The makers of this show should have done their own backups. You can buy a 2TB drive for ~$100, fill it up and put it away for safe keep. Simple as that.

Yea I know, PHP uses it's own license, that was my point.

Wordpress uses features and an environment provided by the PHP in a similar fashion to how WordPress plugin's use features and an environment provided by WordPress. A similar comparison between PHP's relation ship to WordPress can be made between WordPress and it's plugins.

His argument is that WordPress Plugin should be bound to the WordPress license because it uses hooks and attributes from their API. By that very argument Wordpress should be using the PHP License.

First and foremost all he will accomplish by this is scaring companies aware from using GPL stuff. Second, we all know he's wrong (at least that seems to be the theme on /.), but should this make it to court and be decided in his favor it could have serious ramifications on software of all types. Stating that a 3rd party plugin or theme should be held to the license of the of it's integration software could be a serious mess for a lot of people.

Verizon's current unlimited plans aren't actually unlimited, they translate to 5G per month, if you exceed it you'll be fined. IMHO that's already a class action waiting to happen. This just sucks though, cell phone carriers charge more for internet and you are getting less of it.

I suppose it really depends on your definition of a netbook. IMHO, a netbook is a device with a physical keyboard and mouse, and without a touch screen (essentially a smaller laptop). Again, IMHO, the iPad is not a netbook, it is a keyboard/mouse-less tablet and it has a touch screen. In that respect I think android is suited for the tablet market, but not for the netbook market.

I agree with the assumption that failure of Chrome OS could be harmful to the general comfort of using Linux-Based OS's however I think substituting Android is almost as bad of an idea. Don't get me wrong, I love android, I own two android phones and have developed a few apps for the platform. I just think you should use the right tool for the right job and putting Android on netbooks doesn't fit.

IMHO A framework can help out a lot, especially when your just getting started. A framework can help get you up and going rather quickly without having to worry about configuring everything. I'd recommend Qt. Here are some great examples: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/examples-opengl.html

I don't really have a good answer to the problem. I just graduated college 4 months ago, got hired to work on a code base that is around a million lines of code and it's not easy. If your lucky the code maintains a certain amount of consistence and you find a lot of similarity in various objects/modules. I found that spending some one on one time with my debugger (gdb) has really helped me to get a handle on the structure (request/response socket classes, model/view controllers, cache dbs, etc). Patience is your best tool.

I'm sure being listed on the front page of Slashdot will help push that domain up a few spots.

For me graphics are not a selling point. I would rather play a low quality game that keeps me entertained for weeks than a high res, good looking game that I'm bored of in an hour, especially when I have to shell out the $$. I think the answer to your question really comes from the marketing. High quality graphics is something that is very easy to sell on, it has an immediate "wow-factor" (to quote the Billy Mays). You can show a 20 second clip of a high res game and very clearly get your message across. However it is much harder to show how enjoyable a low res game is in a commercial setting. (At least that's my take on it).

It seems likely to me that our enemies have teamed up with aliens to defeat us. The military must being trying to hide it for our own good.

Generic was probably a poor choice of words. What I meant by generic is it is a not a name that they made up, it is part of the English language and in the dictionary.

I recently took a college class that discussed various issues of software patents and software trademarks. Based on what I learned in my class it seems really unlikely that "Android Data" will win the lawsuit. Not only does Google have virtually unlimited resources, but the term "Android" is a generic one. It is important to note that when trademarking software a trademark is applied to a type of product. What I mean by that is Ford Motors has a trade mark on the term "Mercury" for their car. However this does not prevent the Rhode Island newspaper from using the name. (Someone please feel free to electorate on what I have said :) )