Sure, de nada. I'm a bit surprised at the timing of the front page article, too... or maybe not, given that news events from the past, presumably caught in bobbles, do seem to crop up on the front page of Slashdot with some regularity.
Actually, your memory is probably better than mine on this, as I only drop by CDFreaks on occasion (usually when I'm looking for something specific, like Firmware news, or reviews of a drive I'm considering). That particular link was the serendipitous result of me Googling "Sony Lite-On OEM DVD" because I no longer trust my memory worth a damn, and wanted to make sure that I hadn't just imagined that Sony rebranded Lite-On drives.
What I should have done, of course, was simply declare my assertion without bothering to check my facts. I mean, this is the internet, after all.
REMEMBER: You can some of the people some of the time, but Slashdot is full of dupes.
Sony currently uses Lite-On as the OEM for most of their DVD drives (some older ones are Ricohs; and a few are even Sonys). I suppose this means that they won't be doing so for much longer.
I will fly a standard shuttlecraft into the atmosphere of Saturn, climb out on the roof while the craft is in motion, and hold aloft a Terran golf club in order to be struck by this lightning and study its effects.
Please remember not to use a one-iron. Even Saturn can't hit a one-iron.
The big advantage here is that given the obviously moribund state of Martian culture, "Bombing them to the Stone Age" would actually advance their evolutionary timetable by millions of years!
Shortly after the first giant mysterious projectile embeds itself in the surface of Mars, one or more nearby primitive bacteria, inspired by our example, will inevitably cluster around it, find a rock or something and then pound the shit out of their neighbors. A quick flip of the bones up into the air, a jump cut, and voila! they'll have an advanced civilization.
Wait a minute -- you clicked on a link promising relevant pictures for an article about inappropriately-attired women acting in sexually provocative ways, and were surprised to find results that were Not Safe for Work? What on earth did you expect to see when you clicked that link?
I mean, I agree as a rule with the concept of labelling NSFW links, but this seems like a fairly slender thread on which to hang your response.
I was obscurely delighted to discover that, according to them, with a score of -1, my IP address was the least interesting one they had seen so far. W00t.
That's the part that leapt out at me, too. I've got a TB on this computer; and while only about half of it is available for video, it's a constant struggle keeping enough space free.
A single English Premier League football match, recorded at even medium quality, is a 3.5 GB dump from our ReplayTV. A single episode of Nova, recorded at high quality, is 2.5 GB. If I use my computer's ATI tuner instead, I can get a decent (SVCD) quality episode of Nova in for about 1 GB; but still, all of those 1 and 2 and 3 GB recordings add up rather quickly if you actually keep them around (and isn't that half the point of a computer-based PVR solution -- the ability to save programming so that you can stream it around the house later?). I love the convenience of being able to pick up our remote control in the living room and watch any one of hundreds of episodes of dozens of series (or dozens of movies) at the press of a button; but even with deleting all of the "watch-once" shows and transcoding like crazy to make the "keepers" smaller, I'm bumping up against my storage ceiling. If I had eleven tuners feeding the beast, I can't even begin to imagine how quickly one measly terabyte would get filled up.
I eagerly await the remainder of their backwards trek through Fox's collection of excellent prematurely-cancelled Friday night shows. Firefly and John Doe, check: How long before they work their way back to Strange Luck and VR.5?
No, no! If you Mod it up to +8, that will trigger an overflow exploit in Slashdot's moderation code!
Safe computing, people: Never mod anything up to more than +5!
On the other hand, there's this notice on the web site:
The raw transfers created by the University of California are in the public domain. Users of this website are free to use these raw transfers as they see fit, not limited to redistribution to others, including distribution over peer-to-peer file-sharing networks; reissue, mashups, mixes for commercial or non-commercial purposes; or other uses that could be imagined.
So it seems to me that all you need to do is download the original raw recordings yourself (rather than the MP3s, which are, as you mentioned, CC-attrib-noncommercial) and crunch them into MP3s yourself. More work for you, of course, but at least it should be doable.
