People get rich, other people think they must be a true genius.

I got recruiter spam to work for a company. It pointed out in parentheses that the CEO was the cousin of Elon Musk. Just raw name dropping, because no one could be so stupid as to think someone's relatives say anything about him. Just more celebrity worship.

You can skip this add in 10, 9, 8, 7...

It's basically just a baby monitor, inside a teddy bear. Not sure what's so creepy about it, it's not for google to spy, but for parents and homeowners. I swear I've heard of something just like this before, and not just in a movie. I've definitely heard of less fuzzy things that people use to monitor their house while at work, and remotely yell at the cat to get off the table.

Not true anymore. Just come up with the idea, then threaten to sue. The patent office no longer requires a working or scale model before granting a patent.

Not how I remember it. IBM was still big and the big name, not Microsoft. The home market was split between a lot of choices, it was the small to medium business market where PC was more dominant. The PC was falling behind too in the microcomputer world. Windows may have been catching up, but 3.0 did not make it caught up.

The problem was that the microcomputer market was reinventing the wheel all the time. Existing workstations, minis, and mainframes did so much more. But people who grew up on PC or Macs would naively ask "what's the point of multitasking?" That's one of the reasons IBM flubbed the market as they thought it wasn't ever going to be that big except as a front-end for major back office applications or localized spreadsheet type stuff.

So when Amiga, Atari ST, Apple IIGS came out they all had so much better graphics and sound than even a higher quality PC had at the time. It really took a while for the PC to catch up, and I think Windows pushed it along by being a resource hog and wanting graphics. Amiga beat those other systems out quite well by having a decent modern operating system too, not just another DOS type thing to run apps.

At the time of windows 3.0, windows jobs were scarce too. Bigger market for some other systems at the time. Huge market for people not even on microcomputers, which was sort of a joke at the time.

I think a major flaw with Maxis is that they thought they had a must-buy title. As in Too Big To Fail. If a company thinks they can do anything, then they'll do things to screw with customers without them leaving. Ie, start to "monetize" things more. Horse armor, no one can bitch about that can they?

Thing is, it sort of works for awhile. There is a class of game buyers who just don't care. If the game is new they will buy it. Three months later they're on to something else and don't care about how they got screwed, and the price doesn't matter since they probably snuck the card of of mom's purse. Or they're the idiot on the forums who says "dude, lighten up, it's only the cost of 4 family size pizzas".

But they don't last half as long.

Smart phones with a huge battery charge? Which are those?

Third parties have won in the past. Not often of course, but it should mean the odds are above "no chance".

Take the pictures down; repost them all the day that the diploma is received.

Lawmakers have never understood the issue, no matter what the issue is.

I thought it was "commandante".

Most of those are libraries. Thus they've been solved with any language with similar libraries. Ie, networking - it's sort of there in Java, however there's no control over the networking and how it's implemented and it reflects a small subset of what you may want networking to do (it's good at web oriented stuff basically). Meanwhile just about any language that allows using POSIX libraries can do your basic networking that Java can do. For embedded devices, Java is still very high level, it does not give you register access to the machines for example, so where it is used most typically in embedded systems is as an application layer with the layers underneath written in other languages.

I agree a lot has been added to solve problems. Which means I meet a lot of Java programmers who don't really program, they just tie together pieces of existing code.