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The Magic of Software (Licensing)
Henry Birdseye: “Is it getting to the point where the software is going to cost as much as the machine?”
Unknown: “I think it will get to that, yes.”
Birdseye: “So, if something like that can cost so much. Why not just make your copy?”
Bill Gates: “If you don’t get a legitimate copy, you won’t be… came aware of the improvements, and… overall the impact that type of ripoff is going to have is that people won’t write quality packages.”
Unknown: “It takes time to write software. We haven’t found any way to really reduce that time. It takes time to define the problem. It takes time to write the software.”
Henry Birdseye: “But increasingly, as you begin to (medal?) with the prepackaged things and get a little experience, you just can’t resist the temptation to do some of your own programming. And people are gonna be doing that.”
Bill Gates: “There’s a lot of people who are forcasting that there’ll be software stores just like there are record stores today and that there’ll be thousands and thousands of those, and I think I have to agree with that.”
And yet, 86-DOS — the operating system which Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Paul Allen pitched and later licensed to IBM — was actually written by Tim Paterson and called QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System). Read more »
Web Infinity
Web has that enormous feeling of infinity — every word and though never lost or erased once it’s up there on the web. Incredible, isn’t it, that feeling of never loosing something you hold dear.
US Stimulus Package: $2588 to Every American
The US Government stimulus package of 787 billion US dollars ($787,000,000,000) divided by the US population of 304,059,724 equals to $2,588 for every American.
Signs which some economists currently call showing recovery are actually signs of increasing amounts of money being poured into the economy. The economy will be on its way of recovery only when Americans will have repayed this loan and generated some additional return on this investment. Read more »
Education, Creativity and Individuality
TED Talk by Sir Ken Robinson on importance of education and creativity (via a comment at swissmiss)
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Global Debt Comparison
Every Latvian owes $3,766 while every American $22,177 for the amount of public debt its government has accumulated since 1999 — see Global Debt Comparison.
Why do only few economists notice these staggering numbers?
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OSCar 24H
Update: here is the technical specification of OSCar 24H.
The reason for not writing lately is this:
OSCar 24H cross country racecar.
Hey, You’re OK
You’ll be fine. The good old song from Ze: zefrank.com/chillout_.mp3
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I still believe in two hearts
I still believe in two hearts by Christina Martin & Aveiro (and praça do peixe, to be precise) in Portugal.
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Microsoft, you finally got it!
The new Microsoft ads are absolutely brilliant — Mr. Bill Gates turns out to be the marketing talent they have been missing since the very first day. These ads are already the second thing that Microsoft has gotten right over the past year, first being the Internet Explorer 8 and its support for Web standards.
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Comments and the Future of Blogging
It has been revealed that the latest trend in pro blogging is comments — the new social and web 2.0 crowd powered interaction feature. How far are we from comment digging and rating?
Google recursion?
Go to Google advanced search and search for the following: all these words: php this exact wording or phrase: *RECURSION*. You should get the We’re sorry… page because of too many automated requests, which you are cleary not doing. How weird is that?
issuu — simple and intuitive document viewer
issuu is a really simple, intuitive and easy to use document viewer for your offline publications or portfolios. And there is so much great stuff to read already.
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OpenID SeatBelt plugin for Firefox
With OpenID SeatBelt plugin (developed by VeriSign) you can now manage your OpenID identities and delegations right inside Firefox. This plugin automatically fills-in OpenID input fields on websites and blogs that support OpenID authentication. It also enables fast identity provider (IdP) switching and protects against OpenID phishing attempts.
In one of the future posts I will explain how to add a SeatBelt configuration file to phpMyID single indentity provider software so that it can be used with your privately installed OpenID.
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In the World of Open Source
“In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and jobs?”
A little modified version of Linux Owns slogan.
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Sounds of typing
On Web Worker Daily I found this little article about CushyCMS. Watch the introductory screencast and listen to those keystrokes, especially enter. Aside from that, I actually think that CushyCMS is very useful for the work its meant to do (and its free).
Simple Fullscreen Text Editors for Students, Bloggers, Journalists and Writers
Do you ever catch yourself changing the typeface, line spacing or the color of the text instead of actually writing? You might want to try one of these: Q10 — Finish that first draft. Now. (Windows only, no frameworks required); JDarkRoom — A simple full-screen text editor. (requires Java 1.4 or greater); Dark Room — Dark Room is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. (requires .NET Framework 2.0).
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Posting suspended while on vacation
There will be no new posts until the next week (March 24) as there haven’t been any for the past few weeks already due to the studies and the current vacation.
Topics for the upcoming articles include: how to automatically create thumbnail images for the blog post excerpts (from the images inside the article), and how to create one sentence post excerpts using regular expressions (REGEX) and PHP. Therefore — stay subscribed.
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