The three search giants, plus Amazon , eBay and others, are all giving away code, offering up computing resources and begging hackers to build with them.

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For most, the latest Mesa CVS source code is required (See Resources for a link), as older versions of Mesa come up with funny textures and have trouble with some of Descent 3's graphic features.

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The three search giants, plus Amazon (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ), eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ) and others, are all giving away code, offering up computing resources and begging hackers to build with them.

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Indeed, as I have written here, while the government loses hundreds of billions of dollars in revenues due to underreporting, non-filing and underpayment each year, the IRS simply lacks the resources to enforce the Code.

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Or have Human Resources use their own code or computer codes to glean certain buzz words, dates, phrases that enable them to focus on resumes of those under 40 for any job opening they may have.

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This is both an efficient use of existing code base and increasingly a requirement as developing nations struggle with limited resources to tackle similar challenges.

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In the case of "technical debt", Mr Lesokhin believes this involves committing resources to work out which parts of banks' dormant code are most likely to turn zombie to avoid potentially calamitous consequences.

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And when the tax code lacks permanency, business owners have a hard time planning and must spend even more time and resources to map out the best routes for growth, says Bill Rys, tax counsel for the National Federation of Independent Business, a lobbying group in Washington.

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