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DOOM is one of the most ported pieces of software in history, so it's only natural...

http://www.techdigest.tv/2013/10/10_gadgets_that.html

There is one article stating that they made more on the digital downloads of In Rainbows than all of their previous albums' digital downloads combined. Note that this isn't total sales or other merchandise, just digital downloads. Of course, they didn't have their catalog on itunes until 2008, and when they got started in the early 90's, there wasn't much of a digital market, so the comparison isn't a particularly good one. They have also stated that they won't be doing the pay-what-you-want again in the foreseeable future.

Nobody uses tablets for office software, accounting software, writing code, drawing graphics, rendering models, processing audio, data entry or anything else remotely tied to the real, corporate world.

i never implied they did... maybe you don't see the corporate world very clearly from your mom's basement, but the majority of the world that uses computers for work aren't doing those things you describe. they are selling, supporting, consulting, marketing, managing, stocktaking, etc in many different fields (sales and marketing is a significant part of the overall workforce though, and more often now are required to be on the move). you probably won't understand how tablets and other new technology feeds into this anyway, but to most the market is a pretty good indicator of what people are in fact using.

"PC shipments continue to slide as tablets and smartphone sales soar"
http://www.techdigest.tv/2013/04/pc_shipments_co.html

"Computer Sales in Free Fall: Quarterly Shipments Drop 14% as Windows 8 Fails to Stem Advance of iPads"
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324695104578414973888155516.html

Your R is not C. Carmack put the iPad 2 at roughly half the performance of the 360, which puts the "Retina iPad" right in the ballpark of the 360, although with twice the working RAM.

I beg to differ. The basic design requirement of a wheel is that it's round and rolls, and I'll certainly grant you that this aspect of wheels hasn't changed. However, a rough-hewn wooden round, such as used in the simplest of carts, bears very little other resemblance to the three-spoked carbon-fiber performance bicycle wheels I see with some frequency on my morning bicycle commute. Sure, both are round and roll, but otherwise, there's thousands of years of difference between them.

Right, that's so unlike the mouse where the first mouse:

        http://www.techdigest.tv/The%20First%20Mouse.jpg

Looks exactly like a modern gaming mouse:

        http://tbreak.com/tech/2010/08/madcatz-shows-off-cyborg-r-a-t-9-gaming-mouse-at-gamescom/

Next thing you know Star Trek episodes will be prior art.

Uh, regarding the rounded-corner rectangle design patent thing, how are they not prior art? Design patents are specifically for an appearance/shape, irrespective of function or purpose.

How can people claim this is prior art for the iPad, but these look nothing alike?

I have an e46 M3 like you. The e96 series has the stupid fob-only (no tumbler shaft) that I am talking about. Which are the same fobs that are alloiwing the vehicles to be stolen.

THIS DAMN THING

That's not a galaxy tab 10.1, it's the smaller cousin... Which is why it looks less similar.

Ok, here's the Galaxy 10.1 shown with Samsung logo and true aspect ratio: http://www.techdigest.tv/2011/08/did_apple_fake.html

If 4TB is the biggest drive you can get today, wouldn't densities have to increase by 15x to get to 60TB drives by 2016, not just "more than double"

Probably. The first 3tb was released June 2010. 4tb came out Oct 2011. Not exactly amazing growth, over a year for 1tb, at this rate we'll be 9tb in 2016. At this rate we will not see 60tb by 2016, and I say "we" meaning end consumer, maybe some lab monkey will see an areal density equivalent to 60tb, but it won't be available for sale. And for anyone wondering the answer is yes, the 4tb drives already use five platters, 800gb each, so they can't shove more platters in there to double capacity currently, they have to significantly increase areal density.

But while storage continues to increase, the types of media we store is not increasing in size. HD Video is probably the most common space hog on any personal computer at 25 to 40 mbit per second of video, about 11 to 18gb per hour, but once we have hundreds of terabytes what do we need more space for? For higher high definition video? At some point even video quality will surpass what the human eye can distinguish, especially from across the room.

