Are you implying some other countries court could do more?
File it in US and watch it unfurl in a torrent of doldrums in a matter of decades!

Or perhaps they just saw that they may be breaking German law in particular, I dunno...

I didn't want to complicate my broken analogy by bringing fairies into this man!

Well, it's still like this. One problem at a time.

1. In co-operative multitasking, the computer oompaloompas work on the calculator one at a time and let their boss know when the calculator is free to use. The working oompaloompa can also decide to take a break, leave their work on the desk and let someone else do their work while they do not need the calculator.

2. In pre-emptive multitasking the boss tells an oompaloompa to start working. The oompaloompa is forced to work until their work is done or the boss decides to hit it with a stick and put some other oompaloompa to work. Poor oompaloompa does not know how much time he has and when he gets hit, he has to drop his work immediately.

3. In symmetric multiprocessing the oompaloompas have multipla calculators but only one table and a filing cabinet. The oompaloompas have to coordinate together how to organize their work, so they don't scribble on each others notes, while they take turns on the calculator. The boss is usually in charge of the desk space and the filing cabinet.

4. In distributed vector... I think I write something about hungry philosopher oompaloompas now! They are not good with forks. Or something... Anyway, what was I speaking of? Oh yeah, I'm thirsty. Mmmm... Sluuuuuurmmm...

Damn! I want one. I mean with the original brand!
Here in Finland "Reva" is a rather rude word for female genitalia...

By your id, I'd imagine you were chewing on punch cards when the dinosaurs roamed the earth, but you seem to be fucking clueless about ARM.
ARM is not "a processor" or a specific set of instructions.
There IS a specific set of ARM designs that are "industry standard", such as ARM%, THUMB, Cortex, etc. It is cheap to license one of these, fab your own and be compatible with everyone else who licensed the same stuff. ARM processors are not "unable" to do anything. They are complete processors and by definition can do anything you throw at them. If you want to decode blueray faster -- fine -- just spec a proc with a dedicated unit for it. Or use a separate die for it.

ARM is a god damn godsend compared to other designs at the moment. In fact, I'm not sure if anyone could streamline chip design like that in next 10 years like ARM has done.

Anyway, consider yourself scolded by a kid who is a certified lauterbach ARM debugger and has prodded pretty much every Nokia device in between 2001-2008.

Hubris.

My point being... Those who have not owned a TV in a long time, it is something they do not even think about. However, an offhand remark about not owning a TV might sound so remarkable that it really jumps out to someone, who cannot even start to imagine a household without a TV. I mean, "what the fuck do they do then? Play cards and socialize with their families!? Outrageous better-than-thou attitude you bastard!".
In fact, I bet most of us who don't own a TV find their own ways of being antisocial veggie.
I am right now laying on a couch with chocolate and coffee at side, reading slashdot. I promise you! In no way my "I don't own a TV"-comment implies that I am somehow less of an oaf and lazy bastard than thou.

Meh, in 1999 I moved from my student flat and gave away my old TV to the guy who was helping me move. I had full intentions of buying a new one, but never did. Coincidentally, 2 years prior I got my first broadband internet...

I usually GLOAT about how I don't EVEN OWN a TV when someone at work starts talking about the latest do-you-want-to-be-a-rock-star-millionare-talent-wife-hubby-dancer-prancer-rudolph-show and want to be polite and ask my opinion too.

I go one step furteher!
Loved ones are stored on the data!

(In this case, my late father doing stuff, my daughter growing up on minidv cassettes which need to be read by my camcorder.)

Umm, what? There's already cell broadcast messages already defined in the original GSM spec!
No need to reinvent the wheel!

These were planned to be used from emergency systems to location specific advertising. Anyone have any idea why it was never used for anything?

Lord help us! This the gray goo!
Soon it will be fixing cracks we did not anticipate!

I'm all for it!
Movie directed by Peter Jackson -- chock full of bullshit that looks cool -- sounds awesome!

I have no more mod points, so I'll post.

No-one gives a shit-tit-fucking-god-damn-fuck if you had mod points or if you are about to post, so just get on with it you piece of ass-fucking-turkey-gobling-diddleydoo-poo-head cunt.

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." - Picasso

I guess that's what you get when people have no foresight

That statement is as insightful as ever.
Just think about what it implies. Of course, I do not know if it truely was an ignorant comment, but to me it reads as very terse, subtle and clever commentary about human nature