They way I look at it, if someone can't trust me with their email address then I can't trust them not to spam me.
Get over yourself.
If you're building a community forum where your visitors are likely to be repeat customers then IMO a more formal registration is appropriate.
How many people do you really think come to your website thinking, "Today I am going to join a community!"? Joining a community is not something people carefully plan out doing, it's something that happens if they try it out for a while and like it.
WMV3/VC-1 is definitely not MPEG-4. You are confusing the ancient MS-MPEG4 codecs with the ones currently in use. And there are certainly areas where it might beat h.264.
Your assumption that radiation kills at all is flawed.
At the point where we figured out that radiation is actually dangerous, we realized we did not know how dangerous it was. The only way to find out would be to expose people to radiation until they died, and doing so intentionally is obviously out of the question. So radiation regulations were formulated for the absolute worst case. This was very effective, which meant that there were very few accidential exposures to learn from.
The end result being that we are still working on finding out just how much damage radiation actually does. It is turning out (which should not be surprising, considering we assumed the worst to start out with) that it is less dangerous than what we prepared for. This is merely another example.
The original statement was about choosing a license and choosing a license only. The fact that you can choose to grow potatoes instead of writing code is hardly relevant.
Of course, had that code been GPL, none of those companies would have touched it, and would have implemented their own, quite possibly worse code. In the end, everybody still benefitted.
Who said it offended me? I was just pointing out he wasn't a disinterested observer, and can't be trusted to be objective.
I was being slightly hyperbolic, and you entirely missed my point. But since I can easily tell that you are not a disinterested observer, there's really no reason for me to even talk to you, is there?
You can have a jacket and pants that are cut from the same cloth, but you can't wear a jacket over your legs.
Maybe you should try addressing some of the actual points of the discussion, instead of going off on tangents about the philosophy of tailorning, hmm?
You're ignoring the very real benefit of releasing your changes back to the original developers so they can incorporate it into future releases, taking the burden of maintaing a fork off you.
To borrow the analogy used by an earlier reply, would you then prefer that buses have a Politness Officer who pulls you out of your seat if you don't get up and offer your seat in a crowded bus for an elderly person? Is that a better situation than one where you are supposed to do so of your own free will, and are given the option to be an ass?
"An opinion site"? What is that supposed to mean, anyway?
You weren't "presenting" any "opinions" when I originally replied to you, you were simply missing the point of the conversation by going off on some completely unrelated tangent.
People that disagree with my politics are crackpots.
I'm sorry, this is a discussion about science. Politics is down the hall, to the left.
Science does not change depending on what your political leanings are. A republican and a democrat both fall at the same rate if they jump out a window. Doesn't matter if they believe in Newton or not.
The text you've read were not written by climate scientists. They were written by people pushing a political agenda. The entire field of climate science is unanimous in stating that humans are causing climate change that will sooner or later turn catastrophic. Nobody who has studied the subject in detail disagrees with this. The only real disagreement might be on how soon, and whether it's already too late to act.
It's funny that the other viewpoints in science debates have now become "crackpots."
People who believe the Earth is flat are crackpots. People who do not believe in the germ theory of disease are crackpots. People who do not believe in plate tectonics are crackpots.
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They way I look at it, if someone can't trust me with their email address then I can't trust them not to spam me.
Get over yourself.
If you're building a community forum where your visitors are likely to be repeat customers then IMO a more formal registration is appropriate.
How many people do you really think come to your website thinking, "Today I am going to join a community!"? Joining a community is not something people carefully plan out doing, it's something that happens if they try it out for a while and like it.
Learn... to stop making tech products?
They know it is insightful because it was modded as such all the other times it was posted on Slashdot.
ffmpeg already supports VC-1. That's about as broad an audience as you get these days.
WMV3/VC-1 is definitely not MPEG-4. You are confusing the ancient MS-MPEG4 codecs with the ones currently in use. And there are certainly areas where it might beat h.264.
Your assumption that radiation kills at all is flawed.
