Among the highlights is a prediction by Mr. Anderer that Microsoft has many more disruptive lawsuits planned up their sleeves."
Of course, they are. As open source threatens Microsoft, what do you expect Microsoft to do? Just say "oh, we are sorry, we are just going to go out of business quietly"? Their officers would be violating their duties as corporate officers if they did that.
The legal threat from Microsoft stems primarily from patent law. But you shouldn't complain about Microsoft there (other big companies are using patent law in the same way and Microsoft actually hasn't used it much), you should be complaining about the law itself. Better yet, vote to have it changed.
A smarter rat doesn't necessarily correspond to a smarter human. And human intelligence isn't necessarily related to whether the hardware is faster. By analogy, a DSP may run operations faster than a Pentium, but that doesn't make the DSP a better general purpose processor. Or, as another analogy, just upgrading the clock circuit on your motherboard doesn't just make your processor faster--it may also make it flakier.
It's plausible that choline is somewhat beneficial as a nutrient during pregnancy. But I wouldn't expect miracles (if choline were that important, women would crave more of it than they do), and there is at least the possibility that an unbalanced intake actually might do some harm.
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Among the highlights is a prediction by Mr. Anderer that Microsoft has many more disruptive lawsuits planned up their sleeves."
Of course, they are. As open source threatens Microsoft, what do you expect Microsoft to do? Just say "oh, we are sorry, we are just going to go out of business quietly"? Their officers would be violating their duties as corporate officers if they did that.
The legal threat from Microsoft stems primarily from patent law. But you shouldn't complain about Microsoft there (other big companies are using patent law in the same way and Microsoft actually hasn't used it much), you should be complaining about the law itself. Better yet, vote to have it changed.
A smarter rat doesn't necessarily correspond to a smarter human. And human intelligence isn't necessarily related to whether the hardware is faster. By analogy, a DSP may run operations faster than a Pentium, but that doesn't make the DSP a better general purpose processor. Or, as another analogy, just upgrading the clock circuit on your motherboard doesn't just make your processor faster--it may also make it flakier. It's plausible that choline is somewhat beneficial as a nutrient during pregnancy. But I wouldn't expect miracles (if choline were that important, women would crave more of it than they do), and there is at least the possibility that an unbalanced intake actually might do some harm.