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  1. Re:The wrong direction on Ubuntu Studio Announced · · Score: 1

    But they're holy GNU open-source developers! They know what's best for you!

    (Symptom of the GPLv3, too, now that I think about it...)

  2. Re:Last Rev on Ubuntu Studio Announced · · Score: 1

    First release? Some of us still call it that.

  3. Re:I have a digital camera. on How the Camera Phone Changed the World · · Score: 1

    Darwinism in action.

  4. Re:Hrm! on Ubuntu Studio Announced · · Score: 1

    I call it "Uh-bun-too" (though I use KDE) because it sounds markedly less retarded.

  5. Re:I have a digital camera. on How the Camera Phone Changed the World · · Score: 1

    You could just not hang around morons who'll be kicking people in the balls.

  6. Re:That's sort of interesting about the buildings on Political Strife Erupts in Second Life · · Score: 1

    It's a very fair assumption to make. After all, Linden Labs says that's the case.

    It ain't, and I could prove it. There's also a nasty bug that causes a script to TAKE inventory from players without permission, but that one I am surely not letting slip.

  7. Re:That's sort of interesting about the buildings on Political Strife Erupts in Second Life · · Score: 2, Informative

    Technically untrue. There are ways to overload someone else's parcel and cause things to de-rez. There are also other ways that I wouldn't talk about because they violate the TOS.

    And there's no way to stop someone from dropping on THEIR land and dragging it to yours.

  8. Re:Also on my laptop (sort of) on Why Your SNES Turned Yellow · · Score: 1

    IBMs do it too. I had an A22m before my current Inspiron E1505, and by the time I got rid of it the texturing on the plastic of the hand grooves had worn smooth. (Shiny, too.) Same thing's happening with the shoddy silver plastic on my E1505.

  9. Re:Will it be avaliable worldwide? on Nokia's Linux-powered N800 Tablet Sneaks Out · · Score: 1

    I got one of those wifi SD cards. No complaints since, except that means I have to schlep around my SD card separately. When I have my Zire 72, I pretty much want it solely for browsing and a near-perfect emulator of NES, SNES, GB, and Genesis systems.

  10. Re:Please explain on NYT Security Tip - Choose Non-Microsoft Products · · Score: 1

    Cracking through Deep Freeze is trivial. That's why.

  11. Re:Will it be avaliable worldwide? on Nokia's Linux-powered N800 Tablet Sneaks Out · · Score: 1

    Go with a Zire 72 if you can find one. It's a LifeDrive without the suck.

  12. Re:Time To Go Back To Testing School on Mac OS X Versus Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    So...basically...it's the exact same thing as in IE, Firefox, and every other browser.

    However, the article suggests that when the window is inactive, the buttons are greyed. That is not the case.

  13. Re:MOD PARENT TROLL ! on MySQL Changes License To Avoid GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    No, I don't. I agree with you.

    I was just indulging in Whack-A-Troll.

  14. Re:Jumping the Shark - now is the moment. on MySQL Changes License To Avoid GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    I don't care who they work with. Their software is licensed under a valid open-source license and it does what I need it to do.

    Furthermore--the idea that you can simply take what rms and the FSF say as complete truth and fact is a joke. rms does not care about your freedoms as a developer. He would gladly trample them to make things more free in the way he thinks they should be. He is just another zealot, trying to dictate to others how they should live their lives and conduct their own business. He has done great things--but his "advocacy" is contemptible.

  15. Re:It gives FSF a blank check, not a good idea ... on MySQL Changes License To Avoid GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    They gave up their right to bitch. They knew "or later version" wasn't there.

  16. Re:Less of the kitchen sink would make KDE better on A Sneak Preview of KDE 4 · · Score: 1

    -I don't care how GNUbots want GNOME to be capitalized.
    -gconf sucks. It's terribly documented and half of it doesn't work right.
    -You say GNOME isn't 'dumbed down'? Two words. File dialogs.

  17. Re:It gives FSF a blank check, not a good idea ... on MySQL Changes License To Avoid GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    But Linus (and, presumably, Linux kernel contributors) are okay with their code being used this way, it seems.

    Linus is a pragmatist, not an idealist.

  18. Re:Good for them. on MySQL Changes License To Avoid GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    Should I ever release open source, I plan to use the BSD license, unless there are solid reasons not to.

  19. Re:MOD PARENT TROLL ! on MySQL Changes License To Avoid GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    Whoops. I should read below 1 more often.

    That's a really bad feature of Slashcode...ought to tree replies from the "1 reply under current threshhold" bit...

    The point still stands, however.

  20. Re:MOD PARENT TROLL ! on MySQL Changes License To Avoid GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    How the hell was I trolling?

    "Cannot enumerate freedoms" my shiny metal arse. rms did.

  21. Re:Jumping the Shark on MySQL Changes License To Avoid GPLv3 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Fork because you have to FTP the very latest releases? Bit drastic, don't you think?

    Forking a project is a weapon-of-last-resort. MySQL has never said that they won't use GPLv3, they just want to see the bloody thing first and decide for themselves.

  22. Good for them. on MySQL Changes License To Avoid GPLv3 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have severe problems with the GPLv3 as-is; I feel they're trying to stuff a brand of morality and a system of thought down the throats of programmers who licensed their creations in good faith under the GPLv2.

    Anyone who takes a step back and says "now wait a tick" to that kind of thing, I like. Maybe the GPLv3 won't be as bad as it seems, but that little "or any later version" clause is one that simply should not be included for projects of any magnitude.

  23. Re:D is surprisingly good. on The D Programming Language, Version 1.0 · · Score: 1

    I'm looking at D because Java sucks.

  24. Re:Because the ones we have suck? on The D Programming Language, Version 1.0 · · Score: 1
    There is no such thing as an interpreted language.


    Wrong.
  25. D is surprisingly good. on The D Programming Language, Version 1.0 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm looking at using it via GDC for my next project. For people who use C/C++ regularly, this is something you ought to look into.

    It's not a toy language. If you're a C++ programmer, you'll be almost immediately functional in the language. And you can call C and C++ libraries seamlessly. It's pretty sweet.