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Corrections here please
Authored by: jesse on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 05:00 PM EDT
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News Pick discussions
Authored by: jesse on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 05:01 PM EDT
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COMES document thread
Authored by: jesse on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 05:02 PM EDT
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Authored by: jesse on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 05:02 PM EDT
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WMV files and PowerPoint
Authored by: DannyB on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 05:31 PM EDT
VLC should play WMV files just fine.

In my experience, LibreOffice handles PowerPoint better than it handles Word.


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Software is instructions - not always
Authored by: PolR on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 05:51 PM EDT
Software is instructions when the chosen universal algorithm is an instruction
cycle. This is the case most of the time, but not always.

In a language of the functional programming type, the universal algorithm may be
some variant of beta-reduction. The software is a data structure that is
modified in memory as the computation progresses. This is not instructions.

Software is data given to a universal algorithm. It is instructions only when
the universal algorithm is designed to take instructions as its input. Not all
universal algorithms work this way.

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Computers are not machines?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 06:13 PM EDT
"Software is instructions telling a computer what to do,
algorithms and data. There is no machine in there."

I am not really sure where you are going with this, it seems
like you are kinda nit picking, and in an incorrect way. A
computer is a machine, a programmable machine, so while I
disagree with software patents, there are better reasons for
it.

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USPTO Roundtables on Software Patents: CA and NYC, video available
Authored by: sk43 on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 08:47 PM EDT
"Nowadays, most people use Apple or Android, on mobiles, to boot."

Rubbish! I use neither. In fact, I just read this article using NCSA Mosaic -
the original GUI Web browser. Distribution media should target standardized
formats, not some particular platform-du-jour.

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USPTO Roundtables on Software Patents: CA and NYC, video available
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 11 2013 @ 04:29 AM EDT
Wow seen less than a 10 minutes and I am already about to
explode with rage.

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  • Why? - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 11 2013 @ 10:32 AM EDT
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