They were working on a contract and MS violated it by walking away.
They will get sued over this and lose.
Moral of the story: Never work with MS ever.
I know an owner of a small SaaS shop who outstanding with DB's.He wrote some extensions to SQL Server and MS licensed it for 1 specific version. They ended up putting it in all their versions and MS paid for it in court.
The idea that the small guy can not successfully fight MS in court is wrong.
There is no GOP candidate that can get the support of the lunatics currently in charge of that party that could win a general election.
Someone like Huntsman could win the presidency but the nutbags that control the GOP would never nominate him because he is reasonable and intelligent. Two attributes that are no longer welcome in the GOP.
Huntsman would likely have beaten Obama in 2012.
The GOP will have to jettison its extremists if it wants the white house.
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I disagree.
The worse thing a newbie can do is use an IDE. It gets in the way of learning by hiding important things, so they become magic.
If programming is a black box to you, you have failed to properly educate yourself.
open sourcing it doesn't magically make it cross-platform.
It will be years before it comes close to being usefully cross-platform, at best.
Wake me up when SQL Server comes with an MP3 player built in.
Turing not Touring
Really?
You do realize that break is a goto and is being used is the same way as a goto and you don't have to clean up on success?
I year or two ago I looked at one of their public reports
DVD's by mail brings in more revenue and has a higher profit margin than streaming. Like 800% more.
If you notice how little they charge for streaming and the size of all their content-rights contracts it isn't surprising.
That is why I was shocked that they tried to spin off their DVD service.
What?
Are you are claiming that a professional programmer can be ignorant of FP and actor-model?
Or is reading PHP for moron sufficiently professional enough for you?
The KDE menu is horrible!
The "old" KDE 4 menu had dynamic search also.
The "you can change it" excuse is lame.
Ugly by default is not good policy.
Microsoft is experienced enough to know that Darkside couldn't do it, but they allowed them to continue on.
It is like morons trying to take all the blame off the banks for giving home loans to unqualified people.
That won't work for big games.
WoW cost something like $80 million for the initial release.
You aren't going to get kickstarter funded for anything but simple games.
Didn't MS kill Ensemble Studios in a similar manner?
They were one of the few game companies working for MS that produced quality games.
They were working on a contract and MS violated it by walking away.
They will get sued over this and lose.
Moral of the story: Never work with MS ever.
I know an owner of a small SaaS shop who outstanding with DB's.He wrote some extensions to SQL Server and MS licensed it for 1 specific version. They ended up putting it in all their versions and MS paid for it in court.
The idea that the small guy can not successfully fight MS in court is wrong.
That is why you have contracts for A,B, and C for $X with a stipulation that additional feature will cost more and will be negotiated separately.
Business that make MS a financial dependency deserve whatever they get.
Plasma 5 is flat and ugly.
The destroyed the KDE menu. Instead of easy to use tabs, it uses a vertical menu bar where most of the menu is below your screen.
It is an ugly mess.
IronPython is lagging far behind.
They are stuck on Python 2.6 compatibility which was released in 2008.
One in five VM's running on Azure runs Linux.
http://www.computerworld.com/a...
A good PHP programmer is still using a language with so many flaws, corner cases and security holes that the end result is going to be bad.
I have yet to meet a truly skilled programmer that would even consider PHP for anything.
Mandatory?
I guess you never heard of Swift?
The ribbon sucks.
There is functionality in Office that is 6 popups deep. How is that better than nested menus?
It is not.
The founders of this formerly great country were law breakers and traitors.
Sometimes breaking the law is the only patriotic act you can commit.
Did Schilling do that with his employees that he ruined while running his copycat game company in the ground?
Did he apologize to Rhode Island for scamming them?
That is hilarious.
Comparing it ObamaCare?
Because the health insurance companies weren't denying coverage, increasing premiums and telling people that they have to die in the name of profits?
The only time the "people" win is when the Federal Government does not regulate. Regulation is strangulation and, ultimately, death.
Yeah, it was awesome when there were no labor laws, no safety rules, no controls on pollution.
Look how much damage the banks caused after deregulation of banks started in the 80's and compare that to the 4 decades previous.
Corporations need to be leashed at all times and beaten regularily.
Non-profits are not allowed to directly engage in political activity.
Going after them is the job of the IRS, a job they have been neglecting since Reagan.
The fact that most of the fake non-profits are right-wing extremists is not a coincedence.
There is no GOP candidate that can get the support of the lunatics currently in charge of that party that could win a general election.
Someone like Huntsman could win the presidency but the nutbags that control the GOP would never nominate him because he is reasonable and intelligent. Two attributes that are no longer welcome in the GOP.
Huntsman would likely have beaten Obama in 2012.
The GOP will have to jettison its extremists if it wants the white house.