Money is power. Power corrupts. Ethical behavior is incompatible with the pursuit of profit. This is the essence of the old adage "Money is the root of all evil." Think about this very carefully while you consider what values of your own are compromised because you're a slave to your paycheck. Now multiply and amplify that ad infinitum.

Please read this twice if you feel the need to refute anything herein.

YES!! I AM AVERSE TO CHANGE! Wanna know why? Because computers and software are not shoes. They're tools. If I wanted my tools to change, then I would be very accepting of not being able to find the handle on my new crescent wrench or how to use my new swingless nail driver (hammer).

I want my hardware and software to work day in and day out in the familiar comfortable way I am used to with improvements to those specific patterns. I want it to be predictable and reliable. Gradual, well-planned and NEEDED change is good. Change for the sake of change is not, and I think that's what we have way too much of today.

Save the change for hairdos and wardrobes.

I don't have a 'windows' key. I have a 101-key keyboard that I've been using for over 18 years. Except once. I received a 112 key keyboard at work. Now, you see, I don't 'touch type'. Started working with computers when I was about 12 (in 1980). I always hit the space bar with my right thumb.. on the end.. where the Alt key is on a 112 key keyboard. So I tried the new keyboard, and as a domain admin + software dev, I started typing something and hit space (oops! That was Alt). I just kept typing the next few keystrokes into the menu and nearly deleted a domain.

To end this story, that 112 key keyboard was promptly unplugged and discarded. I have a box of Compaq RT101 keyboards that should last me the rest of my life as long as I can connect them. My fingers also expect a physical gap between the Ctrl and Alt keys, so it is even more of a nuisance to use a keyboard with 'Billy Gates' keys, or what I call 'Billy Keys'.

Makes me a little concerned about what I might need to do if ever I have to use Win8. Hopefully, all this Win8 Metro stuff will have blown over before I have to be concerned about it. I haven't heard anybody raving about how cool Metro is or how much they like the new look of Visual Studio 2012, so I am thinking it isn't going to last.

Nope. I don't think they fear us at all. But if we could legally own the same kind of weapons and 'destructive' devices, they might.

The government must fear pissing off its citizens. Guns are power. Do you want only the military and the police to have power? Society works best when all types of power are distributed and not concentrated in just a few areas or restricted to just a few people or groups.

I sure wouldn't want the government or military to be able to turn off our weapons, and I sure don't support laws that say only the military and police can have the most powerful weapons. That puts the balance of power away from the people.

How much are the people whose salaries our tax dollars pay costing us to spend their resource going after this guy for a 40-yr old camera? This is important enough that it has gotten to the top of someone's list of things to do? And we have to pay for it?

Exactly who does this help and how?

... in a vacuum. they must have employees and there must be some folks around here that work for them and are (possibly) closer to the top of the food chain.

If you work for PayPal.. care to explain why I can't just call up a person on an 800 number like I can my regular bank and have that person take care of whatever?

Can someone who works there explain any of the info here?

Why? Why would it do anything more than incite a few unhappy folks to burn some bibles and/or some effigies of Mr. Jones?

Are these folks so incredibly insecure and violent that they will kill people over a simple book burning? To me, that in itself is the point of this: to emphasize how ridiculously out of proportion the reaction is and to make anyone who would even THINK of killing someone for burning a book look even more stupid than the book burner.

I seriously doubt that Mr. Jones will kill anyone he hears of burning effigies in his image or burning bibles as a rebuttal.

The original poster is entitled to their opinion, even though it is the wrong one. I create a lot of content, and I give it away too. These are HD videos that I shoot with a Sony HDR-AX2000 ($3500 camera) and stills that I shoot with a Canon EOS-7D (another pricey piece of photographic equipment). Because my material gets exposure from me giving it away, I have gotten more paid work offers than I can possibly manage. I've done magazine covers, full portfolios, and just fun (pro-bono) stuff. People who see my work often times ask to buy prints. I give them a CD with their prints. They can copy it all they want. If there is video of the event, I put that on the CD too.

Why? What advantage does Sony get from this action? It costs them money to do this and it alienates some (many? few?) of their customers. How can this increase their profit or give them a business advantage? I may just be not seeing the forest here... so, please enlighten.

If someone is using a comma as a decimal point, what is used for a comma? Does such a person simply eschew the use of commas to separate thousands?

I'm not nearly as concerned WHAT the standard is, just that there would be a single standard and everyone would follow it for stuff like this, and for the exact reason we see here. Sometimes a single standard is a good idea. In this case, I believe it would be an especially good idea.

Thanks everyone. I did know that it wasn't straight interpreted but rather JIT compiled. Mentally I still just separate static/native compiled versus not.

The shocker for me (thanks for the wiki, abigor) is that a really good JIT compiler can often outrun a good static-compiled program. I'd never have thought that possible.