I think this is interesting because it helps one to think about where they were and what they were doing when events happened. Also, consider all the other people who were living, when I wasn’t even born yet. And what an impact people and events have on the world. Continue reading ‘Age Gauge’
Archive for January 8th, 2006
I decided to take a few minutes to stylize the list of the top 503 MP3s hosted on MP3 Shack.
What do you think of patents? via Aaron Lin…
We found another algorithm that nobody had patented yet. So everyone stopped using Compress and started using Gzip, right? No. Because the same compression is used in GIF … it’s called PNG format, which I believe means PNG’s Not Gif. … The people who use PNG format don’t start out looking for a patented format. … It took years for the web browsers to support PNG at all. The browsers won’t display this format, so how can we use it? … Some of them are officially published by a standards committee. Many of them are covered by software patents. … Now this is not supposed to happen. The patent office isn’t supposed to offer two patents on the same thing. … It’s hard to understand what a software patent covers, because it’s just mathematics really. … They could get a quick clue, are these the same idea or not? But with software, there’s no way to do that. The people in the patent office didn’t have enough time. They were both the same thing.
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