Right, but no one patented this because it's an obvious idea. Using the internet to get travel tickets: done long ago. Using NFC: done long ago. Using NFC as an endpoint: obvious combination of two obvious things. I can't imagine that would hold up in court or if challenged within the PTO. I'm not even sure if I can…

Only partial credit unless they actually show us video from it rolling over.

Why would you have a computer for 3 years?! Your Macbook Pro is SOOOOOO OLLLLD by then! You should have bought a new one, and be looking at another new one by the 3 year mark!

"Colorful" is a great way to put this guy's history..... sounds like he was quite the character from my last visit to the old museum. Rumor has it he only sold one car- the type escapes me at the moment- and he later bought it back. Sounds like an OCD issue to me!

I also use it. Great to use it as a landing page with my gchat built in, since I'm not gonna push IT policy by installing a dedicated IM client. And I don't want Gmail open all day. Oh well, at least I have a long time to figure out a new setup.

Well that's a very good point- I deliberately don't play on Premium servers because I think it sends a bad message too. That said, I also don't see a ton of them, so I have hope.

Honestly, I'd be ok if they made Most Wanted 2 with modern cars, on a modern game engine, with the same exacty premise so long as they also have the super campy cut scenes featuring Razor. He was basically the best thing to happen to NFS. Ever. (Aside from Porsche Unleashed)

Well, it's ok. Who comes to Giz for objective insights into tech news?

Didn't Rockstar do the first Season Pass with LA Noire? Why aren't we directing our hate towards them?

Might want to update that this is actually not related to the slide to unlock patent. Judge Koh found that all 4 patents are being infringed on, but the only patent she based the injunction on is patent '604.

I think the Events photostream is a pretty nifty idea- why bother with lots of contributors and albums on FB (where rights management is, and apparently always will be, a nightmare) when you could just invite people to an event and then have them post things up right to the home of that event? I like it.

Shouldn't Apple be able to go to market with stable drivers that don't lead to a kernel panic? When you control the OS, drivers, and the hardware it's deployed on, kernel panics really shouldn't happen, no matter what your programs ask the OS to do.

You seem to have forgotten that it would be a business expense, so it could become a tax writeoff for a serious developer. And $1500 isn't that bad- you seem to have forgotten that the entry fee for an event like this is usually in that ballpark by itself. WWDC was $1600 a head, in addition to the annual fee ($100 I…

Yay, more expensive internals (ie GPU to run all these pixels, bigger battery to run the GPU) for all!

Exactly. If you're not guided by business sense, you really need to have someone near you who is. And then listen to them. You do need both, IMO- one has to be the optimist who really wants something to work, but then they need someone to bring them back down to earth, too.

Right, I did say revenue- didn't say it necessarily went to them. Interesting that the publisher wouldn't just take their cut, but that they'd take the first $X amount. Makes sense, though.

The interesting thing to me is how many stupid decisions were made in this saga.

You're just another bolt-on wonderboy looking to get smoked!

The Silver Shadow Gilboa Snake laughs at your measly single barrel!

First I'm gonna take your ride, then I'm gonna take your girl- be ready for that! :)