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Linked List Patented in 2006
An anonymous reader writes "Congratulations are in order to Ming-Jen Wang of LSI Logic Corporation who, in patent #10260471 managed to invent the linked list. From the abstract, "A computerized list is provided with auxiliary pointers for traversing the list in different sequences. One or more auxiliary pointers enable a fast, sequential traversal of the list with a minimum of computational time. Such lists may be used in any application where lists may be reordered for various purposes." Good-bye doubly linked list. We should also give praise to the extensive patent review performed by Cochran Freund & Young LLP."
I'm very glad to know that your personal computing habits are to be considered the forced norm for all users.
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Macs have shipped with wide screens for years. The zoom behavior exists for the same reason that LaTeX defaults to using large margins. Most web sites will expand to fill the width of of the window. On a screen that is 16" wide, a page full of prose will have lines that are way too long to read smoothly. The designers of the software are fully willing to set the defaults to sensible values, even if the users are not sensible.
For pretty much every other app, the zoom button will only expand the window as much as is useful. However, with web browsers (especially with tabbed browsing) this behavior can be annying. Still, it works for most pages. If it weren't for tabbed browsing, the OS X zoom button would exhibit pretty much optimal behavior.