I was under the belief that you had to defend your IP within a reasonable period. you can't just wait for everyone to use it then.... PROFIT

until the EU decides that software patents are a good idea...

I get discounted tickets if I buy them at the company store; however, when the movie is shown in 3D, I have to pay the surcharge, and often enough these movies are only shown in 3D now, so there is no normal option. $4 surcharge for 3D... sorry not worth it

I work for a company that is a subsidiarity of a satillite tv company thus our employee discount makes it so cheap that I now pay for TV again.

If phones and their respective plans were purchased separately like in Europe this problem would most likely have been avoided along with a host of other problems such as bloatware, annoying carrier branding, etc...

You make valid points. I feel no need to upgrade any hardware on my computer where I work; however, we need remote access to our office PCs (at least within our corporate network to enable us to edit code from various locations around the building (multiple labs, etc...); however, IT always wants to take this away from us. Granted it hasn't happened yet, mainly because the devs all protest running back and forth from their PCs to the lab when the need a new build; however, I feel like soon enough it will be taken away in the name of security. Find a way to secure some of what we need, instead of totally locking us to what you know you can secure today instead of learning what you can secure tomorrow.

$.25 for 160 bytes... right... It is the #1 most overpriced way of data transmission on the planet.

now that the galaxy nexus is being sold through verizon there may be no hope.

At home (suft the web mostly) I use Ubuntu. Perfect.

At work, I have a Mac and I love it, but I sill have to run XP in VBox just to run Visio.

unfortunately I feel like this is the reason why even at software companies lots of computers are running windows instead of some linux distro. I have worked at places before where I had a seperate development and office pcs, running linux and windows respectively. Sure you can pull some of the linux environment to windows using gnuwin32, cygwin, etc..., but there are always issues that can't be resolved quite right and things don't end up working like they should. My .vimrc gets longer and more conviluted on windows boxes

I feel people are overreacting to this. Yes the streaming selection does suck and doesn't support linux but now you can remove it. Yes their PR guy is a dick, but I still feel netflix is a good company.

This is a partially valid point. The reason I say partially is because investment banking is a necessary backbone to any capitalistic society if you need funds to being an idea into reality. Now it does become a problem when so much of society becomes employed by the financial sector that useful productivity is siphoned off from manufacturing, engineering, and other sectors that actual produce products. In fact one theory on what caused the downfall of the roman empire is the over financialization of their economy.

There are no more elevator operators required to get up and down the hotels. Lots of jobs lost, which has happened in the past and will keep happening in the future. Humanity's advancement and progress as a whole does not mean there are no individual or groups of individuals outside the winner's circle.

I still buy CDs just because I have the back-up and can rip it how I please. I also worry that any company that sold me digital music would go belly up, then I can't get that music back. I am assured this when I buy a CD. I know the artists get locked into ridiculous distribution deals with CDs, so a better system has to come around that gives artists more freedom while ensuring the people who downloaded the music can retain and re-download that music. Hopefully google music can fix some of these issues.

I agree. Placing developers in positions to become members of upstream project's release teams is something red hat does well and should be emulated. Canonical has to realize Unity sucks, and for all of Gnome's shortcomings it is far superior.

The critical skills and thinking is what is really missing from some of these for-profit online programs. You may learn what, but never how or why.