Ton of USB and firewire devices that'll do it for relatively cheap.

Onboard sound is finally Good Enough*, and has been Good Enough* for a long time now.

* YMMV, offer void in Tennessee.

Yeah, for mobile, but until the last 4 years, ARM really hasn't been seen as a huge thing. Relatively speaking, this is a new development. Beyond that, x86 is *still* kicking.

Plus there's that whole bit about GNU/Hurd being the future. :)

Anyone else laugh themselves stupid at some of the predictions of the future in those posts? The idea that x86 would go away and GNU/Hurd would supplant Linux...

Predicting the future is REALLY hard.

Split it down the middle. GNUversity

also if you're pulling out tens of thousands of dollars of cash out of the bank, that gets flagged as suspicious. or cashing extremely large checks. or doing business in straight cash transactions for large(ish, relative to individual use) sums...

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