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  1. Re:Hide what? by MysteriousPreacher · · Score: 1 · on Trying To Lure Suckers, Company Resells Open Source Blender

    Yup, I find it difficult to trust Seth Avery "3D Enthusiast & Creative Director". As for the money-back guarantee, I question the ability of a composite character and stock photography to honour this kind of promise. Besides, Seth is busy selling coffee: http://home.nbl.fi/~nbl2417/scratch/Rode.jpg

      "Seth" is selling the same product under two different names, and has a habit of doing this with other open source packages (Flight Gear). He's using legal yet very cheesy and misleading techniques, and offering nothing that can't quickly be found for free. For example, one of the amazing books he's offering with his ripped-off flight sim is freely downloadable from the FAA site.

    He really is going for the low hanging fruit with lines like "as seen on Google". Hell, anyone who sees that as nothing but comical would likely pay a premium price for a DVD fashioned out of genuine atoms! Yup, these people are hucksters who will likely earn a decent bit of scratch from people who try to research this product, but likely find nothing but bogus reviews run by affiliates. Google really need to fix this kind of stuff in their searching. It's too easy to swamp search results with these bogus blogs.

  2. Re:The first link... by alfrin · · Score: 2, Informative · on Quantum Camera On a Silicon Chip

    ...to this page while interesting on its own, doesn't appear relevant to the article.

    Notice the URL. Notice who posted the article.

    I know it is a page from the poster. But the page content doesn't match the link text.

    Exactly. It seems to me it was a quick throw in to get traffic to his site. A link obviously unchecked in the editing process.

  3. Re:The first link... by MichaelSmith · · Score: 1 · on Quantum Camera On a Silicon Chip

    ...to this page while interesting on its own, doesn't appear relevant to the article.

    Notice the URL. Notice who posted the article.

    I know it is a page from the poster. But the page content doesn't match the link text.

  4. Re:The first link... by alfrin · · Score: 3, Informative · on Quantum Camera On a Silicon Chip

    ...to this page while interesting on its own, doesn't appear relevant to the article.

    Notice the URL. Notice who posted the article.

  5. The first link... by MichaelSmith · · Score: 2, Informative · on Quantum Camera On a Silicon Chip

    ...to this page while interesting on its own, doesn't appear relevant to the article.

  6. Re:Some KDE Screenshots from SVN TRUNK by 10Ghz · · Score: 2, Informative · on KDE Developers and Usability Folks on Cooperation
    Those screenshots reflect a failing of open-source: their design is inconsistent, self-absorbed, cluttered, and useless.


    The screenshots do not show the default desktop, it show how this particular user has set up his desktop. So it merely shows that you can customize KDE to your exact liking. And I don't see how that is a "failing of open source".

    FWIW, my KDE-desktop looks like this. Quite a difference, no?

    Please: if you want to complain about KDE, do not use some heavily modified desktop as your basis of complaining! The desktop shown on the previous screenshots are NOT what KDE looks like by default! It merely shows what this particular user prefers.