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It's here so people can troll. I'm sure anything that mentions religion gets a billion views and comments.
But it is kinda interesting, I guess. The article says it hasn't happened since 1415.
It's here so people can troll. I'm sure anything that mentions religion gets a billion views and comments.
But it is kinda interesting, I guess. The article says it hasn't happened since 1415.
And their IE commercials. Which I have to admit, are clever. I hope the ad firm that did them made good money off em.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9FAOPBiDk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkM6RJf15cg
Still won't touch IE, but I laugh at the commercials.
That's fraudulent and potentially lawsuit worthy. Ain't gunna happen over a regular package.
Maybe a bigger problem is shockwatch patches can cost $3 each. It makes sense for expensive packages,but not your $10 amazon.com order with free shipping.
Though to be fair, now figure out what a bluetooth dongle is going to cost.
And it's a fairly transparent slashvertisement.
Agreed. If they're going to do that, the, "New submitter markfeffer, Senior Editor at Dice, writes [...]" part was at least an honest way to handle it.
Maybe they should add the disclaimer at the bottom like we used to have for parent and sibling companies, too.
I'm sure these meters make mistakes both ways right? Occasionally under counting.
From the article:
"They are wrong by missing numbers by one way or another - sometimes it's over reporting, but more frequently the error is under reporting," he said. Under reporting should be a relief to those facing overage charges or service termination for going over their meters, but if the meters aren't counting the data properly, it is still a problem.
If you know of any competing device that's anything like the Ouya but better spec'd, please do let me know.
I do see some bare boards matching your description at $250 without an enclosure, power, console style UI and curated store, or controller of any sort. I think we can agree that's not even close to what we're talking about, though.
And either way, there's no reason to get angry about it. If there's a compelling alternative I'd like to know about it.
Something about slashdot makes it really combative. I don't know if it's the karma system, us, or something else. But if you say something people see, no matter how rational, someone is going to disagree just to disagree, and it's probably going to be a little nasty.
Like you said, that usually starts with someone tilting at some inconsequential and opportunistic BS taken out of context. A couple mod points later the whole thread is off the rails. It's pretty irritating and I doubt most of us actually converse like this in the real world. We'd get laughed at or punched.
I'm using one of the common Android-on-a-stick hdmi dongles, and I've played with others. They're not very good.
The Ouya out-specs most of them, the software ecosystem sounds promising, and the controller that works will be nice. Not all TV's do CEC and the gaming function of the controller is nice.
I really hope these work out to be good devices.
I was a velociraptor in a previous life.
The murderous chicken? Shoulda gone with the T-Rex... way scarier.
If it is really a stupid choice, evolution will do the rest. No need for name calling, ape.
I've never driven a car with such a device on so I don't have an opinion on whether or not it's safe.
But when people do unsafe things while driving, people that are being safe are often on the receiving end of that stupidity. So maybe let's not get fast and loose with the 'evolution will do the rest' line.
So... they won't be selling support services for your privately hosted and operated, DIY OpenStack "cloud" implementations?
If I'm understanding that right I'm not sure that's news, even if it does say OpenStack in the title.
He or she is probably referring to Fox News' coverage during the lead-up to the election, where they'd report on the results of early polls where Ron Paul often came in first or second among other Republicans, but just completely omitted his name... like he didn't exist. It was really weird.
Just skip to 1:15 to get past the drama. You'll get a good laugh.
We've given MS a lot shit over the years.
That might be understatement of the day.
Lately, though, MS seems tame (as they are not a serious player in the markets that matter) compared to some of these companies of today.
Believe it or not, they're doing quite well for themselves.
I should have known nobody wants to hear that, before I submitted it. I'm a dummy.
Not to worry, neither am I, but we're in pretty plain territory here.
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Public domain may not be the default status of a published work, at least in the USA.
Not may not, it is not. Copyright is automatic. The terms of use you assign, either by agreeing to a ToS or an explicit license, are largely separate.
This means that code is essentially untouchable in its whole form. Without a declaration, the originator owns it, IMHO.
That's not just your opinion, that's how it is. You own your work unless you've assigned ownership to someone else, or done as work for hire, under contract, etc. That's licensed or not. You continue to "own" your work, even if you eventually license it permissively. That means you can do a fork of your own work that's completely closed too, if you like, so long as you don't run afoul of any previous or interim contributors' work and licensing.
Don't confuse that with the ability to retroactively revoke the terms of a permissive license though. You can't just yank GPL licensed code back from people that are using it. The license is designed that way.
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