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Submission + - New Patent for keyboard video game control

Submitted by deathy_epl+ccs on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @01:04AM

deathy_epl+ccs writes: It's not real clear whether this guy's patent on controlling a video game using nothing but a keyboard's arrow keys is just a protest, a statement against the broken nature of the USPTO, or whether he genuinely believes he's managed to get a license to print money with the award of the patent, but we can at least take comfort that it wouldn't be likely to survive being challenged.

I first read about this over at GameSetWatch

Submission + - "Spam King" pleads guilty in U.S. federal

Submitted by Monty on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @12:45AM

Monty writes: As previously reported by Cmdr Taco in February, 2006 (http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/28/14 41229) looks like Adam Vitale finally decided to plead guilty (http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN 1120537620070611) to violation of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 in federal court in New York City. Is his cohort Moeller next?

Submission + - Victory In My Battle Against A Feed-Scraping Thief (madkane.com)

Submitted by

Mad Kane

on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @12:36AM

Mad Kane writes: "A personal story about my successful battle with a content-stealing site, including a handy content protection resource list. http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/2007/06/11/victo ry-in-my-battle-against-feed-scraping-content-thie f-4comedycom/"

Submission + - Open Source Is All About Choice, Isn't It? (devx.com)

Submitted by

AlexGr

on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @12:26AM

AlexGr writes: "From Allan McNaughton (DevX): If you are an open source ISV seeking to offer your customers more choices, you should seriously consider supporting Microsoft Windows as a deployment option. Allan McNaughton explores some of the reasons that make partnering with Microsoft so compelling. Developers love choice. And open source developers have choice aplenty. There is a veritable avalanche of technologies that can be used to build open source applications. Of these technologies, the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) has emerged as one of the most popular open source development and deployment platforms. Open source ISVs who embrace LAMP technologies (SugarCRM for example), have gained legions of volunteer developers who contribute time, energy, and ideas (although for every open source success story there are hundreds of projects that never gain critical mass). http://www.devx.com/MicrosoftISV/Article/34632?trk =DXRSS_ENTR"

Submission + - Selling a software company

Submitted by TogetherGirl on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @12:24AM

TogetherGirl writes: I'm a partner in a small software company that sells 7 software products worldwide. We have been in business for about 5 years and each year sales have increased nicely.

Because of different philosophies / interests / opinions, we have decided to part ways. We have all agreed that it is best to sell the company or all products to a third party and hence, distribute the proceeds according to share ownership.

Since there is interest in our products by our competitors, we are trying to determine what is the best multiple of gross product sales to be used in calculating the 'selling price' of the company or all of the products.

I know there is no exact science but what is the average multiple (of gross sales) used to determine the asking / selling price of a software company?

Can anyone point out some good examples of companies being bought for around $1 million USD?

Thanks

Submission + - Hatred for PHP -- in the case of Ruby's Matz (rubyist.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @12:14AM

An anonymous reader writes: I know you believe in the Programmer Hierachy, right? Here's one real world example. Matz, the author of Ruby, posted a blog entry about a bad design of PHP. It began in another guy's blog entry... That guy found out that there is a strange behavior in PHP's round function, and he guessed why it happened in very funny way. Then Matz took it seriously and he said... "Well, this is totally impossible design of programming language, but can PHP user trust the language with such a bad sense of it?? I fee very sad."

I hear a lot of the word of "Love" in Ruby community recently. Isn't it a nice way to love your neighbor huh?

eg: Here's Google Translation of Matz's blog. the diary of hnw — the strange round function of PHP on Matz's blog on May 27, 2007

Submission + - IT gurus are top marriage material in India (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by

snkmoorthy

on Monday June 11, 2007 @11:49PM

snkmoorthy writes: "Rafia Khatoon is a mother on a mission.She's looking for a good matrimonial match for her 28-year-old Rakshi."I want an IT professional," she says, "preferably someone based in London, or someone who has the opportunity to work overseas in the future." For the IT professionals who have spent years labouring under nicknames such as nerd, geek or computer whiz — and those are the nicer ones — this attention comes as a pleasant surprise. They've hardly ever been seen as the most glamorous of types. Often stereotyped as hard working and intelligent — and well, just a little bit boring — they're not often seen as the ideal mate."

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