The amusing thing here is that the Naginata is probably more immediately recognized by this audience as an ashandarei.

I would take it differently. Jabba was incredibly intelligent, fat, lazy and ruthless. You don't come to control a major criminal element without being intelligent.

This is a really strange article. MVC vs. JSP / static content is not apples to apples, like the first test was.

When you return a view, it isn't static content. Making a call to a controller is also not the same as serving up an HTML page - the controller is instantiated, the action is invoked, and depending on the type of action, a model could be instantiated and bound. It isn't like creating a simple ASP.NET page that has "Response.Write" in the page load, since the ASP.NET page itself is much closer to what a JSP page is.

There isn't really a circumstance for static HTML in ASP.NET, since it all gets rolled into a Response.Write method in the end. I imagine a JSP page does the same thing, and on both ends, the resulting HTML gets cached. This would be the "optimization" he's witnessing from Tomcat. ASP.NET does the same thing.

You'd have to do some stuff in Java to get to the MVC level of complexity, and not just use Tomcat. Vanilla ASP.NET is a more appropriate tool for comparison. As noted in an above comment, you'd probably have to compare ASP.NET MVC to Spring.

Hell, classic ASP performs better than ASP.NET MVC.

I think the argument is more one of "should government be investing in not-for-public-use private entities?" rather than one of regulation. Regulation is setting boundaries for capitalism to live within - it's generally a good thing. Government investment in the private sector, however, is something that needs to be monitored. It makes sense when investing in private companies to the end of the public good (military spending, roads, "utilities"), but that's about it.

1. Company A supplies Company B with chips for Company B's products.
2. Company A decides the money made off supplying parts is not enough and decides to compete with Company B directly by supplying products with very similar designs to Company B.
3. Company B files suit against Company A for infringement.
4. Company A insists they're fine, but doesn't realize a good chunk of business still comes from Company B
5. Company B does the logical thing and divorces all business from Company A.

Samsung is not a victim, here. This is the logical conclusion of bad business done by Samsung. They could have done it differently, and coexisted with Apple. Now, they reap their reward. I don't really understand why this is so hard for the Android fanbois to understand.

The first amendment doesn't apply to a company's ability to censor content on a site they own.

FTFY. It's not a language issue, it's a law issue. "Evasion" has a connotation within the boundaries of US law, whereas "Avoidance" does not. They mean the same exact thing, however.

This isn't really true. When you say that you're an "American" to nearly anyone in the world, the valid assumption they make is that you're from the USA. It only follows that an "American" would be from "America," being the USA.

Sadly, I'm used to my 5 minute commute from Highlands Ranch. Boulder is pricey too, but I guess if you live in Broomfield, it's cheap.

They show up in determining whether to consider a candidate for an interview. Many places will not interview someone with short experience and an associate's. I've been on the interviewing end of that equation.

This really is less than helpful, albeit typical for the longer-run members in this community. It's .NET, pay-to-play, and therefore irrelevant. That, in truth, is political garbage.

To answer more fully - age is irrelevant. If you desire to pick up the variations between .NET 2.0 and 4.0, just put in the time necessary to practice some of the newer things. You could also pick up C#, though it isn't absolutely necessary, because the positions open on the market lean more heavily toward C# than VB.NET. It's primarily syntactical sugar, you'll find, but some of the newer things are performed a little more easily in C# than VB. Some of the more exciting aspects of .NET lie in the direction of F#, too, which is pretty easy to experiment with (and fully supported by Mono/Monodevelop).