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Comment i did this years ago (Score 1) 452

by elliotth on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @01:54PM (#20466941) Attached to: Programmer's Language-Aware Spell Checker?

here's a paper i wrote for sigplan notices in 2004 talking about the options, and how it works in practice: http://www.jessies.org/~enh/publications/checking- code-spelling.pdf plus the editor i wrote http://software.jessies.org/evergreen/ has this functionality.

Submission + - Sun's Trading Symbol Going from SUNW to JAVA

Submitted by Mortimer.CA on Thursday August 23, 2007 @05:40PM

Mortimer.CA writes: Straight from Jonathon Schwartz's weblog, Sun is changing their ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA: 'JAVA is a technology whose value is near infinite to the internet, and a brand that's inseparably a part of Sun (and our profitability). [...] To be very clear, this isn't about changing the company name or focus — we are Sun, we are a systems company, and we will always be a derivative of the students that created us, Stanford University Network is here to stay. But we are no longer simply a workstation company, nor a company whose products can be limited by one category — and Java does a better job of capturing exactly that sentiment than any other four letter symbol.'

Submission + - Diebold rebrands what noone wants.

Submitted by Irvu on Thursday August 16, 2007 @01:50PM

Irvu writes: Diebold has apparently failed in their bid to sell their tainted elections systems unit. Unable to find a buyer the CEO of Diebold promised that the system will be run more "openly and independently." To prove that they are serious, they renamed it. Diebold Election Systems is now Premiere Election Solutions. They still sell GEMS, AccuVote OS and the ever-unpopular AccuVote-TSX which performed so disastrously in California's Top-to-Bottom Review under the same names. Apparently their rebranding effort only goes so far.

Submission + - Electronic Arts delays OS X games (vnunet.com)

Submitted by

pete314

on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @04:55PM

pete314 writes: "Electronic Arts has broken its WWDC promise to launch games for OS X on the same day as the Windows version. Yesterday's Madden 2008 launch went without an OS X version, and Mac users are also still waiting for Battlefield 2142 and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."

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