If you're the only person in the world with this problem, maybe it's because of you or your environment, not the Eclipse project. If you believe you have encountered a real bug, submit a bug report and get it solved. If you don't really believe you've found a bug, then don't troll on Slashdot about it. It's one or the other, so choose.

To help with the Business types who don't know anything about algorithm or data structure theory, but are familiar with physical objects like dictionaries. Yes, they have no place programming, but just try telling Microsoft that.

I call BS. At a former job I had an account with no admin rights at all, and I installed and ran the JRE and Eclipse from a network share. No special intervention required.

If you install Eclipse to somewhere you can't write, it will automatically detect that and write things to your per-user directory instead, even for installing plugins. It literally couldn't be any simpler.

You have just got to be kidding. For Windows it's just a .zip that you unpack, then run eclipse.exe. Make a shortcut if it helps. For Linux it's a tar and you can use a graphical archiver for that too. If a "software developer" can't work that out, I don't want to be anywhere near their code. It takes more clicks just to create a new project than to install Eclipse!

fsync()

Tell that to Ctrl+R.

How else would they use vi and emacs?

The one-time pad is a theoretical base case that has virtually no useful applications. Even Bruce Schneier says so: http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0210.html#7

Nobody is suing mom and pop filesharers for millions of dollars over GPL distribution violations (e.g. making a torrent of binaries without source). The GPL is there to ensure that product/service entities such as corporations play nice with many open source projects, in turn benefiting from the community and other corporations, free to focus on their own value offerings.

The way in which copyright law is being abused by the RIAA et al is entirely different to how it has been elegantly harnessed by the GPL.

If you can afford an SSD, why would you waste it on swap? Why not just buy more RAM? If you ever actually need swap, you are doing something wrong.

Of course an application in two lines is do-able. That's not the point. cthulhuology described using an application library + 2 lines to make an application that would normally be tens of thousands of lines, but the fact is they're all still there in the library. Assuming one line is boilerplate, that leaves one line to invoke the actual application from the library. It's the equivalent of a shell script, and that's why I gave the example of bash + firefox.

If this is a market that will replace Flash, it will be worth at least as much to Adobe. Competing against more players on more equal footing (open standards) will require Adobe to drive down costs and innovate more, and that benefits everyone. That's the whole point of free market capitalism, and I highly doubt Adobe is stubborn enough not to join in.

I think you have a very unusual definition of "app". If an entire app exists and you just need to embed it with 2 lines, you did not write an app, you used an existing one. If I make my own bash script to launch Firefox, did I write a web browser app?

The economic motivation is to be able to compete in the new market. If HTML5 is awesome enough to kill Flash, the best Adobe could do is be ready to take part of the new market, even if it's less profitable. If they refuse to do so, and Flash does get killed, they end up with nothing, which is certainly even less profitable.

You have to be kidding about Silverlight overtaking Flash. Not only has Silverlight failed to take any notable market share to date, many projects that started with Silverlight have switched to Flash (or even Java and JavaScript).

Even Microsoft Popfly itself is so unpopular you can go for months at a time without hearing about it, and I bet you hadn't heard about it for months until just now.