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  1. Re:Who reads the manual? on The MPEG-LA's Lock On Culture · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You film it in an MPEG format and convert it to Ogg Theora before distributing it. Might work.

  2. Camera for non-commercial use only? on The MPEG-LA's Lock On Culture · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How does that work? If a camera says it's for non-commercial use only, do I need to sign a contract that says I won't use it for commercial films? What if I sell my camera to someone else? Does the contract require me to sign over that contract to the buyer? If I fail to do so, what can they do about the buyer using the camera for commercial purposes?

  3. Re:MS should... on Dedicated Halo 2 Fans Keep Multiplayer Alive · · Score: 1

    How old is Starcraft?

  4. Re:How is this news? on StarCraft Cheating Scandal Rocks Korea · · Score: 1

    Total agreement. Especially seeing so many top name players potentially involved -- when I thought it was just Ma Jae Yoon it was bad, but then I read the list. My heart nearly stopped at Kim Tae Yong.

    If that list is comprehensive, Flash is going to destroy everyone in 2010.

  5. Re:The Sony on It's 2010; What's the Best E-Reader? · · Score: 1

    The Barnes and Noble nook also appears as a USB mass storage device, no different than a flash drive. I think most do, with the exception of the Kindle (and, if you must call it an ereader, iPad).

  6. Re:This is exactly the spirit of the law on Overzealous Enforcement Means Even Legit Music Blogs Deleted · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No, this is a way of saying the IFPI controls music distribution, and not the artists or recording labels that own the music. The rights holders aren't involved or consulted.

  7. Re:30 to 40 thousand lines isn't large by any meas on Learning and Maintaining a Large Inherited Codebase? · · Score: 1

    I work on a 300KLOC codebase. It's mid-size. I started working on it about six months into a complete rewrite, and it's been over two years, so I know the code. But it took three months until I knew the codebase well.

    40KLOC? You should be able to pick that up in a month, full-time. I've learned an open source project of that size in my spare time in a few weeks.

  8. Re:Bennet, you're a lazy, freeloading tool on Power To the Pop-Ups · · Score: 1

    His users owe him something for using his service -- something that he and they can agree on. His costs are increasing and his revenues are not. At some point, he will be paying more than he is earning. He's suggesting a new advertising strategy that may suffice to get him more funding.

    This seems perfectly reasonable to me. It might not work for him, but if it does, great. I'm not his customer, so it won't affect me.

  9. Re:You're probably not that special.. on Keep SSH Sessions Active, Or Reconnect? · · Score: 1

    The best way to defend against an X lover is to use the console exclusively.

  10. Re:They need to on Judge Lowers Jammie Thomas' Damages to $54,000 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Slander per se != slander.

  11. Re:Houston Has Similar Plans on Vermont City Almost Encased In a 1-Mile Dome · · Score: 1

    I grew up in a hamlet. It was so named because it had a distinct name but no distinct governing authority, instead falling under the authority of a nearby town.

  12. Re:SVN etc. on How Do You Manage Dev/Test/Production Environments? · · Score: 1

    My company wrote a small project for this (not released in any form, though). It has a collection of SQL scripts identified by date (eg "2009-10-15 1415 Renamed Foo.Bar to Foo.Baz.sql") and a table with columns for script name and date applied. Any scripts it finds that aren't listed in that table, it applies in order according to the date in the script name.

    You should be able to hack this together in a day or so.

  13. Re:Too early yet on Legal Code In a Version Control System? · · Score: 1

    If they don't read the bill, they're incompetent, not malicious. Either way, they shouldn't be in office.

  14. Re:Oooo ya on New Wheel of Time Book — Chapter One Online, Released Oct 27 · · Score: 1

    Sanderson's writing style is not terribly similar to that of Robert Jordan. It's a more popular style, less prone to spending three pages describing the layout of a room. If he's a good enough author, he can work around that issue, though.

  15. Re:I'm thinking.,.. on Why Is It So Difficult To Allow Cross-Platform Play? · · Score: 1

    You're thinking backwards. Why not have an adapter that puts your PS3 on Xbox Live?

  16. Re:Why would they... on Why Is It So Difficult To Allow Cross-Platform Play? · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's short for "verisimilitudinously".

  17. Re:Gutless? on World's Only Diesel-Electric Honda Insight · · Score: 1

    US diesel fuel is a lower grade than European diesel fuel, which contributes to the emissions problems. Additionally, US emissions tests are measured per gallon of fuel, so if their diesel engine had double the emissions per gallon and ten times the mileage, it wouldn't pass, even though it'd reduce emissions by a factor of five.

  18. Re:They wouldn't have arrested her on Woman With Police-Monitoring Blog Arrested · · Score: 3, Insightful

    She was tracking police officers while they were on duty. These things should be a matter of public record. It's just that a private citizen is also gathering the data and disseminating it, without a police officer being able to sanitize the information or wait on a FOIA request for two weeks.

    The activities of a uniformed police officer are not that sensitive. If they were, the officer would not be uniformed. Well, there are potential nefarious uses for realtime police tracking, but twelve hours after the fact, it's hard to use the information.

  19. Re:Uh-huh. on Dell Considering ARM-Based Smartbooks · · Score: 0, Troll

    Easy or not, it'll take six to twelve months for Microsoft to make a decision, and two years to release it. ARM netbooks will be a huge win for Linux.

  20. Re:GPL Fanatics on GPLv2 Libraries — Is There a Point? · · Score: 1

    Agreed, which is why it vexes me that my boss worries about open source software (even BSD-licensed!) and thinks sometimes that Oracle is going to sue us for using MySql, even though we don't distribute our software (it's SaaS).

  21. Re:Explorer on Finding New and Unintended Ways of Playing Games · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, you need a non-trivial reward *not related to gameplay*. An exceptionally beautiful scene, for instance. Or an old woman sitting on her front porch with fifty times as much dialog as a typical character, just talking about her life and the things she's seen and the places she's been.

    It has to be something you can't take with you, but there should be a reward.

  22. Re:Or why people still take ... on Ten Things We Still Don't Understand About Humans · · Score: 1

    "Altruism" is a standard term for this in evolutionary literature. Deal with it.

  23. Re:Browsers. on Ubuntu's New Firefox Is Watching You · · Score: 1

    Can Epiphany remember my tabs from my last session? Apparently only if it crashes. That's rather infuriating -- they implemented 95% of the feature but didn't put in a GUI and a gconf key for it.

  24. I know it's a money issue... on Ubuntu's New Firefox Is Watching You · · Score: 1

    I'm not bothered by Canonical wanting to leverage potential sources of revenue. They're providing me with a service free of charge, as is Google.

    I'm bothered by the fact that it replaced the normal Google UI with something less usable. I'm also bothered that they used a Firefox extension rather than using a standard search engine plugin, making it much more difficult to undo.

  25. Re:Use subversion either hosted or your own server on Collaborative Software For Pair Programming? · · Score: 1

    I think he's asking for a way to work together on the same code at the same time. If this is the case, a solution like SSH and Screen would be more to the point.

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=299286