The hostility in your reply to ignore the poster's comments leads me to believe you did not read the comments or did not understand the comments or did not have a proper response so you decided to go off on a tangent that had nothing to do with the comment.
"B&N seems instead to be arguing against patents. Better to make that argument when you are not being sued for violating one."
That's what Microsoft is arguing in the i4i case. Glad to see you pay attention to current events.
FYI Microsoft has not demonstrated any infringing patents in Android and design patents are hardly as strong as you think. Apple lost it's suit against Microsoft over the trash can icon on the desktop in an OS.
"They must design curricula that focus on solving practical problems, such as providing clean water to a growing population."
Hello Luddite, it's called Basic Research. Something that might not have a practical application or solve a practical problem. But that is not the job of basic research. Solving practical problems is the job of ENGINEERS. Engineers take basic research and find practical applications for that knowledge.
There are also areas called Applied Science, which again take knowledge gained from research and apply it.
Man is not colonizing space any time soon, so get over yourself. This has absolutely nothing to do with surviving as a species. It has to do with pork spending.
It's called source code. So you can continue to support it yourself or pay someone else to do that.
See that's what companies used to do, hire programmers to develop software for them. The company retains the source code and can hire programmers from time to time to enhance or fix bugs.
"There are too many damn loopholes for the super rich and corporations to get around, all while the middle class gets raped because they make enough money to get by, but can't afford these big name tax consultants."
How do you think those loop holes got in there? What makes you think that any Republican will reform the tax code to take away loopholes that favor the rich? No Republican is going to bite the hand that feeds them. They are not going to eliminate tax codes that favor the Koch brothers, that allow corporations to send jobs overseas, that allow corporation to repatriate income at low low rates.
Talk of reform is a smoke screen because nothing will happen.
But you can end tax subsidies to oil corporations. You can end tax breaks to corporations that send jobs overseas. You can raise the corporate tax rate. You can tax income by hedge fund managers as real income like Reagan did. These are things that can be done.
Fact: George W cut taxes in 2001 and went from a budget surplus to a budget deficit and ran a deficit every year in office.
Fact: Employment did not recover. When George W Bush left office he had a net job loss. NO JOB GROWTH.
Fact: Tax cuts for the rich did not create jobs. But it did cut revenue for the government which contributed trillions of dollars to the deficit.
Fact: George W Bush kept two wars off the books, paid for them through supplemental spending bills and BORROWED money to finance them.
There wasn't any credible intelligence on Iraq's supposed WMDs. Any evidence put forward was quickly refuted by the DOE and CIA and the international intelligence community. Yellow Cake Uranium and centrifuge tubes were debunked by experts. UN Weapons experts who were in Iraq said there were no WMDs.
Afghanistan did not attack. The Taliban did not attack us. Al Qaeda attacked us. The Taliban would not hand over Bin Laden so we attacked them.
You might want to do some research before posting inane blather. 2 unfunded wars, unfunded prescription drug coverage, unfunded tax cuts to the rich for 8 years and counting, and a 2 trillion dollar wall street bailout under George W Bush. But somehow Obama has spent more??
Listen up douche bag the Japanese government upgraded the accident at the fukushima power plant to level 7. The accident is a MAJOR ISSUE. No amount of dick riding on your part is going to make that go away. We don't need assholes like you saying everything is ok. No it's not. This problem has been going on for a month and is not getting better. There are seriously health and environmental consequences here, as well as long term economic problems. Being a dick about it is not going to fix it. Being an apologist for an industry that has eschewed safety and oversight does not help fix the problem.
You want people to trust nuclear power. You want people to believe nuclear power is a safe energy source. Then offer constructive suggestions to fix the problem. Admit there were problems with oversight, safety and design and work to fix those issues.
LMOL....yeah Microsoft needs Mono for legitimacy? From who?? Windows developers? Linux developers? Anti-trust lawyers?
Dude, if you are a.NET developer, you develop on Windows. No.NET developer would work on a 3rd party hack (Mono) to do.NET development. You use Windows. You have all the tools and environments you need. I know of no.NET developers who uses Mono. The only people who would use Mono would be Linux developers. If you want to push Linux as an alternative to Windows, then you would use Mono. But.NET developers, would not. Mono going away would in no way impair.NET. Again, it's about Microsoft. You're using Microsoft tools (Visual Studio), you are using Microsoft language (C#,.NET), you are using Microsoft OS (Windows).
No one fucking cares about Mono.
FYI.NET has been around since 2000. It has been touted as cross platform and cross language. That has not materialized in the past 10 years.
No worries? Seriously go read the license agreements. Mono is not an official Microsoft project and is not recognized as such. Microsoft did not open up.NET. Microsoft did not provide indemnification to developers using Mono.
