Comment Re:Welcome (Score 2, Informative) 393
TV Tropes has a donation page, and a small Zazzle store. Neither generate nearly enough funding to break even at the moment.
Comment Re:1st amendment at work (Score 1) 393
TV Tropes has decided that profit is more important than keeping the warning labels off their content.
More accurately, "continuing to exist without choking levels of advertising or cutting back on community" has been deemed more important than keeping the warning labels off.
Comment Re:Google (Score 3, Insightful) 393
It's also a form of Natter we'd prefer was avoided.
Submission + - Google Schedules Chrome 6, 7, And 8 For This Year (conceivablytech.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Google said that it will be releasing a new stable version of Chrome every six weeks, which is about twice as fast as the release pace today. The goal is to make new features available when they are done and to make Chrome releases more predictable. Has anyone complained that there were too few new Chrome releases? Mozilla has been releasing a major new browser twice a year and Microsoft is on an 18-24 month pace. Firefox 4.0 Beta is scheduled for release later today and it appears that Mozilla is somewhat paranoid about Blackhat. 3.6.6 was planned to be the original 'Blackhat release'; now we are at version 3.6.7 and Mozilla has already a build candidate of 3.6.8 that will be released depending on news coming out of Blackhat.
Comment Re:Good, sensible decision (Score 1) 467
Of course not. But if the local pigeon lady wanders in and asks to speak with Elvis, it is perhaps overreacting to call the SWAT team.
Comment Re:3D WTF (Score 1) 174
Not really more complex, anyways. At most, you just have two video streams instead of one.
YouTube doesn't even bother with that; you upload 3D by simply stacking the left and right images side by side in the same frame.
Comment How??? (Score 1) 260
Have you read the HTML5 standard? It makes things more open than the Flash mess we have now. They don't define any open codecs, no, but neither do they mandate closed ones.
Comment Re:I don't get the kind of people, who call sun "s (Score 1) 142
Last I heard, "The Sun" and "The Moon" were in fact the official terms. Ironic that astronomers can be a tad geocentric like that.
"Sol" and sometimes "Luna" are just overwhelmingly popular sci-fi terms, but yes, probably would be the terms eventually adopted by colonists.
"Sol" and sometimes "Luna" are just overwhelmingly popular sci-fi terms, but yes, probably would be the terms eventually adopted by colonists.
Comment Re:Nuisance of free software (Score 1) 259
Logic bomb!
Comment Re:It's their own fault (Score 1) 564
It also extends the concept of design patterns to literature/media.
Comment Re:Solution? (Score 2, Informative) 490
Just a sales tax is the flat tax. The proper-noun "Fair Tax" is also a sales tax, but adds a rebate equivalent to the tax that would statistically be paid by somebody at the poverty line.
Comment Re:Show of hands not self-enforcing (Score 1) 207
If you don't wish to vote (may seem foolish, but better the apathetic not vote than drown out the signal), just don't enter the room.
Comment Re:Show of hands not self-enforcing (Score 1) 207
If there are 120 people in the room, and 135 glow sticks are counted, then you know something's up, and can repeat the procedure until everybody plays along.
Comment Re:No, you misunderstand (Score 1) 585
So, adhering to the GPL gives you the right to redistribute the GPL'd code- but you don't need permission for the linking itself?
That actually makes sense.
IANAL, but I don't think (in the U.S.) that the end user is infringing by creating a derivative work at load time, either- see Galoob vs Nintendo.
That actually makes sense.
IANAL, but I don't think (in the U.S.) that the end user is infringing by creating a derivative work at load time, either- see Galoob vs Nintendo.
Comment Re:What's the video codec ? (Score 1) 207
Pretty sure they were going with Theora.
