The people at AMD who did this, an unquestionably biggest AMD's achievement to date, they should be rehired and given executive positions.

Japanese only? PS Vita has lots of gold classics euro games from the PS1, like this amazing racer I've once played, but could not find anywhere anymore.., it's on Vita! Comes with a great sountrack from the Scene's legend Blazer (Olof G) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ulV0Wa3r_Q

> just stick a few geiger counters and recorders on planes and fly them near thunderstorms

Rewind the footage to about 5:00 when the airplane is at about the cruising altitude, it is that bad, even without the pesky thunderstorms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2IMEk1dvNw

There other interesting tidbits revealed in this case. It looks like there are groups of people that actively use open source software to exploit ideas whithin them for their gains. Then companies like Rackspace that naively hurried to adopt the open source "free platforms" are now faced with unexpected "hidden fees" from patent parasites that crawl along.

Most VCs are losing money, that is the norm, there a very few hits, sucessfull IPOs or buyouts..

The OGL implementation for example.

You can register a name such as "free" as your top level gTLD and start doing just that, offering *yourservice*.free domains, you can act as the registrar and the policy maker overseeing your brand new domain pool. However the establishment of such a new top level gTLD requires the operation of a domain registry and demonstration of technical and financial capacity, it will be difficult for small players to easily register and manage gTLDs, but VCs alike can still create a useful utility in the domain system.

There many applications that run without an "OS", sometimes even made to fit inside the CPU's cache, big advantage is that no OS overhead is involved, lots of dedicated console setups or micro controller software uses such configuration for example.

Jedi is the only religion compatible with the Higgs field (the force) and the standard model of the quantum universe, it is in fact the true religion. /s

Still, without DRM and the feedback on sales figures it provides you have no way to check whether the publisher is not screwing you.

The interesting part is that the soprano outbid NASA, so her overprivileged ass will be rocketed into space instead of some NASA instrument or satellite.

The Trumpet Winsock software plus the early Nestcape Navigator made the early internet possible on Window >=3.0 and there were a lot of Internet even in those days.

This evangelized "IBM Model M" keyboard is something like "Gibson Les Paul Custom 1968" guitar for typists and developers.. huh?

Your anecdotal consumer grade experiences are spot on, perhaps we are witnessing another example of marketing win over engineering. Berkeley GEOS and IBM OS/2 vs MS Windows spring to mind also.