I think he may have meant "Dalek". Just imagine how difficult it must be for an alien bent on destroying
the earth (and doing it all with a pleasant English
accent) to spell our inferior human languages correctly...
Independent Software Vendor. Microsoft speak for a company that develops software for Windows.
See also: IUSV - Independent Until Software Vendor... Independent _until_ you write something really useful and MS decides to either a) buy you out or b) write the same thing and release it for free, after which you become a BSV (Bankrupt software vendor).
Well kids, this isn't that exciting of a piece of news. TW 2002 was essentially stolen from the original BASIC (TW200) version written by Chris Sherrick back in like '85. This was based on an earlier game, for like the TRS-80 model III or something. Cool thing about the Chris Sherrick version was that it was OPEN SOURCE. In BASIC (i think it would only compile on IBM's BASIC compiler), perhaps, but it was open source.
Martech was nice enough to rewrite the game in Turbo Pascal, and close the source up nice and good for us. Then they were sooo nice that they charged us for the pleasure of running a server.
To a broke teenaged BBS sysop this meant I couldn't run a TW server anyone would play. Anyways, I'm not sure the new owner's intentions, but I am hoping that his distribution policies are better than Martech's.
Actually, Bubble Memory is more of a 70's technology that died a slow death. I have one of my dad's old Spectrum magazines from like 1975 describing this exciting new technology.:)
Back in the days before I had a semblance of a life, I used to belong to one of the old-school TF Quake clans, the "Green Panthers" (http://www.greenpanthers.com).
Anyways, I was in the clan for two years, but we started to recruit more and more idiots. One of those idiots was "Slade[GP]". He was arrogant, loud-mouthed and generally an asshole. I ended up quitting the clan partially because of this guy.
Anyways, pissing off JC is just the kind of thing I could see Slade[GP] doing. Does anyone know if this Slade is the same as Slade[GP]?
At any rate, JC/iD should sue this guys ass. Lets see if the GPL is actually worth anything in court.
The US patent office is out of control; the entire software patent issue is the modern equivalent of the Church's indulgences (give me money, and God will forgive your sins... more money... bigger sins!)
Somewhere at a bottom of a thread someone mentioned a class-action suit against the patent office. Is there any reason why this isn't possible? Perhaps we can use the lawyer pig-dogs against themselves in order to stop this stupidity.
The fact remains that software patents are all based on a shaky legal interpretation of a late seventies patent that was a hardware/software solution. The fact also remains that the US is one of the few countries that allow software patents (I think it is only US and Japan). The final fact is that software patents are significantly delaying innovation (look into the whole RSA issue and then think of the state of "secure ecommerce").
Someone really needs to find a good, greedy lawyer and wake up the patent office to stop this madness. Alternately maybe someone can file class action suits against Yahoo et al for even daring to file the patents.
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I think he may have meant "Dalek". Just imagine how difficult it must be for an alien bent on destroying the earth (and doing it all with a pleasant English accent) to spell our inferior human languages correctly...
Independent Software Vendor. Microsoft speak for a company that develops software for Windows.
... Independent _until_ you write something really useful and MS decides to either a) buy you out or b) write the same thing and release it for free, after which you become a BSV (Bankrupt software vendor).
See also:
IUSV - Independent Until Software Vendor
I'll pass water in the aisles after I see it if its anything like the last one...
Well kids, this isn't that exciting of a piece of news. TW 2002 was essentially stolen from the original BASIC (TW200) version written by Chris Sherrick back in like '85. This was based on an earlier game, for like the TRS-80 model III or something. Cool thing about the Chris Sherrick version was that it was OPEN SOURCE. In BASIC (i think it would only compile on IBM's BASIC compiler), perhaps, but it was open source.
Martech was nice enough to rewrite the game in Turbo Pascal, and close the source up nice and good for us. Then they were sooo nice that they charged us for the pleasure of running a server.
To a broke teenaged BBS sysop this meant I couldn't run a TW server anyone would play. Anyways, I'm not sure the new owner's intentions, but I am hoping that his distribution policies are better than Martech's.
Actually, Bubble Memory is more of a 70's technology that died a slow death. I have one of my dad's old Spectrum magazines from like 1975 describing this exciting new technology. :)
I guess it was better than core...
Back in the days before I had a semblance of a life, I used to belong to one of the old-school TF Quake clans, the "Green Panthers" (http://www.greenpanthers.com).
Anyways, I was in the clan for two years, but we started to recruit more and more idiots. One of those idiots was "Slade[GP]". He was arrogant, loud-mouthed and generally an asshole. I ended up quitting the clan partially because of this guy.
Anyways, pissing off JC is just the kind of thing I could see Slade[GP] doing. Does anyone know if this Slade is the same as Slade[GP]?
At any rate, JC/iD should sue this guys ass. Lets see if the GPL is actually worth anything in court.
The US patent office is out of control; the entire software patent issue is the modern equivalent of the Church's indulgences (give me money, and God will forgive your sins... more money... bigger sins!)
Somewhere at a bottom of a thread someone mentioned a class-action suit against the patent office. Is there any reason why this isn't possible? Perhaps we can use the lawyer pig-dogs against themselves in order to stop this stupidity.
The fact remains that software patents are all based on a shaky legal interpretation of a late seventies patent that was a hardware/software solution. The fact also remains that the US is one of the few countries that allow software patents (I think it is only US and Japan). The final fact is that software patents are significantly delaying innovation (look into the whole RSA issue and then think of the state of "secure ecommerce").
Someone really needs to find a good, greedy lawyer and wake up the patent office to stop this madness. Alternately maybe someone can file class action suits against Yahoo et al for even daring to file the patents.