Ask the cat (to the tune of the cat food commercial):

"What's NEW, PUSSYcat (not pussyCAT)"

"Chaow--chaowww-chaoowwww"

Deprive the cat of pussy flix and it my shit a cataleptic fit.

Depends on if the fatherboard was bored (by) the mother, or the motherboard was bored by the mother...

Somehow, we get daughterboards and daughter cards. So far, i haven't seen son-boards, or son cards...

Dependency on a bunch of "monkey business"... let the irony begin...

Oh, well, have you looked for the word? Why is it that you get to use your dislike for the world to mod two people off topic? Are you a "player hater"? Or, are you a pro-sco person hiding behind the lazy slashdot code that allows hit-and-run modding?

Looking at sco's conduct, and splaying their ass up in the air for microsoft to do ms' bidding, sco is (after ms) the LAST company topic for which boo-hoo off-topic-modding should be tolerated. Downward-trending scoring, maybe, but a slam-dunk off-topic? HELL NO.

to keep that SCOkenstein (SCO Frankenstein) ventilated.

If he thinks the company is beyond rehabilitation, then if the effer is brain or lung dead (mostly dead, not fully dead per submitter?), pull the plug. Why keep SCOkenstein writhing or huckin' and buckin' on 5 amps and 200 volts when the skull-cracked hodge-podge needs (or wants) to neck-suckle on 40 amps and 50,000 volts. It's just keeping open doors to the court and a drain on public resources. (Tell them to go find a power transmission tower, bite it, & blacken their asses like toast. Maybe SCO should get into the energy deliver business?) What's SCO anyway these days? Seems like a twig or tumbleweed blowing around trying to snag something, or an alien husk awaiting seminal insemination to resurrection. Right now, they've got their damned terminals reversed.

ANY interface in an office suite that Sun/OO.o should be copying, they need to pull their heads out of the sand and clone Lotus WordPro. It handles multiple documents in a superior way. If you have multiple, various-orientation/various sheet sized docs to handle, as divisions and sections, then WordPro would be IT. I have begged until i got sick of even trying to suggest any more yet they just don't seem to care. It's as if NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome is preferable to actually FIXING the GUI. OO.o needs

-- non-modal interfaces,
-- snappier/tighter icons,
-- better (more Lotus Approach-like) database
-- better multi-doc handling (get RID of the "rule line" separating docs and use LWP's tabbed interface, larger/thicker border to differentiate the docs

They would rather beat their heads against the wall than ape Word Pro or work constructively with Lotus/IBM. Sigh

Tho i don't have any intention of promoting ms, the OO.o Impress ribbon for some reason made me think way back to circa 1992 or 1994 and some of the jumbo-ish Word Perfect icons. If they were resizable, and if one could nest a few together under larger, more used buttons/icons, they'd almost look ribbon-ish, less the boundary/shadow effects.

A bunch of mad people's paid-off stooges grant this stuff. Just as you indicated the prior art methods, it is unbelievable that the USPTO is THIS damned "overwhelmed". There should be a moratorium on all new tech patents issuance having applications dating back to, oh, say 2004, and a (public) review of all tech patents involved in anti-competitive activities dating from 1992 forward.

How can these "people" in that company suing Twitter even DARE bring themselves forward to sue. It is incredibly easy for database tools such as Lotus Approach, Borland/Corel/et al Paradox, ms' access, the various CRM tools build in LAMP/AMP, and more, and much of it is just plain common sense-enabled after a couple of hours of wrangling out a basic set of parameters.

-- User goes to browser/input device

-- user enters some tidbit of info

-- designated input triggers response to an action list (isn't this starting to sound like JIT product manufacturing/tracking, say, Expandable?)

-- action triggers reports to cognizant persons in the various departments, the vendors/suppliers/contract manufacturers outside the company, AP/AR handle the cost accounting/other accounting/inventory matters....

Expandable is from AT LEAST 1999, and we used it when i was a 400-person company from 1997-1999 and it got replaced by Oracle stuff. PeopleSoft ALONE had a massive set of tools for doing such things. We even used Vantive, which got knocked off from our company when that fiber optic company and their ORCA/Oracle slayers came in and ruthlessly waged battle internally in OUR CONFERENCE ROOMS to purge things like Expandable, Vantive, and other internally-built databases.

