Use medical tape instead, I do it often. It peels off easier and contains a more skin-friendly glue. It's cheaper too, and almost as useful as duct tape for most things. I carry a small roll everywhere (the geek bag) but duct tape wouldn't fit.
Or to keep the snow off the traffic lights. Wasn't there a/. article on the new traffic LEDs that get packed with snow and the drivers don't see the light? I think a girl was killed in the incident mentioned on/..
Unfortunately it's likely not. Evolution or God (your choice) rarely gives something for nothing. This gene is likely there for a reason. Disabling it will have some drawback, and it may not be an obvious connection.
Dejumpering RGS14's apparently increases memory, the desire to tinker with things, reduces social ability, and keeps up glued to the interwebz. Slashdot lives on dejumpered RGS14 basement dwelling rodents already.
Especially since it'll likely be pirated before the CPU ships.
That's the idea. People are already pirating software, so let them pirate _your_ hardware as well. At least, let them think that they can.
Why would Joe Average buy a $100 AMD chip when he can buy an equivalent $110 Intel chip then "pirate" it to be equal to a $200 Intel chip? This is genius.
If I try really hard... let's see... I got it! 2010: The year of the Linux desktop!
By the way, my "side job" is installing and maintaining Linux desktops. A good half of my business are end users who need little more than a web browser and Skype, and have heard of this newfangled Lennox thing that doesn't get viruses.
That is because IE is a vehicle to get people INTO the latest Windows, not a tool for Windows users to use. There will be XP lusers who will see this as the reason to upgrade to W7, and there will be Macunts/Ubuntards who will now perceive IE as "safe" enough to go back to Windows.
Everything on this earth heavier than lead (atomic number 82) comes from supernovae.
Slashdotter: "Darling, I present for your lovely finger this shiny remnant of a giant supernova that blasted into space billions of years ago in a heated nuclear fireball."
Fiance: "If you put it that way, I don't want your stupid space-barf ring!" (*kling*)
Carbon (diamond) is #8, far below lead. That's normal stellar fusion (once most of the hydrogen's burned up, at least), not supernova.
Here's an alternative: Perhaps we are the First. Perhaps humanity is the first culture to rise to the point of being able to leave their home planet, even for a short while.
F1rst c0lony!!!11.
More likely that 4chan got there first, actually, Slashdot is too AJAX burdened.
The MediaCoder author is asking what he violated and the FFmpeg dev is just telling him to RTFL (license), all of it. The FFmpeg dev is being a jerk, too, and calling him names. The MediaCoder author even mentioned that he asked on the mailing list before distributing and got told that him usage was fine.
MediaCoder might be violating the license, but it looks like an honest mistake that the author wants to rectify. The FFmpeg dev would rather call him names than show him what he did wrong.
> I thought go-oo also required copyright assigned to them when > submitting patches (I agree they're not as retarded as Sun when > it comes to accepting patches).
I did not know that. I've never submitted a patch. It sounds ironic, and I see no mention of it on the site: http://go-oo.org/developers/
Can you tell me where you found that info?
> Why is Oracle making an even bigger mess of it? By attaching it's > name to the project?
Who modding this as troll? It is exactly what I intended to post. "Free" means "without cost" no matter who has hijacked the term or what contingencies they associate with it.
I actually quite like the model of a free version of software and then a paid-for pro version with extra coolness. It's a model that works well. But when you combine that with Open Source, it becomes a little more dubious (maybe) because there's the possibility that you use the name of Open Source but create a system where in practice, people can't meaningfully participate and it's primarily a hook into the paid version. This is where I feel SugarCRM are. I have no doubt that there are people using the Community Edition for business purposes, but I think what I describe is the bird's eye view of the situation.
Although I agree with you about the model of a free version of software and then a paid-for pro version, it never works out in practice. Just look at Star Office and the mess it caused when people tried to commit patches to Open Office. Sun would require the patchers to give them copyright on the code, and very few would do that, hence go-oo was born. Oracle is making an even bigger mess of it, even though Star Office has been dropped and is now part of Open Office.
About the only good implementation is Red Hat, and that is because they play by the FOSS rules. Even Novell tried a variation on the free/paid route, not playing by FOSS rules, and look at where Suse is today.
Slashdot Mirror
What a waste of an opportunity for a f1rst c0ntact post. Damn, and I even rushed over while the headline was still red!
Thanks, I've never heard of that.
Use medical tape instead, I do it often. It peels off easier and contains a more skin-friendly glue. It's cheaper too, and almost as useful as duct tape for most things. I carry a small roll everywhere (the geek bag) but duct tape wouldn't fit.
Or to keep the snow off the traffic lights. Wasn't there a /. article on the new traffic LEDs that get packed with snow and the drivers don't see the light? I think a girl was killed in the incident mentioned on /..
If you're a "True Nerd" (TM)** then you'd know that the colloquialism "boxen" was derived from another colloquialism "VAXen"
For me the term came from here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Trail_(game)
That was the case until now. However, to appeal to the pirates market Intel invented this "upgrade". Exactly my point.
Unfortunately it's likely not. Evolution or God (your choice) rarely gives something for nothing. This gene is likely there for a reason. Disabling it will have some drawback, and it may not be an obvious connection.
