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Comment Re:What if you buy it used? (Score 2) 187

by TraxPlayer on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @11:23AM (#36166444) Attached to: The FSF's Campaign Against the Nintendo 3DS

Or if you buy it in a country with good laws eg. Denmark. Here companies can't force anything if the customer wasn't presented with the terms before buying the products. Terms included inside a box isn't legal including M$ EULA.

GNOME 2.24 Released 163

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 24, 2008 @04:25PM from the ekiga-has-the-best-screenshots dept.

thhamm writes "The GNOME community hopes to make our users happy with many new features and improvements, as well as the huge number of bug fixes that are shipped in this latest GNOME release! Well. What else to say. I am happy." Notably, this release is also the occasion for the announcement of videoconferencing app Ekiga's 3.0 release.

Clean Code 214

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 24, 2008 @01:10PM from the read-all-about-it dept.

Cory Foy writes "As developers, system admins, and a variety of other roles in IT, we have to deal with code on a daily basis. Sometimes it's just one-off scripts we never have to see again. Sometimes we stare at something that, for the life of us, we can't understand how it came out of a human mind (or, as the book puts it, has a high WTF/minute count). But there is a time when you find code that is a joy to use, to read and to understand. Clean Code sets out to help developers write that third kind of code through a series of essay-type chapters on a variety of topics. But does it really help?" Read below to find out.

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