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  • edited December 2015
    Anybody else here unable to read or hear the word "IKEA" without immediately having the chorus of the Jonathan Coulton song pop up in their heads?
    Post edited by chaosof99 on
  • chaosof99 said:

    Anybody else here unable to read or hear the word "IKEA" without immediately having the chorus of the Jonathan Coulton song pop up in their heads?

    They had a Norwegian parade IN JERSEY!
  • Coldguy said:

    chaosof99 said:

    Anybody else here unable to read or hear the word "IKEA" without immediately having the chorus of the Jonathan Coulton song pop up in their heads?

    They had a Norwegian parade IN JERSEY!
    Just some oak and some pine and a handful of Norseman
  • Kim Jong-un planning an Ozymandias?
  • I don't think he's that smart or cares that much about the well being of outside world.
  • Is anybody playing Squad at all? Seems like a good half way ground for a couple of games. In a similar vain any love for Red Orchestra 2?
  • How do drive letters work in Windows if you have more than 26 drives?
  • AA, AB, AC...
  • Pegu said:

    How do drive letters work in Windows if you have more than 26 drives?

    I'm gonna fire up a virtual machine and tell you.
  • If something is CC BY-NC licensed can you use it in a portfolio page or does that count as commerical use?
  • Pegu said:

    If something is CC BY-NC licensed can you use it in a portfolio page or does that count as commerical use?

    Questions like this are why I gave up on NC long ago.
  • No one can answer those questions.

    See the strange outrage around the new attribution requirements on Stack Exchange.
    http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272956/a-new-code-license-the-mit-this-time-with-attribution-required?cb=1
  • Honestly, I put "NC" on anything I release under CC, but I don't really care too much about it. I strongly doubt someone who wants to steal my content will be deterred by my CC license, but I think of it as me expressing my preferences.

    "Hey man, if you're not a shitbag, could you not steal my work for profit?"

    I figure if I ever need to care about it and at least try to enforce it, I'm better off including it.
  • Rym said:

    No one can answer those questions.

    See the strange outrage around the new attribution requirements on Stack Exchange.
    http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272956/a-new-code-license-the-mit-this-time-with-attribution-required?cb=1

    So many people are angry about that change and I kind of see where they're coming from (no one wants extra work, least of all programmers), but I agree with the change. Give credit where credit is due.
  • Rym said:

    No one can answer those questions.

    See the strange outrage around the new attribution requirements on Stack Exchange.
    http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272956/a-new-code-license-the-mit-this-time-with-attribution-required?cb=1

    So many people are angry about that change and I kind of see where they're coming from (no one wants extra work, least of all programmers), but I agree with the change. Give credit where credit is due.
    I think it will hurt students the most. Oh, this project you submitted is all just Stack Overflow copypasta?
  • Apreche said:

    Rym said:

    No one can answer those questions.

    See the strange outrage around the new attribution requirements on Stack Exchange.
    http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272956/a-new-code-license-the-mit-this-time-with-attribution-required?cb=1

    So many people are angry about that change and I kind of see where they're coming from (no one wants extra work, least of all programmers), but I agree with the change. Give credit where credit is due.
    I think it will hurt students the most. Oh, this project you submitted is all just Stack Overflow copypasta?
    Probably shouldn't be copy-pasting from Stack Overflow then...
  • If my student copy/pasted from Stack Overflow and the completed project worked...

    1. A+
    2. My assignment probably wasn't novel enough
  • When is Connecticon opening up panel submissions for 2016?
  • When is Connecticon opening up panel submissions for 2016?

    As soon as they do. ;^)

    Believe me, I'd open them today if I had any authority to do so.

  • Rym said:

    When is Connecticon opening up panel submissions for 2016?

    As soon as they do. ;^)

    Believe me, I'd open them today if I had any authority to do so.

    Go poke someone who does! I have ideas and if they don't get out now they'll be reabsorbed into my Id.
  • Apreche said:

    Rym said:

    No one can answer those questions.

    See the strange outrage around the new attribution requirements on Stack Exchange.
    http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272956/a-new-code-license-the-mit-this-time-with-attribution-required?cb=1

    So many people are angry about that change and I kind of see where they're coming from (no one wants extra work, least of all programmers), but I agree with the change. Give credit where credit is due.
    I think it will hurt students the most. Oh, this project you submitted is all just Stack Overflow copypasta?
    They already catch people who do that. My roommate was a TA for a java class last semester and found a couple of his students were copying code from a github repo that had all the projects.
  • Apreche said:

    Pegu said:

    If something is CC BY-NC licensed can you use it in a portfolio page or does that count as commerical use?

    Questions like this are why I gave up on NC long ago.
    The big problem with creative commons is what counts as due diligence. Is the fact a song exists on Jamendo or CCMixter good enough to reasonable assume it's creative commons licensing is legit, or do I need to actually contact the artist? If the latter, then what's the fucking point. I've had to confront YouTube on this a couple of times when dealing with Content ID claims on my stuff, but I don't think it ever reached human eyes.
  • edited January 2016
    Rym said:

    If my student copy/pasted from Stack Overflow and the completed project worked...

    1. A+
    2. My assignment probably wasn't novel enough

    That was the stance my C professor took last semester. There were so many kids crying that the project was impossible it was hilarious (all you had to do was make a terminal program that worked as closely as possible to a Unix terminal).

    It seemed this type of project had been given in other Universities but they were pretty superficial compared to the requirements of the project he designed.
    Post edited by sK0pe on
  • Seriously why aren't there more desalination plants in coastal areas that deal with droughts like California?
  • Last I heard they're expensive and not very efficient.
  • MATATAT said:

    Last I heard they're expensive and not very efficient.

    Also, there's often the chance that by the time the plant is finished, you're out of the drought.

    The other issue is that the most efficient desal operation you can build right now is a Nuclear plant, and there's zero percent chance that California would go along with building one of those.
  • edited January 2016
    Does anyone here have a bitmetv invite they don't mind giving away?

    EDIT: BakaBT stats to prove I'm a good uploader

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    Post edited by Ikatono on
  • Question for non-Australians - Are these common in your country?

  • Yeah we have stuff like that in the UK. Mainly in motorway services or little chef.
  • I have never seen those before. Ketchup packets are simply a sacks with you pull open one on end and roll from the other like a tube of toothpaste.
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