At the point where we figured out that radiation is actually dangerous, we realized we did not know how dangerous it was. The only way to find out would be to expose people to radiation until they died, and doing so intentionally is obviously out of the question. So radiation regulations were formulated for the absolute worst case. This was very effective, which meant that there were very few accidential exposures to learn from.
The end result being that we are still working on finding out just how much damage radiation actually does. It is turning out (which should not be surprising, considering we assumed the worst to start out with) that it is less dangerous than what we prepared for. This is merely another example.
The original statement was about choosing a license and choosing a license only. The fact that you can choose to grow potatoes instead of writing code is hardly relevant.
And so... what, exactly?
And so you cannot, as a developer, always choose, as the original post claimed.
Actually I am pretty sure that is not really worth noting at all.
Only if you are the kind of developer who write everything from scratch.
If you're looking into reusing code somebody else wrote, or contributing to somebody else's project, you're stuck with their license.
I think you bought the wrong computer by mistake.
You are growing exceedingly tiresome. I'll just assume you're just another Slashdot loudmouth, if it's all the same with you.
Of course, had that code been GPL, none of those companies would have touched it, and would have implemented their own, quite possibly worse code. In the end, everybody still benefitted.
Who said it offended me? I was just pointing out he wasn't a disinterested observer, and can't be trusted to be objective.
I was being slightly hyperbolic, and you entirely missed my point. But since I can easily tell that you are not a disinterested observer, there's really no reason for me to even talk to you, is there?
You can have a jacket and pants that are cut from the same cloth, but you can't wear a jacket over your legs.
Maybe you should try addressing some of the actual points of the discussion, instead of going off on tangents about the philosophy of tailorning, hmm?
Let's hear this larger statement of yours, then. Spell it out.
You're ignoring the very real benefit of releasing your changes back to the original developers so they can incorporate it into future releases, taking the burden of maintaing a fork off you.
To borrow the analogy used by an earlier reply, would you then prefer that buses have a Politness Officer who pulls you out of your seat if you don't get up and offer your seat in a crowded bus for an elderly person? Is that a better situation than one where you are supposed to do so of your own free will, and are given the option to be an ass?
"An opinion site"? What is that supposed to mean, anyway?
You weren't "presenting" any "opinions" when I originally replied to you, you were simply missing the point of the conversation by going off on some completely unrelated tangent.
No, no, god forbid you should ever have to take off those blinders. Perish the thought!
Yeah, I can really see Apple falling over themselves to officially support running horribly designed ported apps from Linux through the command line.
Apple has a good reputation because it doesn't bother with that stuff.
People that disagree with my politics are crackpots.
I'm sorry, this is a discussion about science. Politics is down the hall, to the left.
Science does not change depending on what your political leanings are. A republican and a democrat both fall at the same rate if they jump out a window. Doesn't matter if they believe in Newton or not.
The text you've read were not written by climate scientists. They were written by people pushing a political agenda. The entire field of climate science is unanimous in stating that humans are causing climate change that will sooner or later turn catastrophic. Nobody who has studied the subject in detail disagrees with this. The only real disagreement might be on how soon, and whether it's already too late to act.
Because the original topic of discussion was about usage in general and not about Slashdotters?
Nobody except hopeless Slashdot nerds ever cared what kernel an OS runs on. The interface is what matters to normal people.
First, your username hints that you're not an objective observer, so it's hard to take anything you say on this seriously.
Obviously, if his name offends you, you can safely ignore anything he says no matter if it's true or not.
Second, if you honestly think that Clinton (either of them) are cut from a different cloth than Bush (either of them), you are incredibly naive.
Obivously, if you just claim that two people are both "cut from the same cloth", you can ignore their actual actions and consequences.
It's funny that the other viewpoints in science debates have now become "crackpots."
People who believe the Earth is flat are crackpots. People who do not believe in the germ theory of disease are crackpots. People who do not believe in plate tectonics are crackpots.
Is this really "funny"?