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Submission + - Coyne-Haught religious debate video released (uky.edu) 1

Submitted by tkel on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @05:51PM

tkel writes: On October 12, 2011 Theologian John Haught publicly debated prominent evolutionary scientist and atheist Jerry Coyne at the University of Kentucky. Although both agreed to a videotaping of the event, Haught later prohibited it's release because he felt he had been treated unfairly. Coyne released blog posts addressing the matter as an offense to free speech. Reviewing their new status in the blogosphere, Haught and his associates at the University of Kentucky have decided to release the video.

Submission + - Consumer Tech: An IT Nightmare (infoworld.com)

Submitted by

snydeq

on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @03:25PM

snydeq writes: "Advice Line's Bob Lewis discusses the difficulties IT faces in embracing the kinds of consumer technologies business users are demanding they support. 'Let's assume the consumerization of IT is the big trend many think it is. But using consumer tech in a business environment is a very different matter from being satisfied with consumer tech in a business environment. One of IT's legitimate gripes is that we're often asked to turn consumer-grade technology into business-grade technology with a wave of our magic wands. On top of the intrinsic technical challenges, there's this: IT doesn't have anything that even resembles a methodology for performing the business analysis we need to figure out what it means to put consumer tech to productive day-to-day use.'"

Submission + - Vim Turns 20 (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by quanticle on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @02:14PM

quanticle writes: 20 years ago today, Bram Moolenaar released vim to the public. Share your vim stories and your tales of battles with emacs users.

Comment It's Rife in the UK (Score 1) 428

by ChunKing on Friday February 04, 2011 @12:29PM (#35104342) Attached to: Prison Cell Phone Smuggling Out of Control

We even have a slang term for the preferred method of concealment - the Chatham Pocket.

Submission + - YouTube to block UK music videos

Submitted by ChunKing on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @04:34AM

ChunKing writes: YouTube is to block all premium music videos to UK users after failing to reach a new licensing agreement with the Performing Rights Society (PRS). For many of us in the UK this is great news. The two main music licensing agencies in the UK — PPL and PRS — have a stranglehold on music use in this country and are stifling creativity.

PPL and PRS are way behind what the technology can now deliver, and another huge area of weakness in their approach is around licensing internet radio. These two bodies are way too greedy and are all too quick to try to extract their 'pound of flesh' from smaller broadcasters so it's fantastic news to see that a giant such as Google has had enough of them and has chosen to deprive them of significant revenues. Go Google!

Getting Paid To Abandon an Open Source Project? 654

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday October 05, 2008 @10:24AM from the money-vs.-warm-fuzzies dept.

darkeye writes "I'm facing a difficult dilemma and looking for opinions. I've been contributing heavily to an open source project, making considerable changes to code organization and quality, but the work is unfinished at the moment. Now, a company is approaching me to continue my changes. They want to keep the improvements to themselves, which is possible since the project is published under the BSD license. That's fair, as they have all the rights to the work they pay for in full. However, they also want me to sign a non-competition clause, which would bar me from ever working on and publishing results for the original open source project itself, even if done separately, in my free time. How would you approach such a decision? On one side, they'd provide resources to work on an interesting project. On the other, it would make me an outcast in the project's community. Moreover, they would take ownership of not just what they paid for, but also my changes leading up to this moment, and I wouldn't be able to continue on my original codebase in an open source manner if I sign their contract."

Submission + - Suggestions for geek film festival

Submitted by

ChunKing

on Sunday September 07, 2008 @04:44PM

ChunKing writes: "I'm thinking of organising a geek documentary film festival and was wondering what Slashdotters would expect to see at such an event. I think we've probably all seen Revolution OS, Startup.com, and The Code a bazillion times and those films are getting a little long in the tooth now. Hackers Wanted would be great but I don't think it has been released yet. The Stephen Fry film out recently is ideal and will encourage discussion. Downloading content from YouTube for screening would be fine so what does the community recommend?"

Comment Indymedia (Score 3, Interesting) 629

by ChunKing on Monday June 02, 2008 @05:20PM (#23631673) Attached to: Nominations Open For "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Government"

Indymedia in the UK has already been shut down twice in the past few years e.g. http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/06/28/0113237.shtml?tid=153&tid=158&tid=149&tid=17

Comment Using Panorama Tools to correct lens distortions (Score 2, Informative) 67

by BrunoPostle on Tuesday June 03, 2003 @06:27PM (#6110061) Attached to: Correcting Lens Aberrations in Digital Photography?

I have a couple of examples, both involve correcting perspective at the same time:

A single photo, corrected

Two photos stitched, corrected and perspective adjusted

There is a project to build an easy-to-use front-end for panorama tools: Hugin, it has a Mailing-list, anyone welcome.

If you just want to batch process individual photos without having to learn Panorama Tools, try this perl-script, it implements everything required to correct barrel distortion (though you have to calibrate your camera first).

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