Of course, as (almost) always, Wright's vision was just a wee bit ahead of the materials science of the day; the whole setup used to leak like crazy. But what the hell -- it sure was gangbusters back in 1939, when the future was invented.
The version of that story that I had always heard ended with the judge changing the "running a red light" citation into a speeding ticket instead. In which case, since speeding fines are usually proportional to the speed above limit involved, things could get very expensive indeed ("So... you were travelling at.67c, and the speed limit was 45 mph...").
If you could somehow combine the two, you might, at long last, realize the ancient dream of Power-over-Powerlines! Then we can return to tackling the thorny problem of delivering Ether via Ethernet.
Wait a second... his site gets a piddling 3000 page views a day (/. gave it that many in the last hour, in the middle of the night!), and he claims to be making big bucks?
WTF?
Technorati has 16 links in the last three days (many of them this current story), which is nice, but not exactly Boingboing, is it? Alexa has it at a nice, but not spectacular, rank of 32,764 (compare to TalkingPointsMemo's rank of 19,893 or Juan Cole's 19,776), and it barely shows up on Daypop. I don't see where the money comes from with those types of numbers.
However, there is no evidence that he ever "marketed" Bittorrent as a tool for piracy, and considerable evidence that he has done quite the opposite. This is a non-starter, in terms of the Grokster ruling.
Which is not to say that someone might try to use it against him, of course; it's just that the relevant facts in this case are miles removed from those in the Grokster case.
...Scientists at Tom's Astrophysics Guide and Ars Astra estimate that this new massive core planet is still capable of outperforming the latest Intel dual core planets by up to 20% in the all-important Halo 2 benchmark.
She's no stranger to Media Fandom, either, being one of the major figures in UK Buffy Fandom (possibly in part because, if they were real, she would have likely been an Oxford classmate and fellow inhabitant of low dives with Rupert Giles and Ethan Rayne).
In addition to knowing more or less everyone who is the least bit connected with SF in the UK, she has lead a life which can, perhaps, best be understood as science fiction, of the Late Heinlein or John Varley variety, in that, like all good posthumans, she has actually changed genders and sexual orientations during her lifetime.
If that isn't demonstrative of a true dedication to science fiction, I don't know what is.
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If you were fired by a company that paid you to write Open Source, would you still develop it?
Like practically everything else in the universe, the answer to this is, "It all depends."
As a (painfully!) personal example, I was downsized three years ago by the small software company I had worked for for nine years. The parting was as amicable as such things can ever be: I completely understood their reasons, and even agreed with them -- the cold equations made it clear that someone had to go, and the particular circumstances involved made me the clear and obvious choice. They were good people who weren't out to screw me over (if they weren't, would I have worked there for nine years?).
At the time, I still had the company's complete source code on my computer at home (telecommuting was not unusual; heck, during the '96 Olympics, the entire company basically shut down and worked from home, except for one programmer who lived right by the office who came in to have someone on-site just in case); if circumstances had permitted me, I would have happily spent some of my time polishing up a couple side projects I had wanted to work on while I was there, but had never had the chance to. They wouldn't have been huge things, or central to the core product -- mostly internal administrative utilities which I thought could use some tweaking and updating, along with a better UI -- but I would still have been writing proprietary commercial software for free, just because I wanted to.
I also dreamed about singlehandedly porting our entire codebase to Linux, and presenting it to them as a fait accompli (not entirely as insane as it sounds -- twice before in my programming career I had done porting tasks of similar complexity by myself), but, needless to say, that one also never happened.
But still, I think I can pretty clearly say that yeah, depending on the circumstances, if I were cut loose from a paid Open Source programming position, I might continue to work on the project for free. Of course, as someone else pointed out, I'd be doing so from then on on my schedule, not theirs; and I'd be working on the parts of the project that I watned to work on, which might not have been the parts of the project that the folks who had been paying me would have had me work on. Paying someone who might otherwise have worked for free gets you more than their gratitude: It gets you their undivided attention. Money has a way of doing that.
