Redundant?
Consider Wikipedia, phpBB, Firefox, OpenOffice, dyne:bolic, bitorrent, GIMP, MediaWiki, Apache and Sourceforge. For the most part, were created in, born of, or cater to the Linux environment...
There'd be a Top Ten just for Linux builds or projects....
There was a football game that provided an edge. It was NFL Blitz by Midway. Hyperbolic animations, crude commentary, and other comic bits made the game much more enjoyable. They always added something else, like a new commentary track or even a funny color commentator. But, alas, EA's new NFL licence prevents it's return. Oh well, I'll always have Tecmo Bowl:)
...to include a post ranking for feeds, so 'important' articles can be pushed ahead.
I see it now: RSS Spam! Ads littering the top of your feeds! shoving all other feeds off of the screen: "Everybody Loves Baklava!!!!" Click a fake article and get porn trojans that add endless sex links to your RSS feeder.
It will be the same fiasco as IE. And, of course MSFT won't see the problem.
At what point is it okay to steal a thought? Microsoft had saved billions in R&D by letting someone else think of something first.
Set the wayback machine to 1983, and we can begin to see what Microsoft has swiped from others:
DR-DOS (outrighted a competing OS, called it their own and undercut DR)
Lotus (broke 1-2-3DOS with a memory manager, then made Excel which copied 1-2-3 commands)
IBM (abandoned joint OS/2 venture when they found protected-mode and kept it for themselves)
Stac (after Stac refused to give them STACKER, they stole the code added all of their functionality into DOS6 for free)
Any utility maker besides Norton/Symantec (ideas harvested and integrated into DOS 6)
WordPerect (forgot to give WP the full set of WinSDK tools that made WinWord so successful, added WP commands to Word)
Netscape (made their own and gave it away)
Java (Made MSJava to be incompatible, and when they lost that, created.NET)
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Redundant? Consider Wikipedia, phpBB, Firefox, OpenOffice, dyne:bolic, bitorrent, GIMP, MediaWiki, Apache and Sourceforge. For the most part, were created in, born of, or cater to the Linux environment... There'd be a Top Ten just for Linux builds or projects....
There was a football game that provided an edge. It was NFL Blitz by Midway. Hyperbolic animations, crude commentary, and other comic bits made the game much more enjoyable. They always added something else, like a new commentary track or even a funny color commentator. But, alas, EA's new NFL licence prevents it's return. :)
Oh well, I'll always have Tecmo Bowl
...to include a post ranking for feeds, so 'important' articles can be pushed ahead. I see it now: RSS Spam! Ads littering the top of your feeds! shoving all other feeds off of the screen: "Everybody Loves Baklava!!!!" Click a fake article and get porn trojans that add endless sex links to your RSS feeder. It will be the same fiasco as IE. And, of course MSFT won't see the problem.
At what point is it okay to steal a thought? Microsoft had saved billions in R&D by letting someone else think of something first. Set the wayback machine to 1983, and we can begin to see what Microsoft has swiped from others: DR-DOS (outrighted a competing OS, called it their own and undercut DR) Lotus (broke 1-2-3DOS with a memory manager, then made Excel which copied 1-2-3 commands) IBM (abandoned joint OS/2 venture when they found protected-mode and kept it for themselves) Stac (after Stac refused to give them STACKER, they stole the code added all of their functionality into DOS6 for free) Any utility maker besides Norton/Symantec (ideas harvested and integrated into DOS 6) WordPerect (forgot to give WP the full set of WinSDK tools that made WinWord so successful, added WP commands to Word) Netscape (made their own and gave it away) Java (Made MSJava to be incompatible, and when they lost that, created .NET)