Except Microsoft holds patents to.NET and has not in any way provided indemnification to developers who want to develop, distribute or sell said applications.
Microsoft has not in any way officially endorsed or recognized Mono as a legitimate.NET project.
LOL...except for the fact that Android phones are Linux based, which dominate the mobile market. So until Android stops using Linux and/or Microsoft ever passes Android, Linux beats Windows in the mobile market. It doesn't matter whether or not the user knows what OS their mobile phone uses, they are still buying more Android phones than Windows phones. That's the point. But thanks for making the argument that it doesn't matter if the phone uses Windows - which is not what Microsoft wants you to think. Microsoft thinks the underpinnings of the phone are important and that the user makes purchasing decisions based on that. Obviously they don't and the reason why Windows Phone 7 is in the toilet.
most companies have moved or are moving their apps to web/server based apps. their easier to develop, maintain and deploy. you're desktops can last alot longer with this approach and the only thing you need to worry about is the browser version you are using.
and i guess the whole cloud thing is irrelevant? better tell Microsoft.
also large corporations are moving more and more to mobile apps. because there is a need to access information from the field and record information from the field - people are using desktops and laptops less and less and their smart phones more and more. if you don't think corporations don't see the appeal of the iPhone or iPad you are horrible mistaken. so again the information will be available via web app.
So welcome to the age of mobile computing. the desktop has become a dinosaur. and FYI office is not a going concern, most people use only the basic features.
I pity your body. You're body needs complex carbohydrates, not simple sugars. If you are ingesting simple sugars after your workout all you are doing is adding fat.
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The hostility in your reply to ignore the poster's comments leads me to believe you did not read the comments or did not understand the comments or did not have a proper response so you decided to go off on a tangent that had nothing to do with the comment.
Kudos for being a dick.
"B&N seems instead to be arguing against patents. Better to make that argument when you are not being sued for violating one."
That's what Microsoft is arguing in the i4i case. Glad to see you pay attention to current events.
FYI Microsoft has not demonstrated any infringing patents in Android and design patents are hardly as strong as you think. Apple lost it's suit against Microsoft over the trash can icon on the desktop in an OS.
But wait, that's anti-American. Americans are suppose to love corporate monopolies. That's the American way.
"They must design curricula that focus on solving practical problems, such as providing clean water to a growing population."
Hello Luddite, it's called Basic Research. Something that might not have a practical application or solve a practical problem. But that is not the job of basic research. Solving practical problems is the job of ENGINEERS. Engineers take basic research and find practical applications for that knowledge.
There are also areas called Applied Science, which again take knowledge gained from research and apply it.
Time for you to hand in your PhD.
"Deficits will never go away..."
1. Tell that to the tea baggers.
2. Not with my tax dollars.
Man is not colonizing space any time soon, so get over yourself. This has absolutely nothing to do with surviving as a species. It has to do with pork spending.
Time to stop drinking the bong water.
"You just "do as your told", slapping whatever OS on it and then figure it out later, right?"
Glad you understand the Microsoft way.
You fail to understand...MICROSOFT DIDN'T WANT PEOPLE TO USE XP FOR 10 YEARS. Now I know you're dense, but even you should understand that.
It's called source code. So you can continue to support it yourself or pay someone else to do that.
See that's what companies used to do, hire programmers to develop software for them. The company retains the source code and can hire programmers from time to time to enhance or fix bugs.
FOSS brings back that same idea.
Try stop being a douche bag for awhile.
Wait.... Microsoft innovate??? Hi, let me introduce you to Microsoft.
About damn time!!
"There are too many damn loopholes for the super rich and corporations to get around, all while the middle class gets raped because they make enough money to get by, but can't afford these big name tax consultants."
How do you think those loop holes got in there? What makes you think that any Republican will reform the tax code to take away loopholes that favor the rich? No Republican is going to bite the hand that feeds them. They are not going to eliminate tax codes that favor the Koch brothers, that allow corporations to send jobs overseas, that allow corporation to repatriate income at low low rates.
Talk of reform is a smoke screen because nothing will happen.
But you can end tax subsidies to oil corporations. You can end tax breaks to corporations that send jobs overseas. You can raise the corporate tax rate. You can tax income by hedge fund managers as real income like Reagan did. These are things that can be done.
Even if you cut spending to 0 you will still owe money. We have a revenue problem not tax problem.
The land of Fox News facts. Nice one zippy.
