I wasn't likely to consider it before... but now...? Maybe.

Add one or two zeroes to the end of these counts.

Because this will break it beyond repair.

Bought a new rig two weeks ago, haven't installed it; probably won't ever need it.

It's delicious, especially with either scrambled eggs for breakfast... or as one of the meats served in Chinese hot-pot.

Both George AND James Tiberius.

Kirk wouldn't have allowed himself to be captured by the Borg.

I've been busting my butt, saving as much as I can, paying my bills (and paying down my mortgage), so from that standpoint, I am making myself better off because of self-discipline and good choices.

But the prospects of being "better off" are being destroyed by an out of control government with reckless and limitless spending, a loss of poilitical freedom, and unequal enforcement of laws based on who one is, what one believes in, and where one comes from. It's absolutely maddening.

I'm better off financially, yes. But overall? Hardly.

...I wish the UN would exercise it's right to go f*** itself.

...to know where this is going.

Is this a bad laptop, or a bad iPad wannabe? I can't really tell at this point.

I've made a career and a living off Microsoft products, and I'm grateful to the life that company has allowed me to provide for myself. But it's clear now they're in decline. They've lost their edge, their focus... their ability to innovate. This is a defensive play, and it's just not gonna fly.

And I'm not just a consumer and a developer, but an MSFT shareholder. As such, I'd like to see Ballmer get out of Redmond and make way for someone to bring the company back to a leadership position... while there's still time.

Not terribly helpful for MS to do this, to keep attracting new devs coming out of school. Are they trying to kill .NET as a web platform?

New grads (or upperclassmen) now will just go with LAMP (or a variation) for web, foregoing .NET altogether. And what timing too... iOS development is really building a critical mass.

Bad move, Redmond...

Three things:

* So if the comments are really anonymous, whom do they prosecute?
* If the comments and/or the websites originate from outside the jurisdiction...?
* The First Amendment.

Nothing else will do...

This is not terribly different from different countries on the map lining up with either the US or the Soviets... or going non-aligned.

It's a good old fashioned "military alliance"... just with patents and lawyers instead of nuclear warheads.