A few years back, I had a project amicably fork from mine. Their project went in a considerably different direction, before swerving back more into a similar direction as my own codebase.
As time went on, both groups would cheerfully swipe code, bugfixes and ideas from each other, with thanks and credits in the checkin notes and changelogs. It was all friendly and in the open, so nobody minded.
When I was at Burning Man, two years ago, our neighbors made some chocolate ice cream with liquid nitrogen. It was really delicious, and done in 30 seconds!
No... Apple is a hardware company that just also happens to sell software. If Apple released OS X for x86, it would erode and eventually eliminate a majority of their hardware revenue. The last thing Apple wants is legitimate Apple clone hardware. If they go x86, that's just what they would get.
A while back, like a couple years ago, I started noticing that my home machine was cranking through work units at a rate that was a couple orders of magnitude faster than other similar machines.
It took me a bit to figure it out, but apparently my IDE controller was intermittently failing, and corrupting my file system. So when SETI was writing out work units, it was either saving garbage or truncating the files. (I forget) Then it'd go through the motions of processing the file for 1% or 2% of the work unit, then abandon it as having too much noise. THEN IT REPORTED THE WORK UNIT AS PROCESSED.
I sent the seti@home folks mail reporting the problem, and took my machine offline (and replaced it with a much nicer machine later), but I never heard back on my mail.
I haven't particularly liked anything Moby's done recently, except the song Porcelain. My friend bought the album "18" so I got a chance to hear it, and it just wasn't very interesting. I won't be buying that album.
The Belfry's a niche index. Hell, it's a sub-niche index, as online comics are a niche, and The Belfry only really caters to a niche subset of those. It was always targeted at a relatively small audience.:-)
In any case, as The Belfry is an index, a lot of comics linked from it are dubious at best. Sturgeon's Law prevails. There are some gems in there, though.
I don't know the fellow who submitted the link to slashdot. It was a total surprise to me. Thank goodness for our PacketShaper, though.
I'm the one who runs the Belfry comics index. I'm not the one who submitted this story. I was happy with my obscure thousand visitors a day. Honestly, if it weren't for our PacketShaper this slashdotting would have caused us an annoying denial of services. Still, it is amusing.
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A few years back, I had a project amicably fork from mine. Their project went in a considerably different direction, before swerving back more into a similar direction as my own codebase.
As time went on, both groups would cheerfully swipe code, bugfixes and ideas from each other, with thanks and credits in the checkin notes and changelogs. It was all friendly and in the open, so nobody minded.
Obviously, I see no ethical problem with this.
When I was at Burning Man, two years ago, our neighbors made some chocolate ice cream with liquid nitrogen. It was really delicious, and done in 30 seconds!
No... Apple is a hardware company that just also happens to sell software. If Apple released OS X for x86, it would erode and eventually eliminate a majority of their hardware revenue. The last thing Apple wants is legitimate Apple clone hardware. If they go x86, that's just what they would get.
Err, that's false. WorldsChat did voice on a persistent 3D world about five or more years ago.
More recently, the just announced There, also supports voice chat, for broadband users.
A while back, like a couple years ago, I started noticing that my home machine was cranking through work units at a rate that was a couple orders of magnitude faster than other similar machines. It took me a bit to figure it out, but apparently my IDE controller was intermittently failing, and corrupting my file system. So when SETI was writing out work units, it was either saving garbage or truncating the files. (I forget) Then it'd go through the motions of processing the file for 1% or 2% of the work unit, then abandon it as having too much noise. THEN IT REPORTED THE WORK UNIT AS PROCESSED. I sent the seti@home folks mail reporting the problem, and took my machine offline (and replaced it with a much nicer machine later), but I never heard back on my mail.
I haven't particularly liked anything Moby's done recently, except the song Porcelain. My friend bought the album "18" so I got a chance to hear it, and it just wasn't very interesting. I won't be buying that album.
In any case, as The Belfry is an index, a lot of comics linked from it are dubious at best. Sturgeon's Law prevails. There are some gems in there, though.
I don't know the fellow who submitted the link to slashdot. It was a total surprise to me. Thank goodness for our PacketShaper, though.
I'm the one who runs the Belfry comics index. I'm not the one who submitted this story. I was happy with my obscure thousand visitors a day. Honestly, if it weren't for our PacketShaper this slashdotting would have caused us an annoying denial of services. Still, it is amusing.