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LifestreamUS Patent 4,558,302 has finally expired and the GIF format (or rather the LZW compression algorithm used within those files) is no longer under corporate control. Now it’s only a matter of time before international patents expire as well and the code will be universally free for all.
Read more about the Unisys/CompuServe GIF Controversy. Here […]
Archive for June, 2003
Nothing much. Not in my life and not with the world it seems.
There is a not so positive review of The Hulk over at Rednova. Or maybe it is good news? The review claims that the movie lacks any humor whatsoever. No silliness. No chuckles. Just contemplation on a Shakepearean scale. Not that it intimidates […]
Actually I have been wondering about this for quite some time now. I found this old essay on what is dubbed Trek Marxism. LOL. But it’s very true, the Star Trek post TOS economy does resemble marxist theory in many ways. I’m just not sure whether it was intended. Marxism is in many ways highly […]
Wow. Wow. Wow. The Flashback Forum is back on the net after a long down time due to some bs threat of criminal charges. It had something to do with advertising and discussing pirated decoder cards. Silly really. One could suspect that it was more to this than decoder cards. Perhaps the adverts were just […]
Long lost Suprnova is back on the net since a couple of days. Unlike some other sites *cough* their tracker doesn’t die all the time and they have an amazing variety of stuff to download. It’s an easy and safe way to create a download list before you go to work for example. You can […]
Seems I missed out on some major happenings this week. Just as Fairlight announced their retirement, the head of Razor1911 was sentenced to 18 months in prison for violating copyright laws. At least prison is better than those bs fines that these ppl love to dish out.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The leader of an online software […]
First day at work. Not much to say about that. I guess the updates to this blog wont be as frequent in the coming two months as they have been. So in case you’re wondering I’m not dead. You’re not getting off that easily …
This is a sad day indeed. After 16 years of serving the public, the FAIRLIGHT crew is checking out.
It has been a good few years, but it is now time for Fairlight to close its doors for good. Many reasons have made us come to this judgement but we feel it is for the best. […]
I find it particularly interesting in the wake of “Bowling for Columbine”, that these things get such a big media hype every time. Never really payed much attention to how and why before. I always thought I didn’t care. And that most ppl didn’t care either, thus weren’t affected. But nowadays this always makes me […]
