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Comment Re:So stop... (Score 4, Interesting) 305

by eggz128 on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @04:57AM (#27399357) Attached to: PRS Demands License Fee To Play Music To Horses

The only problem then is the hassle of convincing the PRS that such a thing as "Royalty Free Music" exists.

From time to time when they telephone here I consider screwing with them... trying the royalty free line... but I always end up thinking better of it and just tell them (the truth!) that we don't play any music here.

Comment Re:Intel will license it (Score 5, Interesting) 476

by eggz128 on Monday March 16, 2009 @06:34PM (#27218243) Attached to: Intel Threatens To Revoke AMD's x86 License

Intel licensed x86 to AMD originally because Intel was unable to keep up with demand.

It wasn't so much that Intel couldn't keep up with demand, more that IBM's policy required that a second source be available just in case they couldn't.

AMD has now breached the license. Intel has no responsibility to keep AMD in business. Intel can get another foundry to make x86 CPUs. There's no law against being a monopoly.

No, there is no law against being a monopoly. There are laws against being an abusive monopoly however. Intel has been convicted of abusing it's monopoly status in Japan, has at least been accused of doing so in the EU. Maybe AMD could file a complaint in the USA also and have it successfully investigated. Once convicted of being an abusive monopoly the rules change.

Natural law is against being a failure like AMD.

In theory the UK monarch can veto any law parliament puts before him or her. In practice, vetoing rarely happens as it can lead to the removal of the monarchs head. Intel should be careful just how far they push this as states could just decide they are abusing their position and remove their right to x86 all together.

Comment Re:Misleading headline, and ActiveX (Score 1) 380

by eggz128 on Wednesday March 11, 2009 @06:28AM (#27147979) Attached to: IE8 May Be End of the Line For Internet Explorer

XPIs can contain native binaries, but by default XPI installation is only allowed from a few whitelisted addresses (both subdomains of mozilla.org).

Trying to install an XPI from an an online source that isn't in the whitelist fails, but you are asked if you would like to add the source as an exception. It's also made pretty clear you should only do this if you have absolute trust in the source.

IIRC the main difference is that the only way to trigger an XPI install request is if you actually click on an XPI link. If a page requests an ActiveX control, the install request is triggered automatically.

Submission + - GIMP 2.4 released! (gimp.org)

Submitted by

MrDrBob

on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @05:48AM

MrDrBob writes: "Love it or hate it, version 2.4 of our Marmite-favoured graphics editor has been released, and includes quite a few big changes. The selection tools have been rewritten from scratch, including a new way of selecting things with round corners, as requested by web designers. Better zooming code means that whole lines of your image will no longer disappear when zoomed out, and new colour management code should be welcomed by digital photo artists. The GIMP also includes a new Tango-style icon set, which goes hand-in-hand with the redesigned website. Unfortunately, GEGL integration still isn't anywhere to be found, but perhaps it'll make it in a later release."

Submission + - Bush Commutes Libby Sentance, No jail Time Served (newsday.com) 2

Submitted by

Nefarious420

on Monday July 02, 2007 @06:25PM

Nefarious420 writes: "Bush commutes Libby sentence, no jail time served. So much for holding his administration accountable for anything. I guess on the plus side of things his approval ratings can't get much lower."

Submission + - BSD coders caught stealing Linux code

Submitted by sproketboy on Saturday April 07, 2007 @04:44AM

sproketboy writes: The inquirer has a piece about some Broadcom driver code that was apparently copied into BSD using their license in violation of the GPL. The thread is here. Flame on.

Submission + - Slashdot: lifetime achievement

Submitted by

juanito

on Monday March 12, 2007 @06:11PM

juanito writes: "Today, at the SXSW conference, Slashdot was given the lifetime achievement award at the 2007 bloggies, competing against Heather B. Armstrong, Wil Wheaton, Fark.com and Peter Maling."

Submission + - Making a Living from open source (a year later)

Submitted by

asimbaig

on Monday March 12, 2007 @03:41PM

asimbaig writes: "Its been over a year since I last posed a question on whether its "really" possible to make a decent living building open source software. I got a lot of good feedback from slashdotters and the open source community. I thought I would provide an update on our experience. In one short year, CATS, our open source Applicant Tracking System has become the number one ATS in the market including commercial packages. We didn't have any revenue last year and we didnt focus on it either since we were too busy building the sofware. We started selling the hosted solution this year and have sold about 100 seats in 2 months bringing us $3000/month in recurring revenue. We just signed an OEM / Source Code license agreement with a large company for $200k. I expect to sell 4-5 of these OEM deals this year. I think making CATS open source played a significant role in our success to date....Marketing."

Submission + - Linus calls GNOME "limiting"

Submitted by

lisah

on Friday February 16, 2007 @04:39PM

lisah writes: "The flame wars between Linus Torvalds and the GNOME community continue to burn. Responding to Torvalds' recent claim that GNOME 'seems to be developed by interface Nazis' and that its developers believe their 'users are idiots,' a member of the Linux Foundation's Desktop Architects mailing list suggested that Torvalds use GNOME for a month before making such pronouncements. Torvalds, never one to back down from a challenge, simply turned around and submitted patches to GNOME and then told the list, '...let's see what happens to my patches. I guarantee you that they actually improve the code.' After lobbing that over the fence, Torvalds concluded his comments by saying, 'Now the question is, will people take the patches, or will they keep their heads up their arses and claim that configurability is bad, even when it makes things more logical, and code more readable.'"

Submission + - In Alabama, Sex Toys are Just Like Prostitution

Submitted by on Friday February 16, 2007 @11:13AM

An anonymous reader writes: A federal appeals court has upheld an Alabama law banning the sale of sex toys against a claim that the law conflicted with the Supreme Court's prior holding that private sexuality is protected by the Constitution. The court reasoned that, because sex toys are bought and sold in "public" transactions, selling them is just like prostitution, and therefore it could be banned.

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