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Comment um.... (Score 1) 778

by Uart on Thursday April 24, 2008 @10:29PM (#23193344) Attached to: Bill Gates On the GPL — "We Disagree"

I agree with him to a point. If you invent something you should be able to profit from it.

If, however, you WANT to give it away (and tell everyone how it works, and how you made it)... I don't really get why that's a problem.

The GPL is voluntary. If you don't want to give back your changes in the open source, then it's just like a commercial license -- the code within is off-limits.

Fair enough all around. MS can keep their code under wraps. Others can GPL it.

Submission + - Consumers Won't Pay $500 for iPhone

Submitted by

narramissic

on Friday February 23, 2007 @02:30PM

narramissic writes: "A survey by online market research firm Compete Inc. finds that of the 26% of those who said they're likely to buy an iPhone, only 1% said they'd pay $500 for it, while 42% said they'd likely buy the phone for $200 to $299. Sixty percent of likely iPhone buyers would be willing to make the switch to AT&T wireless to get it."

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Our Love/Hate Relationship With Wikipedia 244

Posted by kdawson on Sunday December 03, 2006 @03:58PM from the who-you-callin'-non-notable? dept.

netbuzz points us to a somewhat snarky Washington Post article about the Wikipedians' work in upholding a minimum standard of "notability" for the collaborative encyclopedia. Here's his take on the Post's bemusement from a NetworkWorld blog: "The Washington Post this morning gets its snickers at the Wikipedians who do the best they can to apply the minimum 'notability' standards needed to keep the online encyclopedia's 1.5 million English entries relatively free of worthless junk. 'It's also safe to assume these are people with a lot of time on their hands,' the Post writer notes... These are people doing a truly thankless job... and they deserve a few thank-yous."

Journal Journal: Sorry, Wii Are Not Available 5

Journal by jZnat on Sunday December 03, 2006 @01:45PM

Nintendo Wii came out a week ago, and boy was it a hot seller! Amazon says they sold out in less than a minute on its launch, and they still haven't gotten any more Wiis. Nintendo reported that they sold every single one of their launch Wiis{{fact}}, yet they are producing tonnes more than Sony is producing Playstation 3's.

Submission + - Intelligent satellite notices volcanic activity

Submitted by Dik Zak on Sunday December 03, 2006 @01:36PM

Dik Zak writes: The Indonesian volcano Talang on the island of Sumatra had been dormant for centuries when, in April 2005, it suddenly rumbled to life. A plume of smoke rose 1000 meters high and nearby villages were covered in ash. Fearing a major eruption, local authorities began evacuating 40,000 people. UN officials, meanwhile, issued a call for help: Volcanologists should begin monitoring Talang at once. Little did they know, high above Earth, a small satellite was already watching the volcano. No one told it to. EO-1 (short for "Earth Observing 1") noticed the warning signs and started monitoring Talang on its own. Indeed, by the time many volcanologists were reading their emails from the UN, "EO-1 already had data," says Steve Chien, leader of JPL's Artificial Intelligence Group.

Parallels Beta Adds Boot Camp, Desktop 244

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday December 03, 2006 @12:08PM from the stuff-to-play-with dept.

Verunks writes "Parallels has released a new beta of its virtualization product for Mac OS X. This new release includes one major new feature, something Parallels calls Coherency: "Shows Windows applications as if they were Mac ones. Try it and enjoy best of both worlds truly at the same time. No more switching between Windows to Mac OS." Check out this Screenshot" More interesting to me is the Boot Camp support so you can have a single partition to run IE7 in Parallels to test compatibility of a website but reboot to play video games that need a little more juice.

Comment Re:Meanwhile, at Virgin Atlantic, the webmaster sa (Score 1) 207

by UnitTech on Monday September 27, 2004 @12:07PM (#10363259) Attached to: Virgin Atlantic Licensing SpaceShipOne

And somewhere on the Virgin Group website, he flat out states that he intends to do exactly this with the "Virgin Galactic" brand. It's been up there for a few years. I think he originally intended to use it to broker the Russian spaceflights, but this is better...

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Journal by Uart on Wednesday June 18, 2003 @05:23PM

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Journal Journal: Bleeding Heart Economics: "Eat Me Buffett"

Journal by Uart on Thursday May 29, 2003 @07:24AM

Originally intended for the Washington Post: Rejected (and therefore Slashdot Quality)

Bleeding Heart Economics
By: Brian J. Ewart

Journal Journal: Blogger Suck My....

Journal by Uart on Tuesday April 01, 2003 @11:37AM

Get Out Your Rotting Tomatoes...

So I don?t really see what everyone is complaining about with this war. I hear the comparisons of the US to a schoolyard bully who beats little kids up and takes their lunch money; except, instead of lunch money we are taking oil. It seems to make sense, except that when we win this war, we won?t get any free oil, we?re still going to have to pay for it. Hopefully we won?t pay nearly as much though. That?s why I see this war as a form of haggling ? except with

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