Tech Review: Friday, March 30, 2012

The 'broken patent system': how we got here and how to fix it

http://www.theverge.com/2011/08/11/broken-patent-system/

• Good article
• fails to discuss some of the real problems with current software patents:
• overlap
• constantly changing
• we are not going to be closing the patent office anytime soon

Uniform resource identifier

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_identifier

• a string of characters used to identify a name or a resource
• URL - Uniform Resource Locator
• URN - Uniform Resource Name

Google Augmented Reality Glasses Expected by Year's End

http://www.pcworld.com/article/250453/google_augmented_reality_glasses_expected_by_years_end.html

• augmented reality 

Google Glasses Are a Prescription for Disaster

http://www.pcworld.com/article/250507/google_glasses_are_a_prescription_for_disaster.html

• bobblehead googleites 

Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year's End

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/google-to-sell-terminator-style-glasses-by-years-end/#

• $250 - $600

Basic Merging

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.branchmerge.basicmerging.html

• $pwd
• /home/usre/my-calc-brance
• $ svn merge http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/trunk

Using 'find' with Ignore Case

http://www.redips.net/linux/find-files/

• find . -iname "util"