I would expect a senior editor covering HPC at Linux Magazine — even if writing from the beach on assumed vacation yet still getting paid — should know the difference between a gesture and a jester (sic?).

Moreover, it would seem reasonable that you would have caught the obvious double-the (The The is a good band, but not good English). I really wish you had read this out load (sic) as there would have been a chance you would have (hopefully) caught your errors before publishing.

All in all I get the gist of what you\’re writing about, but it\’s hard to take too much of it seriously. Especially when you talk about \”universal binaries that adapt to the chip they\’re running on\”. These ideas are neither new (Java, C#, et al) or commercially viable. The hardware vendors are not giving up their proprietary ISA\’s any time soon.

As for your basic premise, I do apply as much intelligence about heading south to the vastly superior Rhode Island shoreline as I can, and following a largely declarative rule as the higher order bit – \”get there ASAP\”. Yet, inevitably dependence on external sensors and alerts only blinds you to the obvious:

It is always best to drive dangerously at night in a fast car, at a high rate of speed, with a Samoan lawyer at your side and as many supplies as you can carry for you and yours. If you follow my advice, you\’ll go a lot further south than just the Jersey shore :^)

From your pithy perch on the Jersey shore, please don\’t forget those on the \”other side\” of the digital divide, who don\’t have the same luxuries of choosing either when they go or how they go. The only tweets they hear are the birds on the wires as they head home from 3rd shift. Their algorithms are no less adaptive or intelligent than yours, just a much smaller call stack and far fewer arguments. It\’s the lucky few \”packetwise people\” who can choose their means of ingress to and egress from the congested network of life, and the budget to make it so.

Instead of heading south, perhaps summer school would be a better place?