What has become of the humble glossary?

The Nazi child pornographers must be having a tough time picking a side in this debate.

Only sith deal in absolutes.

C# and XNA are fabulous tools. They do their platform a great service by making development easier. Wish I could say the same for apple.

My thoughts exactly. If I had any issue with modern Microsoft, It was the period in which they sat on XP and IE 6 and said "that's good enough". Their new stuff is solid.

What people never seem to mention, during his developer developers developers speech, the audience was really really into it. They were cheering for him. Sure it doesn't look good on YouTube, but I think he made his intended impact on the audience.

We actually have evidence of that in the case of j allard and the development of the Microsoft courier. Apparently the head of windows development was worried the device would compete with windows so he went to ballmer to have it torpedoed. Balmier wasn't sure, so he brought Billy gates in to mediate and he decided to play it safe. Which is a massive shame as the courier looked awesome.

It is becoming a classic way of insulting Australians who want their higher wages to mean something. Making twice as much money is meaningless when our retailers triple the cost of overseas. People, often people who work for companies that make a mint off of this price gouging, like to tell us to suck it up as we earn more. Which is a false equivalence as our dollar is near parity with the USA, we should be paying near the same cost for goods and services as Americans.

Have you used windows powershell? Lots of fun, very powerful. Will take bash style commands as well as windows style, supports a whole host of add ons. I got very pissed off when i read up on it, as this is the sort of crap Microsoft should be promoting about themselves.

No one answered my question, so I wiki'd you. It seems like you have been pretty influential over the years, and I don't dislike user Linux. At the same time you seem to be much more of a moderate than RMS. So while I am sure your illness or passing would definitely be newsworthy I doubt people would have as much to say about you that wasn't positive.

And in another post on this very article I said that while I do not see eye to eye with the man, I do respect him as one of a pantheon of heroes who brought computing to where it is today. That of course does not mean that true negative points are removed from the discussion. Arguments can only be countered with fact, it is useless to say "but I don't like it therefore it shouldn't be discussed". And RMS himself would agree.

Civility is one thing, but as much as I may disagree with him, I choose to respect the man by respecting his ideals. Also by turning my fingers into horns and yelling gnu across the warehouse.

That's all exciting, and yes I am totally jelly as my own coding abilities are less than what they should be. But none of that addresses my point. Non of what he says ever strikes me as logical, it always comes off as simple emotion. Like what a politician would say if they didn't have someone moderating every word. Also, a great deal of hubris. But I don't buy the argument that any of his views cone from pure logic. I am not bashing the guy, it just doesn't click together.

Nope nobody will be talking about me if I had a heart attack, and I assume that extends to anyone posting on slashdot.