Some systems have an option to fully overwrite the files instead of simply deleting the references to the files. Also, it wouldn't be hard to imagine that an algorithm to overwrite a disk could fail when finding a bad spot on the drive, and fail to finish the job.

I read a while ago that the same happened with the Earth's moon, or the Moon. The same side of the moon is always facing the Earth, because it bounced off of the Earth. It's also moving away from the Earth, for the same reason. The theory was the object that crashed into the Earth was about the size of Mars; that object is now the Moon.

A wavelet was a very basic bit of text. They took communication to the most basic roots. Why add email headers to it? The whole point was to get rid of them. Why impose the limits of email on Wave?

Wave was a reinvention of the old systems. It's a very good idea, that has a few very good uses. Those uses are not email, or chat, or message boards; the real use was document creation and maintenance. And, that functionality likely got bastardized by internal politics.

Lawyers are expensive. Defending patient violations is expensive. Demostraiting prior art is very easy, especially when that art is published worldwide and owned by thousands. Demostraiting that Apple reviewed the prior art is a given.

This wouldn't even require court. Just submit prior art to the patent office if you have it. If they pickup on what Apple is doing, the will be angered.

If the ideas are already in published applications, then the patents are junk.

I have very little interest in mobile phones. In fact, I hate talking on phones, and I hate that my GF looks at Facebook on her phone.

But, I do like that iTunes money.

Well, do something about it.

http://www.waveprotocol.org/

It's awful for general conversion, but it's great for working together with others.

Basically, it's a real time wiki, without the stupid name. What are wiki's good for creating? Well, documents and articles. Wave is good, perhaps better, for the same thing.

Well, he's screwed, unless his info shows major corruption. If his info is solid, his captors may be screwed.

Is that multitaking or multithreading? Just because you can not currently switch between different programs, doesn't mean that software won't benefit from an extra core.

Also, seems to me, the iPad was to ship with iPhone OS 4.0, but the hardware was ready before the software, so they had to do something, so they made iPhone OS 3.2 for iPad only, with the features that are ready.

Yeah, if you are working on your own projects, it's easy to do a sixteen plus hour stretch. Some cola, pizza, and your imagination.

But, if you are implementing someones broken business logic or accounting rules, I'd guess that three to four hours a week is the norm.

I did it, and it says I have 26811 kbps down and 409 kbps up. I call BS. It has to be a conspiracy.

My EULA says forever is 90 days.

I do well building a reselling software. I make most of my money off something I built two years ago. Working as an independent programmer for someone else may suck, but working for yourself is the only way to go. Build it once, and get paid forever.

I don't know. Those that cheated got better grades and jobs than I did. Are they still working? Don't know. They are likely in management. Pissed me off when I was in school, because the professors like the cheaters. They got much better grades, and some went on to get MS degrees in CS. But, now I'm successful and make money on my own projects running my own business. That's something they could never do.