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Submission + - Google Challenging Proposition 8

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theodp
theodp writes: "Coming the day after it announced layoffs and office closures, Google's Supreme Court filing arguing for the overturn of Proposition 8, which asks the Court not to harm its ability to recruit and retain employees, certainly could have been better-timed. Interestingly, Google's support of same-sex marriage puts it at odds with ex-Microsoft HR Chief Mike Murray, who cited religious beliefs for his decision to contribute $100,000 to 'Yes On 8', quite a surprise coming from the guy charged with diversity and sensitivity training during his ten-year Microsoft stint. Dan'l Lewin, Microsoft's man-in-Silicon-Valley, joined other tech leaders last October to denounce Prop 8 in a full-page newspaper ad."
GUI

Qt Becomes LGPL 828

Posted by CmdrTaco from the that's-just-adorable dept.
Aequo writes "Qt, the highly polished, well documented, modern GUI toolkit owned by Nokia, will be available under the LGPL starting with version 4.5! It was previously only mainly available under the GPL and a commercial license. Selling licenses was an important part of Qt under Trolltech as it was the company's main source of income, but Trolltech is a fruit-fly compared to Nokia, who want to encourage and stimulate the use of Qt Everywhere [PDF]. This is fantastic news for all commercial developers looking to create cross-platform applications without the need to buy a $4950 multi-platform license per developer."
Music

Submission + - Prince To Release 3 Albums, Shuns Record Companies (billboard.com)

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Mike
Mike writes: "Prince is planning to release three new albums in 2009 without the assistance of a record label, according to an interview with the Los Angeles Times. A "major retailer", rumored to be Wal-Mart, is in talks with the artist to release the music physically, while a new Prince Web site will sell it in digital form. It's too early to tell if this is an isolated move or if other performers will opt to bypass the record labels."
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Why Game Developers Should Support OSX and Linux (wolfire.com)

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kevind23
kevind23 writes: "Although Mac OSX and Linux have a small (but growing) market share, Jeff from Wolfire Games argues that supporting non-Windows platforms can lead to a huge increase in game sales. Using their popular game Lugaru as an example, he shows how less-popular platforms, or more specifically, their userbase can be a powerful advertising force. This can lead to a dramatic increase in popularity and exposure, which usually means a large boost in overall sales.

The short article is an interesting read, especially for those working in game development and sales."
Data Storage

Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution 711

Posted by kdawson from the pointed-lesson dept.
Craig writes "Journalspace.com has fallen and can't get up. The post on their site describes how their entire database was overwritten through either some inconceivable OS or application bug, or more likely a malicious act. Regardless of how the data was lost, their undoing appears to have been that they treated drive mirroring as a backup and have now paid the ultimate price for not having point-in-time backups of the data that was their business." The site had been in business since 2002 and had an Alexa page rank of 106,881. Quantcast said they had 14,000 monthly visitors recently. No word on how many thousands of bloggers' entire output has evaporated.
Portables

Netbooks Popular Enough For a C&D From Psion 234

Posted by timothy from the real-mark-of-success dept.
Kevin C. Tofel writes "After watching the netbook industry explode from nothing to 14 million sales in year, the time is right for Cease & Desist letters. Psion, a UK computer company that years ago sold a small sub-notebook called a netBook, is starting to protect the term. At least one netbook enthusiast site received a C&D for using the 'netbook' term and others are sure to follow. The site was given three months to stop using the term. Ironically, it isn't the enthusiast sites that coined the popular term. In the spring of 2008, Intel dubbed these devices netbooks to help define a market for their low-powered Intel Atom CPU."

Comment Re:make -j 3 (Score 1) 183

by kevind23 (#26208221) Attached to: Not All Cores Are Created Equal
The point of using this is so that you can compile multiple files at once. Obviously it can't impact how the application performs because that would require modification of the source code, and the compiler doesn't magically optimize it to work with multiple cores.

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