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  1. Re:well, this part makes me wonder if I can share on Stallman Unsure Whether Firefox Is Truly Free · · Score: 1

    Hospital #1 doesn't have to distribute software, necessarily, though. The first two replies are correct. The GPL does not require you to distribute the source to EVERYONE. Only those who have the binaries, and the owner of the copyright controls the distribution of those.

  2. Re:well, this part makes me wonder if I can share on Stallman Unsure Whether Firefox Is Truly Free · · Score: 1

    There's nothing stopping people from paying programmers and contractors to work on a project that ends up as free once it's distributed. I would not expect the GPL to be compatible with the security restrictions around the F-22's avionics firmware though.

  3. Re:Realm: Moonrunner Char: Mithrilvar on Multiple Upcoming Games, Movies Based On Jordan's Wheel of Time · · Score: 1

    You mean like MMORPG Tycoon?

  4. Re:Like a car... on When Does Powering Down Servers Make Sense? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Google likely shunts load to different datacenters based on location.

  5. Re:Does it fix the annoying wireless disconnect is on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Released · · Score: 1

    I have seen others with this issue, and it seems to be related to the driver for a particular wireless chipset. I was able to fix it by setting a cron job to restart the wireless driver every half hour, because the prescribed fix by anonymous internet strangers was to use the latest CVS copy of the rt2500 driver, and that failed.

  6. Re:Baldness on Researchers Developing Cancer-Fighting Beer · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Making love in a canoe: an obsolete joke on Researchers Developing Cancer-Fighting Beer · · Score: 1

    The vast majority of American beer is just as bad as the vast majority of beer everywhere. Mass-marketed anything is generally crap, whether it's Budweiser (now owned by InBev) or Kronenbourg or Heineken.

  8. Re:Perl in decline, at least here on Where's the "IronPerl" Project? · · Score: -1

    I think you misunderstand me. I admit my comment was not well worded.

    If someone with a karma bonus posts a comment that I do not believe merits a free +1, I will gladly mod it 'Overrated'. This has nothing to do with personal vendettas. I don't track people on this site whatsoever; this is on a comment-by-comment basis.

  9. Re:Perl in decline, at least here on Where's the "IronPerl" Project? · · Score: 0

    I feel completely justified in moderating people down as 'Overrated' when I feel they don't deserve their karma bonus.

  10. This has been done. on No Space Porn (For Now) · · Score: 1

    The Uranus Experiment series was filmed using the Vomit Comet, and even had music from members of the Prodigy and Massive Attack.

  11. Re:Whiskey? on Ultrasound Machine Ages Wine · · Score: 1

    Rye whiskey is also a legally protected term. Not sure about "Tennessee Whiskey" (which applies to Jack Daniel's and George Dickel) but "Kentucky Whiskey" is one term (used by Early Times) for whiskey aged in used barrels.

    There's definitely a market for used bourbon barrels. They can be used for aging beers and they're also sold as smokewood for BBQ. The price you could fetch may even go higher than that of a new barrel.

  12. Re:Yes on Studies Say Ideology Trumps Facts · · Score: 1

    I can't do that but I can do you one better: Some things can be provably true AND provably false! How about that fancy logical technology! Yours for only $999.99!

  13. Re:Won't you take me.... to crappytown? on CodeWeavers Package Google Chrome For Linux and Mac · · Score: 1

    Spore for OSX uses Wine as well.

  14. Re:It's nice to know on iPhone Takes Screenshots of Everything You Do · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Errr, it's not phoning these screenshots home. You must have a problem with .bash_history too, right? Caching your keystrokes! OMG!

  15. Re:Wait a minute on Has Google Lost Its Mojo? · · Score: 1

    If your team dynamics rely on people staying late because of peer pressure then your company needs to work on its planning skills.

  16. Re:Tough to fix hardware issue with firmware patch on Apple's IPhone 3G Firmware Update Bombs · · Score: 4, Informative

    But the chances of that happening are zero. apple has never did a recall and replace of defective equipment.

    Not true, there have been numerous defective logic board and battery replacement programs.

  17. Re:AUGGGHHH on Cooking Stimulated Big Leap In Human Cognition · · Score: 1

    We call that chopped sirloin in this restaurant, buddy.

  18. Re:those are wishlists mostly on California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL · · Score: 1

    It's the 'selling yourself' aspect that these people are looking for, not any technical acumen. When entrepreneur types start companies they want people just like themselves. They want engineers who will go out and say things like "Here is how company x is transforming the entire (small) marketplace"

  19. Re:Not much details... on MIT Team Working On a $12 Apple (II) Desktop · · Score: 1

    No, there were Apple-supplied operating systems that had APIs: DOS and ProDOS. These weren't ROMS at all, and I highly doubt that any Apple IIs had EPROMS on board, anyway.

  20. Re:In Objective C?? on Carmack to Bring "Graphical Tour de Force" to the iPhone · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you were porting something that's been written in C to Objective-C, you wouldn't need to change much. Only the points where your code absolutely must call objective-C library calls, really.

  21. Re:The fact is... on Google.org Invests $2.75M In Aptera Motors · · Score: 1

    The average person probably doesn't understand how endowments work, either, and gets offended when the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation doesn't give away all their cash every year.

  22. Re:Gas is around $9 per US gallon in the UK on Google.org Invests $2.75M In Aptera Motors · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of tiny little towns, even in crowded New England, that have as their 'grocery store' something that's just a bit larger than a typical convenience store, with a Wal-Mart as either the only or one of the few larger options that are in the next big town that is, in fact, 40 miles away. These aren't oft-ballyhooed suburbs; these are isolated rural areas that might be mostly farms or wilderness.

  23. Re:I must be a scientist... on Pittsburgh Cancer Center Warns of Cell Phone Risks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The wireless headset is probably a much lower power transmitter than the one in the phone.

  24. Re:Mixed Feelings definitely on Watchmen Movie Trailer Is Out · · Score: 1

    No, I mean the bits by George S. Clinton. No electronic instrumentation, IIRC.

  25. Re:Mixed Feelings definitely on Watchmen Movie Trailer Is Out · · Score: 2, Informative

    That song was already in the Batman and Robin soundtrack, and even had its own video. I don't think they'll retread it. Early teasers use placeholder music all the time. I can't count the number of times I've heard Mortal Kombat background music (it's mostly ethnic-sounding drums) or the music from The Fugitive (film version) in a trailer for a totally different movie.