Comment: Re:Yay, something I don't need and don't want (Score 1) 83
Presumably the same reason Lost had plot-explanation captions in some broadcasts—to facilitate sloppy storytelling and information overload.
Comment: Re:Yay, something I don't need and don't want (Score 4, Insightful) 83
To be fair, the summary is extremely harsh and implies the feature is primarily for advertising. The article gives an example of displaying a map depicting where all the action is happening during a TV show—a little like how the game Supreme Commander delegates additional resources to dedicated tasks (like a monitor just for a strategic view) rather than simply virtualising them all together as one big viewport.
Comment: Re:Expanding Earth Theory (Score 1) 172
There's a list of problems here, including several measurements that imply Earth has had approximately the same radius for a long time.
Comment: Re:Will anyone notice... (Score 1) 216
So what you're saying is... you didn't RTFA? (limp-wristed rimshot here)
Comment: Re:A little late (Score 1) 91
I think what UCFFool was going for would translate into "what if you have insufficient after-the-fact interest to do another limited run at an affordable level?" This would be especially problematic with printing, where there are really deep bulk discounts.
Comment: Re:Open source or close source? (Score 1) 91
Will it be open source?
I'm a firm believer in open source software and open source technologies. I can guarantee you that Light Table will be built on top of the technologies that are freely available to us today. As such, I believe it only fair that the core of Light Table be open sourced once it is launched. At some level, this is an experiment in how open source and business can mix - it will be educational for us all.
Comment: Re:Treaspassing (Score 2) 364
Pretty sure this calls for more tinfoil than that.
Comment: Re:Oh, you... (Score 1) 124
I think you'll find that's .xoxo
Comment: Re:I hope they don't get it (Score 2) 124
I'm pretty sure this is like when Google bid pi billion dollars for Nortel's patents. It looks to me like agree with you that the TLD namespace is being polluted. If they get .lol, it'll prove the system is stupid, if not outright broken.
Comment: Re:links? (Score 1) 517
There aren't any samples in the "ASCII porn" article on Wikipedia, though.