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Beard's Eye

http://beardseye.blogspot.com/

Thoughts on software development, life, universe and everything else.

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  • "Encryption Chip" Will Not End Piracy

    Posted on Thursday July 24th, 2008 at 15:40 in , hype, piracy, tpm, trusted computing

    Nolan Bushnell is full of it. There, I finally got that off my chest. It's arguably acerbic and rather rude, but it needed to be said. You have no idea how hard I've tried to avoid saying it. After all, he's the founder of Atari and a historical figu...

  • Update: Firefox 3 Works After All

    Posted on Sunday July 20th, 2008 at 18:13 in , mozilla

    Consider this a deep breath before I plunge into some more serious blogging. It turns out that Firefox 3 works rather well, after all. Not that I doubted it, but I couldn't really try it out until all my favorite add-ons were updated and relatively s...

  • Firefox 3: A Five Act Tragedy

    Posted on Tuesday June 17th, 2008 at 20:46 in , hype, mozilla

    Act I: The HypeI first heard of the Firefox Download Day at the office, from a co-worker. It wasn't a dark and stormy night, however much we all wished it to be -- the A/C was on the blink yet again.Naturally, my curiosity was piqued. I've been using...

  • Piracy is Here to Stay

    Posted on Thursday May 15th, 2008 at 14:28 in , paradigms, piracy, society

    "With great power comes great responsibility." Wise words, Uncle Ben, but someone at BioWare wasn't listening. For those who hate following links, the short version of the story is that BioWare was going to implement draconian anti-piracy measures in...

  • Assassin's Creed

    Posted on Monday May 12th, 2008 at 17:36 in , game, game design

    How can you know whether a game is good without playing it? You can't, really. It wouldn't be fun if you could, right? Fortunately, there are people out there who play games and then tell you about their experience. Some of them do it professionally,...

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SterlingCamden

Sterling Camden

Well written and right on target.

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You know, after reading your BLOG, I feel much better already about my programming skills. Thanks for taking the time to write such original and insightful articles. And keep it coming!

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Interesting insights from a talented software developer.

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