Apple does not make software unless that software drives hardware in some way. Apple has always been a hardware company, that is how they make their money. The software is there to entice you to an experience on their hardware.

You will never see Apple sell just their software because that would ruin their market. It would also cripple their support system which relies heavily on standardized hardware to streamline technical issues. Customer support is easier on Apple products precisely because they know their hardware inside and out.

Get this point through your heads people... Apple will never shoot themselves in the foot and stop linking their software directly to their hardware. The hardware IS the Macintosh. The software drives the hardware but will never, ever get uncoupled from it (again).

Just out of curiosity, what is your social security number?

MMA has much fewer concussions than boxing due to it's lighter weight gloves with allow for knock-outs faster and because many matches end by submission. Boxing matches can last for up to 15 rounds with fighters being repeatedly struck to the head. This repeated beating of the brain is much worse than the relatively small amount that happens in MMA.

Chess, on the other hand, makes you angry from repeated beatings by higher level players. The scars, while much less obvious, are none the less debilitating. I suggest playing Chess960 *(or Chess480) as the MMA equivalent to chess.

I've heard of this thing called Patronage, but perhaps that's too old fashioned and concept.

It's not property and you, sir, are not an intellectual.

The very idea that something infinitely reproducible could be considered to have value is preposterous and flies in the face of call macro economic theory. Infinite supply results in infinitesimal value.

Eventually people will realize that what is being called intellectual property is actually the result of a service, then we will all be happier.

I want to pay the person who provided the service, but pretending that something ethereal is property is not the way to do it.

It is simple to create copies, people will continue to do it and the companies who fight it will lose potential customers.

Wake up.

We are willing to pay for the services rendered, but your prices are ridiculous.

This could easily be the next smoke rounds. Imagine being able to block light past specific points on a battlefield. You could effectively blind the enemy in darkness, or create soft cover for your movements. It would also absorb laser tracking and targeting devices, leaving many modern weapons systems moot.

Make no mistake about it, this is a very important technology for the battle field.

If people are dead, aren't they also technically blind?

(No, zombies don't count.)

If I buy a Nike T-Shirt. It has a Nike logo on it. If I sell it to you, did I just commit trademark infringement? No? Why not?

The difference is this. You buy Nike T-Shirts then print some slogan on them and then either sell them or give them away. What you've done is now made it appear the slogan is from Nike (or it's reasonable to assume people could be confused by it.)

Yes, this is a problem, isn't it.

Google is not in the business of providing searches. Google is in the business of selling ads. It just happens that having the best search gives you more eyeballs on your ads. They leverage that advantage to gain share in other markets. It does sound like another company I've heard about.

But you're on target here, this is obviously not comfortable for Microsoft. Five years ago they wouldn't have even bothered to issue a response. This is the kind of press release that is pure fear.

Someone has made a plug-in for your browser that makes it 8X faster.

• It shows incompetence of your developers that someone else had apparently patched your buggy/slow software.
• Eventually people learn that it's actually another browser. Most people don't even know what a browser is.
• Why use something in emulation when you can run the real thing? People will switch.

It's something I said a long long long time ago. What can kill Microsoft? Something free.

Sigh, bloom is/was better. This is ok, but honestly it's just the same thing without any real innovation as far as I can tell. Great, I can use a square or a triangle or a star to draw lines around... blah.

Nothing new here, move along.

I thought for sure this thread would be full of all caps.

Either the mods are marking -1 ALL CAPS or everyone is showing remarkable restraint.

Either way, well done.

Do you have a case around your iPod/iPhone? Did you stick a nice logo or stickers or velum wrap around that makes your cool toy look like a radio? Do you wear a black t-shirt?

I noticed my iPod Touch was throwing it's pitches slower than normal. (Ok, the game was...) But that it also was warm. It wasn't like this in the winter! What was up? Well, I'm guessing here, but I bet my processor is overheating. So I pull off the super cool overlay I designed and paid $12 for. Yep... the pitcher works much better thank you.

Clue? Stop overheating your damn iPods/iPhones.

They can't take something that looks like a laptop but is in reality a paper weight, right? So if I have a kill switch that makes the laptop not work what are they going to do? They would probably still take it but if they can't BOOT the thing... if it doesn't even work... what can they do?

Madmax had his kill switch tied to explosives... but I guess that would be a "no no".

The invocation of Hilbert space in the article suggests a LINEAR cellular automata. It would suggest the possibility of any two points in space affecting each other through a very long, but singular line. The concept is akin, if I understand it correctly, to saying that the entire universe is one long line in Hilbert space and thus each iteration of movement affects all others.

but, IANAP

Well that's a relief. I thought everything was my fault.