running an emulator on your pc is rrelevant because 1) it'd a terrible user experience, and not mainstream. console is about simple and plugged to your tv set 2) even if it became so, Sony loses money on the hardware, the business model is royalties on selling the games. 3) if your pirating the software anyway, see 2).. Sony wasnt making money with you buying the hardware

using thread is not necessary to do multiprocessing and use multicore machines, it's just one approach, one that is seldom used on multi cpu servers, especially back then. the alternative is to use multiple concurrent processes, which has been the UNIX way to do things since the beginning and is still widely used today for scalable systems - especially those that will also use multiple separate machines that don't share RAM

what's talked about in the article here is twice as old as anything you list here. windows 3.1 is from 1992, 21 years ago. XP is from 2002.

he violated the JSTOR Eula against using bots AND he did that not to download the documents for his own personal use, but for the purpose of redistributing them outside of JSTOR. This is his own admission. it's totally irrelevant whether he had the rights to read the documents, he never had any intentions of reading 4 million documents. also, he crashed the computer in the process by overwhelming the server

Aaron Swartz must have thought was he was doing was wrong, since he broke into a computer wiring closet and hid a computer there to run his script to get all of that stuff out there. He even covered his face to security cameras

There was no sentence yet! This 50 year thing is pure worse-case speculation Also, "Prosecutors Intended Six-Month Sentence for Aaron Swartz" http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-17/prosecutors-intended-six-month-sentence-for-aaron-swartz.html

yes

just to clarify, because it's obscure pop culture, it's. not from xkcd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave

so was Windows XP, a very minor tweak on Windows 2000 also you're missing NT 3.5, NT 3.51 and NT 4.0

clever reply... to bad I don't have mod points..

I cannot verify the link on my iPad, but there was this onlin wp7 demo site http://wmpoweruser.com/try-windows-phone-features-from-other-smartphone-browsers/

Companies like Autodesk have a large office in Shanghai and are hiring. Check www.autodesk.com/jobs

no, the windows sdk is free to download for anyone, and in fact you have to install the msdn doc from the web after you install visual studio

mmm i don't have the latest osx, but I don't think gcc and xcode is installed by default, you have to download it -- or get it from the app store now