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Sure, de nada. I'm a bit surprised at the timing of the front page article, too... or maybe not, given that news events from the past, presumably caught in bobbles, do seem to crop up on the front page of Slashdot with some regularity.
Oh well. I guess it just serves to demonstrate Edna St. Vincent Millay's classic observation, "It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over."
Actually, your memory is probably better than mine on this, as I only drop by CDFreaks on occasion (usually when I'm looking for something specific, like Firmware news, or reviews of a drive I'm considering). That particular link was the serendipitous result of me Googling "Sony Lite-On OEM DVD" because I no longer trust my memory worth a damn, and wanted to make sure that I hadn't just imagined that Sony rebranded Lite-On drives.
What I should have done, of course, was simply declare my assertion without bothering to check my facts. I mean, this is the internet, after all.
REMEMBER: You can some of the people some of the time, but Slashdot is full of dupes.
Sony currently uses Lite-On as the OEM for most of their DVD drives (some older ones are Ricohs; and a few are even Sonys). I suppose this means that they won't be doing so for much longer.
Looks like CDFreaks will have to rename their Lite-On/Sony Drive Forum soon.
I cannot wait to see the construction blueprints for the enormous Faraday Cage they will doubtlessly build to enclose the entire campus.
We laugh now, but when the Waveries arrive to eat all our EM radiation, Luddhead University alone will survive.
Thanks for reminding me -- I need to spend some time levelling up my Camaro this weekend.
Judging from the folks at local SIGs and User Groups, it may well be a computer virus.
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The big advantage here is that given the obviously moribund state of Martian culture, "Bombing them to the Stone Age" would actually advance their evolutionary timetable by millions of years!
Shortly after the first giant mysterious projectile embeds itself in the surface of Mars, one or more nearby primitive bacteria, inspired by our example, will inevitably cluster around it, find a rock or something and then pound the shit out of their neighbors. A quick flip of the bones up into the air, a jump cut, and voila! they'll have an advanced civilization.
Wait a minute -- you clicked on a link promising relevant pictures for an article about inappropriately-attired women acting in sexually provocative ways, and were surprised to find results that were Not Safe for Work? What on earth did you expect to see when you clicked that link?
I mean, I agree as a rule with the concept of labelling NSFW links, but this seems like a fairly slender thread on which to hang your response.
I was obscurely delighted to discover that, according to them, with a score of -1, my IP address was the least interesting one they had seen so far. W00t.
A single English Premier League football match, recorded at even medium quality, is a 3.5 GB dump from our ReplayTV. A single episode of Nova, recorded at high quality, is 2.5 GB. If I use my computer's ATI tuner instead, I can get a decent (SVCD) quality episode of Nova in for about 1 GB; but still, all of those 1 and 2 and 3 GB recordings add up rather quickly if you actually keep them around (and isn't that half the point of a computer-based PVR solution -- the ability to save programming so that you can stream it around the house later?). I love the convenience of being able to pick up our remote control in the living room and watch any one of hundreds of episodes of dozens of series (or dozens of movies) at the press of a button; but even with deleting all of the "watch-once" shows and transcoding like crazy to make the "keepers" smaller, I'm bumping up against my storage ceiling. If I had eleven tuners feeding the beast, I can't even begin to imagine how quickly one measly terabyte would get filled up.
I eagerly await the remainder of their backwards trek through Fox's collection of excellent prematurely-cancelled Friday night shows. Firefly and John Doe, check: How long before they work their way back to Strange Luck and VR.5 ?
No, no! If you Mod it up to +8, that will trigger an overflow exploit in Slashdot's moderation code! Safe computing, people: Never mod anything up to more than +5!
Why shouldn't there be two -- or more -- "tenth planets"?
After all, there have been at least four different "fifth Beetles".
Amen, brother. I remember how depressed I was when I found out that Brontosaurus was no longer considered a planet.
