Developers Beware.
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Bogus, man. In my CS class in 1981 I had to build a linked list using arrays. What'll they patent next? Recursion? (I had to simulate recursion using my own call stack in the same course.) :| Now rounded rectangles... that's a different matter altogether. /ravi
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Aaah, reminds me of one of my worst CS exam questions: Traverse a binary tree without using recursion. Not Earth shattering, but unexpected and quite hard in the last minutes of a three hour exam.
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Aaah, reminds me of one of my worst CS exam questions: Traverse a binary tree without using recursion. Not Earth shattering, but unexpected and quite hard in the last minutes of a three hour exam.
It was a great course! I think we lost about half the students. It was the first required course in the MS(CS) program, meant to determine if you were qualified to continue in the program. /ravi
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this sunshine must stop, it's just insane :doh: I'll get one for int's before someone does...
I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p)
Sentenryu wrote:
I'll get one for int's before someone does...
Great idea! Just don't use semicolons 'cos I've already patented them. :) /ravi
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Primary Examiner: John Breene Secondary Examiner: Cheryl Lewis Attorney: Cochran Freund & Young LLP Take 'em out and shoot 'em.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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they patented the Multiply_linked_list[^]? :(( Wiki:
In a multiply linked list, each node contains two or more link fields, each field being used to connect the same set of data records in a different order (e.g., by name, by department, by date of birth, etc.). (While doubly linked lists can be seen as special cases of multiply linked list, the fact that the two orders are opposite to each other leads to simpler and more efficient algorithms, so they are usually treated as a separate case.)
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Extract:
Filing date: Sep 26, 2002 Issue date: Apr 11, 2006
I'm sure I was using linked lists way back in the 1990's, can I sue them?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Extract:
Filing date: Sep 26, 2002 Issue date: Apr 11, 2006
I'm sure I was using linked lists way back in the 1990's, can I sue them?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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And none of them are owned by Apple? :omg: Slacking... Danny
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Like Generic Medicine which gets manufactured at very cheaper cost, does the Patent expiry to hold for software code/design/concept etc?
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Well, someone did file a patent request for the wheelbarrow, back in the early 70s -- and it was granted, and the clown who got it made a pile of money from it. However, software is a weird area in which to seek a profit from such a patent, because to enforce a judgment against a developer, the patent holder would have to compel him to reveal his source code -- and that takes a lot more than an unsupported claim of patent infringement.
But on the larger topic, the requirements for a patent grant are less stringent than you might think. Some years ago, a friend tried to patent the flight of stairs. He missed, but not by much!
(This message is programming you in ways you cannot detect. Be afraid.)
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they patented the Multiply_linked_list[^]? :(( Wiki:
In a multiply linked list, each node contains two or more link fields, each field being used to connect the same set of data records in a different order (e.g., by name, by department, by date of birth, etc.). (While doubly linked lists can be seen as special cases of multiply linked list, the fact that the two orders are opposite to each other leads to simpler and more efficient algorithms, so they are usually treated as a separate case.)
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Extract:
Filing date: Sep 26, 2002 Issue date: Apr 11, 2006
I'm sure I was using linked lists way back in the 1990's, can I sue them?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
I was using them back in the 70's on a file system that didn't support indexes.
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Like Generic Medicine which gets manufactured at very cheaper cost, does the Patent expiry to hold for software code/design/concept etc?
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IBM was using linked lists in OS/360 in the late 1960s, and possibly in other operating systems before that. I would bet that they had already patented it, or thought it was too obvious to patent, or they just didn't do software patents then.
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What the...?, That's why we see people fighting for squares, black borders and colors nowadays. I'm going to try to patent the wheel, who knows, perhaps if i try it several times i may succed.
CEO at: - Rafaga Systems - Para Facturas - Modern Components for the moment...
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Bogus, man. In my CS class in 1981 I had to build a linked list using arrays. What'll they patent next? Recursion? (I had to simulate recursion using my own call stack in the same course.) :| Now rounded rectangles... that's a different matter altogether. /ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
I had to build a linked list using arrays
We did the same in my Data Structures class in 1980. In FORTRAN.
Software Zen:
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
I had to build a linked list using arrays
We did the same in my Data Structures class in 1980. In FORTRAN.
Software Zen:
delete this;Luxury, we had to do it on an abacus, but try telling t'kids o' today that and they won't believe you.