Lawyer for a trademark issue for under $30,000?

It would likely cheaper to throw them away and make new ones that red with pink stripes.

Get a different job. They aren't hard to find. They don't want a good programmer, they want a code monkey. You'll be much happier in the long run (and the short run, and every run inbetween -- trust me).

It's not a problem. That is my bread and butter.

I fix all the stuff that a team of developers totally botched.

I couldn't agree more. Frameworks are important for the same reason standard libraries are important. For example, reading someone else's code without libraries they write a routine to sort strings. Great. And then the next guy comes along and calls it, expecting it to sort his strings, but the routine does a case insensitive sort, which isn't what the 2nd programmer wanted. Of course he could have read and analyzed the whole routine before using it, but having a library allows both programmers to have access to a string sort that they don't have to analyze to make sure it really is a sort, and can reuse it.

Frameworks are much the same way. Often without them I find code from a previous programmer, and I think what the hell was he thinking and why is he doing this. Or doing it this way. A framework removes most of the useless code setting up and tearing down basic things and does so in a consistent manner. If I see he's overriding some standard function, I can assume there is probably a reason why it's been overridden.

Of course he would. Their missiles and ours have self destructs that can be used mid-flight. Once russia sees the incoming mess, they know they must self-destruct theirs, and we supposedly will do the same.

Of course, if the missiles do hit us, well, then we have no way of self-destructing ours.

"Steam Play" doesn't mean that you should in theory be able to play the game on any machine you can install steam on. It means that you get a license to play the game on any OS they have a version for. Many games have a version of windows and mac, which would be available for steam play, even if there isn't a version for linux.

Also, steam runs on iOS, and can't install any games at all.

He is elected, just not directly by the public at large.

No, the judge pointed out that the law the guy was charged with did not apply in this case. Big difference. There may be one or more laws that he broke, but the one he was actually charged with was wrong.

Resorting to name calling because your argument is weak, is pretty typical. Apple has a procedure in place for this situation, it's codified in a giant set of books entitled "LAW". Follow them, and it works.

Try walking into a car dealership, demanding the keys to the car on the showroom floor, because you have a legal document that says your grandma died, and she left you her car and see how far that gets you.

More like.. Here at google, you don't need a court order to get access to accounts you don't own, we give that information away to anyone!

Want to do something and are qualified to do something are two different things.

The fact that you don't understand that logic and UI can be separated and modularized, or be responsive to different environments, leads me to believe... Just yeah. Where have you been for the past 5 years?

Probably the smart ones that want todo away with archaic file extensions. Does Mac have them, or Linux? Or unix? Just how do they get by without seeing them?

I still think that Metro was the right choice, however, people are reluctant to change. The metro start screen isn't BAD, but using metro apps as default wasn't the right thing to do. It was too much too quickly. Metro start FIRST in Windows 8. Metro apps available in Windows 8, but don't make them the default for anything, maybe by windows 9 they could have changed the default to metro apps, after refinements.

They also need to take things further. Making it easy to design, develop, and distribute .NET applications as THE standard on windows. Port the .NET framework to Xbox One, phones, desktop, mac and linux. Have a consistent metro API for .NET, and let applications be written once, run on all versions of windows and mac/linux (perhaps with some UI tweaks). Drop the price for all but the enterprise versions of Visual Studio to $0, including MSDN/technet.

Microsoft needs to go back to their roots. Get Microsoft stuff on EVERYTHING. Integrate EVERYTHING. Make their stuff the easiest to put stuff in, and get stuff out. Stop trying to "lock in" users, and make them WANT to stay. Make the stuff so much better than the alternatives that people want it. Don't tie office to windows. Office is an office suite. Make it run on everything -- windows, mac, linux, tablets and phones regardless of OS.

Just my $0.02