So wait, now we're NOT writing rich applications to be delivered by the browser and instead focusing on native, platform-based apps? I thought that was EXACTLY what we were getting away from. The only 'platform' apps are iPhone and Android mobile apps due to the screen real estate available, even a tablet has the size and responsiveness to work fine with web based apps. Oh wait, a Windows 8 article, that explains it... this is just Microsoft PR being propped up on the backs of mobile interfaces.

If someone hacks Battle.net/etc, you might find out. The cloud is a much larger beast and if some fundamental underlying technology in it is hacked you may never have any clue, Amazon may not ever even catch it. Eventually the systems are just too big to secure based on traffic load and the insane amounts of data, you have to play bug smasher after its already compromised and proactively defend the systems, but there is a critical point at which you just cant prevent, only mitigate, damage that can be done.

You forgot the most important part: He was right about the original iPod. It was a less useful device at a higher price point than the rest of the field.

You sound like a generic fud-raker...

BBSes, Newsgroups, IRC, AOL Instant Message lists, ICQ, eGroups, Yahoo! groups, LiveJournal, Myspace, Facebook, Google+. You may have started on FB but you were at least 15 years late to the social party, Mr. AC. I'm sick and tired of you dumbass kids thinking Facebook is somehow the first global network oriented around social interaction. Also, get off my lawn.

I say we all start the a software project based on the kumba-ya feeling and come together from all over the world by working together on it. WHO'S WITH ME!?!

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Anyone?

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*crickets*

I know someone who's MBA finals involved take home tests with direct questions and essays. I looked at his test, then proceeded to explain to him how business works and basically did an entire portion of his test based on the IT related business market... I was floored and exploded about it.. THIS IS WHAT THESE ASSHOLES ARE LEARNING? THIS IS GENERIC BUSINESS STUFF that anyone working and interacting with businesses will learn. ITS LAUGHABLE that they are paying to 'learn' this and shows just how bad their financial acumen is if they are plopping 50-100 grand on it. Smoke and mirrors, all the way down. They get fancy University titles, while folks without college degrees get labelled Con Men.

This has been a production of the MONDAY HATE TRAIN. Its just one of those days.

Hell, IBM only does it to trick people into thinking your not calling India and supporting the outsourcing of jobs...

Nothing will ruin delusions of meritocracy and the rewards of hard work like earning a salary of 60-70k but watching the clients get billed over 300k for your work.

Moral of that story: work for yourself if you want to make real money.

Says the slash-turd with the Death Penalty signature.

thatll teach that cat to try and steal his soul.

Its been 15 years, time to try again. Its a corporation, upper management has come and gone in that time, you don't think someone will come up with this great idea to entrench MS software further?

Always bet on BLACK.

How about we go back to the rugged mini-usb and throw this micro-usb shit out? Night and day difference in robustness.

I think mariadb is probably a better choice... from the site:

MariaDB is primarily driven by developers at Monty Program, a company founded by Michael "Monty" Widenius, the original author of MySQL