Actually the older model had 300 mics. Currently Squarehead makes small 225 mic array, a medium 285 mic array and a large 345 mic array. The largest array has a diameter of 2.12m (about 7 feet) and the smallest 1.05m (about 3.5 feet). Audio zoom is available both realtime and in replay as all channels can be stored.

And yes, it does run on Linux (and Mac OS X)

J
Software Engineer @ Squarehead Technology

I think you're wrong, you have to look at the answers in relation to this specific subgroup. To take your OS-example: Yes, many of us use less popular OS'es, but most of us does not use the least popular variant. I think we can use this poll to learn, for example, what os'es people use:
Those who voted "Most popular" uses Ubuntu ("Everyone uses Ubuntu")
Those who voted "Least popular" uses Slackware ("It's difficult, therefore I'm special")
Those who voted "In the middle" uses Red Hat or Debian ("Lots of people use Debian/Red Hat, but I guess most people use Ubuntu")
Those who voted "Don't vote" uses Windows ("Linux Suxors, I win!")
Those who voted "Straight ticket" use a Mac ("This poll sucks, Mac should be at the top of the list!")

If this poll was in a regular newspaper however, most Slashdotters would answer "Least Popular" ("I'm better than most people")

You might want to remove that reefer from your mouth. Laws are put in place so that people who transgress against them can be jailed or fined. It's the courts' job to do that, not judge whether or not the laws are wrong.

You're not quite right. It's the courts job to test laws against higher laws, typically a country's constitution or international treaties such as international law on human rights. If a law is found to break with these higher laws the court may as far as I know declare a law illegal or something like that. I don't know if this law breaks anything like this but The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights includes protection against "Arbitrary arrest" and being arrested based uppon a secret law sounds like arbitrary arrest to me at least.

Hey. Pay attention! It's Joe The Plumber.

I just hate people who don't pay attention to politics...

You should check out the Nokia E60. It doesn't have a camera, but it sports Wlan and 3G support and a nice big screen (352x416 pixels) for browsing the web.

-C

anyway, the desktop machines and servers today dont really care that much about which threading api they use, but in stuff like cellphones, palm handhelds and other quite slow operating devices that dont have a common threading interface, this is a quite good solution.

While your argument concerning cellphones certainly has been valid historically, todays devices are actually very capable. I work with cellphone software and I found myself beeing suprised e.g by the performance of J2ME on modern phones. My experience is with symbian (c/c++) and J2ME. Symbian OS encourages use of cooperative multitasking though its "active objects"-pattern to eliminate some of the overhead of real threads. However using J2ME yields almost the same performance without having to deal with all the "performance optimizing" tricks of Symbian C++ (such as active objects, descriptors instead of strings and manual memory (de)allocation). (It is possible that this is due to java-optimized hardware in the phones, we have tested new Sony Ericssons and high-end Nokias, but who cares it works very well)

When high level languages/platforms like Java can successfully be used even on cellphones, its is time for C++ to die as language for application developement. The only obstacle, as I see it, is that the two promising platforms (Java and .NET) are properitary and subject to market power struggles. So we are sadly probably stuck with C++ hell for years to come yet.