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@JohnAskew:Nice article. Will definately take a look.

@ScottWelker: Yup, my project is in MVC and not MVVM. But don't mind shifting to a new programming model if it makes more sense. It's the fact that I couldn't find a way to do formatting in presentation layer under the MVC model that puzzles me, as that would kind of defeat the purpose of having MVC there.

@GoddersUK: Okay, I'll agree that for areas where huge cost could have incurred so needs protection of investment, patents could have been justified.

For things other than that, the patents are used wrongly.

A primary fault in current system is someone who built nothing can sue others who actually built something (and built with independent knowledge) for building that, and claims they stolen his idea and wants a cut.

13 hours ago, spivonious wrote

Without patents, what motivation do people have to invent things? We do need some patent reform though. 5 years instead of 20 would be a good start.

Seriously, people invent when they see a way to fill unfulfilled need, no matter whether there's patent or not. People don't stop inventing things even if patent is not there, just that the inventors may not properly get their deserved credit.

Given the money governments and companies spent these year for patent related lawsuits and so on, I would rather to have goverment granting beefy prize for recognition of their contribution to mankind (much like Nobel prize) instead of granting monopolies for it.

We're making innovating companies spending too much money needlessly, only to protect themselves from being sued by patent trolls who just register for the idea and never actually implements it themselves, and charges huge licensing fees from it.

The article reminds me about a fiction, where there is a world that encompress smaller worlds, which in turn encompress more much smaller worlds. The author describes that world as a Fractal Reality (or is it called Mode?) because the concept came from Fractal set.

@JoshRoss:It seems the FAQ got updated to mention the new book to be released.

Don't worry, the dancing bunnies will find it's way to be clicked.

I doubt the given how tech savvy the kids are these days, how many time would they need to find a workaround against this.

I still think that the best way to protect them is to gain their understanding why it's not good for them, and allow them to see these things as they hope they'd lose interest themselves later.

Hiding these websites away will just make "visiting these sites" more attractive to them.

Say I have two Razor MVC form that contains the same List of records from EF. One of the field is decimal value. In the first form we only need 2 decimal places precision, and 4 decimal places for the second form. In both form they're binded to a EditorFor HtmlHelper.

Normally I'd set DisplayFormatAttribute to make it work, but it surely doesn't fit the 2 forms case. What should I do now?

Btw, I think formatting is a Presentation Layer thing in MVC concept, it's a bit weird to me that I have to define it in Data Layer.

@1001001:Indeed, as I've said in a previous thread, the current lack of Apps in Windows Phone market makes it inferior product even if it has better hardware and OS.

Why does they still want to increase the cost of development for individual developers remains mysterious to me. If those in charge can't get developers consider porting their Apps in other platforms to WinPhone market, the marketing effort is doomed to fail.

1 hour ago, ManipUni wrote

I kind of understand why Microsoft are doing this - in fact I even admire them for it but that being said I think "removing" DVD playback is going to bite them in the butt big time - particularly for people considering buying a Windows 7 upgrade.   

I'm not worried because people are serving Windows7Essential pack for codecs missing in Windows 7. I'm assuming some folks will do the same for Windows 8 too.

And I think I'll just have to install custom codec libraries anyway...

Btw, I think vendors will still sell Win8 + MediaCenter pack preloaded TV(?), so as long as the price being paid to Microsoft is roughly the same, this means nothing for customers.

From wiki, it seems 3840 x 2400 max is supported in single channel DVI adapters, but the refresh rate will be dropped to 17Hz (normal LCD refresh at 60Hz). Even dual channel ones would refresh at 33Hz on that resolution.