Apr 29

Paper spam

So, the mail comes in and letter comes in the mail from “Domain Registry of America” so inside, this is what it was.

Right click and select 'View Image' to see a close up.

Oh! I can save money? WOW!! Like, I’m gonna leave GoDaddy’s price of $7.59 a year for $35.00!! Amazing! I just can’t wait to switch!

Some people would do anything for a buck. Seriously, you guys are gonna charge 35 bucks per year, when the average registrar charges 10 bucks? You’ve gotta be kidding me. The world’s idiots tend to be awfully annoying.

The address in the image is censored, because I don’t want anymore paper spam.

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Apr 16

What a “hacker” REALLY is


Many people believe that a hacker is someone who breaks into computer security without permission and does rogue things when they get there (e.g. steal money, install viruses, steal information, etc.). But what if I told you that was not true? What if I told you that a hacker was much different from that? I’m about to so keep reading, you may learn something.
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Steve Jobs Ghost Comic

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Feb 25

Software patents ARE bad

Software patents make it impossible for other people to compete with you. For example, let’s say I wrote a program which replaces every five characters in a program with an “~” and I patented it. If someone came up with the same idea without even knowing about my program. He would still get in trouble for patent infringement.

Don’t you find that dumb? It could be much worse than that. Microsoft ran into to issues releasing software in South Korea. And yet they still make tons of them themselves. They’ve been on the bad end of it and they still don’t see.

Software patents are bad. Don’t make them, and don’t try to support people who do, either.

P.S. I’d like to thank Otto for getting it through my head that software patents really are bad.

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Feb 23

That’s Hilarious

I was browsing Apple’s open source releases site today. I found something very funny.

If you’ve ever read any of the FSF‘s webpages. You’ll notice how anti-OSX they are.

While I was browsing around (Leave me alone! I have nothing better to do!:)) I noticed a lot of their open source packages (especially developer utilities) where taken from GNU.

Check it out yourself. There are more than you think. Trust me.

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Jan 07

SiMPLE

I was on the computer one day and a stumbled upon programming for kids language called SiMPLE.

I checked them out a bit and found that it was supposed to be an easy language that is aimed toward beginners. It stand for SImple Modular Programming and Environments. I tried it a out a bit and found out that I didn’t like it that much.

Of course, I have to do research on everything, so I looked it up on Wikipedia. Turns out, they guys who invented tried to create language that was easy to use because they thought languages like C++ were too hard for beginners.

Which I don’t get. Everyone says that about C++. I started learning C++ just a few months ago and it’s not actually that hard. It’s quite easy to understand and quite easy to work with. I don’t mean to be conceited, but maybe I’m just different :-P . I’ve always been interested in computers/programming since I was little, but I’ve only started to get into real development and programming recently.

I don’t mean to tell you not to use SiMPLE, but it’s more a of a hobby language than a hardcore development system. If you really want to be a professional programmer would recommend learning C/C++, or starting out with any other C-based language and then learning C++ itself (and paying attention in math class :) ).

If you want to learn C++ go to learncpp.com. It’s a WordPress site :) .

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Dec 16

I am so happy right now

I just got an email today from Softpedia saying that my May The Force Be With You plugin was added to their site. I love Softpedia. I go there all the time looking for programs and scripts, and to have something I made added to it is awesome. Someone else made a post on my plugin too. I guess people like it. It’s had 241 downloads on WordPress.org.

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Apple’s first logo

I thought their first logo was the rainbow apple. But it's not. Imagine this on the back of a MacBook. :)

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Dec 10

Darwin? Open source?

Darwin (in case you didn’t know) is kernel of Mac OS X, IOS and other Apple operating systems. It’s open source. I thought that was weird when I found out because Apple isn’t an open source company. It uses code from BSD systems and most open source licenses require derivatives to be published under the same license as the original work. As you probably know, BSD systems use the BSD license. Read the rest of this entry »

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Nov 24

Happy Thanksgiving!!

I hope your turkey doesn’t explode. Because if it does you will have no turkey. :lol: And did you see Google’s doodle?

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