The site is also a nice resource for finding prior art.
Hope that doesn't make companies avoid inventing the stuff, since they can't really patent it, and we all know that it's the patent that creates a profit, not the invention...
I have to hand it to 3D Realms, I have to respect a company that can focus on putting out a quality product no matter how late it may be. I know a lot of companies don't have the resources to do such a thing, at least 3D Realms does.
Yes, I used similar reasoning to comfort myself while waiting for Diekatana, and that game sure was worth the wait in the end...
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Is it true that there somewhere in the kernelcode is a comment by Linus saying:
"//I wonder why this works"?
Does naming a temporary boolean variable SchroedingersCat constitute humor?
If so then, yes, programmers do have humor. (Atleast this one does...)
Or as my friend whom I introduced to BSD put it
when looking into using Linux on his desktop:
"GNU's not Unix....it's Linux"
(I can hear RMS getting his panties in a twist already)
The site is also a nice resource for finding prior art.
Hope that doesn't make companies avoid inventing the stuff, since they can't really patent it, and we all know that it's the patent that creates a profit, not the invention...
Yes, I used similar reasoning to comfort myself while waiting for Diekatana, and that game sure was worth the wait in the end...
Not to mention the fact that in the rest of the world we stopped those lame "In Soviet Russia" 'jokes' last year.
(Somehow I think the Offtopic mod was unfair, the humor in that "joke" is also vaporware....)