mellampudi

Who said amazon charges according to what is costs them ? Infact, I CAN say, that, according to the market, windows is better than linux and hence amazon is charging more for windows machines.

Can you name some companies in which he has stocks ? He is doing something good. Appreciate it if you can. And hopefully you know that he has promised to give away most of his wealth to charity. Even if it requires silver light, ain't it better than not having the videos available to you at all ? Also, it is a part of windows research team work. If google can force you to not use ie, why can't windows research team force you to use their technology ? And this is my general observation. People liking linux or similar *nix systems, take it too personally, and start cribbing at anything and everything microsoft does. It Doesn't matter to them if it is actually good stuff.

Well, I would anyways want you to substantiate your claim that bill gates has shares in those drug companies and that he is actually making more money from investing in those companies than the charity he is giving away on those drugs.

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/06/03/free-1-year-microso...

Checkout this link. http://www.headphone.com/guide/by-headphone-type/sealed-type...

This is why I love hacker news :) I get to learn something every day

an idea for my startup and some courage to quit my job

The figures for india are wrong too. You need to pay only 1 months basic pay to fire an full time employee or you can ask them to leave after one month without paying them any extra money other than the salary for that month.

Well, I get all of these, except for the preparing food part( which I anyways can't). And I work for a really big company :)

only a few days more than what they would have had they been born on any other day (number of extra days = (number of years he has lived) / 4)

Symbian os is coded in c++

We have kids under 12 here !!!

Thanks Darren. I missed this out completely. I was only targeting smart phones. Although I would still build the software for smart phones, I think I should provide a web interface for the rest. What say?

nice. you can mail me at mellampudi at gmail dot com

"I think I could do the whole thing myself in a couple days, so it wouldn't be a HUGE deal." If you really think so, do it without telling it to them on some weekend or when you have time and show it to them.

try if this suits ur needs http://www.nirmalabs.org/, U will have to leave your day job and attend their college for few months though!