What if you are writing a program and, while coding the "obvious" way, end up writing something that's been patented? Am I supposed to make sure there isn't a patent on doubly-linked lists before implementing one?
My iBook has a "Powered By Linux" and an "Are You Using Linux Yet" sticker on it, but that's because it is running Linux.
It also has about eight Infinite Loop visitor IDs and a "Protect Wild Utah" sticker, but those are to cover fractures in the case. (This machine has been through a lot...)
What's so hard about releasing these things under an open source license.
Making a client like this Open Source only makes it that much easier to pump the server full of bogus data. You have people who think vandalism is funny to thank for this.
Well, sure, if you give them the software for free they might lack the expertise to use it.
But if you charge them for it instead, then you've gotten a tiny amount of cash, they've lost (~)months of their savings, and they STILL lack the expertise to use it!
> You know... I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front
> of a Windows machine for about 20 minutes now while it
> attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard
> drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my POS
> Pentium 133 running Gentoo, which by all standards
> should be a lot slower than this P4, the same operation
> would take about 2 minutes. If that.
Remind me never to assume anyone on Slashdot is familiar with the "standard" trolls.
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Clearly the developer lacked the imagination to do anything original...
I dunno, I thought it was pretty original. Name me one other game where graffiti is a major gameplay element.
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In addition NOD-32 is really quick, low on resources and has really good anti-spyware detection using the same technology.
I'm usually aware of it when I'm running anti-spyware software -- I don't need NOD-32 to tell me. ;)
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What if you are writing a program and, while coding the "obvious" way, end up writing something that's been patented? Am I supposed to make sure there isn't a patent on doubly-linked lists before implementing one?
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That was the point; it just wasn't worded very well.
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Have fun teaching your managers pseudocode.
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Unfortunately, civilization in general tends to encourage the opposite type of evolution.
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For a second, I thought you meant Macintosh Classic applications...
*goes back to playing Dark Castle*
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...when not three hours ago I finished watching Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" with my family.
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P.S. I didn't read the other comments before posting; this will probably be modded Redundant.
Blast. My mod points expired a few seconds before I tried to mod this up.
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Dear God. What is the world coming to, when people think that was originally from MIB?
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If the screen-saver is running, why is the person still at their computer, not to mention staring at the mouse?
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Not only are all three of my servers running free copies of Linux, but they were all gifts, so I didn't even pay for the hardware. :|
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If that's true, I wish I'd known about it before I tried that experiment.
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My iBook has a "Powered By Linux" and an "Are You Using Linux Yet" sticker on it, but that's because it is running Linux.
It also has about eight Infinite Loop visitor IDs and a "Protect Wild Utah" sticker, but those are to cover fractures in the case. (This machine has been through a lot...)
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I clicked Read More solely to find one of these comments or be the first (HA!) to write one.
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Amen.
...
Oops. My nameserver exploded again. *pads away*
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What's so hard about releasing these things under an open source license.
Making a client like this Open Source only makes it that much easier to pump the server full of bogus data. You have people who think vandalism is funny to thank for this.
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It's a joke.
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Well, sure, if you give them the software for free they might lack the expertise to use it.
But if you charge them for it instead, then you've gotten a tiny amount of cash, they've lost (~)months of their savings, and they STILL lack the expertise to use it!
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P.S. Interesting. Firefox "parses" </?P> tags. :S
So it's what SRT was going to be until I decided nobody would ever want it, except it's not open source. Frell.
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I thought Firefrocks, Oprah, and Lynch are all that is still competing with Internet Exploder...
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Hopefully not this.
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Yeah, right.
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To those of us who still have computers from 1980, 2003 is recent.
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> You know... I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front
> of a Windows machine for about 20 minutes now while it
> attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard
> drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my POS
> Pentium 133 running Gentoo, which by all standards
> should be a lot slower than this P4, the same operation
> would take about 2 minutes. If that.
Remind me never to assume anyone on Slashdot is familiar with the "standard" trolls.
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