a necessity for Windows programs.

They probably will. That's strikingly like the shitty, unfeatured mobile interface.

Well, that's not how the so-called "right-to-lifers" use the term at all. They mean it such that you have the right to not be killed. Unless, of course, you're an abortion doctor.

That suggests (maybe even begs) the question, can they get extra money for it if they reveal their source code? You always reveal your source code to your employer in a "traditional" programmer-getting-paid relationship involving corporations (or at least companies) and groups of programmers, marketers, et cetera.