Fact: George W cut taxes in 2001 and went from a budget surplus to a budget deficit and ran a deficit every year in office. Fact: Employment did not recover. When George W Bush left office he had a net job loss. NO JOB GROWTH. Fact: Tax cuts for the rich did not create jobs. But it did cut revenue for the government which contributed trillions of dollars to the deficit. Fact: George W Bush kept two wars off the books, paid for them through supplemental spending bills and BORROWED money to finance them.
There wasn't any credible intelligence on Iraq's supposed WMDs. Any evidence put forward was quickly refuted by the DOE and CIA and the international intelligence community. Yellow Cake Uranium and centrifuge tubes were debunked by experts. UN Weapons experts who were in Iraq said there were no WMDs.
Afghanistan did not attack. The Taliban did not attack us. Al Qaeda attacked us. The Taliban would not hand over Bin Laden so we attacked them.
Get your facts straight potsy.
You might want to do some research before posting inane blather. 2 unfunded wars, unfunded prescription drug coverage, unfunded tax cuts to the rich for 8 years and counting, and a 2 trillion dollar wall street bailout under George W Bush. But somehow Obama has spent more??
Accounting is not your strong point.
Listen up douche bag the Japanese government upgraded the accident at the fukushima power plant to level 7. The accident is a MAJOR ISSUE. No amount of dick riding on your part is going to make that go away. We don't need assholes like you saying everything is ok. No it's not. This problem has been going on for a month and is not getting better. There are seriously health and environmental consequences here, as well as long term economic problems. Being a dick about it is not going to fix it. Being an apologist for an industry that has eschewed safety and oversight does not help fix the problem.
You want people to trust nuclear power. You want people to believe nuclear power is a safe energy source. Then offer constructive suggestions to fix the problem. Admit there were problems with oversight, safety and design and work to fix those issues.
Stop being a nuclear apologist fuck.
Ummm SCO. And recently Microsoft has launched a lawsuit against Google over Android in regards to patent infringement.
Read much.
LMOL....yeah Microsoft needs Mono for legitimacy? From who?? Windows developers? Linux developers? Anti-trust lawyers?
.NET developer, you develop on Windows. No .NET developer would work on a 3rd party hack (Mono) to do .NET development. You use Windows. You have all the tools and environments you need. I know of no .NET developers who uses Mono. The only people who would use Mono would be Linux developers. If you want to push Linux as an alternative to Windows, then you would use Mono. But .NET developers, would not. Mono going away would in no way impair .NET. Again, it's about Microsoft. You're using Microsoft tools (Visual Studio), you are using Microsoft language (C#, .NET), you are using Microsoft OS (Windows).
.NET has been around since 2000. It has been touted as cross platform and cross language. That has not materialized in the past 10 years.
Dude, if you are a
No one fucking cares about Mono.
FYI
No worries? Seriously go read the license agreements. Mono is not an official Microsoft project and is not recognized as such. Microsoft did not open up .NET. Microsoft did not provide indemnification to developers using Mono.
Go consult a lawyer moron.
Except Microsoft holds patents to .NET and has not in any way provided indemnification to developers who want to develop, distribute or sell said applications.
.NET project.
Microsoft has not in any way officially endorsed or recognized Mono as a legitimate
So go fuck yourself.
Yeah I know, Windows 7 support is rather flaky. Thank god for Linux.
LOL...except for the fact that Android phones are Linux based, which dominate the mobile market. So until Android stops using Linux and/or Microsoft ever passes Android, Linux beats Windows in the mobile market. It doesn't matter whether or not the user knows what OS their mobile phone uses, they are still buying more Android phones than Windows phones. That's the point. But thanks for making the argument that it doesn't matter if the phone uses Windows - which is not what Microsoft wants you to think. Microsoft thinks the underpinnings of the phone are important and that the user makes purchasing decisions based on that. Obviously they don't and the reason why Windows Phone 7 is in the toilet.
Hey Potsy, Windows NT was released in '93.
dude the 90s are over.
most companies have moved or are moving their apps to web/server based apps. their easier to develop, maintain and deploy. you're desktops can last alot longer with this approach and the only thing you need to worry about is the browser version you are using.
and i guess the whole cloud thing is irrelevant? better tell Microsoft.
also large corporations are moving more and more to mobile apps. because there is a need to access information from the field and record information from the field - people are using desktops and laptops less and less and their smart phones more and more. if you don't think corporations don't see the appeal of the iPhone or iPad you are horrible mistaken. so again the information will be available via web app.
So welcome to the age of mobile computing. the desktop has become a dinosaur. and FYI office is not a going concern, most people use only the basic features.
Cuz your using a Win Phone 7....oh wait...you're not......
I pity your body. You're body needs complex carbohydrates, not simple sugars. If you are ingesting simple sugars after your workout all you are doing is adding fat.