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Wireworld’s Platinum Starlight HDMI cable is only $1,000, better than your HDMI cable

You idiot. Where did you buy those cables? Walmart? You probably think you’re getting the whole 1080p, don’t you! Boy, you couldn’t be more wrong. What the big box doesn’t want you to know, with their cheap-ass $150 cables is that there are, um, waves and some, uh… electromagnetic spectrats. And they eat your pixels! Yeah, that’s right! Pixel-eating EM spectrats! Not even making this stuff up. How much did you spend on that TV? $1,000? You did buy that $1,800 power cable from Furutech, right? Well, don’t you think you should spend at least that much on the all-important cables that are going to funnel the dynamic 1080p transmissions from your Blu-ray player to your TV? Here, try this Platinum Starlight HDMI cable from Wireworld. It has a patent-pending DNA Helix conductor design formed by the gods themselves out of 24 solid silver conductors. Hell, $1,000 is probably a bargain for one of these one meter cables. Your eyes are worth it, after all. You’re welcome.

Wireworld’s Platinum Starlight HDMI cable is only $1,000, better than your HDMI cable originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Featured job of the week: Mac developer for graphics focused project

Filed under: TUAW Business, TUAW Tips

Job Description

Join an award-winning ex-Apple graphic designer as well as a respected computer vision/graphics researcher, with patents licensed by a number of well-known technology brands, to take a patent-pending technology and build it into a best-of-class Mac application.

We are looking for a talented developer with a passion for building creative solutions in the graphics space.

Candidate will be responsible for overseeing software development, testing and launch. The expectation is for this product to be a game-changer; we’re looking for a talented developer who can help make that a reality.

For more info, and to apply, check out the full requirements and contact info on this job’s page.

TUAWFeatured job of the week: Mac developer for graphics focused project originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Storing text docs in XML may run afoul of Microsoft patent

In the middle part of this decade, Microsoft engaged in an extensive effort to create open standards derived from its own XML-based file formats, such as XPS and Office XML. This work was widely interpreted as an effort to forestall adoption of competing formats, such as the Open Document Format, and concerns were raised about whether the Office XML format was severely encumbered by the company’s patents. Despite these fears, Microsoft ultimately saw its efforts succeed. A recently granted patent, however, reveals that the entire effort took place while Microsoft had a patent pending that covers nearly any use of XML for storing word processing documents.

The patent was filed back in late 2004 and was apparently approved only this month. It’s entitled “Word-processing document stored in a single XML file that may be manipulated by applications that understand XML,” but it appears to cover the use of an entire class of XML documents by any word processing program.

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