"In its initial investigation, AEI uncovered a total of nine unique software bugs... in AEI's inCircle product that were also present in Orkut.com,"
So they're suing him because he stole their proprietary bugs?
Well, "3001" wasn't published until 1996. He wrote "The Fountains of Paradise", another book about a space elevator, in 1978. But, at any rate, sci-fi authors rarely think up these things themselves. Instead, they generally get their ideas from journals and contacts in the scientific community.
For example, one of my college CS professors is friends with Greg Bear, and helped him with background material for a couple novels.
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I didn't watch any of the episodes on Fox because I hadn't even discovered Buffy yet.
You just answered your own question. Nobody was watching it. I caught two or three episodes, but mainly by accident (flipping through channels on a rare Friday night at home). But then, the reason nobody was watching it was because Fox didn't advertise it. Much like they did with Futurama, they set the show up to fail by not letting anyone know it was on.
It's entirely possible that your student friends no longer have access to computing resources. Many of the schools and government buildings were looted during the period after Saddam was driven out, and very little of value was left behind. I imagine computer equipment would be one of the first things to go.
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I know, that was just my sad attempt to get modded for being funny :o)
"In its initial investigation, AEI uncovered a total of nine unique software bugs ... in AEI's inCircle product that were also present in Orkut.com,"
So they're suing him because he stole their proprietary bugs?
Well, "3001" wasn't published until 1996. He wrote "The Fountains of Paradise", another book about a space elevator, in 1978. But, at any rate, sci-fi authors rarely think up these things themselves. Instead, they generally get their ideas from journals and contacts in the scientific community. For example, one of my college CS professors is friends with Greg Bear, and helped him with background material for a couple novels.
It's entirely possible that your student friends no longer have access to computing resources. Many of the schools and government buildings were looted during the period after Saddam was driven out, and very little of value was left behind. I imagine computer equipment would be one of the first things to go.