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Comment Re:How much is your soul worth? (Score 1) 654

by MikTheUser on Sunday October 05, 2008 @01:13PM (#25265143) Attached to: Getting Paid To Abandon an Open Source Project?

I code for a living - I MAKE MONEY for selling the product of my skills. Welcome to the real world, folks. [...]
Does the amount you will make adequately compensate you for the loss of your ability to continue working on a "fun" project?

It would appear from the original question that there will be more at stake than the loss of fun to one person. Signing that contract in the middle of developing his new codebase would be tantamount to jumping out of a truck he himself took out on the freeway.

In my opinion, you should at least be allowed to park the truck somewhere it can be picked up by someone else, i.e. continue on the project by writing free code until the codebase is complete and you're not the only person able to maintain it anymore.

Star Cooler Than Venus Found 55

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday April 14, 2008 @04:55PM from the miles-davis-of-stars dept.

crossconnects writes to mention that Discovery is reporting that astronomers have found a nearby star with a mild surface temperature of 660 degrees fahrenheit. "The spectacularly unspectacular object is of special interest because it falls right smack in the middle of the final frontier that divides mega-planets from the puniest stars. Stars in that realm theoretically qualify as an entirely new stellar type -- what's called a Y class dwarf."

Submission + - ODF Infighting Dooming us to Microsoft Dominance? (eweek.com)

Submitted by FreeMichael61 on Sunday November 04, 2007 @01:06PM

FreeMichael61 writes: Is this the beginning of the end? None less than the Open Document Foundation (ODF) has condemned the open document format to irrelevance. The Foundation's VP, Sam Hiser told eWEEK that ODF is a "sideline drama, only useful insofar as it has provided a foil for [Microsoft's] OOXML [Office Open XML]." Microsoft knows what to do with that kind of opening. Its format guru, Jason Matusow, responded that "when it comes down to the real world of meeting their needs, even the organization that has a charter to promote ODF decided that a different format was better for it." ODF provided and ceremonial sword and knelt over it; Microsoft simply gave them a gentle shove. Adieu ODF?

Submission + - How do you parse your lifetime?

Submitted by mtu on Saturday September 29, 2007 @06:26AM

mtu writes: Everyone of us has their own way of translating the integers that represent years into memories and experiences. How do you go about that? Do you go, "Oh, that was when Windows this-and-that came out!", or "Yeah, that was about when I got my Pentium {I,II,III,...}" — or maybe even, "Yeah, they'd just introduced this new C language?" Or has your life been so rich up until now that you don't need events in the Tech world to keep track?

Submission + - What can be done besides music with my Ipod? 1

Submitted by Ka D'Argo on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @09:08PM

Ka D'Argo writes: So recently lady luck was in my favor. In a raffle I won myself a 4GB iPod Nano. Judging from wikipedia and amazon, it appears to be the recently released 3rd Generation iPod Nano. In recent years we've seen iPod's run Doom and other kinda neat little apps. What kind of third party applications or homebrew material is available for an iPod?

Submission + - Trueman.tv: First German living on the Internet (trueman.tv)

Submitted by wildzer0 on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @08:45PM

wildzer0 writes: Marcel is the first German living completely on the Internet — A camera follows him wherever he is and transmits live into the internet via UMTS. There are no pauses, that means you can see him sleeping as well as taking a bath or simply going to the toilet. The website features a live chat, a calendar with activities and a map, that is connected to a GPS transmitter Marcel is carrying. The plan is to have the camera online at least a year. Some friends are not that happy about this though: "Sadly I won't be able to see some good friends for a long time, but I hope this experience is worth it". Currently, he is online for more than 2 days (6 days including the test phase).

Submission + - Can Turnitin.com be forced on students? 2

Submitted by

Fleet Admiral

on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @08:34PM

Fleet Admiral writes: "I'm currently in my senior year in High School (public school system), and recently discovered that all my English essays MUST be submitted to Turnitin.com. This has basically turned into the teacher saying "Use the site or you get an F on the assignment". Do I have any rights not to be forced to use this site? Don't I have Intellectual Property Rights on my own creation, *not* to be used in a commercial, for-profit manner? I want to challenge this, but I am not sure if I would get anywhere. Should I talk to the Teacher? The Principal? Do I have any legal ground behind me? I feel like the whole student body is being bullied by the administration, and I want to do something about it!"

Submission + - Mandriva rules out Microsoft patent deal (mandriva.com)

Submitted by

AdamWill

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @03:01PM

AdamWill writes: "Mandriva has posted a definitive statement on the recent Microsoft patent deals with other Linux distributors. Mandriva has no interest in or intention of signing any patent or interoperability deal with Microsoft. Mandriva believes in interoperability through open standards, for which no vendor-to-vendor pacts are needed, and rejects the form and implications of the deals relating to patents."

Submission + - T.I.E. Fighter tracking the Space Shuttle Atlantis

Submitted by

farrellj

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @02:56PM

farrellj writes: "The NY Times has a photo of the space shuttle Atlantis here which seems to show a Star Wars T.I.E. Fighter behind the shuttle. You can see it in the picture just above the right OMS pod. Has the Empire found our planet?!?!?"

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