Of course, as (almost) always, Wright's vision was just a wee bit ahead of the materials science of the day; the whole setup used to leak like crazy. But what the hell -- it sure was gangbusters back in 1939, when the future was invented.
The version of that story that I had always heard ended with the judge changing the "running a red light" citation into a speeding ticket instead. In which case, since speeding fines are usually proportional to the speed above limit involved, things could get very expensive indeed ("So... you were travelling at .67c, and the speed limit was 45 mph...").
...That's when you wave at him.
If you could somehow combine the two, you might, at long last, realize the ancient dream of Power-over-Powerlines! Then we can return to tackling the thorny problem of delivering Ether via Ethernet.
Wait a second... his site gets a piddling 3000 page views a day (/. gave it that many in the last hour, in the middle of the night!), and he claims to be making big bucks?
WTF?
Technorati has 16 links in the last three days (many of them this current story), which is nice, but not exactly Boingboing, is it? Alexa has it at a nice, but not spectacular, rank of 32,764 (compare to TalkingPointsMemo's rank of 19,893 or Juan Cole's 19,776), and it barely shows up on Daypop. I don't see where the money comes from with those types of numbers.
However, there is no evidence that he ever "marketed" Bittorrent as a tool for piracy, and considerable evidence that he has done quite the opposite. This is a non-starter, in terms of the Grokster ruling.
Which is not to say that someone might try to use it against him, of course; it's just that the relevant facts in this case are miles removed from those in the Grokster case.
...Scientists at Tom's Astrophysics Guide and Ars Astra estimate that this new massive core planet is still capable of outperforming the latest Intel dual core planets by up to 20% in the all-important Halo 2 benchmark.
She has co-written stories with Neil Gaiman, and was a Contributing Editor to John Clute and John Grant's Encyclopedia of Fantasy
She's no stranger to Media Fandom, either, being one of the major figures in UK Buffy Fandom (possibly in part because, if they were real, she would have likely been an Oxford classmate and fellow inhabitant of low dives with Rupert Giles and Ethan Rayne).
In addition to knowing more or less everyone who is the least bit connected with SF in the UK, she has lead a life which can, perhaps, best be understood as science fiction, of the Late Heinlein or John Varley variety, in that, like all good posthumans, she has actually changed genders and sexual orientations during her lifetime.
If that isn't demonstrative of a true dedication to science fiction, I don't know what is.
As a (painfully!) personal example, I was downsized three years ago by the small software company I had worked for for nine years. The parting was as amicable as such things can ever be: I completely understood their reasons, and even agreed with them -- the cold equations made it clear that someone had to go, and the particular circumstances involved made me the clear and obvious choice. They were good people who weren't out to screw me over (if they weren't, would I have worked there for nine years?).
At the time, I still had the company's complete source code on my computer at home (telecommuting was not unusual; heck, during the '96 Olympics, the entire company basically shut down and worked from home, except for one programmer who lived right by the office who came in to have someone on-site just in case); if circumstances had permitted me, I would have happily spent some of my time polishing up a couple side projects I had wanted to work on while I was there, but had never had the chance to. They wouldn't have been huge things, or central to the core product -- mostly internal administrative utilities which I thought could use some tweaking and updating, along with a better UI -- but I would still have been writing proprietary commercial software for free, just because I wanted to.
I also dreamed about singlehandedly porting our entire codebase to Linux, and presenting it to them as a fait accompli (not entirely as insane as it sounds -- twice before in my programming career I had done porting tasks of similar complexity by myself), but, needless to say, that one also never happened.
But still, I think I can pretty clearly say that yeah, depending on the circumstances, if I were cut loose from a paid Open Source programming position, I might continue to work on the project for free. Of course, as someone else pointed out, I'd be doing so from then on on my schedule, not theirs; and I'd be working on the parts of the project that I watned to work on, which might not have been the parts of the project that the folks who had been paying me would have had me work on. Paying someone who might otherwise have worked for free gets you more than their gratitude: It gets you their undivided attention. Money has a way of doing that.