NoStarchPlox - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Duh.. (Score 4, Funny) 167

by NoStarchPlox on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @01:14PM (#27924263) Attached to: Break-In Compromises 160k Medical Records At UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley using a BSD? That's highly illogical!

Comment Re:Old Story (Score 0, Offtopic) 167

by NoStarchPlox on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @01:11PM (#27924215) Attached to: Break-In Compromises 160k Medical Records At UC Berkeley

Slashdot editors posting stories that are days old? Never!

Comment Re:Heard of a webcam? (Score 1) 256

by NoStarchPlox on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @12:31PM (#27923587) Attached to: Apple Freezes Snow Leopard APIs

And you'd be right, but tell that to my sports fan grandfather or my MSNBC-loving grandmother.

Hate to break it to you but even "live" sports has a delay between the video being captured and it being broadcast out.

Comment Re:Should be a followup, actually (Score 3, Informative) 230

by NoStarchPlox on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @12:23PM (#27923459) Attached to: Qt Opens Source Code Repositories

Since when was GTK+ a native graphics api? Oh wait, it's not. Qt uses Xlib on an X Windows System which is the native graphics API.

Comment Re:MP3.com (Score 1) 165

by NoStarchPlox on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @12:16PM (#27923361) Attached to: Can Cable Companies Store Shows For Us?

Why is it OK for cable companies to "store video for later use by subscribers"... but MP3.com was shut down for doing the exact same thing?

You mean other than the fact that cable companies actually license the content they broadcast and MP3.com didn't? Yeah, I'm sure it wasn't that at all.

Comment Re:QT is used on cell phones as well (Score 1) 230

by NoStarchPlox on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @12:06PM (#27923201) Attached to: Qt Opens Source Code Repositories

Yes, I know Nokia tri-licensed it with the LGPL as an option. The point was that the GP was making it sound like it was closed source before Nokia came along which isn't true since anyone could freely look at the source for a decade before that.

Comment Re:QT is used on cell phones as well (Score 2, Informative) 230

by NoStarchPlox on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @11:53AM (#27923047) Attached to: Qt Opens Source Code Repositories

Qt was open source long before Nokia bought Trolltech. The issue was that the original license they used didn't allow you to redistribute modifications and then the subsequent Q Public license, which was a free software license, wasn't compatible with the GPL. Then in 2000 Trolltech released it under the GPL. So I'm not sure where you got that Nokia open sourced Qt, since it had been open source for close to a decade before Nokia came along.

Comment Re:Should be a followup, actually (Score 5, Informative) 230

by NoStarchPlox on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @11:45AM (#27922921) Attached to: Qt Opens Source Code Repositories

You must be a bit behind the times as Qt no longer emulates a native look-and-feel but uses the native widgets of the platform.

Comment Re:QT Looks Like Shit (Score 4, Funny) 230

by NoStarchPlox on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @11:28AM (#27922687) Attached to: Qt Opens Source Code Repositories

Yes, QuickTime is definitely shitty but what does that have to do with Qt?

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