Ethics, History, Politics, etc.

Timeline

• 1946: ENIAC
• 1965: Moore's Law - The number of transistors per integrated circuit doubles every year and a half.
• 1969: Arpanet
• 1976: United States Copyright Act
• 1984: Apple introduces the Macintosh with this commercial.
• 1993: Pentium
• 1995: Toy Story
• 1998: Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Books

• M. Mitchell Waldrop's The Dream Machine. J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal.
• Frederick P. Brooks Jr. - The Mythical Man-Month Essays on software engineering
• Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Series
• Jorge Cham Piled Higher and Deeper

Movies

• Sneakers
• Tron
• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

Links

• Cerf's Up - Vint Cerf's web page (the co-designer of TCP/IP)
• Compendium of NP-Complete problems
• Pragmatic Programmer - For those who want to keep their jobs, even in today's environment.
  
• Nissan.com - An example of why in law only the lawyers win (no commercial use for this site).
• MS Halloween Docs - Open Source's collection of documents which they attack MS with.
  
• Caldera vs. Microsoft settlement - Dr_Dos, Bryan Sparks and a few hundred million dollars.
• Microsoft's Open Source Lab - Who knew?
• PS2: Weapon of mass destruction - it appears that Iraq bought this video gaming system in bulk.