"a virus took over my computer and held it hostage"

looks like the executable was windows. it was warning you about itself.

"When I arrived, they, with tears in their eyes, told me that the virus was so awful and merciless that they were unable to remove it."

Again windows is THAT awful.

a phone that is Yahooed or even a phone that is verizoned. I want a phone. If i want to put facebook, yahoo, verizon stuff on my phone then I will do it. I dont see why companies are trying to come out with their own versions of phones that are supposed to be agnostic. We dont need any more walled gardens.

"One of the guys who manages the building came in at like 5 or 6 in the morning," Simons lamented, "and he scoured the entire place to find me."

How did he know that someone was there to scour for to begin with? The article didn't state or perhaps it is unknown how AOL or a guard came to realize he didn't belong there.

Should companies be allowed to buy up other companies for the sheer purpose of removing competition from its current or upcoming competition? It's one thing to do it once but what about 50 times until there is nothing left to buy and you are the only game in town??

If i put the tv on mute, change channels, go take a dump, fix dinner, go outside, look at my computer -- all of which includes not watching commercials... am I killing the business model? See if people want to watch ads they will and if not they won't. Just because someone makes it easier to do so is not a good argument in court IMO.

I believe it is a legitimate concern IF and ONLY IF people that stream from the iPads even watch commercials to begin with. What are the studios going to do next? Sue all the people that don't watch advertisements?

then what difference does it make where you get it from? Maybe someone can make it clear for me exactly what their lawsuit is saying here.

that they have probably waited too late. Nokia is irrelevant now as far as QT is concerned and so what is MS buys them as some point out? MS is pretty much irrelevant as well. We have to remember that the mobile market is in its infancy and Apple and Google are the only ones poised for growth in this market. Just imagine what its going to be like in 3 or 4 years?

QT was nice - but I would like to know what would prompt anyone, any business or anyone else to be compelled to work with QT when you have the SDK from google and apple and all of the support behind it? Just random thoughts

i wonder if they counted game developers like EA, MS and a host of others? we all know this sub sector of the programming world is not for people that need 8 - 10 hours of sleep even though for people to be productive the next day that is exactly what they need.

on most of the forums?? go on over to c++, java, opengl, android, iOS groups etc.... look at the topic questions, jobs available. does this mean that people part of these groups that are americans just choose not to interact much in this area and just choose to have their linkedin profile and nothing more? i joined a lot of these groups hoping to maybe join in some good conversations but all it is, is a bunch of noob topics filled with jobs in india.