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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."
You can avoid patents by outsourcing your company to less hilarious places.
China, for example.
Propaganda says China is an evil country. Understanding doublespeak this means it is the 1st choice for outsourcing. China is also safe from foreign terror since they have plenty of nuclear weapons to assure that. I bet, even if you find oil there in insane amounts, nobody will dare to liberate China and your company will be safe.
I really hope Iran will get their nuclear weapons right before they can be liberated. Then there would be an alternative to China which is closer to Europe.
By the by, why DOESN'T OS-X have a maximize button? Seriously. It's frustrating trying to browse at less-than-full-screen.
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It does, it's just stupid - it expands to the maximum size specified by the application, instead of to full screen.
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That's the zoom button. There's no maximize button in OS X because, well... honestly, I can't think of a situation where I'd want to maximize to full screen, outside the rare situations where maximize already exists (DVD Player, QuickTime Player, etc.). I'd feel confined, quite frankly. Trapped. It'd be sort of like that windows-within-window prison that seems to be popular on Windows.
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I'm very glad to know that your personal computing habits are to be considered the forced norm for all users.
I love my sig.
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.
Well, no. If you feel more comfortable with maximized windows, just use a PC. Nobody's forcing you to use a Mac.
And now, a PSA from David Lynch.