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Give them time. I'm sure they have a crack legal team coming up with a means of circumventing prior art as we speak.
Hey, maybe that new round headquarters in Cupertino is just a front for apple legal's new time machine. Maybe THAT'S how they've gotten so many of these patents! I'm sure the "rounded rectangle" was legitimately patentable in 3000BC 
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What about "STEPS" System Touch Explore Peruse Start"
"Courtesy is the product of a mature, disciplined mind ... ridicule is lack of the same - DPM"
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I like it. The media would have a field day with the tagline "Windows 8 - watch where you step!".
/ravi
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RAVI: Had not thought of that. Very insightful. I bet the Apple-friendly ones would at least.
I am on the fence about Win8. It is an imperative that will not go away. I am observing it from a distance still. So far VS 2012 and its tools seem too packaged in some areas. I am interested in the improved thread management though. (Misspelled thread as tread. Maybe it was correct in the first place  )
DPM.
"Courtesy is the product of a mature, disciplined mind ... ridicule is lack of the same - DPM"
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The programming bug swept through the market at the open of exchanges on a day when Joyce, a 57-year-old Harvard College graduate known as TJ, limped into work following knee surgery. Joyce said that while the bug sent “a ton of orders, all erroneous” into the market as the firm prepared to trade with the NYSE (NYX)’s new so-called retail liquidity program, it had “nothing to do” with the NYSE. A potentially bankrupting error.
"As beings of finite lifespan, our contributions to the sum of human knowledge is one of the greatest endeavors we can undertake and one of the defining characteristics of humanity itself"
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I guess this kinda suggests that QA and staging environments might be a good idea when you're dealing with huge amounts of other peoples (or your own) money.
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True.
"As beings of finite lifespan, our contributions to the sum of human knowledge is one of the greatest endeavors we can undertake and one of the defining characteristics of humanity itself"
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Welcome to our continuing series of Code Project interviews. We talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves.
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Yesterday, Google's Vic Gundotra proudly exclaimed that "I'm not interested in screwing over developers" as he piled on top of Dalton Caldwell's post accusing Facebook of being naughty on the platform front. I'm not here to defend Facebook or Twitter or anyone else who takes lumps in Dalton's blog, but Vic's opportunistic post warrants a little scrutiny, as I always worry when people in power positions go over the top to proclaim what they're *not* doing. I rather hope Google can back up the claim going forward, because it certainly hasn't in the past. Here are a few ways Google has not fulfilled its promise to the platform.
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Pot, meet Kettle...
This reads like a talking points memo from a political campaign... 
Be The Noise
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WHat really hit me was removing support for Soap. Seems like that is a pretty big change. Don't really know about a lot of the others
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The easiest way to monitor your household from anywhere in the world is to connect an old Android smartphone with a mobile NXT robot. A NXT robot represents a cheap and simple to handle microcontroller device in combination with two servos, that allow to build a flexible mobile platform. On top of this mobile robot we place the Android smartphone. The Android smartphone acts as high-level controller that receives commands over the Internet and transmits these commands to the NXT controller over a Bluetooth connection. Android phone home!
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Very cool! I am just wondering if we can control/extend using .NET programmer languages. But from your link, seems like coding done in Java (but wait looks like it's just wiring down byte[] ... I can do that with .NET).
I stumbled across FEZ Mini Robot Kit - apparently you can program the microprocessor in C#![^]
I so want a bot at home chase after my Jack Russel (but this one doesn't look sturdy enuf, my dog will just bite and tear it apartment in seconds)
dev
modified 3-Aug-12 0:16am.
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Wow. Well I can see the obvious military uses of this. Pretty scary if you're a terrorist and you see one of these things flying around in your building 
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I think for it to become viable weapon still needs *either*
(a) more power engine/frame to carry real weapons
OR
(b) just carry lethal ninja darts
PLUS - quiet engine, lol
dev
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I wasn't really thinking about it having a weapons payload, I was more thinking that you can see where all the bad guys are, and what they are up to.
That way, when you storm the building, you can, how shall we say, "deal with them" before they know what is happening. 
Although, yes, having weapons on it would be a more effective solution 
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devvvy wrote: I think robotic/drones is an exploding field.
Boom-tish!
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After years of flat wage growth, IT salaries are on the rise. The average Windows IT pro this year is earning $87,360 per year, up 3.25 percent this year, according to the 17th annual Redmond IT Salary Survey. Not a jaw-dropping figure, but respectable nonetheless. In fact, IT pros are benefiting from a sharpening skills shortage in security, networking, analytics, management, and product areas such as SharePoint and SQL Server development and administration. How does your salary measure up?
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Trident is a new high-level abstraction for doing realtime computing on top of Twitter Storm, available in Storm 0.8.0 (released today). It allows you to seamlessly mix high throughput (millions of messages per second), stateful stream processing with low latency distributed querying. If you're familiar with high level batch processing tools like Pig or Cascading, the concepts of Trident will be very familiar. Making realtime computation as easy as batch computation.
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For some time, Gabe has been interested in the possibility of moving Steam and the Source game engine to Linux. At the time, the company was already using Linux by supporting Linux-based servers for Source-based games and also by maintaining several internal servers (running a 64-bit version of Ubuntu server) for various projects. In 2011, based on the success of those efforts and conversations in the hallway, we decided to take the next step and form a new team. At that time, the team only consisted of a few people whose main purpose was investigating the possibility of moving the Steam client and Left 4 Dead 2 over to Ubuntu. A new Valve blog discusses the problems and triumphs of porting Steam and Source to Linux.
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It's been said that DirectX has no real advantage over OpenGL and that blog seems to back it up. I wonder if games will start using OpenGL again.
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The guilt can be crushing. Everyone seems to be getting stuff done, except you. You drag yourself out of bed, go to work, start checking email, start deleting, then poof, it's noon. Lunch, perhaps at your desk, then some awful meetings, then it's 3pm. You start REALLY working, then you start feeling decent but then it's 5pm or 6pm. It's time to start getting home. You feel like you didn't really get a lot done today so you'll work late - just tonight - to catch up. 8 tips to avoid feeling non-productive and guilty.
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