From experience: "good"/"great" even "better than the competition" is not enough.

It must be better by a huge margin (or have a "killer app") for the phone to be adopted at this late of a stage. Android had the edge of being "free", so it was "easy" to ship with. I am curious how successful the platform will be (and will be watching from the sidelines), but at this point I do not think it will change the mobile market.

please ignore my post. I misread the article and thought that apple would only offer the 2 year warranty when bought directrly from the apple website or apple stores. I read "elsewhere" as non-apple stores in the EU

Isnt that a big "screw you!" for all retailers which offer apple products(e.g. amazon.de or Media Markt...)?

I can see another lawsuit following from these retailers

Here in Switzerland this is already implemented. The smallest unit is 5 Rappen (5 cents)

I thought the only use for IE is to download chrome or firefox?

just as javascript and php does ^^

That is exactly how TESCO, WALL-MART and every other of these huge stores work...

This might be stating the obvious, but it looks like Yahoo wont be around for much longer. Looking at the current state of things, one could deduce the following lifecycle for a company:

1) Found Company
2) Innovate
3) Profit
4) Rest and watch the competition overtake you while profits decrease.
5) Start suing everyone around you for patent infringement
6) Bankrupcy

Yahoo is at step 5 now.

This is a very unfair fight for us. The big coorps only need to get lucky once, while we have to keep our guard up all the time.

To me it seems that it is only a matter of time until such a law passes, unless we change the way how copyright is handled.

Let me guess. This is how IE code looks like

[...]
SecuritySettings s= new SecuritySettings();
try {
        s.allowCookied= true;
        parseP3P(header, s);
} catch (Exception e) { /* NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN!!111one */ }
[...]

Is this the US? Last time I visited, most women looked as if they were pregnant...

Not really no. People do not buy her music because she died. People buy her music now because her death has been given a lot of media attention (as it usually is with deaths of celebrities) and :

a) some people are too young to have known this music and just discover it now
b) some people have somply forgotten how good her music was

This is really a turd move from a turd of a company

What if you use a HDD password additionally? You cannot read any data from the hdd (without taking it apart) without entering the password. (http://www.laptoptips.ca/security/hard-disk-password/)

It is.

Once you enter the professional world (e.g. get a job in that business) you become part of the decision process on which software the company should purchase. Since you will have already gathered experience in photoshop, the company might be more inclined to go with that instead of GIMP.

Simalarly, it is easier to find people with the relevant skills. E.g. if it becomes hard to find people with photoshop skills, the business which change their applications, so that it is easier to find people with the correct skillset.

So you see, it does benefit them in one way or another.

Hi, Thanks for the response

I never argued that JS is hard to use. I only argued that it becomes unmanageable once your code base becomes large (e.g. more than 1 js file), especially if you work on a team.

Did you try renaming a function and following all instances which use that function? You cannot be sure that you have found all instances (especially if it has a similar name to a different function in a different class) unless you run the code over all code paths.