litewoheat - Slashdot User

Comment MS may consider it a good thing (Score 0) 225

by litewoheat on Thursday March 08, 2012 @11:30PM (#39297173) Attached to: Is Onlive Pirating Windows and Will It Cost Them?

It's fun but not really all the useful. I'm sure whatever Microsoft does specifically for the iPad will be much better plus this gets people used to MS Office on the iPad and kinda sets up the market for the real stuff coming up. So MS is probably just letting it happen and watching intently.

Comment cause (Score 1) 2288

by litewoheat on Thursday April 21, 2011 @12:10AM (#35888992) Attached to: Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements?

Because we Americans are lazy and under educated and ignorant and God says we're always right so fuck everyone else and grab a beer and watch TV and shut the fuck up, you hippy liberal.

Comment We've been using a Mac Mini as a server... (Score 4, Interesting) 557

by litewoheat on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @08:11PM (#29816905) Attached to: Apple Blurs the Server Line With Mac Mini Server

We use a first generation Mac Mini in my office to do nightly builds of both our MacOS and Windows software. The windows builds run on VM Ware. Its not uncommon for the build machine to be running 100% CPU for hours at a time. It hasn't been rebooted in months. We've been doing this with the same machine for over three years. Its wonderful. Never had a problem...

Comment Donate It? (Score 1) 416

by litewoheat on Thursday October 08, 2009 @04:51PM (#29685775) Attached to: What To Do With a Free Xbox 360 Pro?

Why not just find some disadvantaged kid and give it to him/her?

Submission + - Avoiding a lawsuit for copyright infringement

Submitted by

litewoheat

on Monday June 22, 2009 @08:15AM

litewoheat writes: "I started a software company a while ago that was acquired by a larger company and I now work for the combined company. I basically sold all my IP to the acquiring company, including source code going back 10+ years. I'm in the very early stages of a new startup working on all new software for a completely different market and I'm starting totally from scratch. I'm even developing on a different OS just to keep my distance from the code I've written in the past, which is no longer mine. There's nothing in my contract that says my current employer has rights on anything I develop in my free time etc. I'm integral to my current employer and when I do announce that I am leaving there will be drama. I'm reminded of John Fogerty getting sued because his new music sounded much like his old music that was owned by his old record company. I'm concerned that my current company would do the same to me when I do leave. What kinds of things should I do now that will protect me later when/if this were to happen?"

Comment So what? (Score 0) 1182

by litewoheat on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @05:56PM (#26987857) Attached to: Gamer Claims Identifying As a Lesbian Led To Xbox Live Ban

Why is it so important for this person to advertise, in a gaming context, that they are gay / lesbian? What does that that have to do with anything? These people give every other gay man or woman a bad name. Homosexuality makes some people uncomfortable and if there's no really good reason, why persist? There is no good reason what so ever to make it a point to let people know who you like to have sex with on XBox Live. BTW. I'm gay so don't go calling me a homophobe.

Comment Shut up (Score 1) 799

by litewoheat on Wednesday November 28, 2007 @06:49PM (#21511119) Attached to: How to Deal With Stolen Code?

Dude, Get over yourself.

HP CEO Allowed 'Sting' on CNet reporter 145

Posted by Zonk on Friday September 22, 2006 @12:53PM from the ouch-that-stung dept.

Mark writes "The Washington Post, reporting on Hewlett-Packard's Chairman Patricia Dunn and alleged spying on other HP board members, has obtained e-mails that implicate the CEO, Mark Hurd, who approved an elaborate 'sting' operation on a CNet reporter." From the article: HP's leak investigation involved planting false documents, following HP board members and journalists, watching their homes, and obtaining calling records for hundreds of phone numbers belonging to HP directors, journalists and their spouses, according to a consultant's report and the e-mails."

Will MacIntel Kill Apple Open Source Efforts? 557

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday February 23, 2006 @03:39PM from the somethign-to-think-about dept.

An anonymous reader writes in to say that "Rob Braun (OpenDarwin core developer claims Apple's open source efforts are now dead, because Apple is afraid of assisting OSx86 piracy. First, Apple withheld the source of cctools required to to build Darwin. Now it seems they are no longer releasing the source to OS X's xnu kernel. "

Rumsfeld Requests 24-hour Propaganda Machine 1327

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday February 19, 2006 @07:17PM from the brainwashing-not-out-of-the-question dept.

jasonditz writes "The BBC is reporting that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is unhappy with the existing propaganda systems in place and insists that the US must create a 'more effective, 24-hour propaganda machine' or risk losing the battle for the minds of Muslims. In an era where we've already got government-created and funded media outlets and the Pentagon bribing Iraqi journalists to run favorable war stories, not to mention other departments paying journalists to endorse their positions, it begs the question, how much more can they possibly do?"

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