That doesn't seem to apply at all. Coursera programs aren't for training their own employees, nor the employees of other businesses.

Courses are certainly sponsored by a business. Are you an employee of another business or sole proprietorship? Did you enter into a contract for educational services from coursera at no cost? Then it sounds like it applies to me....

Sounds to me like he chose to ignore the ad hominems and focus on the complaints for which there is a factual definitive answer.

Saying Obama "needs" to raise $1B was probably wrong, but the predictions I've heard are that he will raise $1B.

And honestly, I don't think the media industry accounted for more than a few hundred thou. He can afford to stiff them - and thus he did so. By doing that, he simulated having a spine on an issue that has clear bipartisan public support and is guaranteed not to piss off the _real_ power - banks.

Obvious calculus. Obama's a shitty President, but man is he a fantastic campaigner.

But what is the outcome? In what way does this undo the damage? They submitted a letter of support, and I presume money, to Congress. A post on their web page does not take back any of that.

Good questions. The letter of support is negated, fair to say. Anyone know about money?

What's a better use of my time -- converting my 1000+ machines to another distro (which may turn out to be worse) or convincing Fedora not to make a stupid decision?

If you don't like this change, you probably also don't like the other Fedora changes that came in the past and surely also in the future, so yeah I'm with sjs. In the long time you will save time if you switch to a distribution that aligns with your choices.

Plus, you can do a dry-run with a limited number of machines and you can select a distribution which seldom changes (Gentoo switched to baselayout2 after.. years, Slackware still has tarballs as packages). Unlikely that they will push radical changes soon.

If you don't like Fedora switching away from it will be more productive then fighting it on every change for all eternity.

With bash putting a command in <() uses the output of the command as though it were a file. I use it to diff the output of two commands: diff <(command 1) <(command 2)

I've never used it, but I assume >() uses a command as though it were a writable file. So instead of history -a file writing to file, he does history -a >(logger) to write to the logger command. Seems pretty clever to me.

It's called process substitution. In this case it runs the logger command, connects its input to a file in /dev/fd, and places the name of that file in the argument list of history. I've included a small demonstration below. This is useful since the history command won't write to standard out so you can't use a normal pipe. It's more common to see process substitution used to gather output from multiple commands, see http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/shell-process-redirectio...

    $ cat writer.sh 
    #!/bin/bash
    if [[ "$#" == 1 ]]; then
        echo "Wrote to file named $1" > "$1"
    else
        echo "Wrote to stdout"
    fi

    $ ./writer.sh 
    Wrote to stdout

    $ ./writer.sh | cat
    Wrote to stdout

    $ ./writer.sh >(cat)
    Wrote to file named /dev/fd/63

Yup, that's what it does. Shortly speaking <() or >() in bash that creates a temporary pipe.

Anybody able to get the videos to play on Android? I see they have HTML5 video, and my phone tries to play it, but it fails.

The HTML5 video plays fine for me. Xperia Arc, Android 2.3.3