IBM's innovation is occurring in non advertised or non consumer level markets. Currently they are a huge threat to EMC and NetApp in the storage sector with some of their products. Also aren't they leading the development charge in that new racetrack tech?

10 years ago my first cell phone was from AT&T. I had a basic Nokia phone with some low level call plan and free nights and weekends. Month after month, I had a different bill. It was absolutely infuriating. A plan that should have cost me only 68.00 a month was costing me anywhere between 75 and 120 dollars a month. The swing difference per month was often 20 dollars or more. My phone usage was exactly the same every month but they would always come up with an excuse like, "oh well you started this call at 5:58 which means you weren't on night mode yet so that entire call gets billed like it was during normal hours." I've had T-Mobile for upwards of 8 years and my bill is the-exact-same-every-fkn-month on the dot without fail. I have unlimited text, data, and voice and here's the best part, it fits my budget. With UMA mode, I am never without signal. This is the other problem I have, the biggest complaint I hear about them is that they don't have good service. When I ask people if they use UMA mode, they sit there and look at me like a brain dead Walmart greeter. INFURIATING. Now I will have to go back to the shitty customer service that is AT&T? Are you kidding me? What about my unlimited plan? Will that be honored? Probably not or probably not for the same rate. This is seriously such a kick in the balls. T-Mobile was the best carrier for the price and if people would take 15 seconds to figure out UMA mode the signal/quality argument would just go right out the window. INFURIATING.

I am not calling bs on your statements, but do you have any proof that public/state schools generally cost more then tech schools? Typically, from what I've seen, going to a local college is fairly cheep by comparison to these tech schools from what I've seen. I have known some people to have run up a significant amount of debt for their tech school degree which financially seems comparable to a private institution. I went to a local state college and I don't recall spending any more then 10k for the entire experience.

When the face of your preferred party is a guy that is so ridiculous it makes you hate being a member of said party. Where are the moderate republicans to bring this guy back in check? I may as well just label myself independent. As a sidenote: you're a complete tool bag if you think Microsoft, Yahoo, or any other search engine for that matter isn't subject to government access like Google. He'd probably prefer us all to use Baidu for some crazy ass reason...

I was actually going to mention this. VMware actually typically assumes you are on the latest version of their software products anyway. After reading the article I didn't think that this was as big of a catastrophe as some of you have made it out to be. Upgrading the VMware View client on the virtualized device doesn't really sound all that difficult and I highly doubt that this is bringing anyone who matter's production system to it's knees. Also, stop upgrading everything on the day patches are released. Second movers are sometimes the winners.

Cloud. And I heard Blackholes are formed by throwing an App into the Cloud for virtualization.

Regardless of my opinion or language, a patent provides the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, offering for sale, or importing the patented invention for the term of the patent (wikipedia). The EU recognizes "open standard" and while it may have patents on it the intellectual property of the standard must be made irrevocably available on a royalty-free basis. H.264 is patent laden by MPEG LA and as someone mentioned above, some of the patents carry out all the way to 2028. There is an opportunity for MPEG LA to see the penetration of H.264 and then change their mind or go to the Googles and Microsofts of the world and say "hey guys, remember how you coded h.264 into your browsers... yeah well this one part (waves patent filing) wasn't what we wanted to be open and it looks like you guys missed it so we are going to need 2 billion dollars from each of you." Honestly, what's to prevent that scenario from happening? Hold on break out the lawyers, lets send html5 back to the drawing board while we figure out what parts of H.264 are open and what parts aren't and delay it more.

When I think of open, I think "free to use as long as I don't turn around and go charge people for it myself." The patents don't seem to indicate a complete willingness to have it be open. It's kind of like the invisible fence for a dog wearing a shock collar. The yard is open as far as the eye can see, but we can only guess at how far we can run until that shock collar kicks in to reel us back. At minimum, perhaps the term "open" should be changed to "available to use within reason." There's probably better vernacular but thats what I could come up with.

I didn't think H.264 was open either. Head over to Wikipedia and on their H.264 article there is a very brief explanation of what part MPEG LA plays in the patenting of H.264 technology. Is MPEG LA just another patent troll company?

I mean, you do realize this is T-Mobile UK right? Network may be different there. I figured this out by reading the part that says "T-Mobile in the UK..."