And how exactly will they do that when they can'tnmpossibly control the desktop hardware?

Trusted Computing

Why do you think they will stop with applications? Wait until you need permission to install an OS.

The end of computing freedom as we know it.

Was that time the first year or so?

I was told it was the first five years. In those first five years, they released profit making games.

I worked at a video game company here in Vancouver, and I remember tax time being interviewed by a consultant about my "R&D" innovations. Anything, I mean ANYTHING, even remotely like R&D. "Uh, you mean even the work I spent optimizing the code?" "Yes."

I was told at one point in the company's history, our biggest source of income were tax credits from the Government of Canada.

And closures grabbing any variable in scope (that is actually mentioned inside the closure) is a godsend.

Referenced by your closure is a good thing, but Javascript grabs every variable in scope and makes it available inside your closure leading to unpleasant memory leaks galore.

I'm not AC, but I can opine about this. The Javascript language, not too much problem. Enclosures grabbing any variable in scope and keeping them around is a major pain. That's all. The API of Browsers: Oh, my complaints are legion, but that's not really about Javascript anymore than the Win32 API is about C/C++. I wonder if AC is complaining about the browser API and not the language?

This American Life & Planet Money had a good show about this. It is because the East Texas court has a relatively free docket; the other courts are clogged with War on Drugs cases. There are also a lot of home offices for patent troll companies near that court. TAL tried to visit these offices and discovered almost all of them are empty and never used.

Unless he did mean lay down, if you know what I mean. ;-)

Why does search.yahoo.com look suspiciously like google.com?

It's funny. You talk like you know what you're talking about, but you clearly don't. -- MagikSlinger: C++ programmer for 20 years, and Java programmer for 10 years.

EPIC!!!

Generally I prefer reading the news online, but I also think it's important to help pay the salaries of the people out there gathering the local news. We have some so-called local news bloggers, but they have no idea how to investigate and develop a story.

"... but they have no idea how to investigate and develop a story."

That describes the Vancouver Sun & Province up here in B.C. You are lucky if your local newspaper does investigate and develops stories. Most of the local paper is wire service, re-written wire service, 4--maybe 5--local articles with real news and about 2x that of columnists and opinionists telling me what to think. That's not including the sports sections, which I am not interested in, nor the amateurishly written travel section, real estate section (i.e., free advertising for condo developers & real estate agents) or even more useless classifieds.

From what I gather in the rest of North America, the Sun & Province are just following what all the other local newspapers are doing. I get better reporting from the free Georgia Straight than the papers I would pay for.

Please take me to your nuclear wessels!