yesreally

Advertising doesn't belong here.

"I don’t like frameworks. Web application frameworks, ORMs, whatever."

You are not the first to think this, and you are right about being able to have less bloat and understand what is going on and have more control if you do it in SQL and avoid unnecessary VOs, too many queries, etc. But, you are wrong. The fact is that you probably will at some point benefit more from understanding the ORM and framework and you will be able to write code faster. If the bloat is acceptable to the user, and it gives you more time to do other stuff, then just use it.

"business executives are sometimes just full of shit!"

not just business executives.

Whenever I notice customer service requires speaking on the phone, I'm fairly sure that they do that to avoid having a record of their conversation. +1 to public pressure to force these guys to support the sense disabled. But you can't combat that with government regulation- at least not in any sensible way. Instead, lobby Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Opera to enforce accessibility via page warnings, etc. That may actually be something that the government could help with - working with these companies and standards committees to ensure representation of the disabled.

Could take a look at OMA DRM

http://www.openmobilealliance.org/Technical/current_releases...

Was on a team that implemented it before.

I'd leave it alone though unless you are being paid by someone that has already made the decision to use it.

Was expecting to see recreation of the fax machine scene from Office Space with a macbook.

The ultimate revolution is to provide an operating system and applications simple enough that anyone could use them. Programming on the other hand should be easy and fun- simple doesn't have to play into it; something can be complex and still fun, and fun is what keeps people coming back.

The world needs freedom, and the world needs order. Stallman was and is about freedom. Jobs was about order.

I'm curious- what do you mean by "enlightened"?

For those that are kneejerkingly chastising Stallman, understand his point of view.

OS X and iOS are not free, and Apple led by Jobs changed the way that people thought about installing Applications on desktop operating systems as something that requires manufacturer approval (App Store), which led the way for others like Intel to make AppUp, etc. This restricts what the user has access to install is more of a setback for the free software movement than anything Microsoft ever did.

Jobs also changed the licensing program for Macintosh clones, making it too costly for the manufacturers to continue making machines. If there were Mac clones, then eventually perhaps freedom would have flourished.

Basically, Jobs was the ultimate technology monarchist and Stallman the ultimate technology anarchist. (I almost said capitalist and communist, but Stallman is all about free, not about centralized distribution and control.)

I'm not saying I agree with the man, but this is what he means by jail.

And yet, he uses a Blackberry.

What is "something to say"? It sounds like it doesn't make sense to go unless you have an idea or have something in the oven. Thanks for the input!