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Comment Re:Iran? Uh huh ... yeah (Score 2, Funny) 278

That is a great example of extreme relativis, both sides are hardly equals. But anyway, we should support Israel because they're the modern, liberal democracy, because they're an ally of the US, and because we fight a common enemy such as Hamas. Their country also produces great minds and makes large contributions to society in science and technology.

Comment Re:Wall Street uses a lot of Perl (Score 1) 496

Actually, it's even better, Wall Street uses tons and tons of the relatively obscure language K (and its related database product KDB or Q). This language looks like so: example xml parser in K (notice that the code is up until the lone "\", then the rest is just documentation).

The code above, and a lot of code like it, is actually used in production work at Wall Street. K actually has a lot of great merits, being a very efficient APL descendant, but it is still kind of fun that Wall Street does use a language far less readable than Perl as a core computation language for a lot of these kinds of models :)

Paul Graham on Patents 302

volts writes "The always interesting Paul Graham has a new essay, 'Are Software Patents Evil?'. "A few weeks ago I found to my surprise that I'd been granted four patents. This was all the more surprising because I'd only applied for three...""

Ballmer Won't Dismiss Idea of Suits Against Linux 644

An anonymous reader writes "According to an interview with Steve Ballmer in Forbes, Microsoft is open to the possibility of filing patent suits against Linux in the interest of their shareholders. Ballmer said: 'Well, I think there are experts who claim Linux violates our intellectual property. I'm not going to comment. But to the degree that that's the case, of course we owe it to our shareholders to have a strategy.' Microsoft filed more than 3000 new applications for software patents in 2005 and already owns more than 4000 patents, including many patents on fundamental, but trivial technologies, like double clicks."

60% Of Windows Vista Code To Be Rewritten 662

Alien54 writes "Up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft new Vista operating system is set to be rewritten as the Company "scrambles" to fix internal problems, according to this report. In an effort to meet a deadline of the 2007 CES show in Las Vegas Microsoft has pulled programmers from the highly succesful Xbox team to help resolve many problems associated with entertainment and media centre functionality inside the OS. Much more at the link."

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