I mean, before this article, I didn't even realise that evolution had a theoretical side, or that Darwin was the one who came up with it.

We need this guy to come up to Canada and teach at our schools. Clearly our teachers aren't doing their jobs.

That's what the point of Apple submitting this list was all about in the first place. She had asked that the first time and they gave her a list of 20 witnesses that Apple believed they were going to bring to court.

She told them off. Unprofessional or not, she could have done much worse to Apple's lawyers for trying to waste her own as well as the courts' time. I think it's a welcome change for this case, and is probably one of the reasons Koh remained as judge for it. This needs to be a quick, no-nonsense, no-bullshit, no-courtroom-theatrics case that settles things once and for all. The amount of patent cases in a day alone waste enough of the courts' time, and I doubt that anyone wants it to be wasted anymore, because Apple thinks their going to get away with 20 witnesses in an impossibly short amount of time.

I can't even say the word GUI without thinking of this monstrosity.

Seriously, after the way the clone saga in Spider-man was handled, I never again want to think about these things.

I mean it, it's like I have post-traumatic stress after the events of that comic.

Can we take some of this code and give emacs a decent editor already?

Also, I noticed there's some fortran code in there. What is going on?

I use linear algebra and calculus everyday.

As a geomatics engineer, my programming often involves using and understanding different levels of vector calculus as well as some basic linear algebra.

By the time I'm 30, I probably won't use it as much. In the meantime, I use it everyday to solve different problems.

What, you don't use butterflies to write your notes? Get off my lawn, you petulant n00b!

BASH is relatively new? What?

It's pretty much the defacto standard for most places and products nowadays. If you said ZSH however.....

Boo!

Python + Numpy + Scipy + matplotlib tends to do the job the same, if not better, all whilst being easier to write and debug.

Plus, you don't have to worry about lacking the toolkits or extensions to do parse strings properly, write custom objects, etc... Also, you can design your interface any way you want to, that is, WITHOUT the figure window.

MATLAB is garbage, and should no longer be used. Python for scientific computing is the way to go.

Then license it as GPLv3, then post it on Craigslist.

They might just give it back to you with that license, though...

If Microsoft keeps this up, I'll be looking forward to the day that computer science grads have to pledge an oath to the four software freedoms, not much unlike Doctors and their oath to the tenets of medicine.

Perhaps there will be a light at the end of the tunnel, but I do worry that the light will require a license key.

The esteem with which you hold yourself in is depressing.

Now do you mean to tell me, that Apple has no interest in one of the 6 Hurd users? The 3 Haiku users?

I want to mod this "+1 Thank you".

Why do people assume otherwise?

I think just emacs and you could probably say your computer does everything. Not efficiently or beautifully mind you, but it does everything nonetheless.