That's not true. MS Office on Mac is a bi-product of MS bailing Apple out and putting Steve Jobs back in power after Apple almost went bankrupt. It was almost like a crutch for Apple, because people had to stop saying, "We don't use Apple because it can't run Office."

Linux is not a threat to Microsoft. Linux could only be considered a threat to Apple, if Apple were to be solely a software company. MS dominates the home computer market by a long shot. Its going to take many years for anyone to become a direct threat to Microsoft's livelihood.

I feel they make these announcements on purpose. They want to win back some lost support from people who have fled to the Free and Open Source worlds.

I feel most the time that MS goes after someone, they're just attempting to hurt them financially. Since MS can piss away a few million to financially destroy a competitor if they really felt like it.

This is going to be on a tshirt.

I agree, war should be won in less than a year or it is a failure and weapons should be developed that don't kill non-combatant by-standers in a war-zone.

By "go wrong" do you mean "get people killed"?

Sure, because Faux News is held so terribly accountable whenever they get someone killed.

Why would anyone ever have to be held accountable for getting people killed?

I like your use of "*sigh*" to start your arrogant "I don't care about anyone but myself" post. It didn't make you come across as either:

1) A bad troll
2) A little kid

If your need to exercise your freedom of expression overpowers your ethics, you probably have some serious social disorders. I can tell that you don't share my morals or ethics, because you put yourself ahead of people around you.

Thanks for your reply, this is exactly what I was anticipating in response.

I believe it was right around $1000, looked ridiculously like an iMAC and ran Win 7. I remember touching it at the store and being like "wow, now if this was only useful...."

During vietnam they made movies and tv shows about Korea, but not vietnam (as far as I'm aware). I think making a game about current conflict is stupid. Not only do we not really have the history to fully understand it, its a poor choice for those who are currently involved. Freedom of expression shouldn't overpower ethics they way some people think it should. If you wanna play this war game, go enlist in the Marine Corps. Otherwise, give them 20 years to deal with the trauma.

I did a little bioinformatics in the past, and we were using postgreSql to manage our results. It was nice because you can create meaningful fields to query in the future. It took some time developing the system, but it really helped out in the long run. We had to consider errors in the readings of the results and had to incorporate a little bit of fuzzy logic into the tools we used to run comparisons on the database.

If you are at a university or near a university, the computer science dept may give a few students credit to build you a system that can handle it, so you don't have to.

I don't think you're really disagreeing with me, I think you're presenting another scenario that I actually agree with you on. But I can only speak for myself.

I agree with you. Especially on the topic of the sense of full entitlement by people becoming disturbing. There's a crazy influx of narcissism and egotism in America. Everyone feels they deserve everything because they're so important.

Oh well, nice post.

I feel its a very sticky situation, because you're going to get a lot of people taking things like this very differently.

An extreme situation would be groups of troops revolting and ending up fighting other groups of our own troops. Unlikely, but in high stress situations, you can't tell.

I'm glad we agree for the most part.

I agree with you and I don't think anything I said actually disagrees with you. We just shouldn't be so willing to bring down their morale on purpose.

"So Johnny, you hate yourself for everything you've done over here right now. Well, sorry, but its time to go out again, so get your rifle. Ps, everything you're fighting for is a lie."

The troops know if any warcrimes are happening, they're living in it already. That doesn't warrant the release of documents that, as we're lead to believe, contain names of informants who can now be put at risk (as well as their families) or information that may otherwise get more of our troops killed by any means.

The fact is that wikileaks didn't do it for humanity, they did it for popularity. Warcrimes will be found out no matter what.

You demand immediate action, which is never going to happen. My standpoint is if we have to be there and for however long we have to be there the fewer people dying, for any reason, the better.