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Comment Valleygirl accent (Score 1) 40

I know it's really trivial, bordering on petty, but please oh please give her a different accent. She says "okay" so much, and the Valleygirl accent is never heard so pronounced as obviously as in that word that I really want any other accent. Mid Atlantic, Southern, Cascadian, Midwest, Irish, please anything other than Valleygirl.

Comment Trademark in GPU source (Score 2, Interesting) 67

It strikes me that putting a product name inside source code under GPL license -- which explicitly encourages modification and distribution of source code -- should constitute abandonment of U.S. trademark. However, a California District Court ruled against that logic in Neo4j v. PureThink. It seems GPL needs to explicitly address trademarks, such as right to say "fork of X" -- akin to how it had to address the patent issue.

Comment No display? No interest. (Score 1) 56

I do not want an input only device, and if I want headphones, I'll put one in each ear I want one in. Rarely is that both ears, and usually I consciously and specifically pick which ear I want.

What I do care the most about is a screen. I'm not so hung up on screen size or quality for now, I just want something that I can use easier than my phone. If you don't have a screen, what is the point?

Comment Here's the missing info (Score 4, Interesting) 52

The media format is 16mm film. Here's the irony. Unlike U.S. television shows, BBC was an early adopter of video tape. (Recall that video tape was invented really late, available in 1956; everything before then had to be either live or telecined from film live.) But when shipping shows to far-flung international destinations, BBC "transferred" the video tape to film by filming a TV! That's what was found in the collector's cardboard box. That BBC used video tape is what allowed them to erase said video tapes.

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