Comment: "Extra joints"?! (Score 1) 49
It can "detect...extra...joints"? Talk about features for a tiny niche market! How many people have six fingers? Or two elbows per arm?
Comment: Morph your business model! (Score 5, Funny) 99
You have to go on tour, and charge for live performances of the bits you created.
Comment: No problem! (Score 1) 492
And I just changed my compiler to make "char" be 32 bits, and then I recompiled a few libs and all my source code, and now all my programs automagically support Unicode!
Comment: Jury Nullification (Score 2) 167
It's simply the jury's emotional response to the death of Peter Parker.
Comment: Pretty ironic, considering (Score 2) 948
The Internet wouldn't even EXIST if the Ron/Randoms had been in power in the 1970's, and now they figure they have something useful to say about how it ought to work? I suppose their "Internet Freedom" must mean that they want us to be free of the Internet entirely...
Comment: Somewhat misleading. (Score 4, Insightful) 121
But that does not mean that in all puzzles with more than 17 clues you can remove a clue and still have a unique solution. This makes the last sentence in the main post kind of meaningless; plenty of (x+1)-clue puzzles are harder than some x-clue ones.
+ - Netflix sorry it messed up; then makes it worse->
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drfuchs writes "Reed Hastings writes to Netflix subscribers that he's very sorry, and to show his contrition he's going to make things even worse! No price-rise rollback; just a jettisoning of the DVD mailing into a different business entity: "Qwikster". No shared queue, no shared website. I think he's lost his marbles."
Link to Original Source
Link to Original Source
Comment: Re:The originals really are something else (Score 5, Informative) 140
"Why," you may ask, "was the internal wiring so insanely packed?" The length of each point-to-point wire was individually calibrated, such that all the signals to each gate arrived at the same moment, so you didn't need flip-flops to latch values in the flow of the circuits. Kind of a "just-in-time delivery" of electrons; and each layer of buffering avoided saved you delay along the pipeline. I don't think this sort of scheme was used on any other mainframe.
Wine 1.2 Released 427
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Soulskill
from the pop-the-cork dept.
from the pop-the-cork dept.
David Gerard writes "Stuck with that one Windows app you can't get rid of? Rejoice — Wine 1.2 is officially released! Apart from running pretty much any Windows application on Unix better than 1.0 (from 2008), major new features include 64-bit support, bi-directional text, and translation into thirty languages. And, of course, DirectX 9 is well-supported and DirectX 10 is getting better. Packages should hit the distros over the weekend, or you can get the source now."
FSF Asks Apple To Comply With the GPL For Clone of GNU Go 482
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timothy
from the y'know-fellas-the-license dept.
from the y'know-fellas-the-license dept.
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The Free Software Foundation has discovered that an application currently distributed in Apple's App Store is a port of GNU Go. This makes it a GPL violation, because Apple controls distribution of all such programs through the iTunes Store Terms of Service, which is incompatible with section 6 of the GPLv2. It's an unusual enforcement action, though, because they don't want Apple to just make the app disappear, they want Apple to grant its users the full freedoms offered by the GPL. Accordingly, they haven't sued or sent any legal threats and are instead in talks with Apple about how they can offer their users the GPLed software legally, which is difficult because it's not possible to grant users all the freedoms they're entitled to and still comply with Apple's restrictive licensing terms."
Comment: Capitulation (Score 1) 99
OK, I expected him to be more accurate than I am at folding towels, but faster too?!?
Comment: Re:Yet they still claim to own Linux (Score 1) 380
Doesn't that count as "slander of title" on SCO's part? (Which, as it happens, is just what SCO was suing Novell for!)
Comment: Unary! (Score 1) 599
I count in unary. It's great! Nobody can phish my SS#.
+ - Non-compete clauses out in California; USA next?
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drfuchs writes "The non-competition clause in that employment agreement you signed is null & (void*), says the state Supreme Court of California. Better still, the San Francisco Chronicle opines that the US Federal courts are likely to fall in line with the decision. Turns out it wasn't a high-tech case at all; just a CPA who had worked for the accounting firm Arthur Anderson (now-disgraced due to their complicity in the Enron case).
Glad we've got that cleared up after all these decades."
Glad we've got that cleared up after all these decades."
Comment: What's the point (size)? (Score 0) 282
Five hundred plus years of non-digital typography says you are wrong. Go out and take some measurements from some old books. The formula you give is just something some programmer came up with a few decades ago, that kind of worked most of the time. Next thing you'll be telling us is that a point is exactly 1/72 of an inch...