And once we have hundreds of terabytes how do we fill the drive? Most of the content on my PC is downloaded, but internet speeds have not increased drastically over the years, I'm still at the same speed now as I was in 2000 and paying about the same amount.

They're putting the cart before the horse, they're offering us storage for something we don't have to store and that we can't even obtain through current technology.

Yes: http://www.techdigest.tv/ironic-3.5-inch-disc-posters.jpg

Here's the definitive PC vs Mac vs Linux illustration

Really? Because currently the iPhone looks like every other fucking phone.

Software and desire to move into the future is pressuring companies for a small glass box that people can touch with to interact. So once we've reached that point how do you differentiate yourself? About all you can offer is a different colour, and god consumers like black toys.

Trade dress has far more in common with trademarks than patents, and to that note I wonder how the fact that Samsung writes SAMSUNG in big letters on the front of its phone affects the case. Typically to infringe you would need to show that the infringer is causing confusion as to who produces the item. I don't think anyone has picked up something with SAMSUNG written on the front and SAMSUNG with Google on the back and said "ooooh an iPhone".

What Samsung did was totally uncreative and somewhat shameless, but not illegal.

Shameless? I call it inevitable. Samsung has historically nearly always had a black bezel around their screens. As pressures to increase screen size rose they started getting bigger, and hiding keyboards in slide out bits at the bottom, and the screens continued to have black bezels, and phones... well phones come in all shapes and colours including rounded edges making the phone almost circular and the ludicrously straight edges.

So my question to you is, when the world moves to a platform that emphasizes touch, on-screen keyboards, and the pressures are to maximize usable area while minimizing the size of the phone, what would you design? Ultimately you'll end up reducing the number of buttons, and making a phone that looks like every other fucking phone.

Is it shameless that I put my computer in a grey box? Is it shameless that my nextdoor neighbour builds a house that has 4 walls and a roof just like mine?

Re "If you want to make a generic phone, be ready to charge no more than $50 for it."
Bic mobile phone - looks not unlike the Bic razor
http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/07/11/bic-phone-launches-in-france-e49-mobile-ready-to-go/
http://www.techdigest.tv/2008/07/bic_mobile_phon_1.html
and a nice video with a French voice over
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6cykt_premiers-test-du-bic-phone_tech
and in English (ad before warning)
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoChannel=2602&videoId=88851

This has gone too far.

Of course, there is an explanation:

"Time Magazine has caved in to shareholder's demands to feature more buzz words, like 'iPhone' and '...of the year', and pronounced Jobs's little bar of happiness the Invention Of The Year. Yes, it's official - Time has gone mad."
( http://techdigest.tv/2007/11/time_magazine_n.html )

In a modern world ...

CC.

Are these the same ISPs who also claim that YouTube and iPlayer are clogging the bandwidth? http://techdigest.tv/2007/08/uk_isps_send_bb.html It sounds like the ISPs have promised everyone "blazing fast internet" and can't make good on that promise because they misspent $200 billion that should have been building up internet infrastructure. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_200 70810_002683.html Now they are just making excuses instead of product.

http://techdigest.tv/pcmaclinux.jpg

I think that about sums things up.

As you might recall, the Japanese beat Professor Kaz's team to it, although the application the Japanese one is aimed at is different:
The Sexy Japanese Version

BTW isn't having a gas engine bad because of the noise it might make?

Actually its coming sooner than you think
Telewest Trials for cable customers
and
Sky Trials for satellite (if the site would work!)

Can't get cable where I am and don't want to pay for Sky so Digital will have to do with digital terrestrial (or freeview) for now. Like the poster says, this is pasted on the BBC calendar for 2010!.
Come on UK, pull the finger out or we will all have these HDTVs with nothing to watch on them.

Mobile phones will really start to work for us when they can use any of the radio networks available, handing off seamlessly. UMA is the mobile telco's 3G coopt of WiFi. SCCAN is the WiFi coopt of 3G. And the IEEE's 802.11e makes WiFi itself suitable for heating up spots in the mobile convergence mix. There's even Bluetooth routes to global telephony. It'll take a few years to work at all, but we're looking at the ream form of the emerging mobile platform.