Sci-fi weapons agains Croczilla? Meh.

The only one who can save Australia from monster crocodiles is a 131 feet tall Crocodile Dundee!

Software developers already live taking patent risks just by doing their work, developing software. Media encoding isn't the only patent elephant stomping in our lawn, we're pretty much surrounded by thousands, specially ye ol' $PATENT which just now happened to be implemented on the internet or on a smartphone/tablet/portable device of the week.

If you are afraid of software patents, I'm afraid you have to look for a job in another area where you don't even come close to inventing/designing anything.

You would be right if they were aiming for the name in english. Íkaros is his name in latin.

At least its easier to write than greek: , which Slashdot can't even parse...

If you take decades to find a reflector in the nearest astral body, it quite puts in perspective the whole difficulty of searching for extraterrestrial life light-years away.

Perhaps they could spend a supranonimillenary amount of money to make such aquatic plataform airborne, along with some anguineous lifeforms aboard, for massive damage.

Oh god, a dozen years later, the conflict between Total Annihilation and StarCraft will be reborn.

Hell yeah!

Heh, I remember playing Doom in my uncle's computer back in 94 as as 9 year old boy, and loved it, adored it.

16 years later, now an employed programmer, I still think it is made of black sorcery and an ingenious amount of coding. That's awesome!

Does Carmack /id Soft have a donation paypal-esque account? I'd love to give them what is due for all those early years of pure fun.

It will take months to face the Lich King because the last wing of the Icecrown Citadel raid will only be released some 12 weeks from now.

For example, the second wing, The Plagueworks, is going to open in 4 weeks from now.

So they've got a black hole generator for 400 million less. Sounds like a winner.

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Of course, knowing the reproductive system of some trees helped me a lot in my software development job...

Couldn't Nokia buy Riverbank like they did with Qt Software? Probably they did try, and this really was the last option available.

I find it had to believe they would lay off the hardware department. Oracle would love to have full control over the whole computing stack, from hardware, to OS, to middleware, to the development of the final software public. Suits would love to have an all-in-one package, optimized, from the catalogue, solution. Order, receive it, turn it on, it's working.