It doesn't matter whether they've heard about it or not. The effect is still real, without the name.

Nevertheless, at THAT moment the legal exposure and costs become quite real. What we need is a private consortium of fair use defenders to fund these counterclaims, or something like it, to even the scales of power.

Because the license fees don't really amount to anything given what MS is offering in return. This has not been disclosed and an NDA probably applies. It could include sweetheart deals on WP7, various Windows OSs, and maybe some free Azure hosting. Who knows?

This is what I've been thinking from very early on.

I disagree. The terms of these agreements are never disclosed. I think instead of confining your analysis to just the results of a potential court battle, you need to consider what else might be thrown into the mix. It could just as well be that Microsoft is offering more than just indemnity for the licensing money. It could be a sweet offer we know nothing of, which allows Microsoft to continue to get press about the "cost" of using the Android OS.

They confirmed the same redshift data collected and approximated the event to have taken place 13 billion years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRB_090423

And the performance is not only good, but you can scale up and down on the fly. I've moved all my sites to Rackspace cloud servers. They've proven quite reliable, speedy and cost effective.

It detracts from the civility of the conversation and raises defensiveness, but it doesn't negate the validity of the argument

It's only morally bankrupt if the one doing the picking and choosing is thus. Using the Bible to create a personal mythos can be a fundamentally rational process, guided by a set of moral presuppositions, that leads to something beyond the rational. I have never met nor never read anyone who was able to create their system of values wholesale out of purely rational cloth (Certainly many tried, thinking of Kant). That's not a human failure, or a failure of reason itself, it's just reality. Myth and story are important to everyone. Fundamentalists of all stripes simply want to be reductionistic regarding their chosen "story". I have been greatly moved by elements from all the world's great religions and many of those considered to be less important. Likewise, I've been inspired by scientists who have been able to take the leaps of faith necessary to construct a fleshed out ethic, informed by both science and human values. Beyond all that, I believe that it is possible to bring values under the umbrella of science, but that won't happen when we are at war with each other and insist on embracing the variety of fundamentalism embraced on our chosen side of the battlefield. When it does, it will be because we will recognize that all of our so called knowledge is provisional, waiting to be informed by the journey we are taking into the future.

In the world of Android, the term is "root", rather than "jailbreak".

You were modded up as insightful, but for many straight quarters, Apple has been performing very well. Their stock price reflects real world, historical performance. If you happen to know that they are headed for an earnings drop, please tell us how you know.

Bikes in rain? Not so good. Can't hold umbrella and drive/ride. Can't brake so well. Wheels want to go parallel instead of serial. Everyone know serial is all the rage now.

Thanks for the common sense post. So many here think they should just get a free ride. Give me a dumb, fast pipe, don't play games with blocking ports and services and charge reasonably for bandwidth and traffic and I'm a happy customer. I'm tired of being treated as a LCD (lowest common denominator) customer and not being given sensible choices. I'm tired of being lied to when the ISP's network has issues (i.e. told to reboot endlessly when I can clearly tell where the problem is). Sell me a bona fide business connection without expecting to charge me for integration services or unneeded bells and whistles.