Apparatus claims are not sufficient to get around In re Biski. Simply adding the words "On a computer" or "On a handheld device" (or long drawn-out complicated descriptions which equate to the same), to a process that is, in itself, purely algorithmic or an abstract process that could equally apply to any number of pre-existing machines, does not rise to the level of the machine requirement in In re Biski.

I like to put it his way (though this is overly simplified, perhaps): If you come up with a novel way to use a screw driver, you cannot patent your method, because you didn't have to invent the screw driver to do it. The screw driver already existed.

In this patent, you could substitute the words, "web page displayed in a browser, running on a hand-held computer with a touch screen" for the bulk of the claim copy. Well, none of that qualifies a process as unique to a specific machine. The fact that there are many different devices that meet his description, devices that are in no way intrinsically linked to this patent, brings this into direct conflict with In re Bilski.

Actually, most of them will, if you install the Nightly Tester Tools add-on. You can then force compatibility on any or all of your add-ons.

YMMV, but in my case, the following work fine in 3.1 beta 1: iMacros, Adblock Plus, DownloadHelper, Firebug, Flashgot, Foxmarks, and Web Developer Toolbar.

Ah! Ok, then.

Uh, yeah, and?

http://tinyurl.com/cheapssd

Probably nothing like a Seagate, but, technically they are SSD drives. I imagine they are probably more like big thumbdrives with a run-of-the-mill SATA controller slapped on them.

Yes, my thought exactly.

I've been doing Photoshop work for years, played with a number of fractal algorithms, used such "miracle" filters as greycstoration, and I've never seen anything like this.

I don't believe that the "before" picture is accurate at all. I think it has already been degraded from the original, and the "after" more closely represents the quality of the source image.

That is what we call a "theological translation". You believe that only because somebody told you that. It could just as well mean that in the process of creating the earth, it was, at the particular point in time we are noting, formless and empty.

The verb is hayah. In Gen. 2:1, it's just your basic "be" verb, in the Qal 3rd person form. "At that point in time, it so was". If it was speaking of a future event, it would be "it will be".

The verb has no connotation of some process of becoming, nor does it imply some transitional state that proceeded it. It merely means that at this particular point in time, whatever may have been, it is this way now.

This is Hebrew 101. It's just a "be" verb. This is simple stuff, dude. And that is why any major translation you care to name: KJV, NKJV, RSV, NRSV, NIV, ESV, NASB, JPS, NJB, the Greek Septuagint, the Latin Vulgate, Luther's 1545 German, translate it: "the earth was ...". But of course, they must all have been inept translators . . .

My company runs a fileserver on Linux, shared via CIFS/SMB and netatalk simultaneously, with accounts in LDAP. All the Macs use AFP.

It has been absolutely flawless. In fact, it is much faster than the OSX-based fileserver we used to use (and a fraction of the cost of an Apple XServe). AFP has just simply not been a problem.

First: Linux has had EFI support since early 2000 via elilo.

Second: The "emulation" as you call it is not emulation in the same sense that Rosetta is emulation. They implemented a BIOS interface in EFI itself. It does not slow anything down.

For recent versions:

sudo -i

shorter

It does two things:

1) It gives you a moment to think.
2) It forces you to distinguish between commands that can frack your whole system, and commands that will likely only frack a part of it.

You guys act as if using sudo is an Ubuntu thing. For frack's sake, it predates Linux.

Since when did living in root ever become a "good thing"? I've been administering Linux systems for 10 years. I was drilled into me then to work as a user, use sudo when necessary, and leave root for those cases where sudo is impractical (in other words - when you have lots of stuff to do as root).

Unless this is a hubris competition - in which case I'll just say, "Get off my lawn, you damn kids!"

No. People who run as root all the time are either n00bs or morons.

N00bs if they have never spoken the words, "Oh sh*t!" after running a command;

Morons if they have.

This, from the man who believes, and I quote: