Go ahead. Publish your findings. I eagerly await your paper. But I do think black holes and neutron stars have been detected. I guess you are a troll. Enjoy your food.

Not to be an AT&T apologist, but there is a BIG difference between outright lying and simply being uninformed or just a call-center flunky reciting a script.

Wake me up when the cars can fly like those from The Fifth Element

That's when I want one...

Same here. The language looks fairly nice, but right now with ACE, Boost and Qt in my C++ toolbox, I'm doing alright. And I already develop, test, and deploy code that runs on MacOSX, Linux, Solaris, and supposedly Windows -- I have not actually tried there, but ACE, Boost, and Qt have abstractions that attempt to isolate developers from the OS. I'm curious if my Qt OpenGL stuff would work. I love using my Apple laptop for development. I'm more of an GNU Emacs fanboy than Apple (though I did buy a chunk of Apple back at $18 pre-split), so I do everything there, including having multiple shells open in it for command-line use. I even have a Platypus script that I can drag files onto and edit in GNU Emacs. I just take my GNU Emacs customization files to other platforms so I always have the same editing environment.

How come everyone is focusing on the burden placed on the H1B visa holder moving over here? How does that figure into this discussion? I could easily bring up, with no real merit, the difficulty of US citizens trying to land a job after being laid off. So what? It has no bearing on whether there should be a preference given to H1B holders when layoffs come at a company.

Ah, that's better.

A random collection of smart people working at a company does not make a country better; it may make a corporatocracy better. Having low unemployment among the citizenry should be the goal.

Huh?

I use SVN too without problems. However, you MUST watch the Linus Google video it is hilarious and he brings up some good points regarding control of the source, which is a bit uncomfortable for some (many) in the corporate world.