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Comment Segways are too expensive (Score 0) 533

by alexofoslo on Saturday May 04, 2013 @03:57PM (#43630967) Attached to: Is Google Glass Too Nerdy For the Mainstream?

Last time I checked, the price of a Segway was about the same as for a fairly decent used car. I'll get a whole lot more out of that car than I'll ever get out of the Segway.

Comment Re:BSD license (Score 0) 630

by alexofoslo on Monday April 22, 2013 @01:57AM (#43513437) Attached to: Most Projects On GitHub Aren't Open Source Licensed

I think you're confusing rights with privileges. Software licenses grant privileges, not rights. There's typically a sentence in licenses that says something along the lines of "if you don't agree with these terms, you may not use this software," i.e. you lose your privilege to it. When you choose to use GPL software, you agree to its terms, including the one that says that your own work has to be GPL as well. If those terms seem unreasonable to you, then don't accept them. Nobody's being forced to do anything here. Where in the world did you get this idea that developers have (or should have) the right to "do whatever they want?"

Comment Re:It's a matter of trust (Score 0) 630

by alexofoslo on Monday April 22, 2013 @01:31AM (#43513377) Attached to: Most Projects On GitHub Aren't Open Source Licensed

You can get around that problem by insisting that copyright over their contributed code falls to you when they submit it. That is what the FSF does with their code. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#AssignCopyright

Comment Re:Fill Them With Random Data (Score 1, Informative) 381

by alexofoslo on Sunday May 31, 2009 @04:41AM (#28156577) Attached to: What To Do With 78 USB Drives Next Christmas?

Indeed you can. Two of my USB sticks have Ubuntu on them. 8.04 on one, and 9.04 on another.

Comment Re:Nonsense (Score -1, Troll) 413

by alexofoslo on Friday May 23, 2008 @04:27PM (#23522176) Attached to: P2P BitTorrent Tool Could Replace Pirate Bay

Now just imagine once 3d printers become cheap enough for the common household... Manufacturers of small cheap trinkets had better be worried because their time is next.

Well, first they need to invent 3d scanners, and I haven't heard of those just yet. So them manafacturers are safe a little bit longer.

OpenSUSE 11.0 Beta 1 Has Been Released 49

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday April 20, 2008 @11:51AM from the now-with-extra-open dept.

Francis Giannaros writes "The first beta release for openSUSE 11.0 is now available. Some of the highlights include fast package management, KDE 3.5.9 and 4.0.3, GNOME 2.22.1 and an impressive new installer using Qt4 CSS-like stylesheets. Changes behind the scenes include switching to RPM LZMA payload and making RPMs smaller (faster to download), and quicker to decompress (faster installation)."

Ballmer Calls Vista 'A Work In Progress' 345

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday April 20, 2008 @11:22AM from the truth-in-advertising dept.

shanen tips us to a Seattle Post-Intelligencer story about comments from Steve Ballmer at a conference earlier this week during which he referred to Vista as "a work in progress." He also admitted that the 5-year release cycle wasn't a good idea. Despite the approaching deadline for the end of XP sales, Ballmer's remarks about the older operating system were more ambiguous: "Vista is bigger than XP. It's going to stay bigger than XP. We have to make sure it doesn't get bigger still, and that the performance and that the battery life and that the compatibility, we're driving on the things that we need to drive hard to improve. I know we're going to continue to get feedback from people on how long XP should be available. We've got some opinions on that, we've expressed our views. ... I'm always interested in hearing from you on these and other issues."

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