Speaker\: Glenn Kerbein
Location\: O'Reilly Media
Description\:
With ongoing court case battles\, like with Oracle v. Google\, it brings to mind\: what is patentable? How did we get to this point? How can legitimate\, well-intended inventors work within a legal minefield? This talk explores the breadth and history of patent law. Particularly\, the talk focuses on software and software-related patents.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130619T075222Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120815T023000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120815T040000Z UID:http://nblug.org/node/182 URL;VALUE=URI:http://nblug.org/node/182 SUMMARY:General Meeting\: Hackfest and Hardware Swap DESCRIPTION:Instead of a regular speaker\, this month we are going to do a hackfest. Like the previous hackfest we will take half of the meeting to conduct lightning talks from the first four people who sign up for one. After that we will spend the rest of the time in a more loosely-structured social setting where everyone can show each other what they have been working on or ask for help. This would be a good meeting to bring your computers.
Also this month we invite you to bring any computer hardware you think other members might be interested in for a hardware swap.
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Location\: O'Reilly Media
Description\:
This is a short talk describing an algorithmic error made by the speaker when writing code to draw some geometric objects on paper. Most of the objects displayed just fine\, but some were shifted to wrong places on the page. Finding the cause of the problem was a bit of a mystery until an \\"Ah ha\\" event occurred. No sophisticated experience with graphics programming is required of the audience. The main ingredients are scaling and translation\, rather basic operations which are explained in the talk.
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