The best way to put it.

Random fact, crazy-fascinating but purely-speculative question: Your last sentence shows you'd be good at writing Slashdot summary endings.

Most banks in the United States are running some combination of Cobol and Java for the bulk of their back end/front end, respectively.

Granted, but these tools are more specific to open source. Many companies don't use IRC/Git/Trac-Bzr-Bigzilla/etc. in their corporate environment. Especially if you're not a programmer by title *cough ME cough* then you have a hard time acquiring the overpriced POS tools the company uses, but are not allowed to get what you want.

tl;dr The tools presented are largely open source.

And as many have stated, it's great he's showing them this, because no, most programmers aren't aware of just how useful these tools are in college.

Now I get +1 troll. I wouldn't have modded you down, but I certainly, absolutely disagree with your proposition.

That's like saying, "If Nazi Germany had just loved Jews, it would have been great!". When you take away what defines someone or something, can you really even compare the outcomes by calling them the same thing?

Anywho. I'm clearly drunk right now. If it's not clear.... it is now.

Also, less allegory would have been had about the torture of faceless, godless enemies, and the realization that they're just the same as us, etc. etc.

It would have been a totally different show, and for the millions who enjoyed the show thoroughly (especially when discounting the ending), it would therefore have been worse.

You get +1 troll.

UPvote, I noticed this as well.

After all the hubbub, they put their fiber network in their own back yard. Real surprising, guys.

s/can't/doesn't

Canonical could take an ad out during the Superbowl if they wanted to. Mass marketing like that isn't their way in, yet.

FFVI and VII were the best, IMO. V was -ok-.

Lame post, but I'm at work... I just felt like chiming in since these games meant a lot to me in my younger days.

Paper in a mine doesn't need a farad cage to exist after the Goldeneye hits.

>Let's not do an instructive simulation of a common computer anomaly, lest some tech-retarded administrator punish you for being a good teacher.

Whoever buys it is able to do a rate hike and truly screw over pre-existing consumers, and that's just if they're feeling generous. There's far worse they could potentially do.

Everything should be owned by the Government! That way no-one would ever be screwed over.

Then use some other tool to shop in Europe, or take Opencuro's idea and start the business. Get a friend to buy you cheap American products. Petition Opencuro to work internationally. Finally, as you imply, find someone else to use that does online, secure, quick international currency transactions.

I can only imagine that setting up an international cash-exchange website is a high barrier-to-entry endeavor, thanks Government.

In any case, I like Opencuro's system better than Paypal's. I had a business idea better than Opencuro's (in theory) but got demotivated when I saw it'd been done.

http://opencuro.com/