I don't know where you live, but around me it's about $17 for 2 adult tickets at the movie theater. I have 2 teens that count as adults, and one child still young enough to count as a child, so it's usually ~$40 for tickets for all of us go to the movies. Combine that with concessions and it's a lot more expensive. I would guess that this price is based on what they probably make for ~4 tickets?

Now, the only movie they have out right now that anyone in my family would want to see is Emma, and that would just be my wife and daughter. And the nearest showing of that is almost an hour away from us, figure $8 in gas, so it would cost us $25 for them to see it in the theater (again not including concessions).

$19.99 for them to see it at home, in the current state of things - I'd probably pay for it.

Star Wars has long been fair game on "News for Nerds". I remember going to the Atlanta Linux Showcase back in 1999, and going to see Phantom Menace with some folks from the conference. Throw in Fortnite being a video game, and the clip being released online through a video games, and I don't see how it's NOT fitting for /.

Now, I don't play fortnite very often, because, well, I'm old (hell, I went to Linux Expo 1995 too, and I was in college at the time), and my kids show me up and make me feel bad about my lack of skills. But as a Star Wars fan, I wanted in on this - but their servers have been hosed. The client gives me a 500 error, and I can't login on the website either. After about a dozen attempts, I finally got it to let me in, but then apparently the servers that handle the authenticator code are down. After trying repeatedly, it appears my account is now temporarily blocked for trying to login too much.

So it appears I've missed out on the Star Wars goodies because they got hit worse than a good old fashioned slashdotting.

Well crap, why Google?? How am I supposed to print remotely when I'm not on my lan? And from Android? Use some crappy proprietary printer manufacturer specific service? Ugh!!! And I even used the API to print from apps too. Anybody got a printer neutral open source alternative that doesn't require dealing with PostScript/ghostscript/cups?

Java Applets (browser plugin)? Dead.
Java desktop apps? Dead. Nobody's going to argue that.

The Java language is far from dead in the enterprise. Those who use it there will gladly pay Oracle for their production systems, and use OpenJDK everywhere else. There is a crap ton of existing code out there being maintained, and new code all the time.

Java is far from dead outside of the enterprise too, on mobile. Not the way Oracle would have liked it with everybody using JavaME, but on Android, which is what has really breathed some new life into Java (not so much Minecraft). The lawsuit there has soured many on Oracle and Java, and it looks like Android may be moving away from it at some point down the road - which makes me sad because we've only just gotten Kotlin support. And Kotlin is a better Java.

I'm keeping my eye on Kotlin native and the javascript compiler. but the open source Java ecosystem has some pretty great libraries (moshi/jackson/gson, retrofit, okhttp, poi, bouncy castle,etc.)

User A takes a picture. They have a copyright on said picture.

User B shares that picture on social media. This is the first copyright violation. (But is it necessarily User B's fault? Linking to a story/page often automatically includes an image, which is most likely copyrighted).

User C embeds User B's twitter post, on their site, including the infringing content.

Should User C be held liable for the copyright violation, but not User B?
Should User B be held liable for User C's violation?

If the social media service (or 3rd party client), when User B shares a link to a page containing the image, automatically adds the image to the post, thus resulting in an inadvertent copyright violation on the user's behalf, should the social media service (or 3rd party client) be held liable, or is it still User B's responsibility, and social media service doesn't give a rat's ass because they're covered under DMCA?

I have 101Mbps down, 10Mbps up cable. It's the highest speed I can get in my area at the consumer level, and comes with a 1TB monthly data cap. I pay $200/month for that, not including taxes.

The only other ISP is the phone company, and it's DSL packages in my area top out at 40Mbps down, 1Mbps up, at $55/month. I used to use them, but it took forever for them to offer anything over 10/1, and the reliability was terrible.

I'm lucky - I have two options, and they're both faster than dialup. Most people in the US only have one option for high speed access, and some don't have any.

I'm not counting satellite access here - 50GB data cap, 25/3 speed, terrible latency - thanks physics! :(, for $50/month.

Some of us are quite willing to pay, and would LOVE to pay one tenth the price for five times the speed.

Indeed, that was my first thought as well. But I think "Miranda", the actress who played the void of Nell's Primer would possible be more fitting.

Aristotle was possibly inspired by this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Which I found linked to this old blog:
http://proto-knowledge.blogspo...

You obviously never had to use Motif. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

He isn't old enough. He's got 2 more years before he'd be eligible to run. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

How about 1927's Metropolis - http://www.openculture.com/201...

How could this be offensive? The whole point is to call out places of cultural or historical significance. The only people that _should_ be offended by this would be holocaust deniers.

How about Android? Use all those mad Java skills, but skip all the "Enterprise" BS. Might be fun.

I have had to run Atlassian products a few places. They're much better than some of the more proprietary packages on the market. The only problems I ever had were due to running on windows virtual machines, and an overtaxed db server. Pretty much all their stuff runs much better on real hardware, running Linux.

Yep. It's cordova - which means web apps (technically hybrid since you can bridge to native functionality). I haven't used a single cordova/phonegap app that I've liked, and I actively look to avoid them. It's generally pretty easy to tell. I'm sure this is just ticking a box for marketing, nobody building anything remotely serious will even consider this.