Gyppo - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:I repudiated copyright, and recommend others do (Score 2, Insightful) 275

by Gyppo on Tuesday October 21 2008, @05:59PM (#25461415) Attached to: Learning To Profit From Piracy

Willing to put in the time and being able to put in the time are two very different things. I have a full time job, house and family. There is no way I could take off more than a few days to tour to promote my band's album. Saying if you don't tour you don't deserve to be paid for your music is ridiculous. True that just because we created an album, we don't necessarily deserve to be paid for it, but if somebody wants to own our music, that also doesn't mean they get it for free. Of course they need to pay for an album. XTC has not toured for over 10 years. So you think people should just be able to take their music because they don't tour?

Big Plans for Wii Lightsaber Game-> 0

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Moelman

on Monday September 10 2007, @02:26PM

Moelman writes "During a demonstration for LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga for Wii at the Activate Asia Pacific conference, LucasArts' own Mark Montuya made a comment that LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga for Wii is "just a taster" for a future release of Wii lightsaber combat. This sound bit brings the hopes and dreams of geeks everywhere to a reality, implying that LucasArts is already hard at work on a game to use this functionality. Montuya would not comment further on how it would work, but issues that would seem to be difficult to overcome would be how to portray the lightsaber clashing against another object or lightsaber."
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Free Pascal 2.2 has been released-> 0

Submitted by

Daniel Mantione

on Monday September 10 2007, @02:24PM

Daniel Mantione writes "Free Pascal 2.2 has been released. Several new platforms are supported, like the Mac OS X on Intel platform, the Game Boy Advance, Windows CE and 64-Windows. Free Pascal is now the first and only free software compiler that target 64-bit Windows. These advancements were made possible by Free Pascal's internal assembler and linker allowing support for platforms not supported by the GNU binutils. The advancement in internal assembling and linking also allow faster compilation times and smaller executables, increasing the programmer comfort. Other new features are stabs debug support, many new code optimizations, resourcestring smartlinking and more.

Further, Free Pascal has become extremely powerfull in developing portable software over the last years. The release article explains why."
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Police Busted When Tracking Device Found On Car 367

Posted by kdawson on Sunday September 09 2007, @01:12PM
from the george-orwell-meets-the-keystone-kops dept.

uh oh notes a story from Down Under where a police investigation came to a screeching halt as a man being investigated by the police found tracking devices in two of his cars, ripped them out, and listed them on an auction site. "Ralph Williams, of Cromwell, said he found the devices last week in his daughter's car, which he uses, and in his flatmate's car after the cars were seized by police and taken away for investigation."

No More TV Listings For MythTV Users 1

Submitted by

Ryan Brown

on Sunday September 09 2007, @12:37PM

Ryan Brown writes "Since September 1st, the free XML TV guide service at zap2it labs has shut its doors due to misuse issues as well as internal business issues. Now that Linux users, and most PVR users for that matter, are nearing the end of their last fetched TV guide, what free alternatives exist that can replace this much needed service?"

English Wikipedia passes two million article mark-> 0

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reybrujo

on Sunday September 09 2007, @12:34PM

reybrujo writes "Today saw the English language Wikipedia pass the two million article mark. The article in question is El Hormiguero and covers a Spanish TV comedy show. Wikipedia user Zzxc created it at 8:21 UTC, with another 104 articles being created within a minute of it. (Text taken from Wikinews)"
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U.S. Dogs Rabies-Free 0

Submitted by

westlake

on Sunday September 09 2007, @12:25PM

westlake writes "The Center for Disease Control has declared the U.S. free of the canine rabies virus. Rabies remains endemic in the wild, of course, and not all domesticated animals are vaccinated. Rabies kills about 55,000 people a year world-wide, and it is not a pleasent way to go. I haven't forgotten — and will likely never forget — my first uncensored look at the course of the disease."

iPhone Price Cut - Planned All Along?-> 0

Submitted by

Macthorpe

on Sunday September 09 2007, @12:24PM

Macthorpe writes "A blog entry by Robert Cringely relates a story from several years ago with some relevance to the recent iPhone price drop — surmising that Job's personality and other miscellaneous factors show that the iPhone pricing fiasco was planned from the start. From the article: "Had nobody complained, Apple would have left it at that. But Jobs expected complaints and had an answer waiting the $100 Apple store credit. This was no knee-jerk reaction, either [...] most importantly, those who bought their iPhones at an AT&T store will have to make what might be their first of many visits to an Apple Store. That is alone worth the $50 per customer this escapade will eventually cost Apple""
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