As the subject of the article, I entirely agree. Life is very precious, and there is always someone who loves you and who would be devastated if you weren't there. If something good can come of it, then it's this: suicide is most definitely not an answer. I was most definitely not in my right mind when I was having those thoughts, and I'm happy I'm still around :-)

Well, thankfully for my young family, I'm still alive.

You aren't wrong.

I have to disagree. I remember reading the mailing lists when StarOffice was first open sourced. The developers of StarOffice had a very closed source approach to development, and outsiders were not encouraged whatsoever. You'll notice the leaps and bounds taken by LibreOffice - from all the way to improving the build tools to improving the code base.

That wasn't an Oracle issue, but a StarOffice development issue.

Yeah, the Labor Party are getting less liberal every day.

I can't believe you just asked that on Slashdot.

Ignore him. He can't but help but be a moron.

That's not cruel. My aging mother in law, who doesn't speak English, signed up to one of these deals the other day. She had no idea what she was signing, but she wanted the man to go away.

I immediately called the power company and demanded to speak to someone to cancel the control. Which I can do, because we have a 10 day cooling off period AS LAW in Australia. No commission for scum-sucking salesman. A total waste of their time.

No.

I'll bet that you use it though.

The US has done the isolation bit before, and found out the hard way you're part of the world, and if shit goes badly, you're getting bombed or torpedoed or whatever, whether you are involved or not, and whether you were at fault or not.

Citation needed.

As the original author of [citation needed], consider this a [citation provided]!

"And they might take advantage of the fact that the shell is built on web technologies."

I thought you said it was designed for non-posers?

LOL! love it

OO has, time and time again, led to more bloat and more confusion due to so much abstraction rather than direct commands. Want to reuse code, here's a thought, use copy/paste. Having to find objects and then discover their methods is a waste of time, a rich api with built-in ready to run statements and functions that only require simple plug-in values is the way to go.

Oh that's right. Copying and pasting is FAR more efficient. Cause when you find a bug in the original code, there's nothing easier than locating all the spots where you copied and pasted that code to make similar modifications.

Someone mod the parent up.