JohnEdwa

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Reddit is fun is fun for Reddit. The WP is just WP, just like RIF is just RIF.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Interestingly, they still followed the law that requires you to show the lowest price in 30 days which was the same as the sale price. Their argument is that the law doesn't say that they can't base the discount on some other, higher price.

Which does kinda have a point - if you had to base it on that price, if you have e.g a summer sale that lasts two months, after 30 days that sale price is now the lowest price and the sale would "disappear", even if for the other 10 months you'd be selling it for a higher price.
So what's the situation if you have a one week sale, one week normal price, then another sale - 30 day lowest price is the same, but the discount is valid too?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Yes, but:

"Scholars say the biggest reason for Japan's very high conviction rate is the country's low prosecution rate and the way Japan calculates its conviction rate is different from other countries.According to them, Japanese prosecutors only pursue cases that are likely to result in convictions, and not many others.
According to Professor Ryo Ogiso of Chuo University, prosecutors defer prosecution in 60% of the cases they receive, and conclude the remaining 30% or so of cases in summary trials. This summary trial is a trial procedure in which cases involving a fine of 1,000,000 yen or less are examined on the basis of documents submitted by the public prosecutor without a formal trial if there is no objection from the suspect.
Only about 8% of cases are actually prosecuted, and this low prosecution rate is the reason for Japan's high conviction rate." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_Japan

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I wonder if they've actually fixed any of the issues with the first one (it's too heavy, unbalanced, expensive and rather useless unless you are already heavily invested in other Apple hardware) to actually get new users to buy it, or are they just assuming like with other Apple hardware that the moment something new with a slight boost in performance hits the market everyone throws the old one in the trash and runs to buy the hot new shit.

Because I'm fairly sure that strategy isn't going to work with VR headsets, and they already didn't sell many of them in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Remember the Beirut explosion?
Now realize that it was caused by around 1/10th as much ammonium nitrate that is on this ship (2750 vs 20000 tonnes)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Yes, because it used to be"Reddit is Fun", which wasn't okay. That was the point.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (7 children)

WP Engine for WordPress.
That seems to be the commonly accepted solution if you look at other 3rd party trademark cases - situations like "RIF is fun for Reddit" coming to mind.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

If you set your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly, you grant each User of GitHub a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, and perform Your Content through the GitHub Service and to reproduce Your Content solely on GitHub as permitted through GitHub's functionality (for example, through forking). You may grant further rights if you adopt a license. If you are uploading Content you did not create or own, you are responsible for ensuring that the Content you upload is licensed under terms that grant these permissions to other GitHub Users. -https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service#5-license-grant-to-other-users

License can't really revoke that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Bigger problem is the No Derivatives clause of the CC licence, as compiling or forking the code creates a derivative, so it's now a project nobody is allowed to use (or distribute) in any other form than their exact, precompiled releases.

In fact, as the GitHub terms of service specifically require you to allow forking - as recently demonstrated by the WinAmp project - I wonder if CC ND is even possible to be used in GitHub in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

In Youtube, where you can get entire movies or 5-hour live streams as ads? That reality? Where the limit for a skippable mid-roll add is anywhere up to 12 hours?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

And when the pampers ad is 24 second long and the walmart ad is 55 seconds, even if they start at the same time, they won't end at the same time, and now the next ad, even if it starts at 5:00 in the video, starts at a different time as well.

[Edit] actually, it doesn't matter. Old timestamps need to work, so when a user links to 5:00 in the video,the actual video stream needs to align with that, but the ad will be injected to the stream before. So trying to jump over the ad would just play you another ad first.

 

I completely understand why Valve decided that the touchpad haptics were good enough, the deck is heavy as it is already. I'd still love to have the option of adding some proper rumble on the deck for the games that deserve it.

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