User: sodar

Re:Totally unrelated to the "Drive for $15"

On: This Was the Year the Robot Takeover of Service Jobs Began (gizmodo.com)

They've gained free education and literacy, free healthcare and chance of not starving. Being peasant in Tsar ruled Russia was practically a slavery.

About beta.

On: Fracking Is Draining Water From Areas In US Suffering Major Shortages

beta sucks.

Yeah,

On: New Zealand Spy Agency Deleted Evidence About Its Illegal Spying On Kim Dotcom

I login here on rare occasions. One of them is now. Fuck beta!

Re:The winner?

On: United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea

Yes: Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618)

Frontier

On: Sequels We'd All Like To See

I would welcome another sequel to Elite/Frontier series, but no chance, i guess.
For those who want to play Frontier: First Encounters on modern pc: jjFFE download page

Re:pointless article

On: Literacy: Natural Language vs. Code

> Am I missing something here?

Information is, and will be the most valuable market product. You need to know how to create/process information efficiently. No matter how - you can use gui/text/whatever. In the future people who can't process information efficiently will remain outside the 'information society' and become peasants - as the article says.