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6 Entertaining Games Made Entirely in Microsoft Excel
“Excel — your friendly (and perhaps most dreaded) office tool. But it’s not just for spreadsheets anymore. Believe it or not, you can turn the data-analyzing, number-cruncher into one unbelievably cool game. The Microsoft software has a few secrets up its sleeve; many people have managed to design new games or recreate classics like Monopoly […]
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The Supreme Court doesn’t understand software, and that’s a problem – Vox
“Patent litigation has become a huge problem for the software industry. And on Thursday, the Supreme Court could have solved that problem with the stroke of a pen. Precedents dating back to the 1970s place strict limits on software patents. The court could have clearly reiterated that those old precedents still apply, and that they […]
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VETUSWARE.COM – the biggest free abandonware collection in the universe
VETUSWARE.COM – the biggest free abandonware collection in the universe.
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The Music Suite
“The Music Suite is a system for creating, processing or analyzing music. It is based on the Haskell language. It is designed with three goals in mind: Describe what the music is, rather than how it is to be performed. Avoid imposing stylistic or theoretical assumptions on the music. Include common notation and theory as […]
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24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed
“…there is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format. Its playback fidelity is slightly inferior to 16/44.1 or 16/48, and it takes up 6 times the space. There are a few real problems with the audio quality and ‘experience’ of digitally distributed music today. 24/192 solves none of them. While everyone fixates on 24/192 […]
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Memento
Memento specifies a technical framework aimed at a better integration of the current and the past Web. The Memento protocol adds a time dimension to the HTTP protocol. Inspired by HTTP content negotiation, the protocol introduces the notion of datetime negotiation that allows a client to request the version of a resource as it existed […]