Oracle Portals! You want bindings? Check. You want unnecessary abstraction? Check. You want portlets? Check. You want to empty your pockets for Larry Ellison? Check. Any 20-something neckbeard can write a Rails app. Most teenagers and hackers kluge up a PHP app without much trouble. You can't spit without hitting another 'extremely mature' PHP framework. But it takes real balls and lots of money to create an Oracle Portals app that sucks anyway and makes you all want to commit suicide. Why do you think you need a web framework? What exactly does this small web based business do besides process a few forms? It doesn't matter really. Talking about it and asking /. a bunch of vague questions won't get any work done. In my experience, frameworks are the source of most evils. The pyramid of sand has no internal scaffolding.

Well, people in the USA want fair wages for their jobs. In countries with no minimum wage or extremely low or unenforceable minimums exist, people will do whatever they can to survive. People are not crying for jobs they don't want. They just want the money they spend going to American workers, not to Asian and South American governments and conglomerates who do not pay their workers fair wages.

Let me axe you a kweschun: Are you some kind of for-en-er? China then turns the weakening dollar into massive reserves by manipulating their currency. This is a bigger problem than spying, but spying is part of the whole US-China problem. The big problem will come later when US companies/govt. make us completely dependent on China for food. That's a scary situation which we should be working against now. Ban Chinese manufactured imports. That includes everything Apple makes in China. See what that does in the long run for the US economy.

Fingernails or cat's claws stuck caught in wool, like a wool jacket or tweed. This makes part of my brain hurt bad. The idea of it.

The philosophy of a corporation doesn't always align with its strategy, as in this case. To increase market share the way Microsoft does is what I would consider 'directly evil'. Google's strategy of "throw it at the wall, see what sticks" is maybe evil as a byproduct of its being somewhat irresponsible.

No. He's whining about how they develop software faster his team can adapt. The small players adapt to the bigger ones. This is regardless (usually) of who invented what.

"He's basically accusing them of behaving like Microsoft." You mean like a corporation? I think he's whining. He wants people to come to him for approval. "...if we could have worked with them in the development phase" Do companies have teams of product specialists who go around asking "What outside parties can we involve in the development phase to make this project take longer?" I don't think so.

They haven't failed yet because they are duplicates of already working technology from the west. Copy, paste, re-brand!

BYD cars are knockoffs of popular cars. So much so that some BYD dealerships were switching the logos, selling them as their much more expensive originals. BYD has apologized recently, saying the behavior of the dealerships is 'embarrassing'. http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0810/gallery.china_cars.fortune/index.html BYD, Geely and other big manufacturers in China are constantly lying about everything they do. I believe it's part of the culture unfortunately.

"It seems they're more eager to put out things and see what sticks" I guess he's not aware that this is Google's standard mode of operation as a business. Does this man live in a box, developing a browser nobody needs?

Either my memory is faulty, or this is really old. Anyhow, not worth the effort to check. It's old and unexciting. My third leg doesn't quite reach the ground, and is not articulated as far as I know. I never seen a human walk like this.

The sun is whipping us with its fiery magnetic tentacles. Run away?