However, I'm not exactly sure that the drop in web server market share can be tied directly to the release of ASP.NET MVC.

3 minutes ago, Bass wrote

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IMO increase taxes on luxury goods (yachts, jet planes, etc.) and big houses to discourage conspicuous consumption amongst rich people. Sales and property taxes also have the benefit of being a lot harder to get around.

I don't understand the point of luxury taxes. Having money socked away by rich people is bad for the economy. Encouraging rich people to spend increases the opportunity for others to benefit from the flow of money. Not to mention it increases sales tax revenues for the local economy.

Granted, if the purchase of luxury goods only works to shift money back and forth between rich people, that's not such a good thing, but my guess is that there are some $15/hour workers who played a role in manufacturing that Rolls-Royce or Bentley or Maybach.

OTOH, raising corporate taxes encourages corporations to reinvest to grow revenues organically, since they get a tax write-off. Then this happens, the money circulates to other companies whom said company purchases products and/or services from or to hiring more employees.

When it becomes easier to make money by just having money, that's when companies just sit on their asses and think of more clever ways of just retaining what they earned.

2 hours ago, evildictait​or wrote

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Oh look! There are nine different Xbox Ones on sale on Ebay:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/Video-Game-Consoles-/139971/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=xbox+one

Oh wait. No. Those are Xbox1s, not Xbox Ones.

Congratulations Microsoft. This company literally couldn't market their way out of a paper bag.

I think that just means that eBay search sucks, which it does.

16 minutes ago, Bass wrote

The whole idea of a "corporate income tax" is silly to begin with. Corporations should pay taxes on real assets (real estate, etc.) but the idea of income only really makes sense for natural persons.

Corporations are people too, my friend.

Microsoft announces Kinect 2 for Xbox One

I love 2 for 1 deals!

9 minutes ago, evildictait​or wrote

Eugh. Xbox One. Which idiot in Microsoft Marketing came up with that?

They must have hired a former employee of HTC.

2 days ago, Bass wrote

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Actually one of the greater things IMO about FOSS is if you don't like the direction something is going you can fork it, and sometimes the fork wins over the original (Linux Mint vs Ubuntu for instance). It's basically natural selection...

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I do have to say Unity sucks *. I can imagine it being more hated within the Linux community than Windows 8 is within the Windows community. But why did an entire new distribution (Linux Mint) have to be created to replace something as simple as a UI shell? It seems like a lot of effort to maintain a fork that is still largely based on Ubuntu.

With Windows 8, you can install a very simple program to get back almost all of the look and feel of Windows 7. You don't have to install a fork of Windows 8 to achieve this.

2 hours ago, figuerres wrote

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well I hope the car driving code will not be done by the "script kiddies" as that just seems to close to the same thing as the teen driving with the phone, like what if he wrote the driving code ??  NO!!

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Let me rephrase. Even if those responsible for programming the vehicles were junior programmers as skilled as a typical script kiddie, I'd put more trust in the programs not failing than I would put into teenagers refraining from texting while driving, talking while driving, drinking and driving, checking out chicks/dudes while driving, etc.

6 minutes ago, Kental2 wrote

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 all it takes is one screw-up and that's the ball game.  While I understand computers can react faster than any human, it's not the reflex I question.  It's the programming   

I'd trust the programming of a script kiddie over the driving of a teenager holding a mobile phone.

I imagine that once prices come down on these devices, more and more people will consider purchasing touch-enabled PCs, even as a novelty. I think eventually people will consider touch a requirement rather than a luxury. Then and only then will these older computers that still run perfectly fine start being replaced.

Touch-enabled PCs is a paradigm shift that might take some time to take hold. 20 years ago, a lot of people were fine not buying Windows because a GUI wasn't considered a necessity, and DOS worked perfectly fine. It wasn't until Windows 95 that people started replacing their DOS machines en masse.

3 hours ago, Dr Herbie wrote

Is there any hint that there will be an SDK update for 8.1?  I'd say WinRT still feels like a V1 framework at times and I'm hoping it gets fleshed out a little more.

Herbie

I would say it feels more like V0.9.

You guys need to go see your doctors and get yourselves an Rx.

I thought this change had to do with a certain thread here in the Coffeehouse , but I see that all of the forums now show the tag line in the thread list.

C, was that you?

2 hours ago, wtfhIs​Microsoft​Doing wrote

Come Friday in a couple weeks this guy is going to get his direct deposit, and you will not have caught him and he will do a little cheer, and that will be the end of it.

That is the ultimate destination of this issue.

Your wishes and dreams of a witch-hunt ended successfully will be dashed, and you'll all snap back to reality.

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Charles stated an opinion that the guy should be fired. He didn't say that he was going to try to "catch" him. I'm sure the guy's supervisor or colleagues are the most likely to figure out who it is based on the writing style, and it's probably not going to take a witch hunt. I'm sure the guy's been whining at work for months.

Why would you even dwell on how screwed up life really is as an example? Not everybody's life is screwed up. I think that says a lot. I dunno if you should be running social for MS, honestly. My 2 cents.

I don't think you've been here long enough to have formed credible opinion about the appropriateness of Charles' running C9.

54 seconds ago, wtfhIs​Microsoft​Doing wrote

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Facebook is still able to change rapidly because they're a web-service company, not a software company.

FIFY