Filed under: Video, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Open Source
Miro: Adopt a line of code to support open source video player
by Brad Linder Apr 29th 2009 at 2:00PM
Here's how it works. You visit the Miro Adoption Center and pony up $4 per month and you get your name associated with a line in the Miro code base. Your name will also appear in the About Miro credits. But you don't get any tangible benefits like super fast downloads or anything.
In the long run, the only reason to adopt a line of code is because you want to support this open source project. But if you're the sort of person who needs an NPR mug before donating some money to help keep Morning Edition on the air, maybe the adoption page will help encourage you to pull out your wallet for Miro.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Fred Thompson said 10:46PM on 4-29-2009
Kool-Aid drinkers use NPR mugs...
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Alex said 1:10PM on 5-08-2009
lol, some people never change
someguyrunning said 1:11PM on 5-08-2009
Apparently, some people never change, even despite Obama.
someguyrunning said 12:35PM on 5-08-2009
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/ABC_finds_Fred_Thompson_dumb_as_1009.html
Fred Thompson said 7:57PM on 5-08-2009
I played Nixon like a fiddle. Stupid lib got what he had coming to him.
someguyrunning said 6:37PM on 5-08-2009
Wow, so you are the deep throat?
The last mystery of Watergate, uncovered by the power of internets, lol/
Fred Thompson said 9:03PM on 5-08-2009
No, Deep Throat was my pet name for Linda...
someguyrunning said 4:41AM on 5-09-2009
Oh, you naughty conservative
rcarm said 6:30PM on 4-29-2009
Can I choose which line of code to adopt?
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Steve said 8:10AM on 4-30-2009
My Windows 7 is infected by IND and you expect me to adopt stuff ??
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soniiic said 4:26PM on 4-30-2009
ind didn't infect your torrent. the p2p uploader did