Slashdot Mirror


User: Ginger+Unicorn

Ginger+Unicorn's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,736
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,736

  1. Re:The GPL allows them to charge the $4, as I read on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Draw the Line On GPL V2 Derived Works and Fees? · · Score: 1

    If somone bought that $3.99 app, demanded and received the source code, am I right in thinking that they would then under the terms of the GPL, be able to post that source code on the web for free to anyone who wanted a copy, thus enabling people to compile the app for free, with no one ever again having to buy the binary in order to access the source code?

    Or perhaps that they may have to make trivial modifications before redistributing it in order the make it a derivate work?

  2. Re:Just another cautionary tale on A Twisted Clean-Tech Tale: How A123 Wound Up In Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    This is semantic bullshit.

  3. Re:You get 1080p video... on On Demo, a $25 1080p Camera Module For Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    The point is that the Raspberry Pi is much too slow to do anything with the video except storing it, viewing it unmodified or sending it somewhere else.

    Then your point is utterly irrelevant.

  4. Re:Guild Wars 2 on Ask Slashdot: What Video Games Keep You From Using Linux? · · Score: 1

    Weak 1/10

  5. Re:Bandcamp Seems Like More Her Thing on One Musician's Demand From Pandora: Mandatory Analytics · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I'm glad you've enjoyed my hard work.

  6. Re:Bandcamp Seems Like More Her Thing on One Musician's Demand From Pandora: Mandatory Analytics · · Score: 1

    This one time, at Bandcamp, I kept saying Bandcamp over and over and over... ...P.S. BANDCAMP

  7. Re:Holy Cow! on GOP Brief Attacks Current Copyright Law · · Score: 1

    Not having a monopoly is not the same thing as not having any compensation.

  8. Re:Do RTFA on Woz Worries Microsoft Is Now More Innovative Than Apple · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow- your nuts too I see.

    Yoda! Stop looking at my nuts!

  9. Re:Name and shame again and again. on CyanogenMod Domain Hijacked · · Score: 3, Interesting

    None of this explains away the allegation that he was impersonating a CyanogenMod developer to fraudulently establish commercial contracts.

  10. Re:Universal law of YouCan'tHaveItAll on Everspin Launches Non-Volatile MRAM That's 500 Times Faster Than NAND · · Score: 2

    Pick any two.

    The breasts?

  11. Re:100,000? on Visualizing 100,000 Stars In Chrome · · Score: 1

    You'll never make the Kessel Run like that.

  12. Re:Not the first time this has happened (or last) on Red Hat Developer Demands Competitor's Source Code · · Score: 1

    That's four times you said exactly the same thing. Not once, but four times. Three times more than it needed to be said; in fact, almost five times.

  13. Re:so Plato was right, then on Why Dissonant Music Sounds 'Wrong' · · Score: 1

    I still think i'd rather be punched in the back of the head.

  14. Re:Automation? on Airlines Face Acute Pilot Shortage · · Score: 1

    Automating a process doesn't mean moving the manual operation to a different location.

  15. Re:do not confuse this on Supersymmetry Theory Dealt a Blow · · Score: 1

    I googled PUSY thinking it was an acronym like NIMBY or something, then realised I was a walking stereotype.

  16. Re:Stupid Gadgets on James Bond Film Skyfall Inspired By Stuxnet Virus · · Score: 1

    It's been out for a couple of weeks in the UK and I've seen it twice. In terms of Batman metaphors, If QoS is Batman Forever, Casino Royale is The Dark Knight and Skyfall is the Dark Knight Rises.

  17. Re:Can people be just people ? on Elon Musk Will Usher In the Era of Electric Cars · · Score: 4, Funny

    iron man, iron man, does whatever an iron can

  18. Re:Bob IS ANGRY on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Convince Someone To Give Up an Old System? · · Score: 2

    The first time I saw it didn't make any sense either. I thought it was some self-important proclomation about the post in which it occured, rather than a reference the parent post. Being a different post, it should be referred to as "that" not "this".

  19. Re:Gtalk/Facebook on Microsoft Retiring Messenger, Replacing It With Skype · · Score: 1

    I collect dead social networks.

    I can't help picturing you as Egon Spengler when you say this.

  20. Re:The problem, of course, is religion on Telling the Truth In Today's China · · Score: 1

    The official religion of China is loyalty to the Party. Atheism isn't a religion, so yes, if China actually had no religion, none of this would be happening.

  21. Re:Great solution! on Sweden Imports European Garbage To Power the Nation · · Score: 2

    The size of the population is the force multiplier. It doesn't matter what percentage you reduce each individual's consumption by, the impact is quickly swamped by the larger and larger number of individuals alive. Population control is by far the most effective and realistic way of have a large impact on resource consumption. Financial incentives to have one or less children is one answer.

  22. Re:For the umpteenth time... on Is Silicon Valley Morally Bankrupt and Toxic? · · Score: 1

    Pilcher's Law of Betteridge's Law of Headlines:

    Any headline which ends in a question mark will have Betteridge's Law of Headlines posted right at the top of its comment thread.

  23. Re:Shocking on Yahoo Will Ignore IE 10's "Do Not Track" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're conflating having your physical position logged and having your viewing choices logged. I can't control the former while still using a cellphone, but I can control the latter to some extent by using https forcing and cookie management plugins and a google proxy site like startpage.

    Granted it's hardly bulletproof, but it's infinitely better than broadcasting everything in the clear, and having every question that ever pops into my head logged by one corporation.

    I'm under no illusion as to how far this setup is from being remotely private. For the tiny amount of effort involved, the modest improvement seems perfectly fine.

  24. Re:It is ~4,000 lines on LG's 84-inch 3840 x 2160 Television Doesn't Come Cheap: $17,000 · · Score: 1

    Or, I should say for clarity, a single 'line' goes from left to right, and the 'lines' are stacked vertically. So the number of 'lines' gives the vertical resolution.

  25. Re:It is ~4,000 lines on LG's 84-inch 3840 x 2160 Television Doesn't Come Cheap: $17,000 · · Score: 1

    He's talking about the contextual meaning. In the context of video displays, 'lines' go from left to right, as that's the way CRTs TVs scan, one horizontal line at a time.