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Lack of Manpower May Kill VLC For Mac 398

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @05:53PM from the vlc-generally-rocks dept.

plasmacutter writes "The Video Lan dev team has recently come forward with a notice that the number of active developers for the project's MacOS X releases has dropped to zero, prompting a halt in the release schedule. There is now a disturbing possibility that support for Mac will be dropped as of 1.1.0. As the most versatile and user-friendly solution for bridging the video compatibility gap between OS X and windows, this will be a terrible loss for the Mac community. There is still hope, however, if the right volunteers come forward."

Comment I just want to make sure I understand. (Score 5, Insightful) 572

by buelba on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @01:08PM (#30459710) Attached to: Angry AT&T Customers May Disrupt Service

They are protesting AT&T's announcement that smartphones are disrupting its network. By using smartphones. To disrupt AT&T's network?

Comment Kaminsky's rebuttal (Score 4, Informative) 120

by buelba on Friday August 29, 2008 @11:58AM (#24795919) Attached to: Kaminsky DNS Bug Claimed Fixed By 1-Character Patch

Kaminsky has an interesting rebuttal here.

Journal Journal: Glaciers swim In and Out of meat that looks like genitalia. 6

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Tuesday January 04, 2005 @05:23AM

Glaciers swim - like meat.
In and Out - More meat than you can shake butter at. A stick of butter.
of meat that looks like genitalia. - or vice versa.

More useful stuff!:

Comment Re:Gotta hand it to Palm (Score 1) 408

by mcb123 on Wednesday December 08, 2004 @07:38PM (#11037295) Attached to: Palm OS To Run On Linux

Moble phones are great for talking. Their phone books are usually limited at best. Sure they store lots of numbers. But they restrict you to a fixed format. On my phone - admittedly not a high end model - I can only have 1 main number, one mobile number, etc per contact. Also, if I want to make notes about when I spoke to that person last or some other important information that can't easily be contained in a number, I have about 20 characters to do so. It's better than nothing, but not a lot. As for listening to mp3's (I love my ipod), or watching movies or taking pictures, phones are second rate at best compared to tools (gadgets?) that are built for that purpose (hard drive based mp3 player, digital camera, home theater). Of course for making phone calls, mobile phones are great! I suppose that's the thing about tools. Tools designed specifically for one task are usually better at doing them than tools designed to be an all in one.

Comment Last Post (Score 1) 56

by $$$$$exyGal on Thursday August 19, 2004 @09:58AM (#10011896) Attached to: shout outs

Thanks for thinking of me, first. Have a great day.

Journal Journal: I'm a man 15

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Friday May 21, 2004 @02:30AM

It's time to tell the truth. I am a 55 year-old man. My name is Andy Kaufman, and I live in New York City.

I am sincerely sorry to everyone for all my lies.

--Andy

Journal Journal: Slashdot History: Hurrah for the ZEROES! 7

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Thursday March 18, 2004 @12:52PM

A few irrefutable facts about humans:

They see faces everywhere.
They are biodegradable.
Base 10 zeroes excite them.

Here's a little something to excite you:

Journal Journal: Governor Schwarzenegger: The First 100 Gays 6

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Wednesday February 25, 2004 @12:11AM

HahHahahahaHAHAh!

What a clever play on words I made ;-)

Next journal topic: Coming soon!

Journal Journal: Bill Clinton likes naked naked naked naked naked naked . . . 8

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Saturday January 31, 2004 @11:40AM

Journal Journal: Merry Christmas -- $$$$$exyGal

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Wednesday December 24, 2003 @11:20PM

It's not the new year yet, but it seems like a good time to give thanks.

Long story short, I've had a good year. Great job, short commute, and dating again. I've become focused, but with great flexibility. I'm not sweating the big stuff, or the small stuff. The good stuff is in the middle.

May your holidays be commercial-free,
$$$$$exyGal

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Journal Journal: Teach me economics: Why are tech jobs going to India? 19

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Saturday August 02, 2003 @10:08PM

American companies are moving tech jobs overseas to India [more info]. Why? Simple, it's all about money. But how is that so? The article says that Indian programmers make 1/10th that of American programmers. Why do they make so much less?

I'm not an economist, but here's a some possible reasons:

Journal Journal: More masturbation, meat, and a little NADD. 17

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Saturday July 19, 2003 @12:26PM

I'm going to write another one of those "private thoughts" entries soon, but here's some followups to some of my previous entries!

Journal Journal: Can the blind see? 30

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Sunday July 13, 2003 @04:43PM

Xerithane left me a very interesting comment a few weeks ago. Here's a blurb:

For instance, I suffer from a moderately rare eye condition. I will go blind for 3+ hours if I'm exposed to bright light for more than a few minutes. It's like a goths wet dream. When it first happened I was probably 12 or so, and the whole time I sepnt trying to think what blind people saw suddenly made sense.

Journal Journal: Slashdot Oldtimers? Are there more archives? 21

Journal by $$$$$exyGal on Thursday July 10, 2003 @01:23PM

Just for fun, I decided to peruse the really really old Slashdot stuff to see how everything started. Maybe I'd find quiet thoughtful debate about the HTML CENTER tag (1995?) ? Or maybe some lively debate regarding the plot of "Good Will Hunting (1997)" ?

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