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  1. Re:How big was the hobbit? on 'Hobbit' Creates Big Data Challenge · · Score: 1

    That petabyte must be without any compression. The Hobbit (HFR, 3D) as used by a digital cinema projector still fits on a 500GiB hard drive.

  2. Re:Germany's 'what'? on Germany's Former First Lady Sues Google · · Score: 1

    That term is not specific to the US president's wife any more. It refers to any head of state's wife.

  3. Re:there are signs on McDonald's Denies Prof's Claim Staff Attacked Him For Wearing Digital Glasses · · Score: 1

    In that case, you can replace ä by ae, ö by oe, ü by ue and ß by ss.

  4. Re:What about GPS on/off? on Cell Phones: Tracking Devices That Happen To Make Calls · · Score: 1

    That statement wasn't all that silly. Most users will never manually control this.

  5. Re:see plus on Objective-C Overtakes C++, But C Is Number One · · Score: 1

    I've seen GUIs in Java applications that were much better -- both in quality and speed -- than most "native" GUIs. Of course they didn't use Swing.

  6. Re:It'd be interesting on Samsung Blames Galaxy SIII Burn On "External Energy Source" · · Score: 1

    To dry it.

  7. Re:The google's way ? on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced? · · Score: 1

    What about IRC bots?

    Put it in /msg bot help or similar.

    What about twitter utilities?

    Depending on what kind of twitter utility, either put the link in the bio or put it into the response to a help comman.

    What about RSS?

    XML comment.

    What about a programmable light switch?

    You don't have to offer the source code to anyone who physically uses the switch, AGPL only covers interactions via a computer network.

    One could argue that not all of these are really prominent, but then again, the GPL itself demands a prominent copyright notice. And even in the case of bash, the most prominent copyright notice is hidden behind the --version switch.

  8. Re:terrible beauty: public domain in the modern wo on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced? · · Score: 1

    Though in the case of software, developers should be required to deposit the source code somewhere. A binary blob in the public domain is still quite useless.

  9. Re:The google's way ? on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced? · · Score: 1

    Most hardened Free Software advocates consider Affero to be non-free. It introduces usage restrictions, which go against Freedom 0 ("the right to use the software for any purpose").

    That depends on what you call the user: In a way, it's who runs the server that a cloud application runs on. But for me, the actual user is the person who actually uses the software.

    It also prevents most code reuse: you can't take a part and put it inside your program if it interacts with users in a way that doesn't provide means of file transfers.

    Does the AGPL require a way to download the source code from within the software? I would have assumed that presenting a notice like "This is AGPL software, the source is at http://example.com/foo-source" would be perfectly fine.

  10. Re:Reminded of Sveasoft and the GPL on The 'Everyone Gets the Source Code, Donations Get You Binaries' Software Model · · Score: 1

    Since what Sveasoft does is clearly against the spirit of the GPL, I wouldn't be surprised if a court would struck down this practice if any of the copyright holders challenged it. What exact problem are you referring to with "Androidization"?

  11. Re:Reminded of Sveasoft and the GPL on The 'Everyone Gets the Source Code, Donations Get You Binaries' Software Model · · Score: 1

    The GPL's intent is to make sure everyone can redistribute the software as they want to, Sveasoft's policy does undermine that.

  12. Re:Midazolam on Erasing Details Of Bad Memories · · Score: 1

    Technically, the suicide is still caused by the time in the military that way.

  13. Re:laymen... on Google To Pay $0 To Oracle In Copyright Case · · Score: 1

    #define software_patents NULL
    #define software_patents void

    Hey, nobody said anything about "at the same time"!

  14. Re:WWOOF on Ask Slashdot: What To Do Before College? · · Score: 1

    This. There will be more than enough programming in your life to come, so you should get other kinds of life experience.

    Also, employers like to see these things on resumes.

  15. Re:Wow on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 1

    Even if I did that, it would be much more of a mess than having a clean "/usr/bin". AFAIK, the length of %path% is limited too.

    What I do when I want to launch a program that I know the executable name of is to use Search Everything.

  16. Re:Wow on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 2

    Not really, since you won't find most applications in the %path%.

  17. Re:I don't let my kids have earbuds. on Do Headphones Help Or Hurt Productivity? · · Score: 1

    If you don't let your kids use earphones, you shouldn't restrict how loud they can have their music either. (Within reason)

  18. Re:That's the police for you on Ten Cops Can't Recover Police Chief's Son's iPhone · · Score: 1

    You don't have to do a full search. Unless the flat is really large, it would be enough to have a policeman stand in front of the open door and make the phone he's looking for make noise (either via the phone location app or just by calling it).

  19. Re:Photobox if you are in Europe on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Printing Digital Photos? · · Score: 1

    ((They also allow you to upload photos with FTP rather than some stupid application) which is really really convenient!)

    rather than

    (They also allow you to upload photos with FTP rather than (some stupid application which is really really convenient!))

    (Why am I even answering you?)

  20. Re:Don't on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Printing Digital Photos? · · Score: 1

    By then they'll be wanting to make 3D models of everyone...

    I doubt this -- photos haven't been displaced by videos either.

  21. Re:right filesystem on Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Tool To Detect Corrupted Files? · · Score: 2

    NTFS-3G supports writing to NTFS. AFAIK, most Linux distributions use it instead of the kernel driver and there's a OSX port as well.

  22. Re:Beware of dynamic languages for large projects. on Ask Slashdot: What Language Should a Former Coder Dig Into? · · Score: 1

    That is true only for cPython, the default interpreter. IronPython and Jython don't have the GIL. As for cPython, you can still use multiple processes with the multiprocess module. Guido claims that this is much better for using multiple cores anyway, though I think that is mostly an excuse.

  23. Re:That depends... on Is Google the New Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Are Google enforcing proprietary formats

    They've tried to (NaCl, Pepper, etc) and are still trying to.

    I'm sure there are reasons to criticize Google's attempts to introduce new standards, but proprietary they are not. The API is publicly documented and Google provides an open source implementation of them, Chromium.

  24. No immersion -- No TES on Bethesda Announces Elder Scrolls MMO · · Score: 3, Funny

    One of the main strong points of the TES games is, in my opinion, that they allow for quite a lot of immersion. Well, about as much immersion as a fairly buggy PC game can give you. I cannot imagine that they will be able to carry that over into an MMO full of 13 year old kids called "FusDoRahPorn131888".

  25. Re:The Name on Gimp 2.8 Finally Released · · Score: 1

    I am fuckin no arms, asshole!

    Here, FTFY. How do you fuck an arm anyway?