OTOH for Richard M. Stallman, he also did give us EMACS so that should disqualify him.

Great shell, too bad it doesn't have a decent editor.

This betrays the fact that the best games, from Indie games to AAA titles tend to be team efforts. Yes, games like Dwarf Fortress and Spelunky can be one person affairs, but for the rest of the world? Software or games development trends towards group work.

Well yeah, but my bigger point was that treating the patent like it's an announced product is incredibly silly. Companies patent things all the time. Things that may not be good ideas now, but in the future when the technology catches up...

How do you qualify that? John Carmack's an excellent graphics engine programmer, but what does he know about gameplay mechanics? ...probably more than you and I put together; I imagine, but we just don't know.

The Failsafe? Don't release it as a real product.

In *concept* this sounds really stupidly cool. Everyone on /. has pointed out why it's not so great in reality.

However, if anyone were stupid enough to do this in reality, they're also now looking to pay for the patent licensing rights...

Remember everyone, this is a *patent filing*. Not a product announcement. Then again no one pays attention to that warning when it turns out Apple has patented some kind of solid aluminium time travel device and iPhone case so why should we start now?

Either you're a clever troll or you're too stupid to check post history, etc.

I'll save you the trouble if you're not a troll. I am not raymorris' sock puppet.

I want more details here. I generally have a disdain for Microsoft but here it seems they built a custom target to exploit.

If they did this against say, IE or some other app in the wild, sure lets ask if we should pack it up. Until then...

Either APK is truly sexist, stupid and crazy, or this is a super clever APK troll. Only if we had some sort of way for him to possibly enter credentials verifying it's actually him... :)

Now the big question, is APK sexist, crazy/stupid AND racist? Will he make the ESR hat trick?

Yeah but the mansplaining^w comments are what make slashdot great! :D

I hate replyin to ACs. But, no. What sped up the iPhone and iPad Air wasn't the low resolution. We aren't talking about gamin or graphics performance, we are talking about raw CPU performance.

The transition to 64 bit wasn't the secret sauce, the secret sauce was that a lot of legacy CPU behavior in 32 bit mode went away. So when running in pure 64 bit mode, the CPU was way more efficient.

It's like the x64 transition.

Heaven forbid anyone let facts get in the way of righteous online indignation.

Don't blame apple for googles crappy IMAP hack.

hiphop/hack might not be pure PHP but if you're a PHP programmer, you can figure out and pick up hiphop and/or hack.

I know they had Sling branding on the box, didn't know if the delivery mechanism was the same.

Still, Fox is shooting themselves in the feet here.

What I'm curious about is how the system is implemented and will that matter?

If they're using Slingbox style implementation and using the customer's own outbound connection to stream, then things are way less murky for Dish.

If they're using their own infrastructure to serve out shows, then things are less clear about retransmission rights. Given the vast amount of storage needed, I don't think they are.

I suspect this will be a home run for Dish. They ARE paying the piper, and they're handing customers what is essentially a slingbox with a satellite STB. Unlike Aereo, I think Dish has it's ducks in a row.