Support for XP SP2 only ends July 13, 2010

Extended support for XP (mode it's in now, essentially just security fixes) for SP3 ends April 8 2014.

Windows 2000 Extended support ends July 13 2010. Christ Almighty they still patch IE 5.01 for Windows2000

You sure can't beat OS/2 for longevity! I think I'd like to beat it with a few other things though......

I played around with OS/2 4 recently and was pretty awestruck at how dated it looked. I think even windows 95 has aged more gracefully. It cracked me up when the built-in web browser wouldn't render anything. If Windows 2000 had come instead of Windows95, there would be no argument about which was superior. OS/2 sure was fast (and relatively reliable) though.

The problem with the Apple store is that it is MANDATORY.

Use of IE isn't mandatory, yet MS has been forced by the EU to make users actively choose between it and other browsers.

Apple poached a bunch of employees from Delicious Monster... then went ahead and cloned their interface for the upcoming iBookshelf on the iPad.

The problem with buying a newspaper over the internet is that it comes with the news, but not the paper.

That's like buying a "bag of chips" with no bag.

Awesome I've been looking forward to Duke Nukem Forever!

The heartless person in me has always thought that the rest of the world should just step aside and let themselves wipe each other out from the face of the Earth and let it be an important lesson to the rest of us.

Same person who is standing in the way of an R18+ rating for games in Australia (hence the numerous bans by the OFLC), yes this 1 man decides for everyone.

>>What if you date someone who doesn't get a hint? This is /. that's an impossible analogy!

Chapeau Walt Disney! This is just plain cool and I would have never expected Disney to open up anything! Hope they will set and continue this trend!

While I also think Nokia's phones haven't been up to quality in recent years (I switched to HTC and love it), they have a long history in developing phones and the technology behind it. They have spend millions on R&D. They fairly cross license patents with other manufacturers, like every one else does (theres not so many manufacturers anyways), but Apple refuses to do this.

Even if their phones aren't as good as some competitors currently, Nokia is one of the companies that actually deserve to be paid their patent royalties.

While patent laws are on Nokia's side too, they aren't even lowering to patent trolling - they're just asking Apple to behave good and like everyone else on the small industry and cross license their patents and pay the small share like everyone else does (3-4% per phone sale if I remember correctly, and Apple gets the same back if Nokia uses their patents). Is this too much to ask?

Don't be sucked in by the Propaganda!

Why is this being treated like it is a big event? This sort of thing has been going on for years, probably more commonly from the US toward China.. How about some balanced reporting? Don't clog up Slashdot every time something technology related appears on the net!

The reason that buffer overflow bugs crop up again, and again, and again, is because programmers insist on using unmanaged languages because they think that they are such great programmers that they are 'immune' to oversights.

This is being said to you by an assembly language programmer, so don't for a second think that I frown on power. I use assembly when I need to, not whenever I feel like it. These buffer overflow bugs often crop up precisely because the C/C++/ASM programmer is using optimizing abstractions that are nothing *but* complicated.

Before anyone goes off on their premature optimizations diatribe, this is an image decompressor for web pages that might have hundreds of images... optimization is a no-brainer here.. no need for profiling. Library developers exist in a different world from the application code monkeys. You can't profile future consumption of a library: faster is always better.