I doubt any of these patents have anything to do with a gaming console. We all read how much money it takes to enter the console gaming market. The console are subsidized, etc. Apple is into big margins not paying you to buy their stuff and make it up later. My guess is that all these patents are just interesting ideas by engineers at apple. Anyone who's worked for a tech company with money knows they pay you to file patents. And every jack-ass in sight is busy cranking them out for that extra few grand every year. Besides, the patents are intentionally vague to make it harder to understand what the fuck they're talking about. Notice how the article starts making assumptions as to what they're actually saying. Proof-in-point, they're supposed to be hard to figure out. This way the patent covers as board of a range as possible, therefore, making it more valuable. As far as the hiring of the gaming execs and chip designers. I don't know, maybe they're there to beef up the hand-held gaming on iphones and ipod touches. That's more likely than a console.

If the intention of the spec is to be able to read/write documents between products, then the spec is a failure. The tests clearly show this. I'm sort of inclined to say that aside from performance, and nasty schemas, this is yet another reason why xml sucks. If the spec allows you to extend things with arbitrary namespaces, then you can never hope for the degree of compatibility that people are hoping for. Product developers are always going to inclined to one-up competitors by implementing features that other products don't. The apparent way to do that while still being "compliant", will be to add namespaces that are unknown to competing products.

You mean emacs doesn't talk?

find ./ -type f -and -size +6831433c -printf "%-50f %k\n"

Why not a time machine too?

Then again, maybe not.

Wow. I'm glad I'm reading this. I've been going for a year now without anti-virus on my windows pc at home for fear of installing some shit that slows my machine to a crawl. I had no idea symantec sucked this bad. I think I'll stay with my current procedure which is to do microsoft's online check once every week that's free. Probably isn't going to do much, but what the hell, it does seem to find unused items from your registry and remove them.

This is one of the major downfalls of the various opensource licenses. Just like another reader posted about the fragmentation of the linux dekstop applications, we have a worse problem with licensing. How can we expect commercial software vendors to extend, build upon, contribute, etc. if the geeks can't even explain what the license means. Can I link? Can I change and sell? Who's gonna sue me? It's way too complicated. The licensing thing. And it's the same theme as the desktop application world. What toolkit does a commercial software vendor use? KDE, QT, Gnome, Mono? I think the open source philosophy in general suffers from too much chaos.

There is apparently this interesting phenomenon in politics where the ruling party can do what the other party is traditionally known for and not take any public heat for it. For example, Obama is going to be able to cut corporate taxes and take a giant shit on your personal privacy, but because the republicans are typically known for this type of stuff, he'll be able to get away with it without the media making a big show of it on the 6 o'clock news. I'm not sure why it is, but I suspect that people just assume that it's the part sort of playing middle ground whereas the republicans would get hammered for ignoring the "little guy". FYI: This is in no way an endorsement of either party. As far as I'm concerned, they're all selfish bastards.

Based on what information? Just because the market is way down doesn't mean it's not going down more. We may be somewhere between something like 'C' and 'D' right now. http://www.signaltrend.com/Stock-Market-Great-Depression.html

I can see it now. In ten years from now the talk will be, remember that company that thought it could beat everyone at everything and wound up going out of business because they were spread so thing trying to solve every problem ever conceived.