Huh - sure enough they now leverage the compiler from outside the WDK.

I sure as shit wouldn't pay for Visual Studio. I guess it's time for some other compilers to step up!

It's worth noting that Visual Studio wasn't always free.

More to the point, though, I doubt they're going to stop shipping the WDK, and that DOES include a C compiler. I hope you like nmake, though!

But:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Rupert+Murdoch+and+Doctor+Frank-N-Furter

has 41,500 hits. What's that say?

Yeah. You definitely gotta shop around in order to find good deals, but they are out there. I've had had particularly good experience in Canada, actually, for stuff that will normally get you chucked out of a datacenter in the US.

She'll be held in contempt until the judge understands how fucked up this situation is. Could be years.

This situation is the precise reason we have the 5th Amendment - so that people can't be compelled to make testimony against themselves and then be jailed indefinitely on a whim when they 'refuse' to comply (or, when someone has apprehended the wrong person, or ...).

Out of an entire page of comments, you are the only one to get it right.

The legalese here has to do with code from ibooks being exported into the file, so that even if they have fixes for css bugs, etc, in the future, the formatting preferences can be preserved.

RE: Bison. Even after bison's licensing, some software companies are nervous about it - not that bison community is going to come after them - but that they might not completely own the binaries they produce. It's a really tough legal conundrum (code generated from a recipe), but luckily virtually everybody seems to be on the same page, insofar as useful tools like these should be used judiciously and without restriction.

In theory, Apple is being defensive, which is a little sad, but it is understandable Nominally, they pick the wrong side of this issue in order to protect their CSS.

Additionally, though, they create a headache for their users, which is something of a mortal sin in my book, and require many hours of additional labor to prepare books for other vending platforms. I very much wish that Apple would get off of their anti-competitive high horse and focus on building good tools without noxious restrictions. They have come pretty far by being very agressive about building a software silo. But at this point Apple needs to begin to transition to a softer sell on its platforms, or it will become another Bad Era Microsoft.

Ever used ithreads? Ever?

Great! Now maybe the perl folks can afford to fix their epic memory leaks that have been their bug list for the better part of a decade.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Throwing tents into dumpsters, without issuing a 'vacate or your property is forfeit' order seems like a clear violation to a non-lawyer.

Lawyers? Or have I simply missed something requiring the demonstrators to disperse?

What about a head mounted display or virtual reality goggles? These would allow a huge image to be formed, without the need for a bulky display. If you want to DIY, such a beast could probably be built with an ipod/kindle/... and a few lenses (from binoculars or a View-Master?)

Getting really funky, there also seem to be people experimenting with drawing images directly on the retina of Macular Degeneration patients. Not recommended for DIY!