Their portable istuff uses ARM SoCs designed by Apple (they've bought up P.A. Semi, Intrinsity, and a couple other fabless semi companies in the past few years). ARM (the company) was a joint venture between Acorn and Apple back in the Newton days.
There seems to be a lot of confusion about what MPEG LA is and isn't. They're a patent pool. They don't own any patents themselves, they just make it simple to license out a large basket of many (but not all) H.264 patents (one of the conditions is that you also put your own H.264 patents into the pool). You could go out and negotiate patent licenses from the original holders if so inclined.
Not a comment on the feasibility of this particular kickstarter, but....
I remember when open source software was about "scratching an itch." Now with kickstarter, it's about "fuck you, pay me." The other day, I saw a project that boiled down to "I'll work 1 month for $15,000". The point isn't the money (I'm not donating so I don't give a shit) but I don't believe it can be done one month. Then what?
I don't know if I've ever seen a successful open source project from kickstarter. But I have seen many (from people with the credentials to do it) where the project is late (or even abandoned) and the code is buggy and incomplete. But the code is on github so you can be a chump and work on it for free.
They're like a dog in the manger. They can't make money off it, but they can keep you from making money off it. And they've bought up other companies just to shut them down. If you don't want to call it malicious (or "evil", if you will) you at least have to question the management decisions.
Yeah... EVs don't become more environmental than gasoline until ~80,000 miles. (Give or take, assuming you don't have to replace your batteries first).
It's not one hour without electricity (if you want that, go camping). It's one hour without non-essential lights. Oh, and it's not about awareness of people who lack reliable electricity, it's about awareness for climate change.
But the good news is, the rest of your rant is spot-on and is exactly why Earth Hour is garbage.
It was a private poker game in a private suite. The casino didn't lose $33 million, the other players lost $33 million. The casino made money (they take a cut from every game).
bleh std::array<type, size>;
is identical to type bleh[size]; (unless you're using C99 variable-length arrays)
Since size is a template parameter and resolved at compile time, the compiler keeps track of it.
c++11 Smart pointers (unique_ptr, auto_ptr (deprecated), shared_ptr) work with new[] as well.
I find exercise before bedtime helps me fall asleep faster. 5-10 minutes of rapid one-arm pull-ups, while I'm lying in bed... then I'm asleep 30 seconds after jizzing.
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I spent many hours this weekend playing Colonization (1994, $3 from GOG). Fullscreen with scanline effects.
Their portable istuff uses ARM SoCs designed by Apple (they've bought up P.A. Semi, Intrinsity, and a couple other fabless semi companies in the past few years). ARM (the company) was a joint venture between Acorn and Apple back in the Newton days.
Michael, not Michele. And he's been the Chairman and CEO since 2007.
I can't believe nobody else has mentioned it. What the fuck has slashdot become?
2012: Dr. Fernando Perez, (IPython)
2011: Matz (ruby)
2001: Guido van Rossum (python)
1998: Larry Wall (perl)
Rasmus Lerdorf (php) must feel a little left out.
There seems to be a lot of confusion about what MPEG LA is and isn't. They're a patent pool. They don't own any patents themselves, they just make it simple to license out a large basket of many (but not all) H.264 patents (one of the conditions is that you also put your own H.264 patents into the pool). You could go out and negotiate patent licenses from the original holders if so inclined.
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I think it's shorthand for "bugger the questioner", i.e. if someone asks you a question, you sodomize them. It's some sort of British thing, I guess.
Not a comment on the feasibility of this particular kickstarter, but....
I remember when open source software was about "scratching an itch." Now with kickstarter, it's about "fuck you, pay me." The other day, I saw a project that boiled down to "I'll work 1 month for $15,000". The point isn't the money (I'm not donating so I don't give a shit) but I don't believe it can be done one month. Then what?
I don't know if I've ever seen a successful open source project from kickstarter. But I have seen many (from people with the credentials to do it) where the project is late (or even abandoned) and the code is buggy and incomplete. But the code is on github so you can be a chump and work on it for free.
They're like a dog in the manger. They can't make money off it, but they can keep you from making money off it. And they've bought up other companies just to shut them down. If you don't want to call it malicious (or "evil", if you will) you at least have to question the management decisions.
That's funny. I've been using Evernote since 2005.
Reader didn't kill RSS but it killed and stifled development of other RSS readers over the past 7 years.
Yeah... EVs don't become more environmental than gasoline until ~80,000 miles. (Give or take, assuming you don't have to replace your batteries first).
If only they wrote a dissenting opinion. I guess we'll never know what they were thinking!
What happens when you import a pound of marijuana from a country where it's legal to a country where it's illegal?
It's not one hour without electricity (if you want that, go camping). It's one hour without non-essential lights. Oh, and it's not about awareness of people who lack reliable electricity, it's about awareness for climate change.
But the good news is, the rest of your rant is spot-on and is exactly why Earth Hour is garbage.
Bad analogy. You stick your dick in a glory hole so your wife can suck it, but it's actually a long-haul trucker on the other side.
It was a private poker game in a private suite. The casino didn't lose $33 million, the other players lost $33 million. The casino made money (they take a cut from every game).
bleh std::array<type, size>;
is identical to
type bleh[size];
(unless you're using C99 variable-length arrays)
Since size is a template parameter and resolved at compile time, the compiler keeps track of it.
c++11 Smart pointers (unique_ptr, auto_ptr (deprecated), shared_ptr) work with new[] as well.
Not being able to play the game is a deal-breaker for me.
"... unzipped the .hpp files span 9000 files and 90MB."
I find exercise before bedtime helps me fall asleep faster. 5-10 minutes of rapid one-arm pull-ups, while I'm lying in bed... then I'm asleep 30 seconds after jizzing.
I read somewhere about a stable solaris machine with a 3737-day uptime. How's your uptime?
meatspin!
OS X is certified Unix. It's not X, but X isn't Unix.
The UI has a lineage going back to the 1984 Mac (and Lisa) but everything else is NeXT/OpenStep.