He's a sociopath alright. He doesn't get what responsibility is. You get a severely retarded child, he's your life's work, that's the way it is. To think you have a choice isn't human.

Groovy is fine and this is just more of that I guess, but although I like grails, I am Mr. static. I get code completion, errors discovered before my users, and I am not sure what the difficulty with the C++ syntax is. Things like groovy closures etc look different but I think are hard to maintain and reuse. I even precompile jsp to avoid user discovered issues.

"XP runs a hell of a lot faster on older hardware" How old? Just upgraded a 1gb amd 3200 single core and it does way better with win7.

Wave was a dumb idea because it was not finished and totally separated from all the tools used today. The features in wave all belong in other tools, not clumped together in something that was less than all other tools. For example annotating documents in the wave way. Very nice idea for google docs. Not good inside wave where the editor was crude. So a new feature inside junk, or a new feature inside a very good tool. Also google has some off idea that we want conversations all glued together, and that is stubbornly shown in gmail where you have to look at huge threaded views instead of individual replies. This is fine for some but many businesses hate it and it mars communication. Luckily I read one of the new higher ups is finally changing that feature. Finally the day I saw the wave presentation and I saw that in place character by character editing, I said, that's a developer toy, not practical. Just because something is possible doesn't make it useful! People hate the idea of that document editing playback too, how could they think that was a good thing? Another gee look what we can do, but is as desirable as acne! "this is an crappy great idea". That kind of playback is not really what people want. It's like someone spying on you as you type. Creeped out users.

Not any more in this country, rare. You can't be an "insider" if you think otherwise.

Wait till you see what ITA does with google, QPX is great but they will do better.

Agents swallowing what, a dollar? Commissions are rare, most travel sites are not making anything on flights at all except if they have a service fee, it's all in the hotels and other services.

Impossible because the airlines "play" with the inventory all the time for marketing purposes and other reasons. When you query airlines for availability you don't get seat counts you get a number from 1-9 that is at best a hint. Also with all the traffic that books and cancels flights, the inventory thrashes around all the time. So you can't get it perfect but you can try to manage the failures, which aren't so bad because you can usually offer an alternative.

ITA has some stuff that will surprise you, I can't say what it is but I certainly am not surprised google wanted it. It will blow you away, those guys know what they're doing and it's far nicer to work with than sabre that's for sure.

The religious arguments of ye old days, this reminds me of. I wish he would just think like a businessman and provide flash so more ipads can be sold. The app store has plenty of apple approved, slowly responding, poorly written, battery sucking applications, developers don't need flash for that. And guess what Steve, the _web_ was written for pc's and mice, the touch argument falls flat there as well. We will see how this holds up as flash appears on all the other mobile devices and runs fine.