The people don’t want “tablet computers” with Ubuntu and OpenID (worst name ever for a product attempting broad acceptance). They could honestly give a shit whether it’s a closed or open system. And, let’s be really honest, they probably care as much about DRM as they do about baseball players juicing; by which I mean not very much at all. They want things to work most of the time, and be easy to fix when they don’t. And if the process by which it happens is “magic” they are totally cool with that.

They want the thing in the movies.

It's nothing new: regular people don't care whether your app/device/whatever is using Ruby/Javascript/Butterflies. Stuff has to work and be easy to use.

Ultimate nerd song:

Lyrics:
vi is what I used to plan
All my inventions
Escape colon q stretch out my hand
Start a new bash session
It's not what I'm used to
Just want to try you on
I'm curious for gnu
Closed my vi session

I tried emacs and I liked it
The feel of the alt-control-shift
I tried emacs just to try it
Hope vim.org don't mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
I love the syntax highlight
I tried emacs and I liked it
I liked it

Knowing how to copy would be nice
It doesn't matter
I'll just cut and paste it twice
Less to remember
I'm told it's an os
built into itself
Control x-control s
Me from myself

chorus

This editor's programmable
E-lisp macros so flexible
Hard to resist so codable
Too good to deny it
Need a doctor it's built iiiin