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Microsoft Sues Salesforce.com Over Patents
WrongSizeGlass writes "CNET is reporting that Microsoft is suing Salesforce.com in Seattle federal court, claiming it infringes on nine patents. Two of the patents in question are a 'system and method for providing and displaying a Web page having an embedded menu' and a 'method and system for stacking toolbars in a computer display.'" Microsoft says it first notified Salesforce more than a year ago about the alleged infringement.
Looking for the MSFT agenda here. Are salesforce.com people going after microsoft sales reps? Has the saleforce.com people brought too much competition to MSFT? What gives?
Oh, I dunno. I fly for business around 2 or 3 times a year. It's kind of a mixed bag.
Having to take off your shoes and remove everything from your pockets and take your laptop out of your bag sucks.
Sitting around the terminal for an hour and a half because you misjudged how long the security line would be sucks.
Buying an overpriced snack from the shops in the gate area to avoid buying an even more overpriced snack on the plane sucks.
Sitting around in the airport bar makes things suck less until you get the tab, then it sucks a whole lot.
Forgetting to go to the bathroom before boarding and ending up having to piss while cramming your 6'3" frame into a tiny room with a 4 foot ceiling sucks, especially after having spent an hour and a half in the airport bar.
Sitting in a seat with two inches of legroom, half of which is taken up by your bag because the jackass next to you decided to bring his entire life in his carryon bag and (with the help of several flight attendants) crammed it into the overhead bin, taking up every available inch of space while knocking you in the head several times, sucks.
Trying to make your body as small as possible to avoid touching the aforementioned jackass who is snoring fitfully in the seat next to you for 4 hours sucks.
Trying to rest in a tiny seat that reclines half an inch sucks.
Trying to ignore the screaming pain in your knees while the person in front of you reclines their seat, which somehow seems to recline at least 2 feet, sucks.
Arriving late at the airport and sprinting to your connecting flight only to find that it's been delayed for 4 hours sucks.
Finally arriving home to find your luggage has been mysteriously rerouted to Poland sucks.
But then, of course, there are the upsides...
Experiencing the exhilarating feeling of lifting off the ground in a giant metal tube kicks ass.
Seeing the ground fall beneath you kicks ass.
Flying over big cities and seeing how the buildings that look so massive up close seem so small from up there kicks ass.
Flying over the plains and seeing the massive farm fields, especially the giant circular ones, kicks ass.
Flying through clouds for several minutes and suddenly rising above them and seeing the fluffy white cloud tops just below you dazzlingly lit by the sun kicks ass.
Flying through a storm and seeing the lightning flash around you while the plane rocks and sways kicks considerably less ass, but it's still kind of cool.
Flying at night and seeing all the lights, from tiny rural towns to massive cities, kicks ass.
Descending over an ocean, slowly getting closer and closer to the water and, just when it looks like you're about to be fish food, seeing a runway suddenly appear below you, kicks ass.
Landing, having the wheels make contact, and having the engines suddenly roar while the plane decelerates rapidly kicks ass.
Getting across the country or across the world in a day kicks serious ass.
So yeah, there are a lot of things I hate about flying, but there are a lot of things I really love about it too.
Did someone just learn to cut and paste today? Hmmm?
That was the turning point of my life--I went from negative zero to positive zero.
umm... what?