The Earth has been around for billions of years and in the last several hundred million years, it's been hit by how many bodies large enough to threaten all life?

Please note that Apophis is nowhere near large enough to "threaten all life".

Wreck a city? It can do that.

Make a spectular boom? That too.

But it's not a threat to "all life". Or even most life. Or even a little bit of life (unless it lands on the last four white rhinos in the wild).

Most programmers at the time (and at this time, too), didn't have a trust fund to fall back on if their business venture failed.

Nobody uses sox? But I'm an Asterisk sysadmin, you insensitive clod!

And, besides my job, I find myself using ffmpeg and sox all the time.

And, what you are saying about the little app that could is totally wrong. First, it's not a GNU/Linux concept, it's a Unix concept, and part of it's design.

If you think there are no apps like that being used today, well, less, cut, awk, find, grep and friends would like a word with you. Sure, users don't use them, but the Unix toolchain is still the way we do things around here.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but it seems like the article is suggesting that all media boxes that run on open source software will be unusable with any kind DRM because, in general, DRM solutions need to be closed. Setting aside whether or not that's correct (see other responses for discussion of that) it seems to be oblivious to the fact that open source players are perfectly capable of using closed-source codecs provided they can license use of the relevant binary blobs. Furthermore, proprietary video players can always be released for Linux.

Sure the BBC could choose to use a format that isn't supported on Linux but there's no fundamental problem with running proprietary software on open source platforms. If the BBC wants to pay for developing a version of a proprietary codec to run on Linux media boxes, they can. DRM will still be a poor choice for reasons that any /. reader knows all about, but it's a choice that isn't fundamentally tied in to interoperability with OSS (even if the philosophies behind DRM and OSS are at odds).

A patent leather shoe in his ass?

That's what I'm wondering about, in a lot of these sorts of games you can gain lots of XP by taking on harder tasks or just by spending many, many more hours grinding. Also, if we're just going by time playing that would include chat time as well as tidying up the character.

Besides, to really be hardcore anymore you pretty much have to be taking that character out of the game and acting it out.

For English, that's true; for other languages, not so much.

Open Shot looks promising but from what I've seen by playing with it recently it really needs to implement the standard two viewer interface like almost every other NLE out there. I just can't stand to edit any other way. I'll keep my eye on it though as it seems to be making progress very rapidly.

I'm looking forward to http://lumiera.org/ as it seems to be the only project with the goal of creating a professional NLE/Compositing application. Nothing will make me happier when I can quit using Adobe Premiere and After Affects!

If I can't buy it, and you can't buy it, then it's vaporware as far as I know.

"Lazy" programmers also put in more work front end to write easy to read code AND code that can be reused with minimal effort. They also document what they do so they don't have to puzzle out what the code does months and years down the line.

Untapped ? I had DoubleClick banners on my sites years ago, when it stil payed *something*. I'm not sure why the bottom dropped out of that, or how google has managed to make it interesting again, but it's not a new market by any means.

No, I get the same results on Bing.
Both on the first pages, neither number 1

At some point a flood of everyone's private info will drown it into privacy again. Right now if your private info is leaked it's like a small town and everyone knows it. Once it is all out there then it becomes as anonymous as someone living in a large city.

I think the answer reasonably is anywhere between "yes" and "absolutely yes". For example, auditing should probably be considered very important for software such as slashdotter Fyodor's Nmap.

You can't trust everyone in the open source community to be completely white-hat all the time...