Dejumpering RGS14's apparently increases memory, the desire to tinker with things, reduces social ability, and keeps up glued to the interwebz. Slashdot lives on dejumpered RGS14 basement dwelling rodents already.
Especially since it'll likely be pirated before the CPU ships.
That's the idea. People are already pirating software, so let them pirate _your_ hardware as well. At least, let them think that they can.
Why would Joe Average buy a $100 AMD chip when he can buy an equivalent $110 Intel chip then "pirate" it to be equal to a $200 Intel chip? This is genius.
Could you be more wrong?
If I try really hard... let's see... I got it!
2010: The year of the Linux desktop!
By the way, my "side job" is installing and maintaining Linux desktops. A good half of my business are end users who need little more than a web browser and Skype, and have heard of this newfangled Lennox thing that doesn't get viruses.
That is because IE is a vehicle to get people INTO the latest Windows, not a tool for Windows users to use. There will be XP lusers who will see this as the reason to upgrade to W7, and there will be Macunts/Ubuntards who will now perceive IE as "safe" enough to go back to Windows.
...who strip down for speed, dope, blow, and whatnot.
I don't go near any of them, either.
I know of other MS products that resemble a (fragile) sheet of glass. Windows, anyone?
Slashdotter: "Darling, I present for your lovely finger this shiny remnant of a giant supernova that blasted into space billions of years ago in a heated nuclear fireball."
Fiance: "If you put it that way, I don't want your stupid space-barf ring!" (*kling*)
Carbon (diamond) is #8, far below lead. That's normal stellar fusion (once most of the hydrogen's burned up, at least), not supernova.
Intuit goes out of their way to make things difficult, here is my experience asking about Quicken for Linux:
http://dotancohen.com/eng/quicken_on_linux.html
After that experience, I'm actually not so sure that I do want to use their software.
Here's an alternative: Perhaps we are the First. Perhaps humanity is the first culture to rise to the point of being able to leave their home planet, even for a short while.
F1rst c0lony!!!11.
More likely that 4chan got there first, actually, Slashdot is too AJAX burdened.
We've already received that invitation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
Here's the bug:
https://roundup.ffmpeg.org/issue1162
The MediaCoder author is asking what he violated and the FFmpeg dev is just telling him to RTFL (license), all of it. The FFmpeg dev is being a jerk, too, and calling him names. The MediaCoder author even mentioned that he asked on the mailing list before distributing and got told that him usage was fine.
MediaCoder might be violating the license, but it looks like an honest mistake that the author wants to rectify. The FFmpeg dev would rather call him names than show him what he did wrong.
For now, it is something that just looks very promising for now.
You work in the Department of Redundancy Department, no?
Already exists for Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433/
...the sun rises and sets to the right of me. (*Can't be bothered to figure out what direction I am facing)...
You are facing North in the morning, and South in the evening. Nice.
> I thought go-oo also required copyright assigned to them when
> submitting patches (I agree they're not as retarded as Sun when
> it comes to accepting patches).
I did not know that. I've never submitted a patch. It sounds ironic, and I see no mention of it on the site:
http://go-oo.org/developers/
Can you tell me where you found that info?
> Why is Oracle making an even bigger mess of it? By attaching it's
> name to the project?
I actually like the Oracle name. But they've reassigned OOo engineers from bug fixing (I am in contact with Oracle for licensing so long as Issue #5556 gets fixed) and they've taken the MS Office ODF compatibility plugin and started charging for it:
https://shop.oracle.com/pls/ostore/f?p=ostore:product:8843910539649667::::P3_PPI,P3_LPI,P3_METRIC,P3_TERM:3710062267511641485310,3760869190131631757316,Application%20User,_Perpetual
> And what exactly did Novell do different than Red Hat that
> makes Suse such a 'dog'?
I never called Suse a dog.
Exactly. So long as SugarCRM calls their product "free" and not "free as in speech" then they are fine.
Who modding this as troll? It is exactly what I intended to post. "Free" means "without cost" no matter who has hijacked the term or what contingencies they associate with it.
I actually quite like the model of a free version of software and then a paid-for pro version with extra coolness. It's a model that works well. But when you combine that with Open Source, it becomes a little more dubious (maybe) because there's the possibility that you use the name of Open Source but create a system where in practice, people can't meaningfully participate and it's primarily a hook into the paid version. This is where I feel SugarCRM are. I have no doubt that there are people using the Community Edition for business purposes, but I think what I describe is the bird's eye view of the situation.
Although I agree with you about the model of a free version of software and then a paid-for pro version, it never works out in practice. Just look at Star Office and the mess it caused when people tried to commit patches to Open Office. Sun would require the patchers to give them copyright on the code, and very few would do that, hence go-oo was born. Oracle is making an even bigger mess of it, even though Star Office has been dropped and is now part of Open Office.
About the only good implementation is Red Hat, and that is because they play by the FOSS rules. Even Novell tried a variation on the free/paid route, not playing by FOSS rules, and look at where Suse is today.
This looks like the same concept behind Microsoft's Surface AKA Big-Ass Table.
No, the surface needs each item to be individually marked on the bottom:
http://what-is-what.com/what_is/microsoft_surface.html
Not the same at all. However, there was another camera technology once mentioned on /. that is really similar, but I cannot find it now. Anyone?