This isn't meant to be a rhetorical question so please feel free to show me the light. A constant drumbeat from teachers seems to be complaints about standardized testing. Are there really any better ways to measure progress across the board? All of us here should be fans and encouragers of standards, right?
This is going to kill me to say this because I have been using freebsd since 2.x but the lack of commercial support from the likes of Dell really hurts. Recently I couldn't find the cli utility to manage a raid card because the ports system had an out of date location for the source. I was reduced to shutting down a production server just to flip some configuration bits. Freebsd is absolutely rock solid as an OS. The support from certain hardware vendors is a different story.
So you know that scene in Good Will Hunting where Matt Damon's character chides the Harvard student for paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an education that could be obtained for the cost of some late fees at the library? That is only getting more and more true.
Most of the argument should be native apps versus browser based apps and history really has answered this for us even though we are talking about a different client in the form of a smartphone.
I didn't mean thievery in the classic sense. Only in the sense that he/AAPL didn't come up with the innovation of the GUI as the parent was suggesting.
Wait a second. Can't let you completely get away with the MS stealing UI from Apple comment when SJobs stole it from Xerox/PARC first. Although to be fair he does readily admit the thievery.
People, please read this parent again. Why are we all comparing PHP to ruby/rails? If you want to be fair use Zend or any other framework to get apples to apples.