When your pretty graph goes back "millions" of years, then you might have a point, but 400k out of 3.5 billion years, this is about as useful as grabbing a handful of random people from a barney the dinosaur concert and using them to stereotype the other 6.5 billion people on the planet.

Oh, snap! That's your problem right there. That graph just goes back too diddly-darn far. Why, the earth is only 6,000 years old. All this talk of millions or billions of years is just crazy talk.

You're not going to get anywhere with your fact-based agendas.

znu is right. bonch is wrong.

Screenshots are all raster data. Bitmaps. Pixels. And yes, raster data can be embedded in PDF files.

Rasterization of each app's vector drawing operations occurs primarily within the application. through the app's Quartz drawing context. (OpenGL may be used there, so if someone wants to get really pedantic, the actual generation of pixels might be happening in the GL driver and GPU.)

This is getting pretty far off topic. (Welcome to /.)

It is worth pointing out that the real problem is not really the democrats or the republicans but with the system that has allowed anyone with deep enough pockets to make government do whatever they want.

The NAFTA agreement was not really aimed at helping any of the people in the three participating countries, NAFTA was always designed to help the big corporations reduce their cost of operations. At the same time, NAFTA contained enough provisions that it undid a number of constitutional guarantees and local laws (at least for Mexico it did) and new trade courts ended up having more power than national courts for any trade dispute.

Work?

I'm retired, you insensitive clod!

Now excuse me, I have to tell those damn kids to get off my lawn.

NeXTSTEP 4.0 Alpha; sometimes mis-called Beta on web sites.

The software featured tabs across the screen bottom for various window types. (We cribbed these for Mac OS 8.5 after the merger, as the tabbed window feature.) The Documents tab was a window which presented icons of documents, each of which could be a preview of the actual document, badged to indicate the associated application.

This implementation nicely meets all the claims, but predates the patent application by 5 years. I won't bother going through all the details, but Cygnus is boned. Software patent litigation as a business model is so last decade...

Hmmm... I wonder who would have the most to gain by undermining Apple

No, no. The ultimate target isn't Apple. The ultimate target is anyone who tries to apply restrictions on their software via copyright and license.

It's all about legal acquisition without obligations. For example, Evil, Inc might want to acquire software that happens to fall under this license: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html It might be neat to take all that stuff, tweak it to run a settop box/game system/file server/toaster and not have to worry about those pesky restrictions like making source code available.

Not that anyone would actually do something like that...

Apple has failed to deliver a fully compostable computer built solely with clean straw and dung from goats on a macrobiotic diet. This is particularly disappointing when one realizes that other companies have been delivering dung-based computing technology for years.

I haz a prior art. What I do wif it?

This is all part of DisplayPort, the display connection. Like HDMI, the digital display connection for HDTV gear, DisplayPort includes an end-to-end encryption mechanism. (Take a look at HDMI/HDCP.)

The end-to-end secure data path is something the HD content providers insist on.

In which your character must decide whether or not to take a bath, with or without the aid of servants!

Ah, truly thrilling gameplay at it's very best. The quest to find double-walled pails with lids; the confrontations with kitchen staff; and certainly not least, the challenge of racing from the kitchens to the bath before the water cools, while minimizing delays from Guardsmen checking to make sure there were no knives hidden in the water.

I can hardly wait. No, strike that. Yes, I can.

We are getting ready for our first beta of Moonlight 1.0, which will map to Silverlight 1.0, you have a few options to get it running:

(a) Wait until our official Beta launch, and it will contain an easy-to-install plugin. Click install, restart browser, you are done.

(b) You can use it today if you build from our source code, it is published here: http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight

(c) Repositories like Packman have RPMs that you can install for various distributions that you can install today.

We will be using Microsoft's Media Pack for Linux, which is a licensed version of the media codecs, binary drivers provided by Microsoft. This has the advantage that the media companies that own the patents on codecs have been paid for (MPEG-LA consortium and others).

For those of you that live in a country where software/machine patents are not enforced (media patents are enforced in Europe, contrary to popular lore) or those that just want to stick it to the man, you can build Moonlight with the open source FFMPEG media codecs.

Support for Silverlight 2.0 will ship in preview form in December.