Now that prior art does not matter, first to file for a patent is the owner. Microsoft filed for patents for this idea that it ripped off from Mono. Also, a few years down the line, their patent for linked lists will be valid in the courts.

MSFT trading at 9 P/E.

Gerstner was a tough, no-nonsense guy. Just like Bartz. Both were good at streamlining operations, cutting jobs, cutting costs, improving the bottom-line etc. Had Gerstner been the CEO of Yahoo, I bet he would have screwed up too. The thing is, it's just not their forte.

Yahoo needed/needs a visionary, someone who can give it a direction, and a sense of purpose. Someone who can cull the wrong people, and put the right people in charge to realize the dream. Technology is no retail or brick and mortar business. It's no AutoCAD too.

I am willing to be hired for the position of a CEO for any company. I know how to screw up a company. I am really really good at it. I am also really good at taking a big severance pay check. Any takers? Please...!!

That's not at all an easy task. Spotting talent is really hard. You hire one bozo at the top, and soon enough than you realize, the entire place will be overflowing with bozo's. Yeah... bozo's are good for billable projects.

Microsoft has a long long history of screwing up every one of their allies to their own advantage. And some how there are companies that still tend to think... "This time it's going to be different". Unbelievable! You put your head in the lions mouth and, for once, it might be different. Not with MSFT.

AutoCAD had no competitors who were the likes of Google and friends. AutoCAD had (and still has) management/operations thinking competitors. So common sense (which is not so common) worked for her there. Same goes with Carly Fiorina. She had put a halt to R&D at HP and went the operations way like Dell and friends (acquiring compaq). Now that the margins in the computer hardware business have dried up, HP is limping and vacillating with no direction in sight. Both of them, ... black swans.

India and China make up for 40% of that 7 billion population. Most of them are at the bottom of the pyramid/food-chain. There are fortunes to be made... at the bottom of the pyramid. Apple is doing it. Many Indians are starving to be able to afford an iPhone. It seems its a prestige issue in that country.

I don't know what it means for humanity, but its no good for the planet. It better sort this out before its too late.

I ain't falling for that... Its no moon surface. Its the magnified image of Amoeba. You want me to see moon landing sites on the surface of an amoeba? I ain't no dumb a$$.

Can't agree more. Its really a very useful tool.

God is outside the big-bang. Didn't you see it on Family Guy?

"It all started with a Big Bang. God and his roommate Chugs were arm wrestling when...."

A few billion people can probably be dragged, but they will be dead eventually. You'll have to keep dragging a few billion people all the time.
Like Sri Sri Ravi Shankar or Nithyananda, I'd rather prefer selling snake oil and mysticism.

ACL's? group based authorization? Lets stick to the point... we are talking about Vodafone here.

I loved the last part that said "...but it happened significantly earlier than Gartner's prediction: Q4 2012". They are off by 2 yrs. Our company has hired them to do some "predictions" for them. Of course, for a ridiculously hefty price.

After nine months of tests, researchers in France have lost their head and they went .... "Gee... Henry was assassinated in 1610, and his head has been missing. We have a head here that dates back to the 17th century. How many people in the 17th century had a head? I guess not many. The portraits show that King Henry 1V indeed had a head. So this must be his head." To put the last nail in the coffin... we will ask one of the 'Perfumers' on the team to take a sniff and if it stinks it must be King Henry IV.

And it gets published in a medical journal!