Never underestimate the power of bribes.

Google has rules limiting the number of their ad spots you are allowed to use on one page.

That's what RFC 2549 is for.

Put the algorithm in the hardware if you can, then you can publish the library open source without any risks.

There is also the question of whether closed source will even protect the algorithm. Binaries can be disassembled and reverse engineered, so closing source just makes thing more difficult if it's something as simple as an algorithm you are trying to protect.

I used to think this way too until I gave the Yii framework a try. It really is a well designed framework that doesn't get in the way and force you to do stupid things.

http://www.yiiframework.com/

You turn sea water into steam and you have a big pile of salt to deal with.

IIRC this is a win 3.x bug you are thinking of.

In addition to things other people have mentioned such as gaming there is are some small thing missing that really affects productivity.

* Right mouse button drag context menu shell extensions. The fact that I can right mouse button drag a rar file and say "extract here" or "extract to (subfolder with archive name)" is a hugely useful/convinant way to deal with archives -- it is the only way I use them on a desktop system.

As far as I know (and please correct me if this has changed) there is no way to do that under any of the X shells.

* Good graphical SVN client. Under windows I use TortiseSVN which provides a great SVN interface. Allows individual files or subdirectories to be commited/updated/reverted via right click context menu, and overlay's the icons with symbols identifying their status (up to ddate, modified, conflicted, etc).

I have not been able to find a X svn client with similar user interface to that. I'm not sure that X shells are even capable of allowing software to overlay icons like that.

* Office. I have been using Open Office now for a while under Windows and what i have discovered is: It Sucks.

It has the functionality necessary to accomplish most tasks but it is in serious need of polish to do a good job. That lack of polish makes it awkward to use and reduces productivity.

Let me give a simple small example of that. (Excuse the [sup] but /. doesn't seem to support the necessary html) If I type in something like 1st it will autocorrect it to 1[sup]st[/sup]. That is fine, MS Office will do that to. The problem comes when I don't want the "st" superscript. In MS Office if I press backspace (or undo I believe) immediately after the change it will undo the autocorrect and leave me with 1st. In Open Office there doesn't seem to be any way to convince it to not superscript the "st" other than completely disabling the feature (which is not what I want when I only want to prevent it in one instance)

It may seem like something small, but it's the kind of little thing that bugs the hell out of people and lowers the value of the software.

It sounds like they are. The article says "...below is the full email from Gabe Newell to Steam members."

Keep in mind Steam has a hell of a lot of members. It can easily take several hours to send out that many emails.

Built-in links to the documentation site would be nice.

No, you can not. That is the problem.