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  1. Re:CALL VERIZON INSTEAD OF THE NEWS!!! on Woman Claims Ubuntu Kept Her From Online Classes · · Score: 1

    fall and spring? What is this something that takes months to resolve or something?

  2. Re:Expected on Woman Claims Ubuntu Kept Her From Online Classes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Windows requires just as much tinkering as Linux, just in different ways.

  3. Re:patch set on Qt Becomes LGPL · · Score: 1

    I see.

  4. Re:Way to go, Nokia! on Qt Becomes LGPL · · Score: 1

    Yeah, thats pretty much what I meant. Technically, any in house changes they don't have to contribute back, though. But they have to submit their changes back for any derived work that is distributed. What's wrong with the phrase "patch set"?

  5. Re:I'd rather have 4/36 on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 1

    How is its worth zero?

  6. Re:I'd rather have 4/36 on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 1

    I dunno. I give it a 3 out of 5. That statement would apply to a flat tax too.

  7. Re:I'd rather have 4/36 on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 1

    I want to see your 6 year old explanation.

  8. Re:I'd rather have 4/36 on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 1

    I believe the original post was talking about a tipping point where the government keeps most of each additional dollar. I suppose a new tax bracket does not make the government keep "most" of each additional dollar, but it does keep "more" of each additional dollar. And taking into account that one's time is a finite asset I don't think I am technically incorrect.

  9. Re:Way to go, Nokia! on Qt Becomes LGPL · · Score: 1

    Well, that's not entirely true. With the extra usage the companies will want to keep their libs working well without having to maintain a large patch set. So they will more than likely contribute what they would have contributed had they purchased the commercial license, and they will also have more incentive to use the software in the first place because there is no longer a price for commercial deployment. More users = more patches. This is a major win.

  10. Re:time to port gnome! on Qt Becomes LGPL · · Score: 1

    Did you mean to say exiting or were you going for exciting? Also, Vala compiles down to C code, if I'm not mistaken. If Qt is C++ I don't know how well that would work ;-).

  11. Re:I'd rather have 4/36 on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 1

    Stupid slashdot plaintext conversion. That should say $y LESS_THAN_SYMBOL $x.

  12. Re:I'd rather have 4/36 on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I actually wasn't aware of that (you know short of the post above this one), thanks for presenting this information in the most douchiest mother fucking assholiest way possible. No, seriously thanks. People are this fucking stupid because the concept is presented in a fucking stupid way.

    But regardless, if your time is worth $x / hr (and you net $x / hr in your normal tax bracket), and after exceeding a certain threshold you start getting $y / hr such that $y $x (due to entering into a higher tax bracket), then you have just started selling your time at a loss. I have screwy logic though I suppose.

  13. Re:Yeah but, on A Sony Camera Running Linux · · Score: 1

    Linux has healed the unholy Sony!!!!!!!!!

  14. Re:I'd rather have 4/36 on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: -1, Troll

    There are many "tipping points" called tax brackets. If it can knock you down into a lower tax bracket you can come out ahead.

  15. Re:Interesting! on IBM Creates MRI With 100M Times the Resolution · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you talking about a cat or a wife?

  16. Re:Hurm. on Running Android On Netbooks · · Score: 1

    Honestly, I was just imaging anything with journaling that isn't specifically written for something like flash storage to be suboptimal. And if you read many and write few you shouldn't be losing that much even with a non-journaled file system.

  17. Re:Hurm. on Running Android On Netbooks · · Score: 1

    My thoughts exactly.

  18. Re:Perfect for in-dash navigational systems... on Running Android On Netbooks · · Score: 1

    And boy is it zippy. I just developed an app using their SDK. I would suggest lots of RAM and lots of CPU.

  19. Re:Double Duh! on Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution · · Score: 1

    I thought most modern RDBMSes version all data internally so when you run a backup it just sets a note about the current version and knows not to vacuum up old versions until after the backup operation is done. This allows it to operate completely normally with regards to any transactions which occur during this time.

  20. Re:Suddenly... on Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? · · Score: 1

    I think he was saying exactly the same thing as you.

  21. Re:OR you can use a Gammaknife... on A Robotic Cyberknife To Fight Cancer · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Whatever. on Thieves Take the Cake · · Score: 1

    Very true.

  23. Re:I'm not holding my breath... on MIT Injects Nanotubes To Help Fight Cancer · · Score: 1

    100% of people aged 100 or more have died or will die.

  24. Re:When will it become *our* phones? on Second Google Android Phone Revealed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am an app developer (mobile included). I have developed a couple of apps for the Android platform just to test the SDK. It works pretty well, but lacks some dialogs which are standard on desktop OS's (color picker, file save/open dialogs). All of that is kind of offloaded to the developer. It has *A LOT* of great potential to extend every part of the OS's interface. I am far more excited for Android than iPhone since iPhone really restricts what you can do with it. Hell you can't even have an app run in the background. How dumb is that?

    Android won't compete with iPhone as much at first simply because there isn't enough marketing. But it will catch up and then some once more power apps (free even, gasp) show up. As far as the G1 goes, its a pretty nice phone, but making it T-Mobile only in the US was not very smart. T-Mobile has very little 3G support throughout the US. Nothing against T-Mobile really, its just young in that respect.

  25. Re:FOSS movie on "FOSS Business Model Broken" — Former OSDL CEO · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I also thought his ignorant assumption of the support driven software house as *THE* F/OSS model of business was arrogant and presumptuous. I think F/OSS works because it is a community, and to get F/OSS to work for business a new business oriented connection infrastructure needs to emerge which benefits and bridges the F/OSS and business communities.

    I envision a kind of hub where members of an industry with an itch to scratch can post ideas, plans, blueprints, rewards, and job opportunities. And developers can collaborate and develop. Kind of like sourceforge, but with a bit of a social networking, goal advertisement, and recruitment built in. Essentially, business owners advertise what ideas, needs, demands, and rewards it has. Finds like minded businesses with similar goals. Gets together and cooperates to develop a solution to their common problem.