Except ISPs provide communications AMONG the states. If you visit Amazon, and don't live in Washington, then that is interstate, or among the states. Maybe if your ISP just gave you access to local, in town sites, you might have a point. But ISPs typically deal in communications around the world.

Put it this way: Should a phone company have the right to mess with a call you make to someone in another state?

Yeah, the Venezuelans are so brilliant that they leave him in charge of the country. Obviously it's Americans who are dumb.

The only times people should be talking about economic matters and presidents in the same breath, is when presidents do things that harm the economy, such as allowing fed chairmen to "lower interest rates."

Or failing to do everything in their power to replace our fiat currency with a representative currency, that way the nation can do something other than perpetually increase debt according to the design of the financial system.

Zombie plan, man. Zombie plan.

I'll feed your obvious troll. Right next to my 500 employee software company is another tech company you may have heard of (AMD). About 15 miles North you have Apple's customer service and iPod/iPhone division. There's a little company called Dell here as well. You may remember Motorola, who sold all their stuff to Freescale.

And that's just Austin...

I have not had the misfortune of buying one of their books, but if I were Amazon or B&N, I would do something about this book equivalent of SPAM (something which costs NOTHING to produce that you can posts thousands of, with the proviso that you print it when someone shells out $60...).

The sad thing is, as long as you post enough of these on Amazon, you will make money. The scheme will multiply. I'm sure they'll fix it (perhaps require that they send a single printed & bound copy and have a human look over it for not being absolute drivel) -- because it sounds VERY annoying...

Delphi pools in John Brunners "the shockwave rider" predates asimov.

Have you ever migrated a large project from flash professional into a flex development environment?
It's not as simple as you're suggesting, because business-world library elements are often integrated into various base classes and possess ties throughout the project.

If you simply export them into a .swc, they will continue to be associated with those classes, and any code change will require you to re-publish from flash professional.. is flash builder even your development environment if you're not compiling from there?

Perhaps my google-fu is weak, but I've never seen a shred of useful documentation online about this migration process.
The best articles I've come across involve processes such as: step #1 convert all of your library elements into mxml format.

Yes, probably sounds like a lot of fun when you're staring down a couple hundred (or more) of those library elements, each with their own states, layers and base classes. And that's just step 1.

Thanks, we were on the verge of one-world government, your comment stemmed the tide.

My main point about this wasn't so much as it being a full-re-write or whatever Microsoft's marketing and PR department says, but that as long as it tenaciously holds on to legacy code and doesn't excise it completely will be unable to move forward and compete. But this means a new format, new bios, new memory allocation methods, new i/o mapping, and so on. Much of that "legacy code" is actually the interface between the OS and the older hardware, which is why 90%+ of all crashes and bugs occur. The OS asks the crappy hardware to do something it doesn't want to or is too slow to do and boom - you're back to square one.

Note - this also means a total re-working of motherboard designs to have more speed and better interfaces as well. We're essentially using recycled 1980s technology and tweaking it. It works fine, but it's just about hit a wall. For instance, find me a motherboard with actual PCIe 16X X2 specs. http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2056 This seems to be the only one I could find, but what's next? It's hit a wall. (and any devices you use on the machine share that PCI bus - as do all motherboards for PCs)

So what happens when we have to get around that "wall" in five or ten years? As I see it, Microsoft has no game plan for the true next generation of computers.

Idiots and politicians don't need statistics. Anyone else that wants to do real science does.

This definitely does NOT deserve to be modded "insightful".

Corporations? Damned thieves can tramply anyone, and everyone, with no repercussions.

Really? If people don't like the actions of a corporation they have the right not to fucking buy that corporations products, and you'll see how quickly the things change.

Go ahead, people, cheer for the corporations. None of them are doing anything for you.

Except for everything you see around you. Was PC made by a government decree? Can you remind me which government invented, and made economically profitable electricity, car, airplane, TV, cell phone, etc etc?

Your government supplies your drinking water, builds your roads, responds in the event of disaster, and much, much more.

I'm glad you saved the most idiotic comment for last. The government DOES NOT do any of those things. It is the taxpayer money that pays for all of those things, the government simply manages it (usually in a notoriously inefficient, wasteful and corrupt way). Yes in some cases it is a necessary evil to put all our money together and pay for some things that way though it should be avoided wherever possible. In any case, there is nothing to be thankful to the government for! It is simply taking our money and paying for things on our behalf. Please try to remember that simple concept.

*cough*end-scene-of-fight-club*cough*

Please quit this homophobia. It's offensive to suggest that gay people would want to use Apple products.

I really can't agree with that. I've used an iPhone extensively (well, iPod Touch, which is the same user experience), and I've used my Droid extensively. In my opinion, there's no real difference between the two, except for the fact that the iPhone has those nice rounded edges and other such things that make the UI look very sleek.