I'd love to see a OneNote workalike for linux. It's one of the apps holding me to Vista.

This case was meaningless either way to the GPL, their was never a challenge in this case to the entirety of copyright law. Had the Judge declared this a act of fair use, then copyright law would still exist; the GPL would still stand. Pystar would continue re-selling copyrighted works. The copyright world would not have fallen to it's knees like you claim. Simply Apple would still have a direct competitor.

I don't know how the judges rationalize it but the spin from the lawyers is that "the Eastern District is 'a great venue,' because the judges there are experts on patent matters, and there is always a pool of experienced patent lawyers available to serve as local counsel". I guess it's just Eastern Texas good fortune to have this natural resource of patent lawyer pools. Another lawyer shares this insight into his clients motivations "they prefer to go to ... where the judges have the expertise" So the story goes that the ED of Texas gets so many patent cases because they're so experienced and they got this expertise from doing so many patent cases. Rinse, lather, repeat! Ain't circular logic fun?

I completely agree. I've had the unlimited plan for about 5 years, since my Original Rzr. I've since been using it with my iPaq and was just about to buy an HP netbook that I could drop my SIM into for data connections.

I've been an ATT customer for about 12 years, and if they drop the unlimited data I'll just switch to Verizon or Tmobile. I've been waiting patiently for a 'Droid phone I can use on ATT anyway, this would be the perfect time for me to just get one and switch carriers.

Just because of the magnitude of the role he held, the million dollars is easy to come up with. But also due to that magnitude, a million dollars is really not a big deal. When employers start holding people accountable financially like that, productivity freezes out of fear. I mean, what if when he purchased the machines, he bargained for a great deal and saved $200 on each one? Now he's even, but nobody's threatening to GIVE him that money. It's a bad path to head down - dollar for dollar liability at your job.

And besides, didn't thousands of children learn about Fourier transforms? That's got to be worth at least a few bucks per student.

I like SageTV except that I have an all-in-wonder HD and sageTV only sees it as an analog device. Ironically, I only want to capture digital.

I just haven't figured out yet how to "right-click" a file from the remote talking to the media center extender. The PC running WMC is headless and stuffed under the desk in the back bedroom.

I know I'm just whining; but I no longer enjoy the one-upsmanship of constantly trying to get around roadblocks purposely put in my way. If MythTV trivially supported a guide, and worked with an extender, I'd spend the month to figure out how to get it set up just so I wouldn't have to screw with it again. /frank

No problem.

I just record HD (mpg) streams using my HDHomeRun. They play perfectly on the BD390.

Doesn't help with your .nuv's, though. Sorry. :-(

I don't know how you can miss your own point.... We haven't terraformed to a perfect point in time, we have adapted our societies, supply chains and living habits to a very specific and very narrow range of climatic conditions. If you doubt that, watch Californians drive when it so much as drizzles. If precipitation gets any more frequent than it is, the disaster that is the first rain of the season will become near permanent, until people know how to drive in rain. Which is going to take a while, and a lot of dead people and insurance money.

That's the issue with GCC. I don't give a fart about how the weather will be in a million years, or even 10000. I worry that within my lifetime, the climate will change enough that trillions will have to be spent across the world to re-adapt societies, supply chains and living habits. I'd rather not have to spend that money - or even my share of it.

It's not a harsher punishment. It's exactly the same punishment. Five percent of your monthly wage.

(Or whatever figure they actually use)

Losing to someone not because you play worse or you have bad luck, but rather because that guy simply outspent you, is just completely demoralizing and I'd abandon any competitive game that allowed this.

I guess you won't be playing "Magic: The Gathering" any time soon then.

Don't rip my quotes out of context:

JavaScript, syntactically, is a C-style ("curly braces") family language. It also has local variable declarations.

It's a small complaint, I'm sure.. but couldn't they have given it a name that you could, you know, Google?

The business about regenerating nerves is exciting, but this also sounds useful for scar reduction/removal.

I have a couple of keloid scars that it would be nice to be rid of.

I'd think it would take at least a million dollars just to cope with the "fame and success" that would bring. Maybe more.

Maybe Randi could offer a reduced prize of $10,000 just to shut up on a successful claim, without the media attention.

"Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved." -- Heinlein