Well it's about fucking time.

"Editions" ... for an OS?? LOL @ you fucking suckers. Screw MS. They've been screwing you since XP "Home Edition" ...

I agree. I thought the initial made for TV movie was good enough that I'd give the show a chance. I really loved the first few episodes but I gradually lost interest. Stopped watching completely somewhere during season 2.

Reader h11:6 points out news of a recent study which suggests that "Android's open source nature will give it a boost over Apple's iPhone," and thus take the lead in sales as soon as three years from now.

You can find a study that will say just about anything. If Andriod sales overtake iPhone sales it'll be because it's a better phone that provides the average consumer with a better experience than the iPhone presently offers. The average consumer could care less about the development model of the apps that you can download on a phone. They don't even know what that means.

Apple's biggest weakness isn't it's app development model. It is it's exclusive contract with AT&T. As soon as that's over, watch out. I know a ton of people who want an iPhone but they either can't or won't switch to AT&T in order to get one.

Best Buy has plenty of online competition even if it's the only physical retailer in an area. I think that will keep them on their toes.

This could be a public relations disaster in the making for Netflix.

Since most Netflix members still use the service to watch DVD's I highly doubt it.

So they wan to help laid off workers, just not their own laid off workers?

Microsoft Bungles Severance, Asks Laid Off Workers for Money Back

How Microsoft-esque

The word cloud in this context is a stupid buzz word that we can all do without.

Should we bring back everything popular from eight years ago? How about floppy discs? Some things should be left in the past. Emailing pictures to people is more sensible than MMS.

Except that not everybody has an e-mail address. Several close friends of mine either don't have an e-mail address or don't check their e-mail often. All of them have cell phones with MMS. The "e-mail it" approach is candy ass. There shouldn't be anything that a free cellphone (given to you by the cell phone company when you sign a contract) can do that the iPhone can not do.

The original iPhone has been out for almost two years now. I can understand that they'd give a higher priority to shoring up the OS, getting a 3G version out there and then putting out an SDK, but IMO after that their priority should be filling in some of the holes in functionality. It's ridiculous that things like the ability to forward text messages, MMS, and copy and paste are still missing from the iPhone almost two years after it has been released.

It's money that could be better spent elsewhere and it is a boondoggle.

Is it supposed to be surprising that they didn't rewrite their entire codebase for every new OS release?!? Obviously Windows 7 is going to be built on top of the Vista codebase, that's how almost every software release works. Usually if a company decides to rewrite a program from the ground up (see: Adobe from time to time), the rewritten version is less featureful, less stable, and takes much longer to come out than the previous version.

Yes but when it comes to OS's in the long run it's beyond worth it. See OS X. It's time for Microsoft to abandon the Windows code base and re-write Windows from the ground up. Build virtualization right into the OS for those who need backward compatibility. Oh and they should have no more than 3 versions. A home version, a business version and a server version. I'd prefer only one that could do it all but this is Microsoft we're talking about. If they are smart they'll eliminate bloat within the company first. The amount of bureaucracy is laughable and if they don't do that first a re-wright from the ground up will take as long to produce as Duke Nukem Forever.

Or people could just get off of their lazy asses and go buy one WITHOUT a coupon. We're talking about $40 bucks. If you ask the me this entire program is one giant boondoggle. The government should only be subsidizing these things for poor people who actually need it and can't afford it on their own. Having a website where anybody can sign up for a coupon is beyond ridiculous. I realize we're talking about peanuts when it's compared to the overall budget, but we're still talking about millions of dollars that could be spent on feeding the hungry and housing the homeless. Lord knows we need it in this economy. How Americans went from a "can do" people to a bunch of lazy whiners who can't do anything without governments help is beyond me. It's $40 bucks. Skip fast food for two or three weeks during lunch and have some soup instead and there's your $40 bucks. You'll be healthier and you can get your box without a coupon from the government. Two birds with one stone.

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The correct answer to which kind of apps developers should focus on writing is "All of the Above". I want web apps, I want native apps written for specific operating systems, I want cross-platform apps written in languages like Java, I want hybrid apps that use web services. The more choices we have the easier it is to find just the right tool for the job,

I don't know why, but the fact that he's constantly reffed to as Jimbo annoys the hell out of me and makes me dislike him. Anybody named Jimmy who wants other people to refer to him as Jimbo instead of Jimmy or Jim after the age of 12 or 13 has issues.

If I did have a nuclear bomb, I would not have a problem. Some other folks would have a problem.

Signed,

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei