Now here's an idea I could get behind: the four to six hour day. According
to researchers in Australia,
working
four to six hours a day is the key to happiness. (John Maynard Keynes was
a fan of the idea.)
This reminds me of the thesis of the
Overworked American, which
was that productivity gains could allow us to have the same standard of
living as 1948 and work half as much as we did then. This was written in
1991, and productivity gains have gone up enormously since 1991, so
presumably we could enjoy a higher standard of living, or work even less.
Instead, at every opportunity, we've gone for "more stuff" instead of
"less work". Pretty stupid if you ask me.
This is lame. You can't run a Java web app that uses JSPs without
downloading the massive Java SDK. The Java Runtime Environment, which
promises to let you run Java apps, won't compile JSPs because it doesn't
include a compiler.
So, this is pretty obvious. But still, it's annoying. JSPs were a huge
mistake.