Author: mcherm

The Future of Television

A few days ago, version 1.0 of "Miro", an open-source application, was released. It is a video player with a nearly-perfect design combining the powerful VLC video player, an intuitive UI design, BitTorrent distribution, and a thoughtful approach to copyright law. And it will change Television forever.

What is …

Posted Thu 15 November 2007 by mcherm in IP-Law, Uncategorized

In Defense of the Much-Maligned GOTO

You've certainly heard of Dijkstra's famous article: "GOTO Considered Harmful". You may well even have heard about how it was actually Niklaus Wirth who gave it that title. These are interesting bits of history, but they've been covered by better bloggers than myself; my topic takes me a little beyond …

Posted Thu 15 November 2007 by mcherm in Programming