pookiesbutt

Waiting 4 weeks won't hurt the artist given the media industry's really-slow-payment policy to content creators.

I agree with your first point, You cannot judge all by one.

It could be a student learning. Learning does involve initiative. However, learning from the top of the tree does not teach you much about its roots or environment.

I believe Richard Gabriel addressed your last point. See: http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html

That is not an insult, it is a truth. People, business especially, produce and request minority feature-sets for majority demands. See: design by committee, almost any production automobile, the majority of mobile phones, etc, etc.

So true. With both sides of the remote-face-delivery-portal implemented in HTML5, will the Flash (finally) end open up the internet for real creativity and minimal-capital moving content distribution?

"You seriously consider malice to be a reason why the compiler rejects your program"

Of course it's malice.

"This is an intro to Python course and he's making us do all these complex progrms when we're still python noobs"

I suppose you would need to learn everything between 0 and completion in order to produce the products he is demanding of you.

Perhaps there's a point to all this learning...

technology is amateur. technology probably shouldn't be analyzed by analog methodologies either.

how apple(substitute any company) 'catches on' can be derived from http://ow.ly/59Maa. our perception isn't as important as the ubiquity of that which is available to perceive.

apple properties will catch on as long as they don't go out of business or lose the power to shout about their products(though this probably sits under the former).