Wednesday, 12. March 2008, 07:18:40
doubleclick, google, evil
So it is finally official,
Google has acquired DoubleClick. The company whose motto is “
You can make money without doing evil” has bought the company that
many has
seen as the
most evil of all.
The question that opens now is, will Google become more evil, or will Doubleclick become more good? Of course, Google has already began on Route to Evil with
tracking cookies and
dubious policies in their e-mail service (although
opinions thereon differ), among other things. Time will tell. I still cheer for the good guys.
Tuesday, 11. March 2008, 13:07:57
commodore 64, games, guitar hero
Wednesday, 5. March 2008, 09:54:27
javascript, assember, emulator
6502asm.com is an on-line 6502 assembler and emulator, written in JavaScript. I guess some of the more complex programs, such as the fractal generator, could be used as some kind of JavaScript benchmark if one likes those kind of things. Anyway, it is a cool hack. It’s been there for a while, I read about it a while back, but it was about time I added a link to it somewhere.
Friday, 29. February 2008, 07:59:16
patents, bounty, silly, apple
...
Patents were invented for a reason, to share your inventions with others, with the given benefit of giving the inventor the sole right, for a short period, to produce, or decide who will produce, the invention. As Opera’s
Charles McCathieNevile writes, this doesn’t work for software. Patenting ideas is bad. The
Patent Troll Tracker blog was started to keep track of
patent trolls like Ray Niro, who says he has the sole right to decide who can post a JPEG image on a web site. He recently
posted a bounty of five thousand dollars to reveal the identity of the owner of the blog,
and succeeded.
In other recent pathetic patent news,
Apple was sued by another patent troll who
claims to have invented the idea to connect caller identification with a phone book. If that’s not an obvious invention, I don’t know what is. Fortunately, the patent should expire soon.
Did I mention that
software patents are silly? I think I did. They are.
Monday, 25. February 2008, 09:03:59
opera, browsers, open the web
Norwegian IT news site Digi has
an article about Opera’s work on opening the web, featuring Opera’s “Chief web opener”,
David Storey.
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