Yes. Any work an employee does, even on free time, if it is in any way related to the companies business...the company will claim to own it.

Don't flame me if you don't agree. This is the general company message in the states. Microsoft's move is pretty bold. If my company would do this I would be ecstatic.

Data latencies, like your "arrive in the same clock", can be hidden by pipe-lining.

Next paradigm which will hide latencies is to move threading into HW, which has already happened for GPU's in the form of shader threading. The move towards HW and SW support for parallel compute languages like OpenCL will realize the continued growth in computing capabilities for the foreseeable future (don't get me wrong, I'm talking just a decade or so).

Yes, I am an optimist :-)

People who indent with tabs should be shot. Indent with spaces all you want and I can view it the way IT WAS WRITTEN.

There, fixed that for you.

Really, using tabs only works in theory. You need to be pretty anal to never ever layout anything using spaces or the tabs argument breaks down. God forbid I line up some stuff to make it more readable.

Yeah, yeah...this is religion to some. My argument is as moot as yours. Kinda what I'm pointing out.

With respect to the "alternatives are far worse", you might want to read up a bit on how the legal system is implemented in The Netherlands and the rest of Europe or any other western civilizations around the globe for that matter.

The best case against your "juries" or dolts as you call them is to ask yourself how any higher courts work in the US. Do they have juries? I didn't think so.

Looking at predictions that did not come true is interesting, but not half as interesting at looking at things that came true without being predicted. Even fairly recently:
- the internet
- social networking
- smart phones
- open source projects

Though some of those might have been predicted in some form this was typically without the prediction of the impact those things had on society.

I totally agree, but would like to add the following:

John can be reached on the phone during my business hours.

Not the case with Rajesh. The turn around time of 24 hours for even the simplest thing that could be cleared up with a quick phone call has killed many a project for us.

"by Anonymous Coward" is an anagram for "Dan Brown yoyoma suc"

just saying

They have been pretty open about latency issues. The server needs to be reasonably close (max 1000 miles) to keep round trip time below 80ms.

I am currently still a believer in this service. OnLive is not for the tiny hardcore gamers market who already have the best (expensive) equipment. I believe that OnLive might be able to get the casual gaming crowd introduced to high end gaming. Think Nintendo Wii target market, with PS3/XBOX360/High-end-PC gaming graphics. This market, not sensitive to the differences between OnLive and running the games native on your $5K gaming rig, could change the adoption rate of next gen games.

I sure hope it all works out.

"There was no year 0" should be placed in the context of the original folks who came up with the calendar and had it wrong. There have been various corrections to the calendar since, and calling the years xxx0 through xxx9 a decade is one of them.

In the story the (good) scientists lose against the (bad) profit-over-anything-corporate backed "private" military. The indigenous where caught in the middle without a say. That message was so obvious it wasn't much of a political statement as it was an easy good guys vs bad guys setup.

But that is not why I enjoyed this must see movie.