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Comment Licensing Disconnect (Score 3, Interesting) 290

by kainewynd2 on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @05:32PM (#32091248) Attached to: The Humble Indie Bundle

From the website:

We don't use DRM. When you buy these games, they are yours. Feel free to play them without an internet connection, back them up, and install them on all of your Macs and PCs freely.

Now, from the EULA:

1.1 License Grant. 2D BOY hereby grants to you a non-exclusive license to use a single copy of the object code version of the Game for your personal, non-commercial home entertainment use on one personal computer or other compatible electronic device. You may sell or transfer your copy of the Game to another person along with, and subject to, your rights under this EULA, only if you do not retain any copies.

Emphasis is mine. It looks like Marketing might want to talk to Legal here...

Comment Re:Ayn Rand, do you hear me? (Score 1) 290

by kainewynd2 on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @04:58PM (#32090846) Attached to: The Humble Indie Bundle

Why release your work for free? Does freedom feed you at the end of the day? Does it pay for your rent?

I paid $10 for it... that wasn't free.

Comment Re:You Have No Clue About Lala, Do You? (Score 1) 438

by kainewynd2 on Friday April 30, 2010 @01:51PM (#32046946) Attached to: Apple To Shut Down Lala On May 31

You really think Apple won't incorporate any of Lala's streaming services into a cloud based version of iTunes? Really?

Might, might not. Did they need to buy Lala to do that? Not likely.

Using your argument from above (essentially, buy out a competitor before it presents itself as a real opponent in the market), this makes a lot of sense. If--and this is a big 'if'--Apple plan(s/ned) to integrate paid music streaming into its business model, then why not take out one of the up-and-coming competitors while picking up some of their IP and maybe their most talented staff?

That's what I'd do, anyway.

Comment Re:It should read 'stoopid people hath spoken' (Score 1) 982

by kainewynd2 on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @07:44AM (#32012322) Attached to: Terry Childs Found Guilty

By all accounts the city's network worked flawlessly the entire time.

I was there at the time and it did work flawlessly. Terry Childs might be an egotistical ass, but apparently knew what he was doing.

Comment Uhh... (Score 2, Insightful) 39

by kainewynd2 on Friday April 16, 2010 @05:56PM (#31877782) Attached to: State Employee Skips Work On Friday For 17 Years

found Howard Dean, 64, of Locke, bilked the state Treasury of about $230,000 by skipping work at the state's Food Production Center in Rome every Friday for 17 years but claiming the hours on his time cards

Maybe they should look at the management during his time there as well? Just a friendly suggestion...

Comment Re:British tax returns are due in in January (Score 1) 432

by kainewynd2 on Friday April 16, 2010 @05:22PM (#31877450) Attached to: I mailed / filed my tax return form ...

...but trust me when I say that the set {wives} is not a proper subset of the set {people you have sex with}.

lol... okay, okay. You win 1 internets with that comment.

Comment Re:British tax returns are due in in January (Score 1) 432

by kainewynd2 on Friday April 16, 2010 @03:19PM (#31875648) Attached to: I mailed / filed my tax return form ...

To you, a "mate" is a friend, to us, a mate is someone you have sex with.

Fixed that for you.

Comment Re:British tax returns are due in in January (Score 1) 432

by kainewynd2 on Friday April 16, 2010 @03:17PM (#31875616) Attached to: I mailed / filed my tax return form ...

I just read the comments attached to this... am I the only one who thought it was funny?

Comment Re:Didn't see that one coming. (Score 1) 344

by kainewynd2 on Friday April 16, 2010 @03:05PM (#31875430) Attached to: 3rd Grader Accused of Hacking Schools' Computer System

Though in a perfectly sane world, the police would never have become involved in the first place.

We takes what we can gets in this new world of uber-paranoia.

I know I'm happy with the result. In School Suspension not juvenile detention!

Holy piss... that made a rhyme. Huh...

Submission + - Bill Gates on Steve Jobs: "He knows he can't win (edibleapple.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @10:13AM

An anonymous reader writes: Back in 1998, Bill Gates was comfortably ruling Microsoft’s empire while Apple was bleeding cash and meekly attempting to stay in business. Now, 12 years later, Bill Gates is retired and Steve Jobs has masterfully transformed Apple into one of the most innovative, successful, and profitable tech companies in the world. But back then, Bill Gates quipped about Jobs return to Apple, "What I can'(TM)t figure out is why he (Steve Jobs) is even trying (to be the CEO of Apple)? He knows he can'(TM)t win."

Comment Not that this matters to most... (Score 1) 464

by kainewynd2 on Friday April 09, 2010 @04:44PM (#31794626) Attached to: Why Mozilla Needs To Go Into Survival Mode

Okay, fine. I'll rewrite the subject... ahem.

Not that this matters to most users, but Firefox is incredibly annoying to manage in an enterprise environment when compared to other browsers. This single factor turned me off to Firefox entirely over the past few years (i.e. as other competitive browsers became available).

Comment Re:census (Score 1) 309

by kainewynd2 on Friday April 09, 2010 @07:38AM (#31787736) Attached to: How Truthful Are You When Creating Web Accounts?

only legally empowered to request the number of occupants of a place, name, age, sex, race, phone number, marital status, and how/why you're living there are extraneous questions they can ask

Are you missing a semi-colon someplace? After 'occupants of a place' perhaps?

Comment Re:census (Score 1) 309

by kainewynd2 on Friday April 09, 2010 @07:18AM (#31787620) Attached to: How Truthful Are You When Creating Web Accounts?

... humanities...

Dammit... humanity's... stupid Slashdot not allowing editing...

Comment Re:census (Score 1) 309

by kainewynd2 on Friday April 09, 2010 @07:16AM (#31787608) Attached to: How Truthful Are You When Creating Web Accounts?

But they don't need my name, or how many bathrooms i have.

I filled out the census and, um, they didn't ask for that.

---- Booth was a patriot ----

All hail... Brutus? Seriously, wtf? If that said, "Jefferson Davis was a patriot," I wouldn't blink, but really? Are you really suggesting that John Wilkes Booth was a patriot? Do you mean it in the strictest definition of the word or as some far reaching commentary on humanities political landscape right now? Huh... just blew my fuggin' mind with that one...

Comment Re:No ads please (Score 2, Funny) 983

by kainewynd2 on Thursday April 08, 2010 @10:00PM (#31784904) Attached to: iPhone OS 4.0 Brings Multitasking, Ad Framework For Apps

I'm just saying, don't claim variety if they can't even deliver a good system that fits a whole sub-market.

Absolutely! I call foul on the lack of furry friendly devices from Apple! Until they give me something that can work with my oversized unicorn gloves, I won't buy a thing from them!
/sarcasm...
No, really. /sarcasm. I just don't get... eh, ugh... never mind. This post wasn't worth the research I put into it.

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