Techwhatever from Texas will probably be found to be a patent troll because other business model attempts aren't so rosy these days.

to send them crash/bug information.

For the new/seeking, see these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMMS

http://lmms.sourceforge.net/

http://video.google.com/videosearch?client=opera&rls=en&q=lmms&sourceid=opera&oe=utf-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=FL14SrTCLYW0sgPfqe3xBA&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4#

http://keepthemfree.net/application/lmms-044

http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/

http://linux-sound.org/notation.html

And a slew of others are starts if not replacements, depending on what any given person is after. If someone can top Rosegarden, Lilypond and LMMS, or combine the best of all these and some others, you'll probably see/hear Apple whip out the patent/copyright infringement... But, i DO have to say, Garageband is FANTASTIC. I watched a demon in the Apple Store, and it's hard (it appears) to beat GarageBand (for now?).

heheheh, when i first read, "Major New Function Discovered for ...." I laughed, and had to tell myself, SPLEEN, SPLEEN, not what else i was thinking, since that other tiny matter i thought of has only one apparent useful purpose... (Or, maybe, Mr. Threat, you know of other, undisclosed/"disclothesed" uses?)

I want to mod funny... But, i want to respond, too.

It's really nice to be able to show off the KDE (compiz/KDE/Mandriva/et al) desktop rotting the cubes and polygon desktops around, in ONLY 256 MB of SHARED VIDEO RAM,not the umpteen .75 GB or 2GB vista demanded before even turning on Aero. It's a nice, good feeling to have people looking over my shoulder or asking about that desktop, and being able to say, "No, this is not Vista. It's KDE, in Linux. And, this has been possible about or more than a year prior to Vista's release, and i had some of these features working on a 128 MB graphics card from CompUSA, and even wowed the Comcast guy who was restoring my service back in late 2006..."

Makes people wonder who the hell decided vista needed all that graphics power to do what Linux (and Mac) have been on lesser resources. Conjures up thoughts of collusion/screwing the consumer --- depending on one's perspective, that is...

"Activities can now be tied to virtual desktops, allowing users to have different widgets on each of their desktops."

THIS is what i've been waiting for. I don't know why it was not there to begin with. Glad it's here. I wonder if it'll break my Mandriva One-modified KDE4.x, however. It would be nice to get back the ability to change the backgrounds on the login widget as well as the background when the desktop is locked. Mandriva seems to cripple that feature for the non-paid installs, and none of my sleuthing has let me to how to undo that cripple. It was one reason i paid $50 contribution to PCLOS 2007/8.

Law Enforcement: enforcement
Paramedics: help treat in advance of another heart attack
Drug Dealers: Find new users

It'll be interesting to see if the police bust you for drugs, then, when you croak behind the wheel, they re-run the test and find you've just had a heart attack.

But, seriously, what anti-tampering safeguards are in place? You could be framed just as easily with technology as without. So, can one demand to be RETESTED at a neutral hospital that is equipped? Can you demand upon arrest that you be taken to one without the hospital's advanced notice (assuming that if framed, the hospital won't have a mole who facilitates illegitimate busts)?

This could become standard fair for (South) Koreans returning home. There, they are (or are subjected to being) tested upon return from overseas. As Koreans, then can be tested (some if not many are), and if found to have use even marijuana, they are subject to arrest, prosecution, sentencing, and even lose their jobs. For job applicants, they, too, are subject to drug screening, even for what westerners might feel are innocuous/low-risk-of-public-harm jobs.

Hell, this device --if abused in the US -- could tear the country apart. After all, between hunting, guns possession laws/rights, and uneven regulation and enforcement towards gaming, poaching, and drugs abuse and so on, stepping up enforcement might do more harm than good. Even selective enforcement will be plagued by legal cases of profiling, discrimination, and so forth. It might be interesting if the device is used for purposes of assigning per-person drug consumption limits. No outright bans on consumption -- just consumption management.