Don't use these services I guess...

"It's coming right for us!" *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM*

a robot owner is like a gun owner?

I think UAV's and robots should be considered lawn darts... I don't think it matters if there is a pseudo intelligence since if that fails they are about as good as a lawn dart. My sister and I used to throw them straight up in the air and see how fast we could dodge them. We passed that Darwinian test and I've found myself doing the same with hunks of electronics now. They are released from us and hopefully do what we designed them to do but still... at the most basic fundamental level, they are a projectile from us... very expensive Frisbee's. I think this metaphor? would apply to walking ground robots as well. If another person picks them up or tampers with them it would be like picking up a gun. Yes it would be stupid we lost the gun but now it's up to that person to be responsible with it and return it to it's owner and/or turn it into the authorities. What do you guys think? Does this hit the nail on the head ( maybe with a lawn dart )? Is there a better way of thinking of these in animate objects?

it's gotta be a large maple walnut cookie in the works, stake out farms they are sure to hit them next

When I was younger I acted elitest too. I used to loath m$ users and scoff at mac users. I used to think if you didn't know x86 or RISC ASM that you weren't really a programmer. I used to think ANSI gfx would never die and 64k was more than enough! Now I'm older and use all OS's, code ruby and java while sipping coffee in a yuppy coffee shop full of types of ppl I used to despise. The ones that point to the case and call it hard drive. But now when they do it I don't want to beat them to death with my skateboard, I calming explain the difference and go grab a beer. Because after college you know that with enough beer it doesn't matter how stupid other people are.

*insane gir robot voice* DONT TOUCH MY SCADA

hmmm maybe we can torrent pirate genetics to 3d printers that create gene therapy pills at low cost... It's to bad greeks didn't patent the Pythagoras theory or all the other stuff they gave to the world. they might not be in such bad financial state.

It's a question of motivation, good code = more money. When per line = more money you hade bloatware... The ultimate hackers do it 'because they can' or 'they want to know'.

Get a lawyer to do a support contract. Secondly fire the client they will never be happy.

This is great, I can now block large corporations by blocking their tld.

I think we need more ppl like her, and rig the directions to always go to a large cliff. We can call the service Google Lemmings

Trying to think outside the box while stuck in box in a sphere....

Does it do 120Hz for some 3d action ^.^

I've never personally used ruby on rails and never intend on it. I've seen fads like it before. Your question was that of platform for web apps and when to jump ship. I believe web applications should be platform independent ( so jump ship now ). The best web applications (custom or stock) on the net with the lowest cost for maintenance are currently PHP applications. PHP+Apache+MySQL is a favorite combo of web developers and it's widely used and supported. The software is free and the community supporting those apps is huge. You can install those three pieces of software on any platform so no need for a pre nup.